In our last post Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style, we gave you some tips on how to figure out what your decorating style is like. We provided some exercises to go through and the result was to help you see that your style falls into one of four categories:

• Classic Style – Timeless Elegance
• Modern Style – Color, Contrast and Clean Lines
• Cozy Style – Comfort and Warmth
• Vintage Style – Eclectic, Quirky, Curvy and Historic

In this article, we will discuss what it means to have a Classic Style.

A classic never dies. With this style, you create a formal lifestyle that will most likely be “in style” forever. Traditional furniture, old world accessories and clean lines establish a look that wears very well over time and feels timeless. Think of your favorite Grace Kelly movie or take a visit to Tiffany & Co for your inspiration.
Decorate with:

• Delicate furniture with tapered legs and clean lines.
• Hang a grand chandelier!
• Choose rich, dark woods for furnishings.
• Use neutral, pale and soft colors on walls and upholstery.
• Include metals, glass and marble in your decorating (like mirrors, a classic bust or interesting sculpture.)
• Choose luxurious fabric like velvet and silk.
• Remember to balance everything symmetrically.

Wall Slicks that go well with this style are: Chandelier wall stickers, Damask wall decals and our Ceiling Relief wall sticker.

In our next post, we will go into details on what defines the Modern Style. Until then, happy DIY decorating from your friends at Wall Slicks, the Original Wall Decal Store.

(Photo compliments of interior-home-decorating-ideas.com)

Decorating style! Everyone has one, but, I bet if someone asked you to define it, you’d have a hard time explaining exactly what it is, you just know what you like. Home decorating is an extension of your personal style. It’s all about who you are and what makes you feel comfortable, intuitively. If you want to get in touch with your personal style, follow these three steps:

1. Review What you Have
   It’s time to take a good hard look around your house and make an honest list about what you love and don’t like about the current furnishings and décor. Create a list of “Keep” or “Replace” and walk around your house (or just the room you want to change) with a pad and pencil and put every piece of furniture and tchotchke into one of those two columns. Go with your gut on how each item makes you feel and you won’t go wrong.
2. Find Your Favorite Things
   Look around not only your home furnishings, but, your clothes and even your jewelry and put all your favorite things into a big pile (or take digital photos of them, then print them all out to view). Pay particular attention to items that make you feel beautiful, bring you joy and inspire good feelings.
3. Use Your Imagination
   Find a place where you can be uninterrupted for 10 minutes and close your eyes to imagine places you love and why you love to be there. This could be a vacation spot you visited, a scene from a movie or even a piece of artwork you like. With this in mind, envision what your dream home would look like. Do not put any constrains of cost or location on it. You can take this even further and imagine the most beautiful dress, jewelry and shoes you might wear to a formal occasion. Write down your answers or find images in magazines that match your ideas.

Now that you have some input on your personal style, look for commonality among the results from the three exercises to help identify your decorating style. This can be tricky, but, the basic themes will be:

• Classic Style – Timeless Elegance
• Modern Style – Color, Contrast and Clean Lines
• Cozy Style – Comfort and Warmth
• Vintage Style – Eclectic, Quirky, Curvy and Historic

We’ll post more details on each style in a future blog post. Until then, happy DIY decorating from your friends at Wall Slicks, the Original Wall Decal Store.

Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Classic
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Modern
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Cozy
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Vintage

Did you know Wall Slicks offers custom wall decals? Yes, if you can dream it, we can make a wall sticker out of it, and in over 40 colors to boot! Let’s say you’ve browsed all our incredible designs but still can’t find exactly what you are looking for, just give us a call and we’ll give you quote for something customized just for you.

Not only can we create just the right image you need to create a perfect look in any room of the house, you can also get it in any size you like. Pricing is based on $6 per square foot. So, no matter if you have a small or large space to fill, we can work with you to help you be your own DIY decorator and deliver just the wall decal you want in the exact size and color you need.

If you’re ready to create your custom wall sticker for the kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, hallway or baby nursery, call us at 1-888-259-5767 and let’s get your project started!

I’m sure you’ve seen wall stickers at your local store in the home decorating aisle or crafting section. There are other companies, besides Modern Wall Graphics the Original Wall Decal Store, out there offering cute designs to accent and DIY decorate your home or kids rooms and you may have been excited to try them on your wall. But, I’m willing to guess that you were disappointed with the result, and not because of the design you chose or where you placed it, but, because a few days or weeks after you installed it, the sticker started to peel up and away from the wall. Even pressing it back down against the wall again didn’t help, right? This is probably because the wall decal you purchased was made of plastic.

Wall Slicks wall decals are not made of plastic, but rather a malleable vinyl that not only adheres well to the wall, but, follows any contours it may have so that the wall sticker almost looks like a painted stencil when finished and not a sticker at all. The vinyl material in Wall Slicks also has a matte finish and that means it won’t look shiny, again helping it blend in with the wall, looking more like it was professionally painted on.

The great thing about Wall Slicks is that once you place it on the wall, it stays there until you are ready to remove it. No peeling away from the wall, ever. Just keep the sheet it comes on along with the clear top sheet and if you ever need to reposition or remove the decal, you’re all set. It’s strong enough to stay put, but, easy enough to take down with no residue left behind. Who could ask for anything more!