Whether you have lived in your home for three months or 30 years, sometimes you need a little help to change things. We asked a group of well-known Egyptian interior designers to disclose the secrets they use to improve domestic interiors.

Each designer offered ideas that can make all the difference in a living space, including essential design issues such as lighting, small spaces, storage and colours.

These tricks can solve your design problems, transforming your living space to best reflect your style and personality.

Interior designer Cherif Morsi knows the secrets of using colour. Stay away from trends and just do what you like, whatever makes you feel better, she said. A home, in my opinion, should be about you and not your friends or relatives.

Colours are a crucial element in designing a space. They give the first impression, and a white space is very differently experienced from the same space in blue or black.

Choose the colours that reflect your character and personality. The key to choosing the right colours is not to rely on trends or what is in fashion never work with the latest trends as these can go out as fast as they emerge.

Trends change quickly and are not necessarily best suited to your home. Rely on what works for you, and creates the mood you want.

Think of colours as the dressing or clothing of the home, while furnishings can be considered the tools that enable the home to function. This may help you in your search for your most appropriate mix of colours to show off your rooms. A space can feel much bigger in white. A dark colour shows the limits of a room.

Be daring and dont hesitate to use contrasting colours like black and white, for example. This can play a vital role in defining a spaces volume and creating virtual boundaries between different areas. It also gives the overall interior a dramatic mood.

Some colours give specific feelings. For example, red is the colour of proximity and creates a warmer atmosphere than green.

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11 Marian Street, Hawthorn

TV HOSTS HAWTHORN ABODE

When media personality and former overseas aid worker Jacqueline Pascarl auctions her Hawthorn period home later this month, its the kitchen shell miss most.

A former TV newsreader, lifestyle show host, and Sunday Life magazine columnist, Pascarl is also a recipient of the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal. Pascarl came to attention in 1992 when her ex-husband, Malaysian Prince Raja Bahrin, snatched their daughter Shahirah and son Iddin and tookthem out of Australia. It was one of the biggest news stories of the decade. The extensively renovated and extended double brick property at 11 Marian Street has four bedrooms, a dream kitchen, which Pascarl has used in cooking shows, open-plan living and dining connecting to an outdoor entertaining area and a rear studio which is plumbed for a bathroom.

11 Marian Street, Hawthorn

I designed the kitchen and I adore it, she says. Im a chronic baker stressed or happy, you will find me baking.

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The property goes under the hammer August 30 at noon. Nikki McCarthy, of RT Edgar, is quoting $1.1 million-plus.

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Target Corp. (TGT), looking to fix its Canadian operations after a money-losing expansion into the country, is revamping the product lineup, improving supplies and teaming up with celebrity designer Sarah Richardson.

The move follows a review of the Canadian business this year, the Minneapolis-based company said today in a statement. In addition to releasing Richardson-designed products next year, Target Canada is expanding its maternity and cosmetic products and will roll out an exclusive brand of household cleaners called Better Life.

Canadians, who for years shopped at Target just over the border in the U.S., were unimpressed by its expansion into the country. They found prices at the local stores were higher, while the retailer failed to keep enough merchandise in stock. Target said today it will begin matching rivals prices and better the supply chain in a bid to change that impression.

Youve got to have more local and regional taste in Canada than just thinking you can go out there and open U.S. stores with a bunch of U.S. brands, Brian Yarbrough, an equity analyst at Edward Jones in St. Louis who rates the stock a buy, said in a phone interview. Its got to resonate.

The shares fell 0.3 percent to $58.26 at the close in New York, extending a 7.9 percent decline this year.

The move was part of a broader shake-up at Target Corp., which tapped PepsiCo Inc. executive Brian Cornell as its new chief executive officer in July. Close

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The move was part of a broader shake-up at Target Corp., which tapped PepsiCo Inc. executive Brian Cornell as its new chief executive officer in July.

The Canadian division, which lost $941 million before interest and taxes last year, has been a headache for a company already reeling from a hacker attack during the holiday season of 2013. Mark Schindele, who was senior vice president in charge of merchandising operations, replaced Tony Fisher as head of the Canadian business in May.

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) (Editors Note)Stan Hochman, a Daily News sports columnist for 55 years, has been appearing on 94WIPs morning show for over a year now, settling disputes (and starting new ones) as the Grand Imperial Poobah. He brings that persona to CBSPhilly.com/poobah on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we welcome input on which issues you want the Poobah to take a good, hard look at. Send requests and ideas for The Poobah to WIPpoobah@gmail.com.

Without further ado, heres The Poobah.

Phil E. Phan: My sources tell me that Poobah did, indeed, trade places with Ryan Howard last week. How did it work out?

