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How to Decorate With Lemons

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If you want to give your dining table or living area a nice fresh burst of color as well as a beautiful clean scent then try decorating with lemons.

You can make a beautiful centerpiece for a coffee table or dining table by just fining a unusual bowl or vase and filling it full of lemons. You can display them whole or you can fill the vase with water and float the lemons in it.

A very trendy centerpiece is to take a very tall narrow vase and stack the lemons inside of it. A wet centerpiece like this is made by filling a tall tubular vase with lemons that are cut in half. However a wet centerpiece should only be used for about a day because lemons cut in half can start to smell.

You can also fill a Bundt pan full of water and freeze whole lemons in the mold. You can then unmold it and place a candle in the center of the hole.

The rind of a lemon can make a nice bowl or cup for all kinds of thing. It is classic to round out lemon pulp from the rind and serve a pudding or gelato inside. You can also use the rinds to hold nuts or other tiny snack. Lemon rinds can also be filled crystals or sand and used to hold candles. You can also fill a lemon cup with water and float a candle inside of it.

You can make a trendy place setting label by cutting the top of a lemon that still as the twig off the top of the fruit. Make sure it is level and stands flat. You can then write the name of the guest on the lemon peel or you can tie a decorative tag to the peel that has the name of the guest on it.

Dried lemon slices smell nice and are very decorative. Simply slice lemons into rounds and then bake them on cookie racks for five to six hours until they are dehydrated. You can then use these dried slices of lemon to decorate green wreathes. They also look nice suspended in jars of bath salts or in clear soap dispensers.

Whole lemons also make attractive wreathes for the kitchen. You can simply string them together (sew them) on wires or tack them to Styrofoam. Whole lemons look nice entwined with green leaves or big chrysanthemums and daisies.

As you can see you can do a lot more with lemons then just make lemonade.

How to Decorate Your Home in the Tuscany Style

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Add a touch of warmth nod old world charm by decorating the rooms in your home in the classic Tuscany style. This style is characterized by simple earthy colors and materials such as marble, terracotta and iron.

Fountains with falling water are an important component of both the interiors and the exteriors of Tuscany style homes. Tall cedar trees and sunflowers are also motifs that go with this style.

There is a roster of colors that are also associated with this look that helps create a peaceful, soothing atmosphere in your own. The palette consists of yellows, burnt browns, seafoam greens and baby blues. These colors are interspersed with natural materials such as sandstone, marble, plaster and wood. This gives Tuscany homes a slightly distressed and rustic look. To get this is look you can plaster walls and then paint them afterward to minim the look of the painted stone walls in Tuscany. Walls can also be patterned or textured with a sponge that is pressed into paint.

Frescoes and wall paintings of grape clusters, olive groves and cypress trees are also often part of this look. Graphics of fruit are often part of the décor of the kitchen. Limestone, granite, terracotta and marble are often part of the kitchen and the bathroom.

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Tuscan style furniture looks like glamorous polished versions of mission style furniture. It is typically dark in color. Most pieces have wrought iron accents such as curlicues attaching a table top to a table leg. Many Tuscan chairs just have wooden seats with wrought iron legs and arms. However the fabric in the homes is a completely different story. Rich damasks and velvets are common in a Tuscan style home. They make a nice contrast to the austerity of the stone floors and walls.
Tuscan homes often have statues in them. Usually these are representations of Roman Gods and Goddesses. Basses and pottery have these pagan themes as well as, fruit, vegetable and herb motifs. Tin glazed pottery and copper tin pots are also part of this look. Real cornucopias made out of woven basket material are also authentically Tuscan.

Tuscany is a hot sunny place so they always bring a bit of outdoors inside and vice versa. Make sure there are small waterfalls and fountains on your back porch or in the living room. Large clay hearths and urns that hold fire are also essential to this comfortable yet rustic look.