Home Decor Quiz

Are you a home decor adventurer? Can you cut your way through the jungle of designs and find the perfect ensemble for your space? Here are a few questions that will assist you on your quest!

1. What is my objective?

2. What is my theme?

3. How can I achieve my decorating dream with the greatest ease and affordability?

My most recent adventure!

Answers…

1. My objective…redecorate and redefine my guest bathroom in a fresh and springy theme!

2. Spring colors and floral prints to bring a fresh and lovely springtime feel to my bathroom.

Deco Green Curtain Brings Springtime Inside

3. I will create my room with ease by choosing an all inclusive package. Shower curtains and accessories that complement my theme. Affordability is achieved by taking advantage of the free shipping on orders of $100 or more, and by saving on the retail price when shopping with Popular Home Collections. And with the 2-3 day shipping I have my new bath in a jiffy!

Shopping online at Popular Home Collections is not only easy and enjoyable, but it is also satisfying to the thrifty shopper in all of us. With such a vast variety to choose from, accompanied by the friendly and warm atmosphere…shopping has never been more enjoyable.

Grab a cup of tea and relax here with us, where shopping is still considered a joy. Whoever knew you could have such an enchanted evening…just you and your mouse!

Best Decorating Wishes,
Paula

Taking the Gold in Bathroom Decor

The modern luxury of the Medina Gold Bath Ensemble makes decorating your space a grand adventure. In this decadent collection you will find everything you need in order to create a room that radiates a modern aura. Rich colors combined with creative designs make this bath ensemble a treasure.

Elegant and Classy

The shower curtain is defined with an inlaid leaf design…in rich, burnished gold and yellow hues, with a fringed valance that is simply eye-catching. Adding to the splendor are matching shower hooks, a tumbler, trash can, toothbrush holder, lotion pump and soap dish. Each piece features the modern inlaid design, carrying your theme flawlessly throughout your room.

Now to finish the bathroom perfectly, add the rugs, window curtains and the tissue box, and voila!, you’ve got modern beauty brought to you with ease and affordability. Popular Home Collections, taking the fear and expense out of decorating…happy shopping!

French Garden Kitchen Collection

Spring is just around the corner! So many of us are looking to brighten our homes with new and fresh decor. What could be more indicative of spring decorating than bringing the wonder of the spring garden indoors?

The French Garden Kitchen Collection does the decorating for you. This all inclusive ensemble has all the color and wonder of nature. Fruits and berries…all in vibrant colors that will add a breath of spring to your kitchen.

Light and Elegant

This collection has everything you need to create a beautiful room. Start with curtains, add place mats, chair pads, pot holders, rugs, even a matching canister set! And with the addition of a lovely wall clock, you will see that decorating the perfect spring kitchen takes no time at all!

Spring into the joy of decorating…

Popular Home Collections, where you can afford to make every room in your home bloom so beautifully this spring!

Happy Decorating,
Paula

Home Decor Personality Secrets

How would you define your personal taste in home decor? There are several classifications in which we fall as decorators.

For example…if you are shopping for a new bed ensemble, and cannot seem to settle on a choice, you might want to give yourself this little quiz.

1. Do I want formal, contemporary, casual or perhaps even whimsical?

2. After making the choice on style, it is time to move on to color and texture.

3. Formal window treatments are usually found in the heavy decadent fabrics. The colors are most usually uniform. Accents are added to the room with strategically placed throw pillows and rugs.

4. Contemporary decor is marked by prints, geometric shapes and layers of color. Curtains and room accents can be in various shades of the chosen color and should add a feeling of depth to the room.

Patterns on Accessories Add Pop to Your Room

5. A whimsical approach may be one of the most fun to create. For instance, if you have a child’s bedroom and bath to decorate, you can start by choosing a bright color scheme. A comforter set with large bright print is a great starting point. Cover the bed with bright throw pillows in varying sizes. Rugs in coordinating colors add flair, while window treatments in sheer fabrics, serve to tie the room together. Taking your theme into the bath is so easy. A shower curtain and bath accessories in the bedroom motif give a sense of completion.

