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A Tip Or Two When You Redecorate Your Home With Handmade Wall Art

It’s been a while since you redecorated your house and you’ve got a budget. But your children insist its time for a complete make over. You give and are looking around for home decor ideas to give your home a classy and conventional feel, but not break your budget or the bank. How about starting with the wall decor? You could look at painting them with texture or using tapestries to accentuate style, but we have another idea. One that is still obscure from the masses. Why don’t you consider the magical option of wall art for your home? It truly can be magical. It also does not need to be expensive.

Handmade wall art can be truly exotic and exquisite. These designs are mainly engineered by local tribes in Bali, South Asia and Africa, where local folk are trained in required skills to produce unique pieces. Imagine the stories you can tell once you get these into your home. Tribal wall art that is as pure as nature itself is not made with the help of any fancy machines. They are purely hand crafted using natural colours. Batik is a very popular form of handmade wall art used today. It is made from wax or flour, and a natural paste to create exotic designs that are bright and colourful.

And of course all of these cool products are going to be eco friendly as well as decorate your home and put a bit of money in the artists hands. All good choices!

Posted 4 weeks ago at 1:37 pm.

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Medieval Knights Shine in Renaissance Tapestries

Knights in shining armor damsel in distress this is what I depict whenever I hear the word renaissance and mostly Renaissance tapestries also uses this images to tell their tale. So renaissance is the era of Michel Angelo and Leonardo de Vinci and what do they have in common? Well, they are not the idols when in comes to tapestries. Renaissance tapestries are believed to be illusions of the weavers on how they depict what really should be. And as I said the most of the images that these tapestries depict are knights and damsels or tournaments and battles. Now, there are also tapestries created that tells the illustrative stories from the bible, legends and mythology.

These fine woven goods are eco friendly home products you can be proud to display in your home. Find one online today.

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:15 pm.

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Go Green with Eco Friendly Photo Blankets

The combination of a photo rather a moment being captured over a blanket that you wrap around is such a warm feeling. Every time you use that blanket you would remember the person who has presented the same to you, in case you are at the receiving end. And in case you have given it to some one it means that you would be remembered every time the person uses it. This is the best way in which the receiver or the giver could acknowledge each other’s love. In fact, over period of time the blanket could be kept as a souvenir.

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Cool Colors To Warm Your Home The Eco Friendly Way

Colors stimulate quite a lot. You might know this concept as color therapy. There are cool rugs available in the market that would have such adventurous color and tints that would change the look of the section where you would place these cool rugs. Amongst the others conventional and modern rugs are the latest. The designs and patterns that are available could mesmerize you. In case you have a little liberal budget you could go for the designer conventional and modern rugs that are available, but they would attract cost and would be expensive. However, these designer rugs are worth the bloated tag.

Stay warm and stay tuned for more excellent ideas to eco friendly shopping. We’ll have product reviews beginning shortly, so stay tuned.

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:05 pm.

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Vogue Eco-Friendly Shopping Online ~ Wall Art

Let’s create a small breakfast room or morning room with just a few simple pieces of furniture and some of the vogue tapestries. Again, a soft white would be the best choice for the room. You could go with a very light eggshell as well. The floor could be a cobblestone tile or slate ceramic types. Ideally, whatever is chosen for the floor should be in shades of grays. Now for furniture all that is needed is a bistro table ideally with a glass top and bistro chairs. Now the focal point being the vogue tapestries will be two. The Black Gloves and the White Gloves.

You are going to see that both of these pieces have their own unique colors but they also have some colors in common as well. Itís these common colors that you want to use for your accessories. A round small center cloth such as a doily in one of these colors with a black sleek vase holding a single flower would be the perfect touch for the table.

And that’s how simple it is when it comes to changing up the decor in your home the planet friendly way and a cool vogue look at the same time.

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 3:11 pm.

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Shop Online for Green Eco-Friendly Products

There are some fabulous products online to keep your home green and eco-friendly.

Water filters are one. They keep the contaminates out of the water you drink so it’s clean and actually tastes better than tap water. It’s a smart choice.

Natural fibers are always a good choice and the products available online are abundant. Woven rugs made from jute and cotton are great.

Sheepskin rugs are natural mother natures choice and good for homes and have that true lanolin that nature can only create, making these rugs exceptional as that feels good to skin and amazingly keep you cool in summer and cozy in winter when laying down on a beautiful and comfortable sheepskin rug.

There is a long list of chemically safe cleaners to use in your home when doing some cleaning up. Spring is almost here, so stay tuned for a list of some eco-friendly cleaners for home use.

Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 2:49 pm.

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