
Your kids want colorful fun accessories with their favorite wild life themes on them. You want to know they won't be exposed to toxic chemicals in their bedroom. Now you can both agree on this adorable coat hanger. They'll want to hang up their own clothes when you give them this fun rack.
This coat hanger by Tot DotsTM has four ceramic glazed? knobs featuring caterpillars (also available with a cute mouse design) . Environmentally friendly and non-toxic Satin Purple paint finishes the solid birch wood rack . For added protection, the durable ceramic Tot DotsTM knobs have been glazed with an extra durable coating. The hanger comes with an anchor system that works well for both drywall and wood stud attachment. This anchor system is rated to carry up to 50 pounds, and is amazingly easy-to-install. The rack dimensions are: Length: 12 3/4 inches, Width: 1 3/4 inches.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 29, 2010
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When choosing furniture for your babies, toddlers, and kids, you have several things to keep in mind. How safe is this product? Does it meet the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC ) safety guidelines? That may not be enough. The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) sets a higher safety standard for certification than the CPSC does. The JPMA certified product index gives you a constantly updated list of manufacturers of JPMA-certified baby cribs.
But is that enough? While JPMA may certify that there is no lead in the furniture paint, there may be other toxic substances that JPMA doesn't check for, and aren't regulated in the industry. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde are found in many conventional paints, paint strippers, varnishes, furniture oils, caulking, glues, adhesives, and wood preservatives. You need to check what emissions are wafting out of the furniture with the cute decorations. There is nothing cute about sick babies.
The other thing you need to consider is how easy it will be to clean the furniture. Juveniles aren't sterile beings; you will be doing lots of wiping, moping, and disinfecting. Take that into account when you choose furniture. Is it easy to clean underneath? Does it have molding and decorative grooves that will be difficult to scrub? Where might the germs and dust hide from you? Choosing kid's furniture is all about foresight and prevention.
Home Designer Posted this on March 27, 2010
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This virtual basket solves a wild number of household problems in one fell swoop. A stretchy hammock that expands to a full 6 feet and is easily attachable to the corner walls of any room, using the hooks provided in the kit, this is a stunningly simple solution to dealing with a kid's accumulation of toys and small stuffed animals. Among other successful purposes, it keeps the toys away from traffic, providing a safer environment for walking and running on the floor. It also puts toys at eye level of a child, if desired and provides a good learning experience teaching kids how to clean. It's pretty hard to miss the huge small hammock, after all.
Sturdy and expandable, it can also be made smaller with no loss of tension or support. This is a durable fabric with hardware included for exceptionally easy installation. Imagine how much easier to keep a location clean when the kids themselves can take part in a cleanup that allows them their own sense of where the toys go. Adjustable and set for any height, it also makes for easy removal as well. Families with daughters really need this!
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Home Designer Posted this on March 26, 2010
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over here's a great idea for big city dwellers! If your nursery window faces some thing ugly, like the wall of a neighboring building, and you can't really grow your own window box garden, due to the weather or time won't permit it, you can use these lovely wind flowers to create a beautiful colorful view that dances in the breezes and requires no care. The windflowers are made of plastic, so you won't need to worry about the weather, and the rods will insert into a window box or any potted plant base. They remain erect and upright, so your precious little bundle of joy will always be able to see them when s/he looks at the window.
The colors are so cheerful and the shapes so delightful, that gazing at the wind flowers will encourage happy thoughts and sweet dreams.
Check out the rest of the HABA decor items for your baby's room. They are gorgeous, and will easily match these wind flowers to create a unified decor theme for your nursery. Why not combine them with the Mia line bean bag and fabric wall shelf ? There are mobiles with the butterflies and mobiles with the blossoms, all done in soft cloth. Your baby's room will be a delightful environment to grow in.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 24, 2010
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over here's the ultimate in beautiful furniture to delight your little one. The cloth rose, buds, and leaves on winding vines are such a lovely touch added to this set of two drawers and two shelves. Look at the pretty color combo and the well placed use of prints and solids. This is a design masterpiece that will make any room look beautiful. The perfect accent piece for a simple room, or the ideal companion for the wealth of baby and kids's room decor items made by HABA, with German quality manufacturing.
The set includes the two folding fabric drawers which measure 36 inches by 29 inches by 26 inches. The structure is built from birch plywood, beech wood, and the fabric is cotton and polyester. The whole thing stands 47 inches tall, is 16 inches wide and 16 inches deep.
The color scheme is bright and cheerful with out being garish. The lime green and rosy pink combination is reminiscent of a garden in the spring time, when new growth buds and stretches upward, just like your Bundle of Joy. The touch of sky blue is the perfect accent to give it all the optimism of a clear sky on a perfect day.