Poobah: Your sources are impeccable, which means they lack pecs, abs, quads and most other muscles. We were hoping to keep it quiet, but apparently the secret is out. I struck out with runners in scoring position and heard boos. I drove in the winning run in two games against the Mets and heard cheers. This is a fickle crowd. Been fickle for three years. The Phillies have been lousy for three years. Case closed.

Met with the interior decorator who wanted to know how many flat-screen high-def 56-inch television sets we wanted for the bedrooms in that modest home were building in Florida. I told him six was a nice round number and he did a nifty pirouette, so I guess that means he was happy.

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When Emmy Award nominations were announced last month, two Maryland-made series were front and center in the news.

HBOs Veep and the Netflix drama House of Cards made the short list for best comedy and drama, respectively, with a pack of other nominations for writers, directors and stars. Almost all the coverage mine included was about Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

But there were other nominations announced at the same time in the creative arts category nominations that didnt get nearly as much attention.

Yet they tell a more important story, at least in a local sense. They show what a talented, experienced and largely unheralded production community Maryland has, with some of the most accomplished people in film and TV calling this area home.

We talked to four Maryland residents working on House of Cards and Veep who are nominated for the creative arts Emmys that will be handed out this Saturday in Los Angeles. The Emmy Awards telecast will be broadcast live Aug. 25 on NBC.

Tiffany Zappulla, set decorator, House of Cards

This is not TV, Tiffany Zappulla, the set decorator on House of Cards, says of the political thriller set in Washington. We do make a movie every 20 days. And any single chapter if you put it on the big screen would hold its own against any cinematic production.

Zappulla, a Baltimore native and graduate of Garrison Forest School, has worked on prestigious productions before. She was also set decorator for the second season of Veep, which won an Art Directors Guild award for an episode set in Finland that was largely filmed at the Engineers Club in Baltimore.

But this is her first Emmy nomination, and she says its exciting.

It really is, and part of that is the fact that this is truly, certainly from my standpoint, a Maryland-made nomination, she says. Im a native Marylander. My crew is primarily all native to Maryland. My vendors, my local craftsmen are all Maryland. Im really proud to say that, and I think people dont always recognize the level and scope of the talent here in the state.

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When Emmy Award nominations were announced last month, two Maryland-made series were front and center in the news.

HBOs Veep and the Netflix drama House of Cards made the short list for best comedy and drama, respectively, with a pack of other nominations for writers, directors and stars. Almost all the coverage mine included was about Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

But there were other nominations announced at the same time in the creative arts category nominations that didnt get nearly as much attention.

Yet they tell a more important story, at least in a local sense. They show what a talented, experienced and largely unheralded production community Maryland has, with some of the most accomplished people in film and TV calling this area home.

We talked to four Maryland residents working on House of Cards and Veep who are nominated for the creative arts Emmys that will be handed out this Saturday in Los Angeles. The Emmy Awards telecast will be broadcast live Aug. 25 on NBC.

Tiffany Zappulla, set decorator, House of Cards

This is not TV, Tiffany Zappulla, the set decorator on House of Cards, says of the political thriller set in Washington. We do make a movie every 20 days. And any single chapter if you put it on the big screen would hold its own against any cinematic production.

Zappulla, a Baltimore native and graduate of Garrison Forest School, has worked on prestigious productions before. She was also set decorator for the second season of Veep, which won an Art Directors Guild award for an episode set in Finland that was largely filmed at the Engineers Club in Baltimore.

But this is her first Emmy nomination, and she says its exciting.

It really is, and part of that is the fact that this is truly, certainly from my standpoint, a Maryland-made nomination, she says. Im a native Marylander. My crew is primarily all native to Maryland. My vendors, my local craftsmen are all Maryland. Im really proud to say that, and I think people dont always recognize the level and scope of the talent here in the state.

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King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan who have long list of brand endorsements and blockbuster movies adds another brand to his kitty.

Recently, Shahrukh Khan along with his wife Gauri Khan launched a new luxury real estate project SRK Royal Estates in Dubai.

B-town superstar has special fondness for Dubai. He owns his own mansion in the middle-eastern paradise and has invested in other projects and properties as well.

The Royal Estates by SRK, designed by celebrity architect Tony Ashai and interior decorator Gauri Khan, is located next to the iconic Expo 2020 site at Dubai World Central and features two, four and five-bedroom townhouses, apartments, office units, retail outlets and a luxury hotel spread over two million square feet. Prices for apartments and townhouses start at Dh450, 000 and Dh1.6 million, respectively, and sales began on Thursday, media reported.

According to Indian media reports, during the press release of Royal EstatesSRK said, The joint venture project involves PAL Developments, Aristocrat and Pacific Ventures and it would provide homes at affordable rates and attract buyers. To be very clear, I am the brand ambassador for this project but it is being designed by Tony Ashai and Gauri. I am here to give my input, one of which was to designs the houses around spacious kitchens.

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