Beautiful Wood Carvings for Kitchen

It is a universal truth: there is no other room more favored in a home than the kitchen. Kitchens seem to possess an almost magnetic quality. Perhaps its mysterious ability to draw us into the room can be attributed to mankind’s fascination with fire and the comforting properties of the [...]

Making Your Decor Stand Out in Sharp Relief with Wood Carvings

Have you ever wanted to jazz up your decor, but didn’t really want to do an entire redesign? There is an easy solution for dressing up plain cabinets, drawers, doors, crown moldings and other surfaces in need of a little something to bring out the personality of your home. These [...]

Kitchen Embellishments

Your kitchen is the most lived in a room in your home – why not add some pizzazz? For many homeowners, the kitchen quickly becomes the most lived-in room in the house. It’s not a surprise when you consider all that goes on in a kitchen, from entertaining and meal [...]

Wood Onlays – making your home a memorable place to visit and an inviting place to live

An onlay is a term that describes an object that decorates the surface of another object. In other words, the decorative treatment will literally lay on the object’s surface. When onlays are carved from wood, the goal is to create the illusion that the onlay is carved from the wooden [...]

History Behind Floral and Grape Corbels and Carvings

Grape motifs carved on corbels have been around since the Roman and Greek times. Grapes themselves have great powers such as unclogging arteries. The “French Paradox” shows that even though the French food is so high in fat, the wine that is consumed along the side of the meal, neutralizing [...]

Should You Renovate Your Kitchen?

After you have looked at your competitors and decided who the people you would need to market toward are, you should look back and evaluate of your kitchen. Most likely the work that will need to be done is purely topical. If you must, though, do serious renovations you should [...]

Kitchen Styling and Organizing

Setting-up a Stylish Kitchen Storage Decorative boxes are lovely for nonromantic things you don’t need to see but want close at hand, such as coupons, receipts, or personal, private items. There are always “dainties” things you don’t want anyone to see, that can be contained in an attractive tin or [...]

Applied Wood Carvings

In the 17th century, a period of prosperity gave way to the baroque and rococo styles. It was during this period that applied wood carvings, which are types of pierced wood carvings, extensively were used to beautify furniture, interior objects, and various architectural forms. When forged by the hands of [...]

Kitchen Cabinets

Starting your Kitchen Cabinets Search When you start looking for kitchen cabinets, think about what aspects of your kitchen style and materials you would like to introduce to your kitchen. Think about if you prefer to have solid cabinet doors, glass doors, or even no cabinet doors at all. Maybe [...]

Easy Kitchen Decorating Tips

Collections and displays link a person to his or her home as they truly reflect the individual’s style and taste. This statement holds, particularly in today’s kitchen. Here, shelves and corner cupboards house favored items. So, too, do pot shelves, walls, countertops, and wall niches. Even the windowsill above the [...]

Updating Kitchen Cabinets

Your kitchen cabinets are the biggest tellers of your kitchen’s age. It is, no doubt, that the cabinets are the most overwhelming feature of the whole kitchen. Upon walking into the kitchen, people tend to look at the cabinets in regards to how well they are made and how much [...]

Wood Rosettes as Perfect Finishing Touches

How wood rosettes can add the maximum impact of your decor Remember the old adage that “good things come in small packages?” Well, this certainly applies to wood rosettes in their value in adding decorating impact relative to their actual size. Small in stature but mighty in the way that [...]

Popular Kitchen Styles

To decorate a new kitchen, you must make deliberate choices. Those said choices should come organically, which will only happen over time. We are outlining a few styles, making a few suggestions which could be inspiring to you. You may use it as a loose guideline, but you should remember [...]

Wood Selection for Corbels and Carvings

The InvitingHome.com Wood Selection Guide The United States is home to over 1,000 species of trees. Of these, only a select few are used in crafting wood corbels and other carved wood products. At InvitingHome.com, our corbels are all made from select hardwoods, which are durable but also pliable enough [...]