For 2012, determine your favorite interior design style and learn how your home can better reflect it.

#1. Eliminate clutter: Start to update your home by cleaning out the clutter. Recycle old papers, magazines and newspapers. Toss expired items, and organize drawers. Designate a place for often-used objects, like keys, mail, wallets and purses. Lastly, donate items you no longer need or wish to replace. This includes clothing, glassware, dishes, rugs, wall décor, lamps, end tables, and accent pillows.

#2. Rearrange furniture: Once you’ve opened the living spaces and cleared your home’s corners, rearrange the existing furniture. As you move couches, armchairs, or beds, you will shake off an old layout and see how to optimize your space for the best design. For example, instead of centering your living room furniture around the television, rearrange it to create an inviting conversation space.

#3. Replace furniture: If rearranging your furniture won’t do the trick, perhaps it’s time to update. Decide what needs to go and what can stay. Some homeowners simply need to upgrade to modern end tables and add area rugs. Others prefer a new couch, ottoman, and entertainment center. Discover your interior design style, and select pieces that should be replaced to make the most your desired design.

#4. Remove old accent pieces: Just as you exchange old furniture designs for new, focus on your accent pieces as well. Ask yourself: Do the current accent pieces encourage the best atmosphere? If not, then a simple switch will update any area. Replace toss pillows, lamps, artwork, area rugs, sculptures, photo frames, and floral arrangements that exude the right style to benefit the overall affect.

#5. Enliven with color: As you select new accent pieces, also feel free to embrace a new accent color. With neutral furniture, almost any color can work for your accents. For example, exchange hunter green for teal. Replace dark brown with soft gray. Remove brass in favor of pewter. As you update color schemes and metals, don’t forget to also focus on texture to reflect your room’s new style.

With less clutter, new accents, refreshed furniture, and revived spaces, you’ll enhance each room’s appearance and enjoy this fresh breath of interior design.

Henderson homeowners, enter the new year with a clear mind, updated areas, and plenty of personal style displayed throughout your home. Choose to upgrade your interior design. For assistance, ideas and inspiration, or design installation, contact Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

Think in threes:

“Use groupings of three,” Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach said.

As the first goal of tablescaping, group objects together in threes. You might have three candles together on a tabletop, or even three completely unrelated objects in one area, like one sculpture, one plant, and one decorative sphere. The presence of three objects together will draw the eye with its characteristic balance.

Group decorative pieces together to create a soft, eye-catching arrangement.

Vary the height:

“Again think in threes with three different heights,” Ringenbach said to homeowners.

Pair objects of varied heights together. But what if the objects you want to use all are the same size? No problem. Simply set an object on top of another decorative piece, like a decorative box or a small stack of books. With this trick, you’ll be able to use your favorite pieces and also achieve height variance.

Use decorative pieces of varied heights, such as the pillar candles and floral arrangements in this design demonstration.

Contrast the shapes:

“Use a variety of shapes,” Ringenbach said, “like a circular plate with a pair of tall, linear candle sticks.”

This tip brings continuity to any area. The contrast will create a pleasing affect, whether you’re decorating a dining table or you’re crafting a mantelpiece display. Remember you can also include unexpected shapes, such a pair of lovebirds, to anchor the area. Just don’t use too many unexpected shapes in one area, or it may become cluttered.

Deliver a design balance with a variety of shapes, including one characteristic piece (like these lovebirds) for an arrangement.

Include soft lighting

“Especially for the holidays, incorporate lighting in the form of candles or soft twinkle lights,” Ringenbach said.

Opt for soft, natural light to deliver a sense of warmth, hearth, and home. Include pillar candles, votives, and twinkle lights in your décor. Then feel free to illuminate the room with the glow from your candles and twinkle lights. For added ambiance, use your fireplace to give a real sense of warmth as everyone gathers together.

Incorporate soft lighting through candles, fireplaces, and twinkle lights to bring warmth to each room.

This season, decorate for the holidays to bring hope, happiness, and good cheer to your home. Contact Christine Ringenbach for assistance in your holiday home décor or to add certain pieces to your interior design. Whether you’re entertaining guests or simply enjoying the atmosphere yourself, you’ll love a decorated home this Christmas season.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

Today, take a look at these interior design tips to decorate an elegant home for the holidays. Perfect for Christmas and even applicable through New Year’s, these stylish arrangements will inspire you to embrace the spirit of the season without leaving behind your home’s signature style.

Incorporate a hint of the holidays with seasonal decor that's consistent to your signature style.

While you’re decorating for Christmas, you don’t have to use the traditional bright red and green theme. Instead, stay consistent with your room’s usual color scheme. In this example (see above), burnished rose, gold, and light green give the room a hint of the holidays without clashing with the traditional room’s natural color scheme. Complete your holiday touches with an angelic statue for the end table, decorative kindling for the fireplace, and festive garlands atop the mantle.

