Home Decor: Home Accents and Decorative Elements
Important aspects of home décor are the decorative elements and home accents you use to complement and accentuate the general decoration and furnishings of your home. Furnishings includes the furniture, and while beautiful furniture goes a long way towards making a home what it is, it is nothing without the smaller items that complement it.Among these smaller decorative elements are vases, trays, candles, bookends and figurines that can be use to provide home accents that can both set and accentuate the theme of any room. To that list you can add oil paintings, prints, lamps and boxes that have a specific use and that appear entirely appropriate to the setting in which they are used.Here are some examples of home accents that can offer the decorative elements that make a home a home and not just a collection of furniture.Home Décor: VasesVases can have several functions in your home. The most obvious is to hold floral arrangements, whether these are real flowers or synthetics made from silk or polyester. Flowers offer a means of accentuating any style of décor, and are easily changed to suit the seasons or your color scheme. There is a wide range of synthetic floral arrangements to choose from, and an even larger selection of natural flowers and plants.Many use vases to offer not just visual beauty to a home, but also to provide an enhanced fragrance to a room. While genuine flowers can smell lovely, silk arrangements have no smell, and the entire fragrance of a room can be designed as you want it by the use of vases containing reed diffusers steeped in essential oils.Glass vases can also be used as decorative elements in a home by filling them with pebbles, colored glass marbles and glass fragments, seashells or varying colors of spices. The only limiting factor to your creative ability using vases is your imagination. Larger glass vases can even be used for small fish.Decorative TraysDecorative trays can be fashioned from metals, glass or ceramics in various shapes and colors, and are even made from highly colored plastics and many types of hardwood. Fragrant sandalwood is good choice for a decorative tray, as is a half pineapple or even a coconut shell.Trays can be used to hold the same items as for vases, such as colored glass or stones, and also nuts. However, your guests would prefer them to be filled with chocolates and other sweetmeats. Fruit is also an option, although a very unimaginative one – unless you choose exotic fruits – and keep them fresh!Ceramics: Plates and Other CeramicsAmong the more popular types of home accents are decorative plates and ceramics such as jars and jugs. Plates can be displayed on racks on tables and sideboards, or in display or curio cabinets. If you hang them on your walls, make sure you do not use metal racks that damage the plates.Decorative jugs and jars can be small and used as table and display ornaments, or can be large floor-standing jars (think Ali-Baba) that are suitable for large entrance halls, larger themed rooms and patios. These are also available in almost every material, natural and synthetic, although clay, porcelain and glass are the most popular – and the most decorative.Mirrors as Home Decorative ElementsMirrors can make all the difference between an ordinary room and one that receive admiration. Mirrors make small rooms look larger, and offer light to darker halls and rooms that would otherwise appear gloomy. Two or three strategically placed mirrors in a room can multiply reflect the light of only one lamp to provide a scintillating effect that deserves all the admiration it receives.Mirrors in bedrooms and bathrooms are not so much decorative as functional, so when selecting them, make sure you understand the difference between the two. You need at least one full length mirror in a dressing room or bedroom, and at least one face mirror in a bathroom: the latter being mainly used for shaving or applying night creams.Candlesticks as Home AccentsCandlesticks are a good choice if you are seeking unique home accents. There is a massive range of candlesticks and candelabra available, both online and from a wide variety of mall stores. Many people use candelabra on their dining table, particularly during dinner parties.Others use candlesticks around the home, and while you will find a huge selection of different types of decorative and scented candles available, many people prefer a simple straight cylindrical white candle to colored or twisted candles. Others don’t care, and use the type of candles they like best – twisted or not! In fact, such items are used more as decorative elements in the home rather that for their functional use.These are just a small selection of home accents and decorative elements commonly used in modern home décor. Ultimately, what you use will depend upon your own personal preference, taste and the general decorative style you employ.
