It’s funny how styles evolve and specifically how a style you may have completely disregarded you start to love. Growing up my family always had oriental rugs. I liked them because they fit in with my parents individual styles (two houses, two styles), but when it came time to decorate my own house I associated [...]
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Alright, I need to crack down on finishing this chair and I’m finally getting closer. I hemmed and hawed about the Indian Sari idea for the past couple of months. I even had a few saris in the ebay queue and came oh-so-close to hitting “buy now”, but there was that little voice in the [...]
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I showed you all a photo of my attic studio back in the spring. I was oh-so-happy to have a little office space and a printing space with my sewing/crafting studio downstairs. Well… that’s kind of a pain, so now I wanted to turn the sewing studio back to a bedroom and move everything upstairs. [...]
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You may remember my post about our dining room chair makeover from last September. Our plan was never to have 4 chairs that matched (with the exception of the fabric of course), but a whole collection of styles of chairs that could be changed out at our whim. In February I picked up these bad [...]
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Do you remember this photo from last October (holy mackerel, a year ago?!?!?!) This is what the little room off our living room looked like when we moved in (with all of our junk). It was by far the most dated room in the house. By February we had updated it a little bit. The [...]
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Well folks, our powder room is FINALLY done. I started this project January 30th and vaguely remember telling myself I could get it done in 1 week… 2 tops. And I suppose if everything had gone completely right and I devoted all my time and energy to it I could have finished it in that [...]
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So I wasted no time in finding a replacement chair (kind of). I’m so excited about my haul I had to share right away. I was on my way to Joanns to pick up some fabric to make table runners for a Memorial Backyard Shindig we’re having. On the way inspiration struck and I detoured [...]
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Dare I say it? My living room is almost complete. My new Surya Fallon rug arrived yesterday and I thought that was going to be the finishing touch on the room, but now we might need just one more piece. As a recap, here’s the room when we did our walk through in December 2009: [...]
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I hope everyone had a happy weekend whether you were celebrating Easter, the Easter Bunny or finally some warm weather! I had a jam packed weekend including client meetings, trips to Ikea, dinner with family and some last minute but productive house decorating including FINALLY FINISHING MY DINING ROOM! Last March I began the redecorating [...]
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That’s what all the home magazines call them: “Outdoor Living Areas” or “Outdoor Living Spaces” (OLA from here on out!). I have always been in total awe of these places. These lovelies are from the new defunct Domino Magazine (such a tragedy)… I’m aware that beautiful set ups like this aren’t a good idea or [...]
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