Alright, you've finally finished moving the furniture around and doing all the window treatments. You've even finished painting your walls. Now you're just sweeping, polishing, and cleaning up the mess. You're all done! But are you, really? Taking a look around the room, you get this sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, and you realize that after all your hard work, the room doesn't even look half finished yet! Now what?



Well, you may have finished designing and decorating the interiors and the shell of your home, but that doesn't mean your job is done. There are always finishing touches that you need to add, in order to create a completed and warm look. In fact, some interior decorators advocate that home decoration is never finished; that there is always something new to add or to remove. It may take a day, a week, a month, or it may take forever, but you will have plenty of fun finding just the right finishing touches for your home.

Expand on Your Theme – Every person has his or her own special interest, whether it's sports, nature, technology, fantasy, or movies. These special interests can provide a background and several fresh ideas for designing a room and decorating it to reflect your own unique personality. When you pick out a suitable theme, you'll then know what accessories, art, memorabilia, and even colors to look for and include in your room.

Plants and Flowers – Adding some flowers and plants to a room will add a surprisingly fresh and delightful change to the ambience. And you don't even have to get expensive floral arrangements, etc. Consider putting a decorated potted plant on a bookshelf or on a coffee table, or just about anywhere for that matter, and you'll begin to see and feel the transformation. But make sure that your plants are always healthy, shiny, and free from dust. If you have a plant that's getting all droopy and sickly, waste no time getting it out. You may want to nurse it back to its former healthy form, but in the meantime, remove it from your room!

Wall It Up – Your collection of photos, portraits, prints and posters can finally get a real chance to shine by decorating those bare walls. However, try to follow a theme or color scheme, and don't just go smacking them up all against the walls. If you've got a large painting or print, you could use that for creating the central point, where all of your other wall art pieces could draw the eye nearer for a closer look.

Favorite Stuff – Speaking of collections, some people arrange theirs in their room to create a major point of interest, or at least to serve as a great conversational piece. Things like coins, pottery, small sculptures, ceramic figurines, etc. can be gathered into one special place, or if you want, they can be arranged in several areas around the room. There may be numerous works of art in your collection just waiting to be discovered and displayed, such as porcelain, wooden carved pieces, or antique metal works.

Ground It Up – Some people love wall-to-wall carpeting, luxuriating in the softness and comfort that it affords, while others prefer polished, shiny hardwood floors for a more polished look. But placing an area rug can create even more definition to your room. It can create boundaries for furniture and even divide an area into several other spaces, all without using any walls. Choose oriental rugs for fitting into almost any decorating theme, or you can get contemporary patterned ones for adding more color and character to the floor and to the room as a whole.