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You are in your holiday home or you decided to have ‘staycations’ ('stay at home + vacations') this summer? there is no such moment like holidays to make all this decoration handiwork you don’t have time to do during the rest of the year. Here you’ll find 10 ideas to add to your checklist of the summer! Your house will get better looking and you can start the year on the right foot.

1. (Re)Paint a wall, a door or a piece of furniture

You have been thinking about painting your bedroom walls for months? You keep saying the dining room table needs to be modernised? Stop waiting and start painting! You have all you need: time, good weather (or almost), and you’ll be able to aerate all day long. Summer is a good time for creativity…

With spring coming we would like to see more nature and greenery in our homes… Here is an original selection of plants and pots that you can buy or do yourself.

1. Paint the baseboards or the stairs (or both)

Grafic black & grey baseboards
with a yellow touch to energize the whole

It is not easy to have an office space of your own when you are living in a small space. The solution : put your desk in a closet!

A desk in the closet

@decocrush

After discussing movie decors last week, we move on to the other side of the screen to deal with a very popular object which is also very unaesthetic: TV set. A TV in a room is like the black element in Space Odyssey: it’s huge, it’s black, it’s useless, it takes pride of place and it spoils the décor… So how to make your TV set disappear?

Black Element in Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

You are a compulsive buyer of books, you devour and pile them up until you don’t know what to do with them anymore. I know how you feel… Some ad hoc solutions for books addicts.

Space-saving solution

Bibliochaise by Nobody&Co

Make a table out of your books

@Ritemail

Invisible bookshelves

Created by NotTom

By Umbra

By TeeBooks.

When books become part of your home décor

At Sal Curioso Restaurant created by Substance Agency

At the Sevva Restaurant in Hong Kong

Books with a twist

Hook Book by Rose Bunker

Clock Book By Karlsson

Library

You can still use a traditional library, an idea stolen from Ralph Lauren Home: hang your paintings and photographs on your bookcases.

Bonus

If you like books and decoration and you happen to be in Paris this week, don’t miss Philippe Starck book signing at the Salon du Livre. All you need to know about this event here, and if you just want to buy it you can find it here.

No inspiration for your Christmas table setting? Here are some ideas around three different themes.

1. A Golden Table

It is the easiest theme: get a golden spray and use it anywhere!
Paint leafs, pines, wood...

Only one week before Christmas! Hopefully mydecolab is here for those who are running late or who are the less enthusiastic about Christmas over-stimulation...

The DIY Christmas tree

You don't have either time, neither money to spend on Christmas decoration? This Christmas tree is for you! You only need a few minutes, Scotch tape and paper garland. For the laziest, you can buy the hole set at Le Vestiaire de Jeanne.

Fed up with your letters scattered all over the house? Tired of you messy entrance hall, where 1000 things always lie around? Turn your Dim Sum basket into a storage box! First, it would give an 'Asian touch' to your home - more globetrotter and zen - and second it would be easier for you to tidy your things, thanks to multiple compartments.

Before / After

Building an entire house for less than £150? It is possible! Micheal Buch's house has been build almost exclusively with natural or waste material. He paid only £150 - around US$200 - to create this beautiful cottage right next to Oxford. This eco-friendly and functional home reminds us Gallic huts. Guided tour:

Wood-heating system, natural light only, walls painted with a mix of chalk and resin plant, water coming from a very near natural source, no electricity: difficult to be more eco-friendly!

Here is an idea I found in a store in Hong Kong : polaroid Christmas bauble! With polaroid Christmas tree, you can be sure to drive the buzz! Such a Christmas tree allows you to reinsure your vintage style while asserting your attraction for traditional Christmas. Indeed, polaroid pictures can represent Santa Claus, candles, reindeers or imps.