Choose your style and have fun! Be adventurous with window treatments, try multiple layers and even multiple lengths. Place rugs all around to give a “homey” restful character to your space. Rugs are not only lovely, they are a functional addition to your room.

Find beautiful solutions to all your decorating needs here…happy decorating from everyone at Popular Home Collections, where luxury meets affordability!!!

Blessings,
Paula

Insider Secrets for Home Decorating … SHHHHH!!!

Being a designer can be very demanding. One must continuously come up with fresh and innovative ideas in order to remain competitive. Through the years I have developed some wonderful ways to save myself time and the dreaded “money mistakes”.

I am a serious journal keeper. I love writing down things that I want to remember whether it be about my life, my children, or grandchildren.

Believe it or not, a design or home decor journal is a very handy thing to have. I have saved myself countless headaches and do-overs with this idea. It is so simply to do.

Take a picture of the room you want to re-vamp. Try and include as much of the room as is possible. In the bedroom for instance, you need to have the bed and at least one window in the shot to match your bed ensemble and your window treatments…in the bathroom you need to try and include the toilet, the bathtub and a window. If possible, and it usually is in the bathroom, have the sink in the picture as well so you can add your chosen accessories to match.

Now use your computer to enlarge the pics. I usually go 8/10. That is a very simple task I know, but the fun part starts now.

You can use these enlargements to “mock” up your room. Print out some of the items you are thinking of using in your room and place them on the corresponding item. Now you can see what the room will look like with the themes you have been mulling over. No mistakes to haunt you when you keep a journal and get creative with pictures.

This helps me make the transition form season to season with ease. I love my journals and I share them with friends.

This works so well when purchasing mix and match items. You can slowly build your room to your personal likings. All the way from the rugs to the toilet seat, and from the shower curtain to the window treatments.

Bright Colors Light Up a Room

How fun and inexpensive. More secrets to be revealed soon!

For more information and ideas on how to affordably decorate your home, visit Popular Home Collections. As always, enjoy your decorating adventures.

Small Home Decorating Additions

A very common question for a designer to field is, “How do I cheer up a room and make it over with the minimal amount of work and expense?” Ah… now that is a great question. Luckily, there are some great answers.

1. Let’s say you have a room that is carpeted. We all know that carpet can be very expensive and must be a long lasting investment in our homes. Yet the same old floor from season to season can become drab and very boring. So here are some tips you might find interesting.

Placing accent rugs on carpet is totally in style. It is often thought that rugs are for tile or wood only, which is not the case at all! Adding accent rugs in the bath or bedroom is a very easy and inexpensive way to brighten a dull room.

Coordinate your rug colors with existing colors in the room. For example, pull the color from window treatments, chair pads, comforters and bedspreads.

This will tie your space together and add that “umph” we are all seeking.

2. Now let’s makeover the kitchen in a jiffy on a tight budget.

Chair pads come in so many wonderful styles and colors nowadays! They are one of the least expensive room accessories we can use. Yet they add brilliance to a space.

Perhaps you already have a unique theme. Well, I am so happy to say that there are many kitchen items that match nowadays from your wall clock to your rugs, canisters, and bread box. WOW!

How far you’ll take this inexpensive kitchen face-lift is up to you!

Great Accessories Can Add Style to the Kitchen

No painting…no remodeling…just a bit of fun and clever shopping on your part.

Just remember that small additions bring about big changes. This ultimately leaves you, the consumer, with change to spare!

Decorating has never been easier or more affordable!

Happy decorating…

Stylish Decisions

The vast choices in color and style have some “would be” decoraters confused. Do I want modern…elegant…transitional…contemporary…or a combination of all?

Perhaps categorizing styles will make these choices a breeze.

The MODERN motif is usually signified by bold colors, geometric designs, and shiny or semi-metallic fabrics often found in window treatments or shower curtains.

The ELEGANT motif reflects decadent rich colors and silky fabrics, often layered with lace or gilding.

