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6 Ideas for Casual Family Room Rugs

Rugs are a great place to start building a room design. They help define conversation areas, they can separate functional areas, and they make open-concept floor plans feel more practical. But what if you’re decorating a casual family room? Won’t a rug make it feel formal? Not necessarily. Let’s look at some casual options.

Note: This list is primarily intended to give you ideas for creating a casual look. It is not intended as a comprehensive discussion of rug types, construction, quality, and care.

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4 Ways to Do Casual Living Room Curtains

Curtains are a great way to introduce color and texture to a room while also giving it more visual height. But what if you’re worried that adding curtains will turn your casual living room into a dark and stuffy Victorian parlor? You also don’t want to fall for the quick fix of putting up cheap, flimsy curtains in a hasty attempt to maintain a casual appearance; this can draw attention to your curtains for all the wrong reasons.

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5 Ideas for Casual Dining Room Table Decor

Do you have a dining table that looks ready to host a board room meeting and can’t loosen up for pizza night or a chat over coffee? Here are five simple, affordable ideas to help your dining room look less strait-laced.

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8 Ideas for Casual Dining Room Wall Decor

When your home has a dedicated dining room, and you live a casual lifestyle, it can feel detached, like a lost room of sorts. So how can you make your dining room look more integrated with the rest of your home? One option is simply to repurpose your dining room for an entirely different function—as a library or a family game room, for example. You can check out a video I made about that here. But if you’re just looking for ways to make your dining room feel less stiff and intimidating, the answer might be to soften the wall space.

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What Makes a Casual Room?

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If you’re creating a casual room, you probably know the descriptions you want to avoid: stiff, formal, stuffy, aloof, cold, delicate, fragile, pretentious. Casual implies a different set of descriptions: relaxed, unassuming, welcoming, warm, sturdy, comfortable.

Casual isn’t really a style. It’s a mood. It’s a feeling that nothing has to be perfect. If the pillows get scattered around the room, it’s OK. If books are open around the coffee table, the room isn’t aghast at the unsightly mess.

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How to Become a Better Decorator

Living room before and after
Does your living room always feel like a “before” image and never quite gets to the “after” image?

Do you feel like your home decor doesn’t live up to the vision in your imagination? I believe that with some exploration and practice, you can develop a keener eye for what makes good home decor—even if you think you’re not very good at decorating!

Everyone deserves to live in a home they enjoy that reflects who they are. The whole idea of Roominess is to give you easy steps to follow so you can create these kinds of spaces for yourself. But if you’re looking for some extra help, start here.

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What Size TV to Buy | Interior Decor

How do you determine the right TV size for your home? TV salespeople will tell you the bigger, the better. But that’s not necessarily the best approach. If you want a home theater or you plan to host football parties every weekend, then by all means, go bigger. If you plan to use the room for other functions, however, like long conversations with friends or family board game night, you don’t want the TV to be so big that it becomes the focal point of the room. Watch today’s video for more advice on how to choose a TV size that works with the functions, style, and color scheme of the room it’s going to live in.

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How to Get Finished with Decor Projects | Condo Remodel Part 4

So far in this series, I’ve talked about major preparations and renovations for moving into my condo. But even after figuring out storage solutions and renovating the bathroom and kitchen, my condo still wasn’t complete enough to feel like home. There were seven additional projects I wanted to do! How did I finish all of them in less than a year? The key was finding the right motivation. Watch today’s video to see how I did it.

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Kitchen Remodel in Same Footprint | Condo Remodel Part 3 | Interior Decor

The kitchen was easily the scariest part of my entire condo renovation project. I had no idea how to design a kitchen! The original, inefficient design was cavelike, even with an all-white color scheme. However, the redesign had to fit in exactly the same footprint. How do you tackle that challenge? Watch today’s video to find out what a dash of inspiration, heaping tablespoons of research, and a generous serving of expert guidance can cook up!

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Add Walls for More Space? | Condo Remodel Part 2 | Bathroom Decor

Before I could move into my condo, I decided I had to renovate its only bathroom. Not only was the tacky 80’s Las Vegas style a turn-off, but the open plan wasted much of the space. Bathtub? Not for me, thanks! In today’s video, I share my thought process for designing a new layout that would work for me and maximize the utility of the bathroom.

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