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How to Find Your Decorating Style

Decorating your home can be rewarding. Depending on the room, trends, style, and budget, it can also be challenging. Fortunately, Home Zone has hundreds of pieces of high-quality yet affordable home decor for your spaces in styles that suit all tastes. These include styles from modern or contemporary to traditional or bohemian. There’s also an array of styles in between, as diverse as coastal, industrial, and Art Deco.

Decorating style is personal. Creating a harmonious, appealing, functional space takes thoughtful planning and a keen eye for items that complement your aesthetic. But what if you’re not sure about your style? Many of us have collected pieces we love, but may not have an overall theme. Distinctive styles can certainly go well together. However, it helps to focus on one or two to create cohesion.

We’re here to help. Consider the Home Zone team your coach — your guide to decorating welcoming, comfortable, and stylish living spaces. Let’s figure it out together.

Open Your Closet for Room Decor Style Clues

Popular interior designer and lifestyle blogger Emily Henderson was really onto something when she came up with the idea of coordinating your decorating style with your wardrobe. It just so happens that our fashion choices are closely related to the interior design and furnishings we adore.

Start in your closet. Think about the jewelry you wear, your choice in bookends and home fragrance, the colors and textures you’re drawn to, whether you prefer solids or patterns, classic or modern styles, and let those ideas guide you.

Look for Trends in New Home Furnishings and Decorative Accessories

Next time you find yourself standing near a magazine rack, go ahead and flip through a few home design magazines. Which photos are you most drawn to? For example, a love for classic pieces with turned legs, tailored details, and heavier, old-world fabrics might indicate a more traditional taste.

Your taste leans to modern if you prefer clean lines, sophisticated fabrics, and fashion-forward touches. You are transitional if you love giving traditional styles an unexpected, contemporary twist. At Home Zone, we have pieces to suit all these styles and more at fabulous prices — no dreaming necessary.

Click Around for Living Room Decor Inspiration

Numerous sites can help you home in on your style, if not with a quiz, by assisting you in selecting inspirational images that resonate with you. Pinterest is an excellent source. You can create boards for each style, each room in your home, or anything else you’d like.

Other inspiring sites include Houzz, BHG, and HGTV. It’s easy to create a virtual scrapbook of styles you like, and the more you click around, the more specific types will naturally float to the top.

Ask a Friend for Insights Into Your Home Decor Style

Sometimes, we see ourselves differently than others do. You might see your style as a jumble of likes and dislikes, while your best friend or sister might know precisely how to define your style. Give it a shot — call your BFF and ask, “If you had to describe my style, what would you say?” You might be surprised!

Take a Vacation: Let Your Home Imagination Soar

When you step outside the real world, you may find yourself free to discover more about yourself. Imagine living anywhere in the world, in any type of home. Where would you live? What would your home look like? Find inspiration. Sure, you can’t live anywhere in the world, in any home you want. Still, you can draw inspiration from those daydreams to create spaces in your own home.

Visualize your refreshed spring home with a “designer” living room, dining room, bedroom, and bathroom, trying out various styles. Experiment with decorative objects such as throw pillows, elegant or boho candle holders, rugs, and wall decor, from wall art to picture frames and hangings. Try out different shades, patterns, and a floral print or two. Settle on what works and what doesn’t.

Take Your Design Style to Home Zone Furniture

So, now you likely have a pretty good idea of what you like and don’t like for home decor. But if you’re still unsure, no worries — head to Home Zone and let our pros take care of you. We’ll show you how to incorporate our high-value, high-quality pieces into your home for a style that suits you perfectly.

So, visit a Home Zone store today or browse our online collection for all you need to decorate your living spaces. Place your order or contact us with any queries or requests.

Baby-Proofing Tips for New Parents

Has the stork recently paid a visit to your home? As you settle in with your new bundle of joy, it might be hard to believe they will soon be mobile and looking to get into trouble. It happens in the blink of an eye!

The mighty task of baby-proofing your home comes along with late nights, early mornings, and the exhausting joy of parenthood. Even if your baby is still a newborn, it’s never too early to start protecting them from potential household dangers, including an often overlooked hazard — your furniture. At the same time, making your home safer doesn’t mean sacrificing style. Follow these tips, and your furniture will be safe for a growing baby and as chic and attractive as ever!