The TRANSITIONAL ensemble is one of simple beauty. Typically noted by a checkered or plaid pattern…florals may also fall into this category. The fabrics are usually cotton or a cotton blend.

Checkered Leaf Spice Shower Curtain

The CONTEMPORARY ensemble combines modern and transitional. It often boasts softer and rounder tones than its modern counterpart, but is a bit edgier than the transitional style.

Many decide to combine one motif with another. This is not only acceptable in the design world…it is encouraged! Contemporary with country floral is one combination that works well together. One of my personal favorites is modern elegance. This involves combining fabrics from one collection and accessories from the other. Mixing and matching rugs and curtains…towels and kitchen or bath accessories can easily complete this elegant transformation. Color blending is the key to making this marriage work.

Choosing the style you desire is easy if you allow your creativity to flow. Create a room that displays your personal style…whatever it may be!

Interior Decorating with Bold Colors

Saratoga Special Bath Set

With the New Year comes new hope, fresh ideas, and dreams. Interior decorating is one way to conquer this.  Redecorating a drab winter room is a bright way to ring in the New Year. Purple is one of the IN
colors this year - not only in the fashion industry, but also in the design industry. Some folks tend to shy away from interior decorating with bold colors, thinking that they will overpower a room. Here are some great tips for infusing bold colors into a living space.

Purple has many different tones or hues, from dark decadent eggplant to light and lovely lavender. All of the colors in between work together to give a room silent grace and wonder. Layers of color make
interior decorating fun, and give a space ambiance and depth. Add dark purple drapes with sheer lavender valances to give a soft glow to the room. Accessorizing with hues of your signature color will bring casual flair and comfort to the space.

Designer tip: Do not be afraid of color when it comes to interior decorating. Embrace it and invite life into your home. Look at how all of the colors in nature blend together to make the world bloom so beautifully.

Bright Ideas

Come winter time, the gloomy weather often causes a dreary room to
seem unbearable! After all, we do not enter rooms of comfort to
hibernate (well, maybe the basement), so let’s brighten up our
designated room in a jiffy.

Consider starting with sheer window treatments to allow the maximum
amount of light to filter into said room. The right set of curtains
can help to accentuate the light and allow it to enhance specific
areas.

Bold Colors Uplift

Next, add some robust color. Colors on the warm end of the spectrum
often trigger an uplifting effect. Reds, purples, yellows, and oranges
help to create an energetic atmosphere.

Adding citrus scented candles to a room will wake it up sweetly.
Grapefruit and lemon flavors are a couple of wonderful choices.

Lastly, a wonderful centerpiece for the winter table is a bowl of
fruit.  Aside from the infusion of color, this element also
self-serves as a healthy snack. After all, we all need more vitamin C
in the winter!

These bright ideas will work in a kitchen, a dining room, or even a
living room or family room.  It may be gray and dreary outside, but
your home can be bright and beautiful with just a bit of creative
attention!

Shop Popular Home Collections!

Be Bright~
Paula

Quality Decorating for Less

In this day & age, everyone has a budget. Decorating your home for a
minimal amount is a breeze when you use your imagination and your
wits! For example, let’s say you have $100 allotted for a bedroom
project. It sure doesn’t sound like much, does it? But wait… don’t
get discouraged - let’s see what we can do to make the ultimate
changes for the minimum price!

Brighten Your Room With New Curtains

First things first, look around your room. Try to think of creative
ways to enhance what you already have in your space. Take note of your
bedside lamp.  It can exude originality with a change as simple as a
new shade. How easy was that? Now…imagine your windows with new
treatments. What a wonderful and inexpensive change for a dreary room.
With still enough money for more miracles, choose a new bed ensemble
to accentuate your curtains. You already have a room that is looking
too good to be true. For added impact, consider splashing some color
around with matching throw pillows. Perfect. The light through the new
window treatments will bring a subtle glow to your room, while the new
bed ensemble will create harmony and elegance. Grab a good book, turn
on that refurbished lamp, prop yourself up on those soft new pillows,
and enjoy your first night in your new room…decorated on a
budget…but who will know?

