The 5 Easy Tricks To Keep Your Dining Room Clean

De-clutter. This is the first move that you need to do. Remove all items that do not belong in the dining room and put them back where they belong. Assign a place (it can be the garage or the shed) where unwanted items will be placed. Assign a basket for bills or mails that you still want to keep; if they are of not use to you anymore put them straight away to the trash can.

Relieve the dining room with plenty of bric-a-brac. If you do want to have them, keep it to a minimum. Bric-a-brac gathers dust and the dining room is one place that cannot afford to get too dusty. Another way to do this is to separate decorative items that you use for a particular season. Put them in separate containers and have them labeled. Use the decors that you want to use for a particular season; but then again do not put too much.

Dusting. Be sure to use the precise cleaning product in dusting or cleaning glass and wooden articles, brass, etc. Walls, ceilings and corners must be dusted, too. Get rid of cobwebs. Move furniture to clean it from all positions. Ceiling fan must be dusted, as well but make sure you use a ladder in doing this.

Change the curtains and clean windows. Dusty and unclean curtains, draperies or blinds must be changed to new ones. But before putting the new ones, clean the windows (the window glass, panes and corners).

Wash the dining table and other furniture. The dining room table must be washed well, although this must be done after each meal. Use the appropriate product in cleaning the table, chairs and table and seat covers or padding. Shelves, china cabinet and drawers must be emptied so it can be wiped well.

Sweeping or Vacuuming. When all the clutter has been removed, do the next thing which is sweeping or vacuuming and washing the floors.

Once you have done your de-cluttering, cleaning and organizing your dining room, all you have to do is maintain the orderliness and cleanliness. This is best observed by cleaning the dining room on a regular basis. A simple dusting and vacuuming will do the trick as dust will not build up that much unlike when you do it once in a month or every two weeks. A duster is a good tool in dusting; choose one with an expandable stick to reach the ceiling and lighting furniture. The dusting of the chairs and its legs and the dining room’s surfaces can be done once in a week. Mop the dust on the floors once a week. Have ready spirits to clean the windows as well as the glass of the china cabinet. Getting to the habit of cleaning your dining room regularly will help also lighten its atmosphere.…

Round Dining Room Tables – What to Look For

When in the market for a new dining room table there are several features to look at. Matching your current dining rooms tone, look, and feel will be the first thing to consider. Once you have your color scheme figured out you’re going to want to decide what material it is going to be made out of. That will slightly coincide with what level of sturdiness do you want, depending on who is going to be using the table.

Matching your rooms current look is not too difficult. If the room has a darker tone with dark wood accented cabinets, such as a china cabinet, then that will be the tone to choose. You could even pick out a black metal as that would match fine as well. If you have a bright warm tone then you’re going to want to pick a lighter stained wood, or perhaps a white painted metal. If you don’t go with wood or go with metal you can always go with a marble table top. This will be a bit more expensive but it is a beautiful addition to a dining room and can accent any other color as well. There are many different shades and types of marble and it wouldn’t be too hard to find one that fits your dining rooms color scheme. Glass is also an option here but make sure you match its support accents with the color of your room, which can be made out of metal or glass.

Now that you have your proper material and color scheme you’re going to want to find a quality brand. Do some browsing on sites that carry round dining room tables and find out which brand comes up most often. Once you do so start looking into the customer ratings and find out what the people who have already bought the item really think about it. This is how you do proper research to find what’s best for you. Look for mostly 5 star ratings. A few 2 or 3 stars is not a problem because sometimes things happen in shipping or there are customer errors and miscommunications happen and the blame is then laid upon the manufacturer when sometimes it is not their fault.

Consider as well what type of durability you need for your household. If you have children who are going to be leaning on the table and horse-playing around it you will want to get something that is a little more sturdy and that can take some abuse. Fragile and delicate items would not be good for this. But then again if you don’t have children and you would like to save some money on your table you could buy something with a normal durability that wont be able to stand children playing on it, but it isn’t needed so the money doesn’t need to be spent here.

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How to Reupholster a Dining Chair

If your dining room chairs are worn and have seen better days, you may be considering replacing them. If this is in your budget and you can find chairs in a style that you like and fits your decor, that is wonderful. One option that gets overlooked is to reupholster the chairs you currently have. This is a project that you can do yourself, is very affordable, and can completely change the look of a dining room.

When you decide to replace the upholstery on your chairs the first thing you will want to do is find a new fabric to use. Large craft stores and fabric shops should have many varieties to choose from. Just make sure that you get something that is graded for upholstery or it won’t last very long on a chair. Take your time in choosing a fabric. This will be the soul of your new dining room chairs. Unless you are going to change the entire room you might want to keep in mind what your design and decor is like and choose a fabric that will work well with what is already in the room.

While you are getting the fabric you can grab any other supplies that you will need that you don’t already have. Besides the fabric, you will need a pencil, a screw driver, a fabric measuring tape, scissors, a staple gun, and staples.

To begin your project start by removing the seat from the chair. Many chairs, simply, use screws to hold the seat in place. Remove these screws and put them somewhere so you can reattach the seat when you are finished.