Entertain guests with a festive presentation for the holiday season.

For more modern décor, feel free to embrace a color scheme of rich red complemented by bold gold. Play up the warmth of the wood, but keep the yuletide green to nearby plants, trees, and centerpieces. When entertaining guests, be sure to include a festive table runner and tall, textured pillar candles for the tabletop. Then serve hors d’oeuvres in decorative dishes of varied heights, paired with your modern plates and silverware for the best presentation.

Create a holiday atmosphere with accent pieces, place settings, plants, and soft lighting.

To bring holiday cheer to a traditional, romantic dining room, first exchange the place settings and floral centerpieces. For the color scheme, take inspiration from the room’s everyday décor, like the area rug, window treatments, or furniture. To complete the arrangement, incorporate accent pieces that display your style, such as ornate gold candlesticks for the tabletop, angelic sculptures and ornamental balls, or thin evergreen trees with twinkle lights and rose buds. Keep the lighting soft, with plenty of nearby candles or soft lamps for the ideal atmosphere.

Whether your personal style is modern or traditional, intricate or bold, remember to decorate with items and colors that bring you joy. If you would like a professional Henderson interior decorator to assist you with elegant holiday décor in your home, then please contact Christine Ringenbach of Decorating Den Interiors at 702-914-3741.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

“Black and white, always a classic, is still in style,” Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach said, “whether used as a theme for the whole room or as accents in almost any room.”

Homeowners, gather inspiration today from these black-and-white design pieces. Use them as the basis for your interior décor or as creative accent pieces. Through these pictures and their corresponding tips, learn how you can make black and white a classic color combination in your home.

Zebra Print

Zebra Print

Whether it’s for a wall panel, a throw blanket, or an accent pillow, this bold print adds a lavish, eclectic edge to any décor.

Painted Vase

Hand-Painted Vase

As a subtle accent piece, this hand-painted vase displays intricate artistry and acknowledges the beauty of details in a room’s overall design.

Garden Gates Area Rug

Area Rug: Garden Gates Pattern

This area rug showcases a popular print, inspired by garden gates, for a contemporary twist. But transform the black and white color scheme to black and taupe to achieve a rich balance between modern and traditional décor.

Damask Pattern

Damask Pattern

Modern and elegant, the damask pattern excels in black-and-white color schemes for almost any area of design, including window treatments, accent pillows, wide-based candle holders, bedspreads, and other fabrics.

Contemporary Art

Contemporary Wall Art

Guaranteed to deliver character to any room, contemporary artwork exhibits a splash of color amidst the chosen neutrals for a bold, blended piece of wall art.

Striped Area Rug

Area Rug: Stripes and Swirls

Take the crisp black and white pairing to a softer level with varied shades of these neutrals as shown in this area rug. Then let the swirled design bring elegance and further soften the color scheme for stylish interior design style.

Homeowners, would you like to see these prints, design pieces, or color schemes integrated into your Henderson home interior design?  Then call interior decorator Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741, and schedule a complementary consultation. Create a design that fits your home, your personality, and your style with coordinating colors, black and white!

Author: Allyson Siwajian

“Gray is the new neutral and could be seen everywhere from furniture to fabrics to accessories,” interior decorator Christine Ringenbach said, following the Decorating Den team’s return from a week at High Point Market.

Homeowners, as you seek to update your home’s interior design and incorporate the latest fashion-forward trends into lasting design decisions, consider these picks from decorator Christine Ringenbach.

Accent Pillow

With a leafy design, this accent pillow takes its inspiration from nature while hosting a neutral palette to maintain modernity.

Cube Ottoman

Perfect when used in pairs or for additional seating, this soft ottoman showcases this season’s garden-gates pattern for maximum continuity.

Modern Artwork

This contemporary canvas art displays a natural color scheme, complete with the artistic influence of brush strokes seen repeatedly throughout High Point Market.

Accent Chair

As the perfect transition from traditional to modern décor, this exposed wood accent chair presents a glamorous pattern of gray and thistle swirls.

Nemesis Chair

Through smooth contemporary construction, this nemesis chair features mid-century style and comfort with a modern twist. Pair with a tangerine accent pillow for maximum style this season.

To incorporate these styles and the new neutral into your home décor, please contact interior decorator Christine Ringenbach of Decorating Den Interiors. Reach her by phone at 702-914-3741, and schedule a complimentary consultation at your home to realize your home’s full potential through interior design.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

Now with so many exciting design finds, Christine can’t wait to share what they found!

This season, interior design will be infused with warm, vibrant shades for home décor. For accent colors, tangerine is hitting the market and bringing a lot of life with it! Want to see how to incorporate tangerine’s vivacious nature into your Henderson home interior design? Take a look at these inspiring images, and read Christine’s perspective on each piece.

