Have more photographs than you know what to do with? Want to add a little more personality to your room? Check out these five quick and creative ideas for displaying photographs: 1. Play with proportion Choose a favorite photograph and blow it up so that it looms larger than life. Select an appropriate frame and use the picture as a central work of art in your room. Blowing up beautiful photographs is a great way to give your room the impact of art without the exorbitant cost. Just make sure that you choose an artistic photograph- most likely, you will [Read more...]

By nature, we are hunters and gatherers, stalking our prey at the local flea market, garage sale or antique store.  We bring home that perfect treasure to remind us of sunny beaches and travels abroad.  But effectively displaying the stuff we collect is more difficult than acquiring the individual items.  Collections are a great way to express your personal style, and when purposefully displayed, they look like art.  When displaying your collections, consider the following tips for an eye-pleasing collection. Collections often look best if they have a unifying theme – such as material, form or subject. Treasures displayed en [Read more...]

The accent wall is one of the easiest ways to brighten an office, room, or hallway with a large (or small) splash of color in order to pull together a look. However, it is important to make sure that a painted wall makes sense in a room- there is nothing worse than an obscure painted wall that does not give your highlighted atmosphere justice. But lately, we’ve been wanting to take the painted accent wall a step further. Adding texture with wood or a printed design/wallpaper can be even more effective when it comes to adding the right amount of [Read more...]

The color is often reserved for Hollywood’s most famous or even record breaking Olympiads, but the shimmering metallic color of gold has recently made a resurgence into the spaces of many. Appearing in frames to fabric and furniture, gold is a great metallic that ensures warmth into any room, more so than a silver or pewter. Whether it’s incorporated into your office storage or your own living room upholstery, gold can add an understated elegance most. There is a key to this attractive allure- you don’t want to go overboard. Styling with some soft, glam accent pieces, a golden seamed [Read more...]

Here at Q + E Design Source, we hope that you all had a lovely holiday weekend as well as a patriotic Independence Day! We thought it would be useful to scour the interior design world for the best tabletop and party decor pieces that we believe made this year’s holiday the most national (yet fashionable!) holiday yet. Whether you like to go all-out for your country or prefer to celebrate with more of a simple look, we found our favorite ideas for all styles, tastes and price points. From casual get-together buys to favorable and fun ideas for creating [Read more...]

Everyone’s heard about concrete countertops, and most people associate with it’s cold, cinderblock connotation. But there are many alternative ways that concrete can be used that will give your home the opposite feeling of frigid! Concrete is a strong and natural looking and functional element that can be used to even look like other materials- Think about using it’s design element as a substitute for the painted feature wall or as a mantlepiece paired with large windows to balance out the intensity of the concrete. If you’re thinking about using concrete in your home, we really recommend working with a [Read more...]

It’s time to reconsider the typical use of the picture frame. These days, frames can be used differently in a number of interesting ways as they can give off a unique charm to your walls and areas. Whether it’s framing unusual objects, seeking out unusual frames, or simply leaving them empty, there really are endless possibilities for you and your residential area! While they are lightweight as well as easy to handle, picture frames can spark visual and personal interest within a room. If you have some extra wood or frames lying around, it is very possible that you’ll find [Read more...]

Tired of pictures on your wall? Fabric panels are super simple and can be bought or custom made by you. Not only can it be a quick project, but they are easy to make and definitely inexpensive! What is even better is that most people have extra pieces of cloth lying around the house that they don’t know what to do with; you can use all different types of fabric like old tablecloths, drapes, or even towels. Fabric stores also have a variety of patterns and colors that will surely cater to your individual look that you are going for.

If your home is plagued by dull, blank walls, it might be time to try something new. When you have the space, displaying oversized art on your walls can be a simple way to create a high-impact effect in your interior. Whether it’s boldly colorful or neutral, an oversized piece of work will create a focal point in a room and provide a confident backdrop for the rest of your decor. Here are a variety of rooms featuring oversized wall art– there are plenty of possibilities (like framing an old map) to make a statement!