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Decor Gift Ideas and Products for Everyday Use

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From the Better Homes and Gardens Collection featured at Walmart; all under $25!

An Acacia Tray with Brass Finish Handles (it’s beautiful!)

A 6-piece Electric Wine Opener Set with a Wood Base

A 4-piece Oven Mitt, Pot Holder, and Mini Mitt Set

Sustainable Glass Spray Bottle (very cute)

A 2-piece Oversized Woven Kitchen Towel Set

A 3-piece Glass Canister Set with Acacia Wood Lids (great for organizing things; and very cute)

A Glass Wine Decanter with a Wooden Sphere Stopper (looks very elegant!)

A 16-oz. 2-Wick Stoneware Candle

A 5-piece Stainless Steel Bar Tool Set in a Wooden Block

Here are a Few Recommendations from the BHG Holiday Gift Guide:

The glass competes of two-wick Aura Candles can be filled with candy once the candles are gone. Retail price is $32 each at paddywax.com.

Not your grandma’s plain old matchbooks anymore! The Blue Match Holder (it’s beautiful!), made of hand-poured concrete, has a match striker on the side. Retails for $22 at tennprairie.com

Star-shaped ceramic dishes in cobalt blue (one of the best colors ever, in my humble opinion) will make anything look good on it. It’s $47 for a small plate, and $59 for a large one. They’re available at ecruonline.in

The Holly and Pear Pie Dish is also very striking; you can bake and serve in it. $42 at anthropologie.com

Old Pine Round Serving Boards are recycled lightweight, food-safe pinewood. Retail price is $40 for a 12″ one, and $62 for a 17″ at airandanchor.com

Putty Tapers are long, skinny candles with navy-colored flowers painted on them. Retails for $42 at nickeykehoe.com

The Flower Grow Kit is a ceramic planter with a reusable hydroponic watering setup that allows you to grow annual flowers indoors. It costs $38 and is available at store.modsprout.com

Here are a few decor gift ideas and everyday products from Midwest Living:

Base Vase, from Des Moines, Iowa, is a slim tube sized so that any taper candlestick will fit it, which in turn can create a custom- build vase (this will also work for a slim branch of one or two flowers). It’s $15 for one or $35 for three. For more info, go to basevase.com

Mosser Jadeite Glass Candlesticks is an absolutely beautiful product from Mosser Glass, a heritage company in Ohio. They come in three colors and retail from $75 for two at food52.com

Baileybuilds.com feature wood mosaics, modern wall hangings, and the Heritage Round Monogram by Anna and Nathanael Bailey (Duluth, Minnesota). The monogram’s available in three colors and measures 6, 15, or 23 inches. From $49.

Sources: BHG ad; Celebrate section-“Holiday Gift Guide”-produced by Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes and Gardens, Dec. 2022 and home and garden section, life gift guide-” ’tis a gift to be local”-Midwest Living, Winter 2022

Making a Small Room Appear Larger

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Do the walls of your cozy hideaway feel like they’re closing in on you? If so, there are a lot of ways to make a small room look and feel more spacious.
Whether it’s choosing the right furniture, or simply the right color scheme, here’s how to expand your living space.

Get round or oval tables. – They will provide more room for moving around in; they simply don’t take up as much space.
Choose wallpaper with small patterns. – This will hide any corners and make the room appear much bigger.
Hang a landscape picture on the wall. – For best results, choose scenes that depict distance. It will add instant depth to the room.
Paint your furniture the same color as the walls. – The furniture will blend quite nicely into the background and create the feeling of more space.
Use an armless upholstered chair. – They take up less room and are very comfortable.

Here are additional tips from home decor expert Tina Martin:

“To expand your bedroom space, center the bed against a wall, not a corner (besides taking up more space, the room will be off balance). Trust me, it won’t look right.”

“Any artwork should be casual and set a relaxing atomsphere. An arrangement of small pictures or one big picture over the bed (preferably a long horizontal scenic piece) is ideal-the room will not only feel larger; sometimes just looking at a relaxing scene can often put you in a peaceful, restful mood.”

“And make use of natural sunlight; go for window treatments that will let in lots of sunshine. Soft, white  curtain sheers are just the thing (make sure there’s a lining on them to still maintain your privacy).”