Beyond Paint : Decorating Walls With Stencils.

If you have book shelves in your house, and plenty of books, you have probably discovered that bookends don't always keep everything in order. Infrequently your collection of books on the shelf are just too much for the bookend to hold. Here is an excellent tip that also doubles as an excellent decorating concept : Use curtain rod finials as your bookends. A finial is a carved or formed decorative detail used as ornaments to sharpen up all kinds of items in a room. Curtain rod finials are used to make curtain rods more decorative, and also to keep curtains from sliding off the ends of the rods. Curtain rod finials sometimes come with a screw set within. But when you're on the lookout for something a little more creative and unique, you may try your luck at stenciling.

An easy room decoration stencil pattern to begin with is borders.

It was, in truth, an addition of spring green dropped into the vermilion and carelessly stirred, so that it should be mixed but not incorporated. Over this shaded and mixed color for the space of 3 feet was stencilled a fountain-like pattern in cream-white, the arches of the pattern rilled in with virtually a lace-work of design. The full higher part had an effect like carved alabaster and was indescribably light and classy. Start looking around for decorative and weird finials today, and get your bookshelves all sharpened up for spring.

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