Next, take your fabric and lay it face down on your working surface. Take your seat and place it upside down on the fabric. You should be looking at the bottom of the seat. You can now use the fabric measuring tape to measure the size of your seat. Sometimes you can just get a good guess of the size you need by folding the fabric over the edges of the seat. Take your pencil and make some marks where you will cut the fabric. Make sure you have enough fabric to fold over the sides of the seat and around to the bottom.

You need the fabric to reach the bottom because after you cut it you will stretch it and staple it to the bottom of the chair. You can use the old fabric as a guide to know where to staple. As you stable around the perimeter of the seat, make sure you stretch the fabric over the edge so you aren’t left with a lot of loose material on the sitting surface when you are finished. The corners will be the most difficult and most important to make a quality seat cover. Take your time and staple smaller sections at a time and everything will turn out great.

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Dining Room Tables for a Family of Four

If you have the luxury of being able to dine as a family, rather than resort to quick bites at the kitchen counter or on the run, it needs to be celebrated with an investment in a dining suite and a keen eye for what best suits your requirements and life style. Let us suppose you have an adequately sized dining room for your family of four, and that it is a well-lit, airy room that would accommodate a range of furniture options without restriction in color or density, you could select your dining room table in styles from traditional to contemporary, or even antique.

You also have a choice of shapes to select from. You can consider rectangular mahogany dining room tables with clean edges and legs, also in mahogany, that curve and taper outward from the corners, with a slight gold trim where they meet the table top. The simple yet elegant design would allow you to choose from a range of chairs and the rich reddish-brown tones of the mahogany would look good with most place mats. In lighter tones, you could opt for teak or red oak.

Round dining room tables are a popular choice. In your well-lit room, visualize a painted table, perhaps in dramatic black, with a 4-inch teak boarder in polished gold tones and slatted legs in black painted wood. Place a cut-glass bowl on it during the day, when not in use, to catch the light from the windows.

Presuming that you have a regular sized dining room, but without the amount of natural light you might have preferred, you would not want to invest in furniture that would further add to the shadows. Glass top tables are a wonderful option here. You could select a well-beveled 2-inch glass top, resting on a cylinder of teak wood which splays out into four slim legs at the base. This gives an illusion of space while accommodating your family comfortably at the meal. The supports do not get in the way of your legs either. Another favorite as far as glass top dining room tables go is wrought iron frame and legs. It looks chic and is practically maintenance free. Wrought iron is very versatile so the structure could be ornate or delicate, depending on what pleases you. A bowl of fruit or a flower arrangement would add to the decor.

Light colored timber is also a good option for the darker dining room. White oak is a wonderful whitish-gray hardwood that has its own glass-like finish. It does not easily stain so spillage would have a minimal effect on your table. You can also opt for square dining room tables with a white oak top. Since it is an exclusive timber and can be expensive, consider powder coated metal legs in either simple square cross-section or spindle-shaped. For a complete wood structure in a light color, consider pine or rubber wood. With a crimson or …

The Charm of the Fireplace Endures Part III

The charm of the fireplace endures; by means of technology, it keeps pace with today. The electric fireplace is economical and offers us endless options for integrating it into the d?�cor of our homes. The dancing flame and glowing embers effect of the electric fireplace can bring an intimate mood to any room at any time since the heater is optional. For the occasions throughout the year when the central heating is not required, but there is a slight chill in the room, the electric fireplace will provide the solution. Now we move away from the great/living room to the dining areas of your home as the next area to consider adding a fireplace.

Consider your kitchen’s eating area that you use every day. If each day were ideal the family would share three mealtimes around the kitchen table. However, the pace demanded by today’s schedules may limit the time that the family spends together at the dining table. If space is available in your informal eating area, then why not create a warm intimate environment to make family meals memorable. A calm enjoyable atmosphere in which to share a meal and the events of the day is important to the family relationship.

The formal dining room is another area to consider integrating an electric fireplace. The size of your dining room and the furniture that you may already have in place will govern your selection. A small, perhaps, petite fireplace can be selected or a corner model. If existing furniture pieces do not allow for a wall or corner fireplace, then give consideration to a wall hanging fireplace hung over the buffet as an alternative to a picture or a mirror. A specially prepared meal served on fine china, by candlelight, in a dining room bathed in the glow from a fireplace turns dinner into an event.

Mirrors are no longer relegated to the bedroom or the bathroom in the capacity of a looking glass. Mirrors can be hung above the mantle providing more light and the illusion of increased space in the room.

In these articles we have suggested areas in your home where an electric fireplace could be added to the d?�cor to enhance the charm of the room. Make decorating decisions with which you are comfortable and that reflect your personality. Don’t be afraid to step outside of the box and try something new. Go ahead add some color to a room, even if it is just on the wall that you plan to place an electric fireplace. Whatever color you choose to paint the walls in the rest of the room, choose a deeper shade of the same color to paint the wall against which you plan to place the fireplace. Your room now has an effective focal point. Time to set aside all of your fears and plunge into your decorating project! Have fun!…

Do You Want to Maximize Your Dining Room Space? Follow the Following Guides

Do you have a small dining room space? If so, you will need something to do so that you can maximize it. There are some ways you can do. One of the ways is by making savvy picks. For more information, you can read the following tips.

