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Interior Designer Approved Peel and Stick Wallpaper
Easy to Install Peel and Stick Wallpaper by Ayara Home
As someone who loves to decorate their home, I am always on the lookout for easy and affordable ways to spruce up a room. As a serial redecorator I’m constantly changing up the vibe in my home, especially in the spaces that I spend most of my time, like my home office.
You may have seen the bold flower wallpaper I have been sporting as my social backdrop over the past year. Well unfortunately that paper wasn’t holding up so well. So I decided it was time to find another option and give it a fresh look going into 2024.
8 Designer Tips for a Family Friendly Living Room
Selecting colors and décor for a family-friendly living room is a fun and creative process that combines practicality with style. If you wanted to collaborate with me, we would hammer out your unique design style and specific needs for your family and design with intention for your space. But if we don’t get to collaborate on this project, here are some tips to get you started:
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Types of Lighting Explained
Lighting is the easiest and fastest way to update a space, whether it's in your home or a fixer-upper house. Different types of lighting include natural, incandescent, fluorescent, LED, halogen, and HID lighting. Task lighting illuminates specific areas or tasks, ambient lighting provides overall illumination, accent lighting highlights specific features, and decorative lighting adds aesthetic appeal. Updating your lighting can improve functionality, increase energy efficiency, and enhance the aesthetics of your space.
Top 7 reasons you should be using peel-and-stick wallpaper in your home
As an interior designer, I see a lot of requests for unique and “stand out” backgrounds for social media, business, and video conferencing. Personalized homes with the ability to change in the future (because a lot of us have design ADHD and love to change our decor with the season) is a necessity these days. Choosing the right wallpaper for your "feature wall” or background is like searching for a piece of your identity.
You want something that conveys who you are when you share pictures or videos in front of it. Do you want your wallpaper to represent your fun and whimsical side? Do you want to come across as more serious and professional? Your wallpaper choice says a lot about you!
How to pack for a well-organized move
You could say I’ve moved a few times…
15 moves to be exact (if we don’t count the 3-month stint we had before moving into our new house). That’s a total of 5 different states since I moved out of my parent’s house in Vermont at the age of 18 and left for college in New York. I’ve moved in every high-stress way imaginable. From state to state, from garbage bag moves and car fulls across town to huge Mayflower moving trucks paid for by my ex-corporate company when I accepted a promotion to climb the corporate management ladder.