Ava Chair

As a classic style from the mid-century modern look, this tangerine Ava Chair is reminiscent of the 1950s and brings any home a vintage comfort.

Garden Gates Area Rug

Inspired by garden gates, this area rug’s pattern of muted orange adds the perfect blend of natural and fashion-forward to any room.

Contemporary Artwork

This abstract artwork works well in its geometric frame, complete with its splash of tangerine color in a contemporary figurative for added intrigue.

Borman Spice Area Rug

With bold shapes and bold colors, this rich orange rug’s popular design instantly adds spice to any conversation area.

Accent Pillow

In a fashion-forward mix of tangerine and gray, this stylish print pillow displays the season’s new neutral with the latest accent color.

Incorporate these new trends into your home décor with the help of a professional who has experienced the designs firsthand. Call Decorating Den Interiors’ Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741, and discover new style for your home interior design.

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Want to know more trends that the Decorating Den team found at High Point Market? Check out the latest styles and the hottest trends in the coming weeks, right here on Christine Ringenbach’s blog!

Author: Allyson Siwajian

This Explorer interior design style displays a comfortable arrangement, diverse textures, international accents, and an aura of soft simplicity.

Would you like to learn more about implementing this style into your home? Then read today’s home interior design tips to cultivate a casual air mixed with a hint of world travel.

• Create a conversation area: Rather than fill all the space in your living room, keep the design simple. Even when decorated well, the room should remain uncluttered. Select a place to create your conversation area, and let this section serve as the room’s focal point.

• Include varied fabrics: As you build your conversation area, choose furniture of diverse fabrics, patterns, and textures. Your goal is to develop an eclectic air while maintaining continuity throughout the area. To do this, experiment with small prints or solid fabrics for larger furniture, like sofas, armchairs, and ottomans. Then go bold with patterned pillows or textured area rugs.

• Rely on natural materials: To enhance the natural feel and international eclecticism, draw inspiration from nature. Use dark wood, woven bamboo, rattan, colored glass, polished stone, and burnished metal. If the room’s architecture allows, brighten these features with expansive windows to let in natural light.

• Maintain a neutral color scheme: Balance the room’s eccentricity with a muted color palette that’s easy on the eye. Even accent colors should maintain a neutral appearance and natural connection. Try to anchor the room with shades of sand, brown, gold, taupe, olive, black, rust, pewter, or gray-blue.

• Embrace international accent pieces: Complete the overall affect with rare finds, modern art, exotic plants, and animal prints. Use these accent pieces to personalize your design and speak to your own experiences. For example, if you’ve traveled abroad, then include a coffee table book of professional photographs from a particular nation or an atlas in your décor.

Let the Explorer style give you a comfortable place to relax, entertain guests, and display your personal design style. To bring the Explorer interior design style to your home, call Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

This variety of Metro Chic interior design balances traditional elements with modern chic elements.

Before you make any home design decisions, commit to bring a balance of styles to the room. To achieve a Metro Chic style, you’ll want to combine traditional features with soft contemporary construction. This applies to furniture, fabrics, color scheme, artwork, and accent pieces.

Select furniture that provides a traditional print and a contemporary construction. For example, in this design demonstration, the upholstered skirted armchair features a traditional paisley fabric while the sofa showcases harsh lines, sharp edges, and a crisp appearance.

This theme continues with armless chairs near the window. While they display a traditional print and pillows with rounded edges, the chairs’ construction reveals a sharp, rectangular shape and an exposed feel with no armrests for modernity. To bring the balance full circle, these chairs are paired in a traditional symmetry with an end table in between for functionality.

This end table isn’t the only example for accent pieces. Throughout the room, we see circular lines for modernity in the two end tables, the black barrel lampshade, and the round cocktail ottoman. However, it’s the repetition of this shape throughout the room’s central points that connects all the dots for a calming, traditional design effect.

To further the overall appearance, this living room features a fashion-forward color palette. Experiment with neutral shades of gray and ivory paired with a canary yellow or a pale lime. With soft accent colors, as opposed to bright hues, this room finds the balance between modern and traditional for a color combination that brings maturity and longevity.

Further capture this balance of styles within the room’s final touches. This design features an old-world bust for décor, placed in juxtaposition to the abstract wall art. The subtle floral arrangements display a similar expression. The full, cream-colored blossoms hearken to vintage bouquets while the wide glass vase delivers a contemporary look. Even the fireplace, intended to bring warmth to a room, is balanced with its harsh angles, overlays, and dark wood.

For an eclectic mix of styles that speaks to a well-blended personality, the Metro Chic interior design style gives homeowners the best of both worlds. Would you like a design to accompany both your traditional tendencies and your modern edge? Then call Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741, and watch the perfect fit for your design style come to fruition.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

“An alternative to the usual wall-to-wall carpeting or area rugs,” Ringenbach said, “is to use this innovative system of carpet squares to create runners [or] custom rugs in any design, shape or size.”

