Filed under: Bedroom, Your Home, Projects, Furniture
Forget shopping for the perfect bedroom set. You can design a bedroom online, thanks to these helpful tips and tricks.Help Me! I'm redecorating my bedroom, but I have no idea where to begin. How should I begin, and where should I shop?
Home Rescue: Nearly everything can be done online these days, even bedroom decorating. But narrowing down your search to your specific needs can be daunting -- and time consuming. With the help of online shopping search engines like kaboodle.com, your shopping process is simplified. We asked Kaboodle.com's Home Editor Cristina Sayre for advice on how to get started. (The site makes shopping so much more fun!)
Photo: Flickr, The Shopping Sherpa
1. Plan the furniture first.
A bedroom is always going to be dominated by a bed, so decide on that before anything else. Next, determine and search for your storage needs, whether it's dressers, nightstands or an armoire. Once the big stuff is squared away, start hunting for bedding. Lastly, find the accents: lamps and lampshades, gadgets like alarm clocks and iPod docks, and decorative accessories like prints, water carafes, jewelry boxes, etc. Before you know it, your room's done!
2. Shop with key words in mind.
If you need a new coffee table or an orange pillow for your couch, type that key phrase into Kaboodle's search engine and hundreds of relevant and stylish results will pop up -- they're all things that have been added to the site because Kaboodle users like them. Filter the results by what's currently popular on Kaboodle or by what's been added to the site most recently. If you're just browsing and know you want something green to jazz up your bedroom, for example, you can search "green" and then opt to see just the results in the home category. Cool!
3. Talk to other home decor shoppers.
When you register on Kaboodle, it recommends like-minded shoppers for you to follow, which means you get to see all the awesome products these people with similar tastes are adding to the site, what they're discovering on other users' profiles, what they're commenting on, and so on. This may give you endless ideas. You'll also get to see all the cool home, fashion and beauty finds the editors are featuring and blogging about every day in their channels. And, you'll be able to save all your favorite finds to reference later.
Additionally, if you can't seem to decide between two or three products, you can use Kaboodle's cool poll tool to help get feedback to help you choose. Plus, the styleboard feature, or online collage, allows you to put together an inspiration board or see how things are going to look together before you buy.
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