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It’s been at least a year now since you moved to your new work place and took over your new office. First of all, you were busy coping with a new home and learning a new job, but now that you’re settled in you start noticing again the same things that you noticed when you first took over your office.

The walls are a boring, drab colour and looking decidedly depressing, the sun streaming in through the heavy duty blinds is decidedly dingy and the furniture is just about as grotty and plain as it can get. You figure that an acceptable amount of time has passed for you to start an office decorating project.

Naturally, before you start it’s always a good idea to make certain that those in charge won’t have any objections to your stylish redecorating plans. And remember that it is just an office and so you should treat your plans to redecorate as such.

Painting the walls a bright red colour possibly might not work. However, you could brighten things up a bit by repainting the walls a bright and airy colour that won’t be an eyesore to anyone, least of all you. Then you could always take down those ancient blinds that have been hanging there since the early 1980′s and replace them with something more pleasing and modern.

On the other hand, if the whole of the office is done up in the same style with the same blinds hanging on every window, your stylish changes might not be appreciated by your colleagues. So think twice before doing something that changes the whole look and atmosphere of the entire office.

There are, however, simpler ways you can carry out your office decorating project without too much hassle on your part and which doesn’t necessarily need to be thought over too much. You could brighten up any room by placing a pot or two of flowering plants here and there around your office.

But, if you’re at all like me and you don’t have green fingers or if your presence is death to any plants near you, then maybe you shouldn’t bother with plants. You could however bring in some bright prints and hang them up on your walls. Or perhaps you have children and they have painted some lovely pictures for you.

Kids’ paintings work well and will show your co-workers a different side of your character. But, don’t get stressed out over anything though – you really don’t need a simple decorating project to add to the rest of your worries – an office decorating project should be fun and stress-free.

Remember, your office decorating project should not entail your turning the whole office, or yourself, on its head. It should be something that you can live with on a daily basis.

After all, you work in your office for most of the day, so it ought to be a place where you can feel just as relaxed as you are in your own home.

So what exactly is southwestern home decor and how can you get it into your own home? Well, to start with southwestern home decor reflects the southwest and all its best traits. Southwestern home decor means colourful throw rugs, gorgeous wall hangings, and if you look hard enough, you can even find great kitchen accessories as well.

If you’re considering introducing southwestern home decor into your residence, first of all, you need to determine whether it will fit in with your existing decor or whether it will clash badly. Almost all southwestern home decor involves bright, eye-catching colours and stunning designs and motifs.

So, if your existing furniture would clash with any of these lovely pieces you can do one of two things. First up, you could always just throw out every single piece of ratty and unwanted furniture that you already have and replace it with gorgeous pieces of southwestern home decor. Or you could just buy one or two pieces of the southwestern home decor range and match it selectively to your existing knick-knacks.

Personally speaking, I would just love to replace everything I already have since there’s some wear and tear, but in the real world that’s just not possible. For one thing it would just be way over my budget, and for another I would rather not have to listen to a lecture from my mother about waste. I’ve discovered that you can escape from your friends but not from your mother!

Besides, I’m also more than little happy that I didn’t give into my initial impulse and renovate everything in the southwestern home decor style. Sure, it does look great, but sometimes I also like the peace and quiet that some of my other pieces of furniture bring to in me. Therefore, I have now come up with the perfect solution and have instead resorted to buying one-off pieces that catch my attention and sprinkling my home with those instead.

And I have to admit that its made quite a difference to the look and feel of my entire home. Expensive pieces of the more traditional furniture now sit quite comfortably with the more vibrant and stunning designs of my southwestern home decor. I’ve even got hold of a great throw rug for my bathroom floor and a beautiful set of bathing towels. My kitchen has a new set of southwestern motifs, and my foyer has the most wonderful lampshade and statue in prominent view.

Although all of this sounds over the top, I’ve found that this is the easiest way to bring the splendours of southwestern home decor into my home, without going all out and replacing my whole house with southwestern decor and motifs.

After all, you just want to add a little of southwestern decor to your home, not the whole sheebang. Oh, and did I forget to mention the gorgeous tapestry I bought the other day? It’s just perfect.

So here you are, you’ve bought your new house! Its a bit of a mess because the previous owner was in a hurry to sell and had been in the middle of redecorating. You don’t really mind that though, since it gives you the perfect chance to do your house up exactly the way you want it to be done.

But now you need to decide where everything goes and what colours will suit your rooms, but you still don’t have any wall painting ideas.

So, you eagerly look through your new keys and wander through your new house. The minute you step in through a door ideas hit you. That huge urn you bought a year ago would look fantastic in the corner, and you’re pretty sure that your existing sofa set will fit in this other room. And you know the antique mirror table would look stunning in the hallway. The only thing you really get hung up on though are wall painting ideas.

You definitely don’t want to just splash on a few coats of neutral coloured paint and be done with it. What you want is a masterpiece, something that you can look on with pride every time you see it. And, naturally, you should be able to keep looking at it with pleasure for quite some time to come as well, so it shouldn’t be too domineering.

But where do you get decent wall painting ideas from, and how can you go about getting the wall painting actually done? There are a few ways that you could go about this, the easiest of which being if you have an artistic flair, so that you could get your wall painting ideas off the cuff, so to speak and paint the walls as you like. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t too artistic and we are hesitant to pick up a brush or roller and apply the first coat of paint without supervision. In this case then, you will need some help.

You could begin by hiring a professional interior designer to help you decide what would look good or you could sit down and watch some DIY programs on the TV, where they show some pretty good ideas on what to do when decorating a house and will even give you some great wall painting ideas.

If neither of these options is suitable for you, you might just try going down to your local DIY store with fabric swatches and colour sheets of your most prominent pieces of furniture and seek their help on stylish wall decorating ideas.

You may come up with a mixed bag of wall painting ideas with this last suggestion, but I found that it was the one that worked best for me and now I’m very proud of my slightly eclectic house. It reflects who I am just perfectly.