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Use pop culture in your interior design. With the addition of the right home accessories and décor, your pop culture design can really make the room pop. Use these tips and techniques for using pop culture in your interior design and you’ll be sure to get a design that’s perfect for you bedroom, living room, kitchen or bathroom.

Movie Themes From Gone with the Wind to Casino, movie themes are a wide a varied pop cultural décor theme that is easy to get and use in your design. Movie posters work great as well as other movie themed house décor like film reels, movie tickets and fan photos. Movie décor can be as subtle as a few of your favorite movie posters to a full on movie dedication to your favorite flick.

One of the easiest ways to completely transform the look of a room is to paint the floors. What may seem like a daunting home decor project is actually quite simple – when carefully planned, a pattern painted on a wood floor creates instant style impact. Add a few great furniture pieces, a living room, dining room, or bedroom can instantly become magazine-worthy.

Hip to be square Use a great painted floor design that resembles large square tiles to pull together mismatching furniture. Add a ceiling light like a giant hanging lantern and organic home accessories to complete the room.

Gray is one of those ideal colours that basically goes with anything - it can be used to soften a space with a dark palette, or it can be the airy accent hue in a white room. It's traditional as well as contemporary. And with the addition of home accessories, gray is always stylish. Here are eight great spaces with gray walls.

touch of elegance This great space with gray walls is accented with clean white lines, giving the dining room a streamlined look. The round-back chairs propped at a glass table is an elegant set-up.

Brilliant orange chairs pop against the aqua of the beautiful wallpaper in this SF dining room. Love the clarity of the orange; it has a lot of white in it.

Love the pops of brilliant color based off of the beautiful modern portrait in this Hollywood Regency style living room. Jewel tone fuchsia and yellow look amazing next to gold accents. Love the asymmetrical look of the chandelier used in this space.

While it's true that a lot of children's rooms are outfitted in bold colours in a more traditional way, kids spaces with an industrial twist are all the rage right now as families choose simple lines and modern furniture to dress up bedrooms, nurseries, and playrooms.

4. Creating a cozy nookAn industrial space with exposed pipes, brick, and cement may not seem like the cosiest area for a new baby, but this freestanding wall adds instant intimacy to the baby room along with the wall decor.

Updating home accessories and decor is the simplest way to update the overall look of any room in your home. Home accessories, being relatively inexpensive, are an easy way to incorporate changing interior design and home decor trends into your space. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to invest in trends in pieces that can easily be swapped out as they change, rather than investing in large, trendy items. Here are some of this fall’s trendiest home decor items and ideas.

Eclectic Looks This year, eclectic items that are mixed and matched in a single space are extremely trendy. For example, a living room in which this style is used could include a fireplace mantel that features a Buddha head, apothecary jars, tea light candles, a hanging oval mirror and an assortment of African style carved statues. The eclecticism makes the space visually interesting. The great thing about this particular home decor trend is that it can be incorporated into a number of styles. There are dozens of different takes and you simply can’t choose the wrong item when it comes to eclectic looks.

The minimal, contemporary dining room allows the impressive Manhattan skyline to take center stage.

In the six-year-old boy’s room, a custom window seat with drawer provides even more storage for toys.

CCS Architecture is a group of San Francisco and New York interior designers and architects.The foundation of their work is modern yet they strive to be innovative while practical with their interior design. When asked to design a family beach house in Stinson Beach, CA, CCS Architecture did not just design a beautiful vacation home, but went above and beyond, following a rigorous sustainability program. They achieved the Marin Planning Department’s highest rating for resource efficiency for their work.

The living room features a rotating fire orb that can warm the interior or deck as needed. There are also articulated skylights that create patterned light and add to the interior design.

Complimentary Though lamps are meant to serve a purpose, they should also be thought of as complimentary pieces of the overall design and decor of the room. In fact, think of lamps as final accessories on an outfit, like a great pair of earrings or a beautiful necklace. They should compliment the room, not fight with it for control.   The Dream Home via

Red and yellow is a bold color combination that is full of energy. Red and yellow interiors are not for the faint of heart or the milquetoast. Adding bold red and bright yellow to a room in accessories is a great way to add energy to your space if you aren't ready to paint the walls red. Here are eight stylish interiors in red and yellow. Enjoy.

Pinterest Red handles on a yellow painted chest of drawers look fantastic. Painted furniture is a great way to add color to an interior. The chest would look great in red with yellow handles too.

Rich blue hues mixed with organic accents like rope-sewn ottomans and a stately raw wood coffee table creates a distinct beach house feel in this living room design.

Even deep purple can be sophisticated. Imagine how gorgeous this dining room would be at night lit by the chandelier. The dark purple is such a rich color.

This floor mirror helps expand the sense of space in this small dining area and enhances the lovely hanging light fixture over the table. Choosing a mirror color that is similar to wall and/or curtains helps the frame blend with the other elements in the room. If you want a bigger impact, paint the mirror a color that contrasts with other colors in your room.

This dining room has the same shell inspired style as the accessories above. The classic French style is so Chanel. The gorgeous chandelier†is an inspired design.