Decorate on a budget at Popular Home Collections

Happy Decorating,
Paula

Kiss The Cook!

Kiss The Cook!

Great, Unique Pieces Make Kitchen Memories

So many wonderful memories center around the kitchen. All the yummy smells and wonderful flavors. A kitchen can easily become a place to gather with family and friends. Decorating in the kitchen is always challenging. Do you go with a specific theme, or a color? How about a little of both? Let’s create a kitchen that welcomes everyone in and offers a feeling of comfort and joy. Adorn the windows with curtains that add cheer, tie your look together with matching kitchen accessories…towels, pot holders, table cloth and canisters. Oh and to really make your kitchen the “place to be” fill those canisters with home baked cookies. A kitchen filled with beauty and warmth can be yours, it is as simply as pie…

Make mine apple!

Dare to Decorate!

Paula

Everything is coming up Roses!

The Rose is by far the most well known flower. Literally millions of roses are sent as fragrant gifts every year all over the country. The rose is a lovely expression of nature and love.

Invite the beauty and serenity of this precious flower into your home to transfer your bathroom into a romantic Crystal Leaf Rose Shower Curtain sanctuary.

The… 

Crystal Leaf Rose Shower Curtain  

 is a beautiful beginning to a room that will blossom gloriously. Soft subtle shades of rose imprinted with crystal leaves and blooms…matching accessories adorn, creating a perfect union of romance and ambiance.

Designer tips…add

A pretty rose print to grace the wall…a tea rose wreath, scented with rose essential oil…to finish with individuality and flair…place a book of poetry centered around roses in your bathroom for your guests to enjoy. Decorating around a theme is a wonderful way to express your adoration for the finer things in life.  

“A rose by any other name…would still smell as sweet”

Paula~

Christmas Border Bath Ensemble

The Christmas Border Bath Ensemble Set comes with shower curtain with hooks, bath rug, contour rug, tissue box, lotion dispenser, toothbrush holder, tumbler, soap dish, and waste basket. Rich wonderful colors herald the beauty of the season. Turning your bath into a wonderland of rich and vibrant seasonal splendor. This all inclusive ensemble magically transforms your space. You needn’t be a professional designer to enjoy a decadent holiday home.

This collection will give your bathroom the look of elegance at a price you will applaud. We take the “hassle and fuss” out of holiday decorating by offering you the convenience of shopping from home. If you can imagine the look you desire, we can create it for you with our lovely collections of home decor and accessories.

Designer Suggestions…

After creating your perfect holiday bathroom with our Christmas Border Bath Ensemble, add extra ambiance with a few bayberry or spruce scented candles. A CD player hidden away softly playing songs of the season is sure to make your beautifully decorated bath, the topic of conversation around the tree!

Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!

Napa Valley Kitchen Collection

Popular Home Collections delivers to you, the Napa Valley Kitchen Collection.

Napa Valley Kitchen Collection

Infuse the ambiance of one of California’s most beloved regions directly into your home. Offering the romanticism and beauty of wine country, the Napa Valley Kitchen Collection meshes themes of vintage wine bottles, corkscrews, and grapes to exude the authentic feel of this unique region. The functionally stylish Napa Valley Kitchen Collection comes complete with themed chair pads, kitchen towels, oven mitts, placemats, potholders, and canister & spoon sets in addition to a variety of other unique kitchen accents. Consider a Napa Valley themed cookie jar or wall clock to truly capture the essence of wine country within your own abode. The extremely affordable Napa Valley Kitchen Collection provides you with everything you’ll need to create a setting boasting sophisticated taste as well as a relaxing atmosphere.

If you’re not sure if the Napa Valley Kitchen Collection is the ideal décor for your home, please feel free to browse other uniquely themed sets in our Kitchen Textile Collection. We’re happy to lend a hand in the kitchen or anywhere else in the home!