Common Furniture Hazards and Solutions

Beyond putting up baby gates, cover knobs, the bath faucet, and electrical outlets, install a toilet lock, barricade the fireplace, and put latches on drawers and cabinets. These measures ensure your furniture is baby-proofed. Making your living space items kid-friendly includes taking care of the following:

Add Covers to Sharp Corners

The sharp corners of tables are often at head height for toddlers once they get on their feet. Instead, cover and soften sharp corners with corner protectors to prevent head bumps. Alternatively, invest in a round table, such as our chic and classy Mena Dining Table, or one with kinder, rounded edges, similar to our versatile, extendible Slip Leaf Dining Height Table.

Avoid Glass and Other Fragile Materials

Avoid concerns around breakable materials by replacing glass coffee, end, or dining room tables with a more robust metal or well-finished wood. These may be solid materials, but are available in kinder, safer designs.

Anchor Large Furniture

You never know when large, unstable furniture might fall or collapse. Take the proper precautions and anchor all narrow-based furniture, such as bookshelves and dressers, to the wall.

Avoid Hard-to-Clean Fabrics

As little ones grow, spills and stains are inevitable. So, invest in high-performance fabric and upholstery that is stain-resistant and easy to clean. Examples include polyester, microfiber, or olefin (polypropylene). Alternatively, consider a natural leather sofa or a fabric sofa treated with stain repellents, such as cotton, linen, wool, or a blend.

Keep Danger Out of Reach

All that’s left is to consider what your little ones can grab with their hands. Adjust your draperies and blinds, and check that low-hanging window treatments are out of reach. Don’t forget to cut looped cords so your baby doesn’t get tangled up. Be sure to also look over your decor items and remove any breakable knick-knacks from tabletops.

Once you’ve checked these tasks off your list, you’ll be able to relax (even just for a bit) and enjoy the new addition to the family.

Why This Is the Perfect Time for a Furniture Refresh

While busy baby-proofing their home, many parents discover that the easiest and safest solution is to replace their current lounge and dining room furniture with more suitable pieces. A refresh also means an opportunity to update the look of your living spaces with functional and stylish furniture singles and sets.

These new choices could include a sturdy yet soft-edged sectional, separate couch, or sleeper sofa, occasional chairs, or a love seat with easy-to-clean upholstery, a solid wood coffee table and media center, and a durable round or round-edged dining room table and chairs.

For example, consider Home Zone’s City Limits Sectional sofa. This contemporary modular design features thick, oversized cushions. The highly resilient chenille fabric is in a natural, neutral shade, perfect for any theme or color scheme, and gentle on babies.

To protect precious heads from sharp bumps in the dining room, why not try our elegant round Mena Dining Table? Pair these fashionable pieces with chairs to match in a dining set or choose a different set of separates to create an exciting, eclectic look.

Complement your baby-safe sofa with one or more softly upholstered occasional chairs to add comfort and interest. Home Zone’s Mondo Chair in durable polyester is rounded and comfortable. You might also like a sturdy and stable coffee table and side tables, ideal for support when learning to stand. They’re also attractive, for example, our X Squared II Occasional coffee and end table set.

Keep Your Little One Protected With Dependable Durability and Design From Home Zone

Find the ideal Home Zone baby-friendly furniture designs and materials in a style and at a price you love. Visit a conveniently located store today or browse our extensive collection online.

Placing your order is easy. Alternatively, contact us for more information, interior design ideas, or to discuss a customized design. We welcome you and your joyous new addition!

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Design Tips for Mixing and Matching Furniture

Are you facing a mix-and-match predicament in your living room, bedroom, or dining room? This is a common conundrum we’re well equipped to tackle.

Buying matching furniture sets or modular pieces is like hitting a few proverbial birds with one stone. You can purchase several furniture pieces at once (check, check, check!), and you’ve saved yourself the effort required to coordinate. All these pieces of furniture will be attractive and designed to match each other. At the same time, you may want to add a touch of personality, create a more individualized room, or own and love a mismatched array of furniture.

For example, you may have inherited a beloved couch from your grandmother or held on to a cherished side coffee table all these years from your first apartment — you get the gist. This diverse collection is desirable, with decor trends increasingly leaning toward a unique, eclectic look.

However, your mixed furniture combination will appear sloppy without thoughtful selection and arrangement. Instead, a mix-and-match home decor style should convey a decorator’s sense of creativity and personal style while maintaining cohesion.