Step one: think about a drop-leaf table.

This table can easily expand for accommodating your additional diners. Tables which can be easily expanded are those with the shape of rectangular and also square. You can extend this table to a full circle so that it is able to provide you maximum flexibility for accommodating more people at the same table.

Step two: utilize a banquette

Banquette is ideal to be used for squeezing some more people around your table. It will be so ideal to be used for inviting your friends with their children. It is able to bring a warm and relaxed setting. Also, it is able to help you use the space efficiently.

Step three: reconsider a table that is visible while you are dining

If your space is really squeezing, you can pick the table that can be attached to the wall and popped up when it is in use. It looks like an old-fashioned ironing board which an collapse flat to the wall when it is not in use.

Step four: avoid glass

Although glass is aesthetic for most settings, it is not ideal to be used for small space. It can not help you manage your small place. It does not let any drop leaves. In addition, it cannot hide any options for space expansion. It has inflexible design and it has already opened to use so that it does not match any tight space including your dining room.…

Tips for Wallpapering Your Dining Room

Wallpaper is very fashionable at the moment and it is especially nice in the dining room. Why? Well, wallpaper adds a warmth through its design and texture, it helps to make a room feel cosy, lived in, more luxurious and creates the perfect ambeince for lingering over a meal, having an extra long chat over coffee after your meal, for creating the room that you want to spend time in.

How do you ensure that the wallpaper you choose is right for your dining room? How do you ensure it won’t overwhelm the room? What do you do if you don’t have a room for dining but a small area in an open place space or in the kitchen? Follow our tips for ideas on how to achieve that perfect space.

If your dining area is in a large open place space or at one end of the kitchen, then you need to create a zone for dining, rather than it looking like it is a table and chairs in the middle of a larger area. You can achieve this zone by wallpapering an area of the wall beside your dining table. You can do this in two ways – you can create a large panel by marking out an area approximately the width of the table and chairs and using architrave or wooden mouldings to create a large rectangle and simply wallpaper within it. The panelling will give it a nice finish. Alternatively, use wallpaper panels. Wallpaper panels are individual strips of wallpaper that have their own individual story or design within each one – they can be used singly or in multiples and you can mix and match wallpaper panels for your own individual design.

If the dining room is small, a busy or large scale wallpaper design might be overwhelming. Wallpaper a feature wall in your chosen wallpaper and keep the other details simple and plain so they aren’t all fighting for attention. Let the wallpaper be the feature and ensure your dining table accessories are in plain or co-ordinating colours. If there are alcoves within the room, you could wallpaper each of the alcoves.

Wallpapering the whole room is the pi?�c?� de resistance and can look magnificent as well as ensuring it is creating that comfortable convivial atmosphere for dining. Choose a wallpaper that has a small design or is light in colour. Yukari Sweeney’s Manor House wallpaper is an example that is perfect for dining rooms as the design incorporates chandeliers and candleabras, yet it is understated enough not to overwhelm a room.

If you have never used wallpaper before, the dining area is a lovely zone to start in.…

Thinking About Pet Supplies For Your New Friend

Pet supplies are one of the things you will have to think about before you introduce a new cat into the family-fold. This isn’t such a daunting task or thing as it seems because once your new family member has settled in; purchasing them becomes a part of the weekly shopping and is not too expensive. What is important though is to establish what your pet’s little quirks, likes and dislikes are! If your pet is to be an ‘Indoor’ Cat then one of the key things here is what Cat Litter will it like to use. As you can imagine there are a good number of different ones that can be found on the shelves in stores.

The number of retailers that sell pet supplies has grown over the years and what they offer is increasing as the popularity of having a pet becomes clear. When you are out shopping for them it is always best to ‘shop-around’ as different stores will have different selections for you to pick from. But time will tell and you will know what your cat likes and where the best place for getting what you need for your pet is. Shop around as what you can purchase for your pet can change when a new ‘this’ and a new ‘that’ comes on the market and adds to the retailer’s stock of pet supplies. Some Manufacturers might even give Stores little packets of a new product for pet owners to sample and it is worth keeping an eye open for such things because your pet’s taste might change, just like ours do from time to time.

As responsible pet owners we have to take into consideration that our pet supply needs will change over the course of time. Your cat will get older and its digestion system will alter so that you will have to look through the food section of the pet supplies to cater for your furry friends needs. The older the cat gets the different type of foods it will need, so keep that in mind when you go looking for the food as you do your weekly shopping. On the subject of foods for your pet there are a number of products out on the pet supply shelves that have been specially manufactured with the cat digestive system in mind. If you have any questions about these, both Vets and retailers of the different pet products should be able to offer some sort of advice other than that then on the packages there is always a number to call and speak to someone about their product.

Welcoming a new member to the family can be daunting at times but you will see that with pet’s they have a tendency to know they are home and settle in pretty quickly. All they would like from you is your love and to ensure that their pet supplies are always to hand and that makes …