Free interior decorating ideas in unexpected places

can easily be found in many places, though this may involve a bit of outside-the-box thinking.

In fact, just look around you on a nice bright day and you will see many amazing color combinations in nature that you can bring inside your home to take your interior decorating color scheme skills to the next level.

Your summer garden blooms – whether it is dressed in a riot of colors or more subdued hues that blend into one another like a giant watercolor -  can be a source of ideas for beautiful color and texture contrasts.

Visit your nearby lake or riverside and take in the natural contrast of colors and placid scale and proportions of rock and water formations if you are planning to decorate a room to look like a peaceful retreat.

In fact, you don’t even have to venture outdoors, if you are pressed for time,  Take a look in your own wardrobe, pick out a favorite silk scarf, and pick out the patterns and colors that are pleasing to your eye and use those.

Or if you are computer-oriented, look up Amazon.com and browse their book section and wall art prints for interior decorating ideas.  They are chock full of free interior decorating ideas, accessory tips and resource pages that will keep you busy for hours.

You may also want to visit their Home Furnishing Section where you will find thousands of staged home decorating settings that will spark some bright ideas for your own home decorating projects.

All it will cost is  a few highly enjoyable minutes (or hours?) of browsing time.