3 Best Ways to Make Money Online From Home
Have you been thinking of the best ways to make money online and earn some extra cash for yourself during your free time and you don’t have a clear cut idea on how to start up?You can do so many things like Article writing, Freelancing, Blogging, Internet marketing, Affiliate marketing e.t.c.Making money online is not very difficult, in most cases you don’t need to own a website or online platform, or even sell products. Depending on your specialty and the skill you possess, you can make money online through any of the following ways listed below and much more;1. Freelancing.Being a freelancer is one of the best ways to make money online. Freelancing involves being skilled in a particular aspect, whereby people in need of your service can hire you to do a job for them in exchange of money for services rendered.If you are skilled in areas like article writing, photoshop editing, graphic design, website design & development, video editing & animation services and much more, you can sign up on popular freelancing platforms like Fiverr, Odesk, Upwork, Freelancer, PeoplesperHour e.t.c.These platforms provide the opportunity of showcasing your abilities, making it easier for people in need of your services to locate and hire you.2. Blogging.For people with particular interests in any subject, you can decide to start up a blog on areas like Cooking, Dancing, Fashion, Fitness e.t.c.But first, before you can be able to earn money with your blog, you need to grow your audience and blog readers. After you have successfully grown your blog audience, and your daily traffic has increased considerably you can proceed to monetize your blog through any of the top website monetization platforms like Google AdSense, Media.net, Chitika, and Content.ad.These website monetization platforms pay you for clicks and impressions generated from advert units placed on your blog or website.3. Paid Surveys.Paid surveys are one of the best ways to make money online. There are so many companies and firms that are willing to hear your opinion about their services and products in exchange for a reward.Companies use paid surveys as a valuable tool to gather information on the quality of their goods and services. They also accept all types of feed backs, both negative and positive.The statistics retrieved from these surveys are used as guidelines to improve their standards.
Creativity for Live Events Entertainment
Creativity for events entertainment is becoming an essential necessity to the outcome of any event. Clients are looking for that talking point of the night and are requesting for something “different”. Event Managers are being stretched when it comes to creating imaginative entertainment ideas to find something brand new for their client.Here are a list of some tips and ideas as to how you can bring something new to the table when it comes to live events entertainment and performances:1. Know your clients and guests requirements. What are they looking to gain or achieve from the event? The better understanding you have of the brief the easier for the performer to recommend and provide the right performance for the event.2. Use specialists within the entertainment industry like an entertainment company or a choreographer. If your event is heavily live event entertainment based you might want an entertainment specialist to help you pitch. They will know the act inside and out, so will be able to answer any questions from your client, which will help you win the pitch.3. Build a relationship with the entertainment company. The events industry constantly use the word “supplier”, which I think is very cold. I see it as a partnership. The entertainment company should be the first people you go to for entertainment advice when you receive an enquiry. Ask them to brainstorm with you or to help you with entertainment solutions and ideas. It saves you time and will provide you with a great outcome. Keep them on speed dial!4. If you can’t find the right events entertainment, produce it! There are so many creative’s within the events industry who will be able to produce a brand new act or performance. If your client wants something new or different, this is your answer. You will make your client very happy by saying you can 100% guarantee that none of your clients would have seen the entertainment you will be able to provide.5. Always speak to your production team and make sure they are in contact with the live events entertainment you are providing. So many times you turn up on the day of the event and the lighting is of poor quality or the PA system is at the other end of the room so you can’t hear the music during the performance. Communication is key between the entertainment company and the production company. A 10-minute phone call can dissolve many potential problems you would find on the day. Lighting, sound and production must compliment the entertainment to ensure a high quality performance and to get your moneys worth.6. Make sure you are thorough when reading the entertainment’s requirements. If you’re hiring a performer with detailed technical specifications such as aerial artists make sure the production team has it at the earliest convenience. You don’t want to book a fantastic aerial performer, but realise you can’t put rigging up due to health and safety.7. Don’t let the act perform for longer than is needed. I think the most important rule when providing entertainment is leave the guests wanting more. Make an impact! This sounds like a simple rule, but this happens more often then not. This goes back to knowing what the intention and brief of the event.8. Listen to the performer and entertainment company they will know what will work best for your event when it comes to performances and timings. They want to provide the very best entertainment and performance to ensure your event is perfect. Listen to their advice!