Whether your goal is to bring personality to your matching sets or to harmonize a smattering of mismatched furniture, try these simple tips for designing a unified and aesthetically pleasing living space.

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Ideas for Maintaining a Clutter-Free Home

Can clutter cause anxiety? How much clutter is too much? If I want to live a clutter-free life, do I have to throw everything out? Sometimes the idea of living a clutter-free life can raise more questions, confusion, and stress than just living with the mess. However, there are numerous benefits to reducing clutter, including making your home easier to manage and, yes, reducing your stress levels.

Living in a clutter-free home is possible with some planning, commitment, and the ideal furniture and storage solutions to suit your lifestyle. Though getting started may feel overwhelming, with our tips, you can change the way you live and be free of clutter for good.

Remove Existing Clutter

The first step to creating and maintaining a clutter-free space is to declutter your home. The fewer items you own, the easier it will be to keep clutter to a minimum. Start by sorting through one room at a time to ensure you give each area a thorough overhaul. Take note of what is causing clutter in the room, such as having too much stuff in a small area or appearing disorganized. Donate, sell, or give away things you no longer need or love; return borrowed items; throw away junk or rubbish; and move out-of-place stuff, like important mail and documents, from the kitchen counter to a more suitable place such as the desk in your office.

Prioritize Storage

Clutter in your home may be due to a lack of storage or knowing where to put things. Every room should have at least one piece of storage furniture. Media centers in the living area are ideal for hiding gaming consoles and cords, a dresser and chest of drawers in your bedroom will look stylish while keeping clothes off the floor and bed, and a buffet cabinet in your dining area can house dishware and table linens. If you have a smaller home or room, consider multifunctional furniture such as a storage ottoman or bed with drawers underneath to save space.

Be sure to store items in the room where you use them. This tip will ensure you can easily put things away without having to walk halfway across your house.

Create New Habits Daily

Though you may know how to get your home in tiptop shape, keeping it that way can be difficult. One trick to avoiding future clutter and keeping your space clean and tidy is to implement new habits daily. These include simple tasks like throwing away or recycling pieces of mail after you’ve opened and read them, and doing a quick tidy of your home at the end of every day. Because it’s easier to put away a few things regularly as soon as you’ve finished using them than to spend your entire weekend resetting your home, dedicate 10 minutes a day to stashing clothes, returning items to where they belong, and generally tidying up to easily maintain a clutter-free lifestyle.

Buy With Purpose

To prevent clutter from accumulating in your home, we recommend being intentional when buying new items. You can reduce impulse buying by considering every purchase and asking yourself if you really need the desired item, if you will use it, and if you will still love it in a few months. If you decide to go ahead with the purchase, then consider donating or selling something from your home that you don’t use anymore to keep your total number of belongings to a minimum.

Purge Regularly

Take the opportunity to regularly check in on what you don’t need in the house and get rid of those items. Stuff can accumulate without you even realizing it, such as saving documents until certain dates or adding new clothes to your wardrobe without removing old, worn garments. Make a point to purge your home a few times a year of items you no longer require or use. You will feel better for doing so, and the simple task can make it easier to maintain a clutter-free home.

Find Furniture With Storage Solutions at Home Zone Furniture

If you’re ready to remove clutter and stress from your home and lifestyle, Home Zone has the perfect furniture and storage solutions to make it happen. We provide an extensive range of quality, stylish furniture for every room in your home; you can readily add more storage to your dining area with a sideboard, your living room with a coffee table with drawers, and your bedroom with a dresser.

Our matching living, dining, and bedroom furniture sets mean you can create cohesive spaces in your home, making it feel calm and less cluttered. Browse our furniture and home accents online or visit our Home Zone store. You can also contact our knowledgeable team for advice on furniture styles and themes to suit your home, or for answers to any of your questions.

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Interior Design Trends

Design trends change continuously, and embracing them can transform your home from dreary to delightful. Trying to keep up with every new trend, however, could leave you with a hefty bill. Still, if you evaluate the current interior design trends and implement just a few elements or accents, like scatter cushions or standing lamps, they could withstand several trend cycles.

Incorporating small changes to your interior design can elevate the appearance of your home and take it to another level. Using different accents according to the seasons or special times of the year can do the trick. Explore some of the home decor trends you can embrace to improve the appearance of your space.

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