Car Club Listings
Great Old Cars listings of Classic Car Clubs are categorized into three main areas: Regional Listings, National/International Listings and Canadian Listings. Although we have referred to these as "classic car clubs", listings include all types of cars: Classic Cars, Specialty Cars, Sports Cars, Exotic Cars, Antique Cars, Vintage Cars, Hotrods, Street Rods, Muscle Cars, Trucks, Military Vehicles and Foreign or International Carsif you would like your car club added to our Listings are organized by State. Regional Listings are local clubs that have a focus on events and functions within their local community. Memberships usually consist of individuals living in that specific area.These are larger clubs that have events and functions that cater to a larger population. Membership is large. Clubs in this category may be focused on specific car manufacturers but they also could be general in Regional clubs where events and functions are community based. These are local clubs within the Canadian border.

Trompe L oeil

Trompe L oeil



Trompe l'oeil is a French term meaning "trick the eye" and describes a painting that deceives. This style of painting has his roots going back to antiquity. Apart from their decorative function, trompe l'oeils are often intended to be humorous or astonishing, and one well-known story depicts apprentices who would paint coins on the floor of Rembrandt's studio for the pleasure of watching him try to pick them up!
A good trompe l'oeil mural can blur the boundary between fantasy and reality, making the viewer believe he or she is looking out on a delightful landscape, even from the confines of a windowless room. More than just a visual joke, however, these "tricks" can be used in interiors to enhance a dull corner or transform walls into a room with a view.
Mural painting is one of the oldest art forms known to humankind, and throughout history murals have been creating to perform a variety of functions. They have recorded the rituals of daily life as well as important events from history and legend, they have been used as a form of communication and prayer, and of course, they have been employed as a purely decorative device.
Getting Started Choosing a site: one of the most vital considerations for a successful trompe l'oeil is the location.
The best starting point for finding inspiration is the room itself, think about its character and function. For instance, in a small room, you could increase the perceived space by inventing a window view with landscape stretching far away into the distance.
Preparing the surface: without a a good foundation your mural could deteriorate, wasting all your hard work. Rub down old oil-painted surfaces with sandpaper to provide a key for subsequent priming. Fill cracks, repair them with good-quality all purpose spackling paste. Prime the surface with matte latex emulsion in any color that suits the mural.
Tools and materials: paint and brushes must be of good quality. Latex paint and artist's acrylics are water based so they can be easily mixed together, and quick to dry. Don't buy cheap brushes if you don't want to spend more time picking hairs out of the paint than you will on actually painting.

Flowers

Flowers
Bring Life To Your Home

Use silk and/or fresh flowers to add color, vibrancy and life to a room and place the flowers in a beautiful vase or jug.
Not everyone has the same taste in flowers. Yet everyone gives and receives them from time to time- a bouquet to show appreciation for services rendered, some roses in thanks for a dinner invitation, violets as a sign of friendship, lilacs to suggest budding love, floral arrangements for festive occasions.
Giving flowers is not only the most popular way to express a desire to please, it is the surest way to succeed. What other gift is so likely to be understood and even appreciated in even the most sensitive circumstances?
There in lies the true virtue and perhaps power of flowers- a pretty bouquet can say it all, congratulations and condolences, appreciation and respect, or deep attachment and true affection extending as far as love, for which flowers are known to work wonders. When it comes to love, flowers are not a small affair.
As Valentine's day approaches, hordes of lovers are stirred and armies of florists storm flower markets in every major city of the world. Women are delighted by a gift of flowers, claiming to prefer it to any other present, far ahead of dainty lingerie or chocolate. Not only are women the first to receive flowers, they are first to buy them.
Above all, however, women buy flowers for themselves, for their home.

Decorating Kids Bedrooms

DecoratingKidsBedrooms
How to choose the right colors and furniture?
In almost every case, the child is being over stimulated by the bedroom decor, there is a direct correlation between the epidemic of hyperactivity in our children and the way their bedrooms are decorated.
Kids can't relax in a bedroom overflowing with toys and accentuated bright primary color. We need to tuck our children into the tranquil embrace of a cozy, serene bedroom that encourages them to calm down and get the rest they need.
When choosing colors for a child's bedroom, use warm pastels or rich colors such as lavender, peach, butter cream, and cocoa. When choosing colors for a child's bedroom, use warm pastels or rich colors such as lavender, peach, butter cream, and cocoa.
Change art and decorative themes that are flying, falling, driving, or running around the room to a motif that is tranquil and calm. Serenity is the keynote here, when you calm the bedroom down, you'll calm your child down, too.