You'll want one of these for your own room!
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Home Designer Posted this on March 22, 2010
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This is the coolest way to bring magic to your child's bed room decor. Let your little one sleep cradled in fairy wings and pixie charms.The picture is a beautiful rendition of four of Disney's fairies, done in pretty colors that will easily blend with your child's room decor.
The 16 oz of polyester hollow fiberfill covered in tricot is a soft, warm embrace to keep your child cozy. The slumber-bag is easy to wash, just pop it in the washing machine and drier. The slumber bag is 30 inches wide and 57 inches long. A side zipper provides easy access as well. Who wouldn't want to snuggle into this lovely slumber bag? It's beautiful and comfortable.
Light weight and easy to carry, this slumber bag can be taken where ever you go, to provide a quick solution for naps. Sleep over parties are more fun with such a cool slumber bag. You can use it on your bed at home as well.What could be prettier as a bed spread? Kids who are afraid to sleep alone in the dark may feel safer if they have four fairy friends and their magic powers to protect them. It's like having guardian angels watching over your child.
Your child will enjoy fantasizing about flitting through the air on gossamer wings that glow, alighting on flowers, and hiding where they can see and hear what's going on.
Any child will be enchanted by this gift!
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Home Designer Posted this on March 21, 2010
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over here is a great way to tun the walls of your child's bed room into a colorful mural. You'll love the freedom you must create an original decor theme with these fun accent items. All you need to do is stick them on the wall, in any arrangement you prefer, and presto! You have a fun decor theme your child will be thrilled with. This transport design matches the one on the LA rug featured in an earlier post. Combine them for the full effect of the ultimate in transport decor. Kids love to fantasize about operating these vehicles and flying into the wild blue yonder. Spark their imaginations with this mural art.
Pre-pasted wall paper cut outs are vinyl coated, acid free,? and stick to the wall using an included gum like substance that will not damage the wall This allows for easy removal. You can arrange them in any way you'd prefer, so your wall becomes the canvas for your art.
There are 25 cut outs in each package of Wallies. The train measures 10.5 inches by 18 inches. The planes measure 17 inches by 13 and 1/4 inches. The trucks measure 10 inches by 17 inches.
Air the room out thoroughly for a day or two before occupying the room after application. That will allow most remaining out-gassing from the new vinyl to dissipate. The half life of vinyl emissions is a few hours.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 19, 2010
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This is a sweet way to make your lighting feel more organic. The 67 inch tall lamp has five colored heads arranged like a bouquet of flowers, or a tree. The whimsical arrangement makes a good focal piece for a rooms decor, and blends well with other garden themed decor. You could even go for a retro themed look with this lamp, while not succumbing to cheesy stereotypes.
Having light thrown in multiple directions can be very useful, as well as beautiful. This would make sense if more than on person in the room needed additional lighting to work by. It is also a pretty piece of art in its own right.Can you see this in your living room, where you entertain guests?
The lamp uses 40 W bulbs.
Can you imagine this lamp at the end of a hallway? attempt to picture it in your dining room, solving the need for a soft lighting scheme with its colorful array. Does your bathroom need some thing special to make it feel more soothing?? How about the kid's room? Could they use the light for reading while they sit on separate bean bags, or at separate desks?
In which ever way you chose to use it, this lamp will improve the look of the room.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 18, 2010
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This rug is a great choice for any kids room, and will gracefully age along with any boy (or tomboy girl) well into their teen years.

Great for aspiring young athletes and sports fan, covering various sports themes including soccer, football, basketball and baseball, this all-American rug is a largish 5′ by 7′ with a screen print design. It's 100% mod-acrylic withe latex and cotton backing and is easy to clean with mild soap and some lukewarm water.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 16, 2010
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The Flower Growth Chart is a beautiful addition to your child's bedroom decor, as well as a practical way to keep track of her/his growth. Kids love to see tangible proof of their progress in life, and over here is one way to give them a sense of accomplishment. “Look how much you grew! It must be all those organic vegetables you ate. Good job!” What kid wouldn't love to hear that?
The chart is heavily laminated, and easily marked. Just stand your child in front of the flower's stem, and mark it at the height of his or her head. You can use an erasable marker, a permanent one, or a sticker to mark each growth spurt.
The chart comes with butterfly stickers to mark the ages, and 9 extra stickers to use at your discretion. The chart folds into a gift box, and stretches up to 5 feet tall when extended and hung on the wall.
The gift box can be used to store the chart as a keep sake when your child out grows it.
The Flower Growth Chart is so pretty, and so colorful, that regardless of whether you use it for measurement, it will make your child's room a cheerful happy place.