Available in a multitude of colors, patterns and textures, these carpet squares (also known as carpet tiles) provide character and depth to any area. Simply select a section to highlight within a room. Then construct a carpet square design to fit the room’s proportions and décor style. This will establish a focal point and allow the room’s design to be created from floor up.

Create a textured area rug of carpet squares for colorful, innovative interior design.

While carpet squares create an innovative design, they also benefit homeowners with easy maintenance. Just like an ordinary carpet, this material can be vacuumed to remove dirt or dust and can be cleaned with hot water extraction to remove spots and revive color. However, unlike traditional carpet, this new method requires less frequent cleaning to maintain its vibrant color and cleanliness.

Carpet squares keep your flooring clean. Choose this modern approach for carpeting areas with plenty of foot traffic.

Along with easy maintenance, carpet squares also give homeowners the opportunity to be more economical. In case of a stained spot that can’t come clean, there’s no need to pay for an entirely new rug. Instead, it’s easy to remove a carpet square and replace it with a new tile of the same color, pattern and style. With this adjustment, guests will never know that repaired square wasn’t part of the original design!

Use carpet squares for kitchens and hallways to beautify with low-maintenance style.

With carpet squares to fit any contemporary homeowner’s style, this flooring alternative also presents an environmentally-friendly opportunity. Often created with recycled contents, the precisely-cut carpet squares are brought together with an eco-friendly adhesive. When properly placed by an interior decorator, carpet squares will connect to each other, but not to the floor. This installation style then maintains the squares’ design for maximum décor with no damage to a room’s original flooring.

Carpet squares let homeowners establish their personal style with no harm to the environment.

Homeowners, whether you’d like to create a runner, an area rug or wall-to-wall flooring, carpet squares provide a simple design solution with excellent benefits. To receive carpet square installation for your Henderson home interior design, please call Christine Ringenbach at 702-914-3741.

Author: Allyson Siwajian

Want to know why? Today, Henderson interior decorator Christine Ringenbach shares seven reasons to upgrade your bedroom with a new upholstered headboard.

Liven your bedroom with an upholstered headboard.

1. Refresh the Focal Point: Regardless of what décor is in the bedroom, the bed is always the focal point. As a large piece of furniture, it commands attention and anchors the design for the entire area. Since this is the first place your eye goes naturally, let it make a statement. Show you care about your place of rest, romance, and relaxation with a headboard that communicates how you want to feel when you walk into the bedroom.

2. Easy Upgrade for Old Furniture: After years of having the same bedroom set, it’s easy to become attached to its comfort and familiarity. Rather than exchange all of the old for new, keep your design upgrade simple. Change out your headboard to achieve a revived look for your whole bedroom while maintaining familiar pieces.

3. Save Money: While exchanging an old headboard for new lets you keep well-known and well-loved pieces of your bedroom set, it also provides an economical solution to your desire to upgrade your bedroom. Create a whole new look without needing to spend money for an entirely new bedroom set.

4. Modernize: Contemporary décor departs from the past design idea that everything must match. With a new headboard, your bedroom will showcase a modern approach that removes “matchy-matchy” in favor of complementary, contemporary pieces that either maintain a consistent tone or allow for a bold, eclectic appearance.

Headboards are available for every design style.

5. Feel Comfortable: With a new upholstered fabric headboard, you add even more benefits. Embrace comfort and practicality with a cushioned headboard, available faux leather, microfiber fabric, or other materials. Simply sit against it, and feel the difference from a solid wood headboard. Whether you’re sitting in bed during bedtime reading, morning coffee, or conversation, be cared-for and be comfortable.

6. Complement the Design: Available in various colors, fabrics, textures, and styles, upholstered headboards also provide an excellent design opportunity. Command design interest, and don’t worry about coordinating with the wood of existing furniture. Choose an upholstered headboard in a neutral tone of fabric, faux leather, or woven wooden texture. Then you’ll bring design interest, coordinate with the current design, and leave your options open for any bedding fabrics you might change in the future.

7. Choose your Style: No matter your style, headboards are available to complement and enhance your bedroom décor. With a professional like interior decorator Christine Ringenbach to assist you in your choice, you’ll find the perfect fit with no mistakes, no hassle, and a complete satisfaction. “From the simplest of designs to the most elegant,” Ringenbach said, “I have options to go with any décor from contemporary to traditional.”

Would you like to find out how to incorporate a new headboard into your home interior design for your bedroom? Then call Christine Ringenbach at 792-914-3741. Prepare to experience the difference with this simple upgrade that will make your whole bedroom feel refreshed and renewed!

Author: Allyson Siwajian