Children's bedrooms can easily become overcrowded with toys, games, equipment, and collections. Every item that speaks of activity contributes to keeping the room "awake". Display a selection of comfort toys, such as stuffed animals and dolls, and store their action-orientated toys out of sight in trunks, closets and cabinets.
Siblings to sleep by: when children share a bedroom, give each child a distinct place within the room to call their own. It may be half of the room, a table and chair, a toy trunk, a closet, or a bureau. This keeps each child's individuality defined and helps them learn how to respect other people's space.
Bunks beds can be used as long as both children are happy with them

Bunk beds
Bunk beds are two single beds stacked one on top of the other।
Most adults will not be happy in a bunk bed unless it is on a boat sailing to an exotic location. Bunk beds are space savers and are mostly used for a child's room, in a dormitory, or on a boat. It is a good idea for the top bunk to have a guard-rail to prevent the occupant from rolling out. The top bunk can be difficult to get into and out of as well as to make. Bunk beds are sometimes the only option for getting two twin beds into a small room with limited floor

The bathroom

The bathroom is the place where we retreat ritually for bathing, pampering and relaxing. Make all bathrooms beautiful, whether you're looking for ideas for a new bath or just refreshing your current one, we just give you creative inspiration, and simple, practical advice for large or small bathroom.
Create a comfortable, casual bathing spaces with ease and style just with a fresh coat of paint, new bathroom linens, candles, art and plants. A quick change to the quality of the room's light, accomplished through new window treatments, mirrors, bulbs, or light fixtures themselves, can completely change the atmosphere of the bathroom. Every space offers individual opportunities for style.
Select the fixtures: the sink, tub, toilet and shower. Fixtures are the bathroom jewelry, and show your style. Fixtures are vessels and they come in a variety of materials, shapes, styles, sizes, colors, and finishes. Newly minted designs or reproductions of older ones, you have to choose the fixtures that you love. Selecting the fixtures and fittings is one of the pleasures of planning a bathroom. Even if you're not installing new fixtures, you can still accessorize. The fittings-the tabs and spouts, the faucetry are the jewelry of the bathroom, the decorative hardware that controls, mixes and direct the water flow- they are often made of combination of materials, from metals to semi-precious stones, porcelain and glass. Their range will inspire you to dress your bathroom up or down, according to your own style. Small details count as much as large ones, search for towel bars, drawer pulls, paper holders, medicine cabinets and mirrors that add

Tub and shower
It is essential, and possible, to fit comfortably in the space where you bathe. When selecting a tub, be sure that you can submerge comfortably, with your shoulders well under the rim and legs extended. Today the sizes have increase greatly from vintage and mid-century designs. The shower may be sited with the tub or given its own stall, but either case you can place the shower and head at the height you want.

Sink and toiletsink present tremendous design opportunity with a range of shapes, sizes, materials, and structures to choose from: old, new, or repurposed, porcelain, metal, glass, or stone. When choosing a sink, consider the height of those who will be using it. When selecting a toilet, choose a model that flushes powerfully and fills quietly.

Faucet and fitting basics
"fittings" is the technical term for all faucets, spouts, spigots, handles, tub fillers, and other hardware that move water to and away from a fixture. Lower spouts, whether straight or curved, offer an increased rush of water but less clearance, and so require deeper bowls. To avoid splashes, make sure the spout is log enough to overhang the rim of the basin and pour directly into the drain.

Fabrics

Fabrics
Selecting Fabrics for Decoration

When choosing a fabric (also know as textiles) for decorating purposes, one of the first things to consider is its suitability. You may need to choose fabrics for furniture upholstery, wall treatments, beds linens, window coverings, cushions, bed coverings. Fabrics can add warmth and color and ambiance to a room while bringing in different patterns and textures.

Fabric types

Brocade has a raised pattern, often floral, woven into the background fabric, typically silk. Early brocades were made in China. Persia, now Iran, has a long history of making beautiful silk brocades, often with gold and silver threads. Brocade was particularly popular in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe in the grandest of situations- in palaces and royal courts. Brocade was originally hand-embroidered, but is now almost always machine-made using a jacquard loom attachment, which gives it the look of hand embroidery. It is very elegant, special, and a rather fancy fabric. You might find brocade on curtains, valances, table skirts, a fancy bed canopy, or on a fine French chair. It is not suitable for constant wear and tear.