This makes a great gift, and is affordable enough to buy for more than one child.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 15, 2010
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As a parent, I know the importance of good curtains in the kids's room. They can be very crucial when you want to control the amount of light in the room, either in the mornings, evening time or when you want to put your kids in bed for a midday nap.
Of course, when it comes to decorating the kids's room, curtains and window treatments are as essential as they are with decorating any other room. A touch of fabric can add so much to any room, and that added softness is even more crucial when it comes to the kids's environment.
When it comes to a boys room, blue is a classic, even if a tad cliche, of a choice.? A favorite character is always nice to have, and Thomas the Engine is always popular with young boys.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 13, 2010
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over here's an excellent idea for decor that helps your Feng Shui. This gorgeous glowing decor accent piece is made from real slabs of natural salt crystals, and hand carved to preserve the beauty of the crystal's color. No two are exactly alike, so you can make a row of them, without the arrangement looking fake.
Since Salt crystals are of the planet earth element, this Feng Shui cure would be perfect to locate in the center of your home or clinic in order to promote health by raising the Chi (vital force) in your health zone.
Imagine lighting a hall way, or a child's bedroom with these as night lights. If you have a favorite meditation corner or room, these salt crystal lamps will make you feel as if you are perched atop one of the Himalayan peaks, drawing strength from the planet earth, and give you a focal point to assist calm and yet your mind.
These also make romantic dining room lights, and promote amourous feelings with their soft colored glow.
Each lamp comes with a 6 foot power cord that is UL listed, and has an on-off switch, polarized plug, and a 15 W bulb.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 12, 2010
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OK, let's be honest.....how many times have you avoided cleaning the floor in your kids' rooms due to you'd have had to pick up every stuffed animal in order to discover the floor? When some one gets up to go to the bathroom, is there a squeak at every step? Do you utter words you forbid your kids to say when you step on sharp action figures? Have you found your kids balled up in the corner of their beds due to they've been crowded out by their furry friends and dolls? Can you change their sheets with out having to remove and then rearrange an ark worth of species? Is it your kids' room, or is it a zoo where they need tickets to enter? Fear not, ye' brave parent! We can help!
This vertical free standing organizer holds up to 42 stuffed animals, dolls, and action figures in elastic bands secured around a light weight polypropylene pole. There is no hardware assembly needed. The organizer is white to make it easy to integrate into any decor. You'll love the ease with which you can clean around it and move it from place to locate.The kids will love having all their cuddly friends right there with them where they can see and reach them. They will also appreciate that the elastic band around teddy's tummy doesn't “hurt” him. Everybody wins !
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Home Designer Posted this on March 10, 2010
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over here's a great way to insulate your home without making it feel dark and heavy. You'll save lots of money on your electric bill with this attractive thermal shade to keep the air-conditioned or heated air from escaping, and to keep either the summer heat or the winter cold out. Unlike some thermal shades, this company makes them soft and drapey.
This shade comes in sky blue, chocolate, burgundy, beige,? and gold, all with the attractive hotel stripes, for a classy look. As you can see from the photo, the affect can be very light and not at all overbearing, and yet when drawn, the shade blocks 99% of the light.
This is perfect for people who work on a computer and need to cut the glare, as well as kids's rooms where napping requires to happen in the day time.
The way the shade gathers and ties up is also very attractive. The shade has a pocket to slide the rod through, and measures 63 inches by 42 inches. Thermal curtains by Best Home Fashion are machine washable. You'll love the convenience.
This vertical striped pattern would go well with a lot of old fashioned lace, reminiscent of the combined fabrics used to make old-fashioned striped dresses that had lace petticoats peeking out from underneath.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 08, 2010
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Remember the charm of gingham? This blue and white plaid design is the perfect way to make a room feel wholesome and homey. It conjures up memories of picnics, mom's apple pie, and a simpler time of innocence. This is the perfect accent for country decor themes.
Olive kids brings you this in 100% cotton, 180 count thread, like the good old days. It's machine washable for easy care, and the valance measures 44 by 16 inches. You can pair it with the curtains or use it separately.
Originally intended to match the rest of a set for a child's room featuring trains, planes, trucks and tractors, Olive kids offers many accessories to design a transport theme room, that uses this blue and white gingham for a border design. You could easily coordinate the whole room with their set, or use the glue and white gingham separately as a part of your own interior decor concept.
Imagine an old-fashioned porcelain washbasin and stand in a bathroom or dressing room flanked by white eyelet curtains and this gingham valance. In the kitchen, these curtains will look right at home alongside old fashioned wooden cooking utensils and decorated tins.
Where ever you decide to use these curtains and/ or valance, you'll create a little piece of a Norman Rockwell fantasy of yesteryear.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 07, 2010
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over here is a great way to add luxury while keeping the room's temperature stable. Velvet curtains feel so soft with their plush pile, and they add a sense romance to the room. If you enjoy the finer things in life, consider velvet curtains.
