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Are you looking for ways to make your dog house a bit more exciting? It’s pretty easy to add decorative bits and pieces to an existing dog house design. Here are some ideas!

1. Log cabin dog house

Do your dog house up pilgrim style! This is pretty easy to do. All you need is some rounded beams, or you can split some small logs in half. Then just nail or glue them onto the walls of the house. It doesn’t even need painting – just a bit of non-toxic wood sealant, and you’re set. If you’re using bare wood rather than logs, you can stain them a little darker to look more log-like.

2. Tudor cottage dog house

Another fairly easy option. First, paint the walls of the dog house white. Next, get some small beams of wood – 2″x1″ or similar – and stick them on in a criss-cross pattern. A quick google for tudor cottages should give you lots of examples for the best patterns to use – basically, you want large squares or rectangles with diagonal cross beams. Stain the beams very dark, for that old, weathered wood look. You can stain the roof dark to match, or apply some shingles to look like tiles – or make a thatched roof if you really want to get into the theme!

3. Victorian house

If you live in a classic American home, then it can be nice to decorate your dog house to match. For this, you want to cover the whole of the walls with wide, thin beams. You can lay them either vertically or horizontally. Then paint them a nice color to match your house. Lay some shingles on the roof, and again, paint or stain them to match. If you’re very handy, a porch is a great finishing touch. It can be a pain to put one on the front of the house, and sometimes dogs knock over porch columns on their way in. But you can attach a porch to the side more easily, and it’ll look just as good.

4. Castle dog house

This design is easiest to do if your dog house has a flat roof. Cut some battlements out of plywood or similar, and glue them along the top of the walls. Then attach towers at the corners – square towers are easiest, but round ones look more fairytale. Paint the whole thing a nice stone grey if you’re going for the medieval look, or white/cream if you’re going for a more fairytale look. You can use a pencil and a ruler to add lines to represent blocks of stone.

5. Dog house stencils

This is one of the easiest ways to decorate a dog house, and it’s a lot of fun to do as a project with kids. All you need is some non-toxic paint, some cardboard, and some sponges. Paint the whole house one color first, and let it dry. Then cut some fun shapes out of cardboard – bones and paw-prints are easy and cute – and show the kids how to use the sponges to create the stencil. You can use more than one color with each stencil so you have multi-colored shapes. If the dog house has a wooden platform in front of the door (a good idea, as it gives your dog somewhere warm and dry to lie when he doesn’t want to be in the house), it’s a nice touch to paint it to look like a ‘welcome’ mat – or paint ‘Home Sweet Home’ on it!

However you decide to decorate your dog house, make sure the underlying construction is good. Your dog doesn’t care how his house looks, but it’ll make a big difference to him if it’s the wrong size, or if it’s not properly insulated.

The warm weather invites you to enjoy the outdoors, for this, the terraces as an extension of the house, become the privileged site for this feature. The art of decorating terraces, we can make better use of space and comfort.

These external environments are conducive to having friends, having breakfast, organizing family meals and romantic evenings, day and night. The allure of power away from the noise and agitation is doubly enjoyable if we do outdoors.

When selecting furniture for the terrace, we will use an aesthetic and functional, they should not be cumbersome, because it is not wasting space. Also consider the weather to be exposed. It is convenient to have tables and folding chairs that can be easily assembled and disassembled to prevent damage and save space, like an umbrella to shelter from the sun.

Tips for decorating terraces:

To decorate terraces, we must consider the materials they are made of our furniture and give them proper maintenance. Plastic materials need only cleaning, which is done with soap and water. They are very light and tolerate the weather.

Iron furniture, need painting to prevent deterioration, and they are strong and resistant to sunlight. With water, soap and ammonia, along with a bristle brush, keep in good furniture.

Tropical wood furniture is very resilient. To keep them moist, rubbed with a cloth soaked in linseed oil, a couple of times a year. Bamboo and spine are not as good resistance to sunlight and water, so that should be left to the elements. Clean with a cloth soaked in soapy water.

The most suitable furniture for the terraces is sun loungers, hammocks, garden benches, tables, etc.

To achieve this alternative space for the daily stressful lives, decorate terraces is imperative to provide them with every comfort, to feel like in the countryside, but in our own house in the city.

The order is necessary on our terrace, or else we run the risk of becoming a repository of old stuff, so we lose quality and comfort.

No need to put everything on the terrace, it is better to simplify and provide it with the things we do need. Also appropriate to use folding furniture, so that in one space can perform multiple functions.

The hanging plants are very decorative, especially to adorn galleries, balconies or patios partially covered, but that we know which the best species to suit the heights are and how to care for them.

To make a pot striking pendant is needed to manufacture it with plants trailing edges and much lusher and best foliage in the center. When plants are in hanging wire baskets or plastic racks can be made extend slightly the edges of some species to the sides, they can be covered with moss, and place a plate on the bottom to retain moisture.

To plant them you should use a mixture of peat-based culture that will retain moisture better than the substrates, the same should be moist but not over and you add coal to keep it fertile. If you want to decorate the pot between the wires enter some plants you should do it before filling the pot with the special land.

The plants are suitable for hanging baskets hanging daisies, creeping ficus, petunias, lobelia, and bells, especially in sunny places, and places you can put half shade begonias, ivy, ferns, flower sugar among many other.

No matter how spacious your home or small are always alternatives to divide, noting the space you want to decorate and the effect you want to achieve is possible to find a way to separate you practical environments and beautiful.

Sometimes open spaces work perfectly, giving the place an air of inexhaustible extent, but there are times when you miss a little privacy and that is where you start thinking about how to make a separation that is beautiful and functional screens or some kind of separator, if you want to divide a space to have a little privacy, or just have an area for yourself that is limited for one activity or another.

For example have a field of study room and a rest area could help you become more productive in your daily work.

The most classic of separator could be a shoji panel, are very old from China, although it was in Japan where it gained prestige in the emerged many variations with the passage of time, among which there are panels with sliding doors of cedar or translucent paper, these panels can give your floor a refined oriental air, some people believe that convey a sense of peace, because the soft light that passes through the panel.

If these panels are not your thing, try a dividing shelf designed to your liking and that is in harmony with the decor of your home.

Usually these types of shelves are very well and are very spacious, open and airy.