Decorating the entrance to your home for the season is fun and simple. Your front door is the introduction to your home for your guests. With these tips you can be ready for fall with an entrance that says “welcome to my home” (as opposed to “welcome to my theme park!”).
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How to Mix Patterns
Mixing patterns requires a delicate balance of just enough of the right ingredients. Too little pattern and your room is YAWN inducing, too much or clashing pattern and your room is chaotic and demanding like an enthusiastic toddler yelling LOOK AT ME over and over!
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Bathroom Tile Options
On a recent tile showroom visit selecting bathroom tile for a couple of projects, we came across some interesting options. There is some GORGEOUS tile out there
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The Best Front Door Paint Colors
Here in New England, painting season begins as soon as the weather turns warm and continues unabated until the first frost. Around our neighborhood there are painting contractor sings in nearly every other yard! But before you can hire the painter, you have to pick the colors!
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Design Trends that Should Be Retired in 2019
Unless you are in a position to throw away everything and start over every five years to be “on trend”. it is risky, and ultimately foolish to blindly follow trends. If you absolutely really love something, it shouldn’t matter if it is in or out. Buy what brings you joy. That said, it is easy to tire of trends because they seem to run in extremes…
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Design Inspiration from the Garden
Nature is the best designer and public gardens often have the most inspiring displays! I have recently discovered the pleasures of walking the paths in our local Arboretum that is only half a mile from my house, and I find it brimming with inspiring summer colors that would make gorgeous palettes for designing a room.
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Adding Different Types of Trim to Your Room
Nothing adds character and depth to a room faster than trim. If you live in a lovely antique home with gorgeous millwork trim, I’m jealous. If you don’t, you might be wondering - Can I add trim to my home? Isn’t that cheating?
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Decorating Around a Statement Piece; Challenge Accepted!
Every room can use a bit of fun. Something a little unexpected that challenges the status quo is often the critical difference between a merely pretty room and a really interesting room.
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How to Arrange Sofa Pillows
Throw pillows are, undeniably, one of the best and most cost-effective ways to elevate the whole design of a room. Just look at any beautifully staged home, catalog picture, or shelter magazine and picture the room without the pillows...it falls flat, doesn’t it? BUT How many should I use? What size should they be? How does their arrangement impact the room? So. Many. Questions.
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Get your Apartment Balcony Dressed for Summer
Spring (and possibly we skipped that and moved right to summer…) has FINALLY arrived here in New England…and it’s ABOUT TIME…. so, it is time to get your outdoor space ready to enjoy the season! Even the smallest balcony should be outfitted comfortably to enjoy every precious moment of beautiful weather.
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4 Ways The Right Curtains Make a Big Difference
The right window treatments can transform a room - they can be functional, providing privacy or light control, or they can be decorative framing a view, or softening a sea of hard surfaces. Curtains, shades, and valances are more than just a frilly extra. They can correct architectural problems, or highlight architectural features.
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Entertaining Outdoors
Outdoor entertaining season is here…well at least according to the calendar it is. I know those of you in other parts of the country are enjoying lovely gardens and warm sunshine, but here in the northeast we can’t seem to shake the damp and cold. And “at least it isn’t snow” only counts for so much now that it is MAY. As my friend Nancy remarked this morning, “I think I’m beginning to mold!”! In any case, EVENTUALLY we will get some gorgeous weather to make us forget all about this slime. And when we do it will be full steam ahead with outdoor living and parties so we are planning now in anticipation!
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