As you can see from the picture, they do not darken the mood of the room, even though they do block the light. This makes them ideal for bedrooms and living-rooms where you watch movies. They would also be fantastic on a canopy bed, especially if you are going for the fairy princes with privacy decor in light pink, or the sophisticated couple in sage green, or the “on fire” love nest in hot pink.
The white velvet would be a perfect way to add texture to a white on white decor theme. Adding texture is crucial in a monochrome room, as it prevents the room from looking flat and lifeless.
The curtains measure 58 by 84 inches, and they have a nicely tailored pocket to slide the hanging rod through, providing a? clean finished look.
over here's an idea for the ultimate romantic room: Combine the light pink and sage green velvet curtains, and fill the room with pink flowers on green stems. You will want to write ballads in this room!
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Home Designer Posted this on March 05, 2010
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When choosing furniture for your babies, toddlers, and kids, you have several things to keep in mind. How safe is this product? Does it meet the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC ) safety guidelines? That may not be enough. The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) sets a higher safety standard for certification than the CPSC does. The JPMA certified product index gives you a constantly updated list of manufacturers of JPMA-certified baby cribs.
But is that enough? While JPMA may certify that there is no lead in the furniture paint, there may be other toxic substances that JPMA doesn't check for, and aren't regulated in the industry. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde are found in many conventional paints, paint strippers, varnishes, furniture oils, caulking, glues, adhesives, and wood preservatives. You need to check what emissions are wafting out of the furniture with the cute decorations. There is nothing cute about sick babies.
The other thing you need to consider is how easy it will be to clean the furniture. Juveniles aren't sterile beings; you will be doing lots of wiping, moping, and disinfecting. Take that into account when you choose furniture. Is it easy to clean underneath? Does it have molding and decorative grooves that will be difficult to scrub? Where might the germs and dust hide from you? Choosing kid's furniture is all about foresight and prevention.
Home Designer Posted this on March 04, 2010
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Does your child adore Thomas the Train Engine? Young conductors in training will be delighted with this bed topper. Give your child a fantasy refuge, just by making the right decor choice for the bedroom.
Polyester printed with beautiful color springs open and slips over a standard single bed. Designed to slide between any mattress and box spring, the the bed topper is also a play hut. It features a tunnel port and tie off windows, so your child can crawl through and then hide out. With the help of a patented time saving technology, the bed topper twists easily and folds away with no fuss.
By day, it's an adventure that entertains and stimulates your child for hours of imaginative play. By night, it's a friendly guardian that keeps your child company and wards off monsters. At nap time, it creates a soothing blue shelter to reduce the visual stimulation that keeps curious little ones from falling asleep.
You won't have to sacrifice convenience. The flaps on the side allow for easy access to storage under the bed. The whole thing folds away flat for easy storage when not in use, but you can use it all the time if you prefer. The bed topper is designed to connect to any other twist and fold hide a way (sold separately), so your child will have a versatile play environment.
This product is suitable for kids 3 years and older, and makes a wonderful gift.
When errected, the hide out bed stands 40 inches high, 60 inched wide, and 78 inches long.
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Home Designer Posted this on March 02, 2010
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There is a remedy for rooms that make you claustrophobic. The antidote for cramped or windowless spaces is to paint a continuous landscape mural on every wall and the ceiling, to trick the eye into believing you are outside with lots of room to run in every direction. Perspective drawing of your favorite landscape is all you need to turn your room into a relaxing, beautiful environment.
Covering your wall with a beautiful detailed mural can be the key to any fantasy room. If you can bring it alive in your art, or if you can hire the right person to do that, you have the opportunity to bring your fantasy to life.
A wall mural is a way to bring the outdoors inside, using artistic inspiration. It does not have to be perfectly realistic, either. Letting the imagination run wild can be the key to some very interesting artistic creations which can inspire you and those who share the room with you.
A room mural is perfect for kids, adults and elders. Teenagers and convalescents will find room murals to be especially helpful when they lack the mobility they crave. The mural gives them the feeling of being outside, roaming freely.? Adventure landscapes spark kids's imaginations.? Office workers can become more inventive and industrious when they are treated to inspiring views.
When choosing furniture for a room with picture painted walls, be sure to pick items that will enhance rather than cover or clash with the painted scenes. For instance: If your room is painted to look like a desert, then large embroidered pillows and low laying ottomans would give the d?cor the feel of a Bedouin tent. If your room is painted to look like rolling hills covered in vineyards, then using furniture you'd find in a winery garden would fit the scene.
Home Designer Posted this on March 01, 2010
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