With the huge boom in interior designers and home decorating stores and businesses it is easy to feel unqualified to take on the decoration of your own home.  The only thing is, people have been decorating their own homes for years, it isn't until recently that we suddenly needed the help of interior designers and such to make our homes look like we want them to.  You just need to know what you want and then think like an interior designer.

You first need to pick a space or a room that you are going to work on decorating.  Only do one at a time, spreading your time over several rooms may lead you to become frustrated since the progress will seem very slow.  Once you have your area choose a color that you like.  If you are going with a bold or bright color it is better to make that an accent color rather than covering the entire wall.  An entire room of bright red or deep purple can make the room hard to relax in since your eyes will constantly be trying to adjust to the extreme colors. 

After the color, find yourself a theme.  It doesn't need to be anything crazy like cowboys or space ships, but decide if you want the items in the room to be modern or antique.  Then head out and find a few items that fit into that theme.  It is necessary that you don't cram the room with figurines.  Once you try to fit too many things in one room, whether it be too many colors or too much stuff or more than one theme the room just looks messy and unorganized all the time. 

If you can't come up with any ideas for what to put in your home, walk through a dollar store or craft store or simply search the web for interior decorating ideas.