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If you love nature, a green wall would be appealing to you. What better way to do it than get your living room lovely Moss walls. It won’t cost you an arm and a leg but would be worth it. Moss is easy to grow, making them even more appealing. You can even get naturally preserved options if you don’t need the live ones. This article will show different moss wall ideas you can adopt for your living space.

You can use moss walls in the below scenarios:

If you love green walls, but you are not always at home to maintain them, don’t despair as you can have a preserved moss wall in your living room. It’s very safe to have moss walls kept as they don’t have bugs, pollen and are very safe. The preserved moss walls are ideal for small living rooms as they don’t take space. However, you will still enjoy the full greenery.

Live interior designers are coming up with revolutionary inventions daily thanks to their creative imagination. If you love Moss green walls, you can kill two birds with one stone. Installing a live moss wall in your bathroom will ensure you get greenery satisfaction without really taking care of the moss as it soaks up from the steam in the bathroom.

Maintain your love for nature by upgrading your living room to moss walls. If you aren’t usually around, you can always buy preserved moss walls to continue enjoying nature.

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Everybody loves pleasant scenes in their living rooms, bedroom, or just the entire house. Many people love a creative interior space. Whether it is at school, at work, or home. Innovative interior space is said to affect your mental state positively and make you productive. This article provides the best interior design blogs that you will be obsessed about. A great ambient is much needed, especially if you had a long day.

Decorilla is not your ordinary interior design blog. Decorilla is an online decorating company. For example, if you are a client, you send them the ideas you have in mind. What follows is Decorilla sending your thoughts to a designer who will work on this project according to your liking and budget. The client will then make a purchase.

Decorilla has various topics from How to, to Ways of, etc., to round up; Decorilla will provide you with the best interior design tips. https://www.decorilla.com/

Young House Love is for anyone passionate about DIY projects. The blog is owned by a couple. In this blog, there are over 3000 projects you could incorporate into your home. https://www.younghouselove.com/

You will find tour and decorating tips that will fit any home. The owners, John and Sherry, have an undying love for interior design. John and Sherry have a podcast on how to use DIY projects in your home.

Cassandra LaValle founded Coco Kelley. Coco Kelley is the best blog if you want new fresh ideas regarding interior design, food, and fashion.

This blog’s content is divided into sections, namely: Interiors, travel, lifestyle, entertainment, and DIYs. The DIYs projects have some home projects, party designs, and holiday projects. https://www.cocokelley.com/

Tylkoblog is another great blog that brings new projects and ideas to you. The team at Tylko ensures that they bring their interior design projects to clients to real life.

Tylko brings professional designers to help clients who want furniture and beautiful custom-made pieces to their homes. https://tylko.com/

Did you know you can use interior design to express how you feel? This is why so many blog designers are going all the way to ensure that they find the right resources for their clients. These resources help clients to express themselves through décor.

There are so many interior design blogs. Once you find the best one, make it your favorite and use it to turn your spaces into a peace-giving area at home or work.

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In this century, everyone is looking forward to having a comfortable environment where they can have all their activities running without disturbing items like lack of light, lack of enough space, and many others. The Scandinavian interior design ensures that you get this package without much struggle. 

If you are looking forward to bringing this interior design style to your home, worry no more. Here we have five tips to bring this style to your lovely home. Everyone wants to make their home intelligent and attractive. Other than these tips, you also need to know that this style of the design reflects the culture and climate of the North, of lands where winters are long and harsh, and comfortable, functional homes are essential. The style took its roots in the early 20th century in countries like Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Other countries like UK, Canada, and the US adopted this style later decades after the 20th century.

Minimalism in interior design, also known as the art of Lagom, is a style that helps to declutter the house. Ensure that you remove all unnecessary items and features in the house. This gives enough open space that can be used for other comfortable purposes. Keep what is required to meet your needs and make you happy. You will require careful and sparing use of color and contrast and a balance between form and function to have this style.

As stated, this style is used in places where they experience long dark days of winter. Therefore, it is advisable to use white and light to counterbalance these long dark days of winter. Bright colors like grey, marine blue, tan, sage green, tan and pink tend to be natural or soft rooted in nature.

The characteristics of quality and sustainability are supported by the use of organic and natural materials. Bringing in an element of nature in the house creates a fantastic and attractive scene where everyone wants to spend most of their lives. Examples of ways you can bring nature into the house are left unpainted and untreated light woods such as pine, birch, beech, and ash. You can make this art more attractive by using quirky wooden toys and ornaments, and playful accents.

most of the Scandinavians spend most of their time indoors. This is typically incorporating what is usually used or found outside you bring it inside the house. For instance, you can plant some good scented decorative flowers in the house.

To create your hygge, add things that invoke this feeling of warmth – scented candles, berry-laden branches in vases, and soft throws to snuggle up in a while wearing a cosy jumper. Create a little corner where you can curl up with a book and a cup of tea or coffee. For more inspiration, check out Tylko’s article at https://journal.tylko.com/style-meets-comfort-8-principles-of-scandinavian-interior-design/

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There can be little doubt that the Man Booker judges picked a real winner in awarding this year’s prize to Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders [London: Bloomsbury, 2017]. This is a highly original and beautifully written book. The author recounts the twenty-four hours that covered the sad death of Willie Lincoln, 10-year-old son …

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This is a great big door-stop of a book but 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster [London: Faber & Faber, 2017], a wonderful and fulfilling story on so many levels. It’s not surprising that it is on the short list for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Should it win? I’ll tell you later! When …

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Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence [London: Faber & Faber, 2010, translated by Maureen Freely] is another of his intense novels which bring out the contrast between Western and more traditional Turkish values. Like Snow, it is a story of a doomed love affair that, in this case, is played out in the Istanbul of the …

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This is a powerful and surprising novel from a debut writer who now finds herself on this year’s Man Booker short list: Elmet by Fiona Mozley [London: JM Originals, 2017], and she’s only 29! It is also a real page-turner that some readers will work their way through in a couple of days or less. …

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There are two debut novels in the Man Booker shortlist this year and History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund [London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2017] is both powerful and beautifully written. The story is narrated by Madeline, looking back from her mid-thirties on a fascinating and out-of-the-ordinary Minnesota childhood. Her parents made their first home in …

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Le Carré is a master of his craft and brings back fascinating glimpses of George Smiley in A Legacy of Spies [London: Viking, 2017], narrated by his loyal lieutenant, Peter Guillam, now retired and living in his native Brittany but summoned, as only members of the Secret Intelligence Service can be, to answer for innocent …

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