How to Decorate your Home

Ideas to Make Over a Room in a Day Decorating Easy

1. A little wallpaper, paint, and or colorful accents could make such a big difference in your home.

2.  DISPLAY A GREAT COLLECTION ON A DINING ROOM TABLE

In the living room of an Atlanta house by designer Beth Webb, an elm plank table from, which often doubles as a dining table, dramatically displays a collection of Chinese porcelains. “The pieces don’t have to match, but they do have to play together well,” Webb says.

HANG AN INTERIOR CURTAIN

In the kitchen of the same Atlanta house, a linen curtain runs on a track spanning the room and can be pulled “to conceal the mess of preparation,” Webb says. Steel-and-glass casements frame views of the pool and garden.

PUT AN ANTIQUE IN THE BATHROOM

The guest bath in Fulk’s vacation home “feels authentic to the period of the house, but also clean and modern,” he says. Pedestal tub and fixtures from sunrise.

PAINT AN INEXPENSIVE PIECE OF FURNITURE WHITE

This Kansas City house’s dining room, a former loggia, is “light, bright, and airy,” homeowner and designer Zim Loy says. “I accomplished that with lots of white paint.” She bought a beat-up old $60 table at an estate sale and gave it a fresh new look by the painting the base high-gloss white