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Your home and its furnishings tells the world you are now a couple

Your home is a special place. You want everything in it to reflect your personal taste and style. In addition, your home serves as a happy, comfortable living environment - a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the outside world.

Decorating a home is one of the truly exciting aspects of starting a life together as newly weds. The selections you make when you choose your color scheme, design theme, furniture, window treatments and accessories all express your personality as a couple.

Whether your taste and style incorporate country comfort or city cool, ceramic tile or warm wood, the furniture, fabrics and colors you select will help you create a home that tells family and friends you are husband and wife.

When it comes time to make home decor and interior design decisions, you will want to work with experienced home furnishing professionals. Certainly budget will be a consideration. However, a professional in home decor can assist you in making choices based on their years of experience. While serving as a springboard to creativity, he or she can help you achieve your goals: a stylish living space with a pulled-together look at a price you can afford.
First, you and your spouse must come to some agreement regarding what the "feeling" is that you want in your home. Does he prefer contemporary design and wide-open spaces? While you want a cozy nest where you feel surrounded by warmth and comfort? Have you picked a color palette? And have you considered how that color scheme will unfold as guests move from room to room?

These are only a few of the preliminary decisions you must make before you decide to purchase pieces of furniture and accessories. Of course, looking at magazines and catalogues to compile a photo array of what you like -- and don't like -- will help you reach a consensus.

And the photos will help illustrate your taste and style when you confer with a home furnishings expert. He or she can offer advice on design elements in your home that you may not have considered such as how to evaluate the floor layout in a room. How to add accent pieces for a secondary activity such as a reading corner. Where to place furniture so it looks its best. And how to access the flow of traffic through a room as you place your furniture.

Above all, a home furnishings expert can help you make decisions that reflect your tastes, your habits and your personalities as you turn your house into a comfortable, happy home.