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Here are the latest month's daily tips from Right at Home Daily.
 Decorate a guest bathroom in a lighthouse theme. Replace traditional towel racks with solid brass ship anchors that can be installed on L-brackets, which will then hang away from the wall to serve as towel hooks.
Buy new bath and spa items. Be sure you include bath gels or salts, a candle, a great smelling bar of soap, and a new scrubber for your bath. If you really want to splurge, buy new towels with your initials monogrammed on them. And if you have an extra CD
Hang wire or woven baskets as whimsical sculptures not only in a kitchen, but also in a family room or hall.
Wash (or hire someone to wash) all the windows in your house because most homeowners do so only when they move in and before they move out.
Have a dinner party, invite friends who don't know one another and serve wine in new attractive stemware and buy some new colorful dessert dishes that don't match your regular china, but complement it.
Buy a new kitchen appliance that you always wanted such as a waffle maker, a cappuccino maker, an indoor grill, or a griddle.
Find a log service that will deliver a face cord to your home so you can build nice fires come winter. Buy a sturdy carrier to transport the logs from your stack to the fireplace.
If space is at premium in your abode, consider covering a long wood table with glass to double as a desk, dining table, sideboard or bar.
To break up space in a child's room in a pragmatic way, use a three-paneled cork board. This serves as a screen and doubles as a bulletin board on which to post precious artwork.
Buy a stack of paperback novels to read by the fire this winter. If you intend to share them with friends, buy some bookplates to help keep track of them. You might want to start a book club.
Make a scarecrow for decoration and put it out on your front yard; it will make raking leaves cheerful.
Check your property for dead trees and foliage. Take down old greenery, then plant some new items to fill in where it's bare.
Buy new spices in similar jars and group them in an area that you can get to, so you use and display them. Do not organize them alphabetically since they'll never stay that way and instead organize by how much you will use them to cook.
When you next paint the dining or living room, design a stucco wall that creates the illusion of movement and is painted in a blocked color scheme.
Even in the winter, stay active in your garden--whether to weed, mulch, or plant. Get inspired by taking a stroll in a nearby botanical garden to see what new flower colors are available and how different plant materials are mixed.
Line the walls of a tiny bathroom with mirrored squares that may be set on the diagonal. This makes the room appear larger. Also, use antique glass to cut down on the glare.
Think about adding a front porch or verandah to your home. It adds an attractive look and can become a gathering spot for your neighborhood, like the old-fashioned stoops where city dwellers used to gather.
Strong sunlight can cause furnishings to fade fast. Check your rooms when the sun is the strongest to be sure windows are sufficiently shaded, either with curtains, shutters or simple blackout shades.
Take a walk or drive in your area and look at other people's yards to see what they did to dress up their exterior. You might find a new idea for a mailbox, front door, fencing, plantings, or even grass and trees.
If you're looking for a different style of garden, consider an ecologically correct garden for your area. In the Midwest, you might try a "prairie-scape" if your house isn't too formal. If you live in the Southwest, you might want an arrangement of stones
If your kitchen is small, mirror the backsplashes to expand space rather than use a solid material such as tile, wood or laminate.
To add interesting detail to formal rooms in your home with high ceilings, consider crafting a coffered ceiling in a pattern. It pulls a room together and adds an elegant touch of old-world charm
Tired of hardwood floors? The new trend today is bamboo. It can be dyed a color or kept a natural hue which gives a beach-like feel to your home. But buyer beware: cheap bamboo flooring can buckle and delaminate. If the floor does buckle, it may be an ins
Build floor-to-ceiling bookshelves for additional storage. If you're concerned about reaching your favorite tome at the top, buy a library ladder to boost you to the highest shelf. Attractive, industrial-type ladders can be a conversation piece.
If you've redecorated your kitchen, consider buying a chef's apron and embroidering your monogram or moniker on the front to match the color of the walls. You might want to add new dishtowels to match the wall color as well.
Have a back-to-school party for parents, with children nowhere in sight. Serve favorite kid food such as hot dogs, fries, popcorn, ice cream sundaes and shiny red apples. Ask everyone to tell their favorite school horror story.
Redo a table top with a mosaic of broken china or tile to create an old-fashioned ceramic effect.
Plan to finish your outdoor maintenance before the summer ends. With trades people so busy, it could take months to get on your carpenter's, bricklayer's or painter's schedule.
Transform a room into a magical place that makes you feel like you're outside looking up at the sky: Paint the room a pretty sky blue and paste gold astrological signs on the ceiling.
Try decorating your door, or the front of your property, with a custom-designed address plaque in sold brass, bronze, copper or aluminum.
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