Blog Archive
June 2009
My sister and I are the quintessential city mouse and country mouse. While I like the city lights and transitional decor, she enjoys small town living with a country flair.
Over the past few months she and her husband have been turning their dated parlor into a country gathering room and I knew that some of [...]
Posted by: Joan 6/30/09 at 7:57 am
Ahhh, summer at the beach. It can’t be beat. Especially around the 4th of July. I enjoy cruising around to see how people have decorated for the holiday. They seem to never disappoint… billowing bunting bedecked the bungalows (there I go again) and patriotic pagentry punctuated porches (I just can’t help it). Red, white and blue everywhere. It was a joy [...]
Posted by: Cathy 6/27/09 at 11:29 pm
We passed the first day of Summer last weekend, and it feels like someone turned the heat on. With the heat index over 100 it is simply too hot to spend time outside during the day. We run from building to car back to building very thankful for air conditioning.
If we’re going to spend any time [...]
Posted by: Deb 6/26/09 at 5:19 pm
Yesterday was my coworker’s birthday, and I got her a bunch of gorgeous peonies. But I didn’t pick up a vase, so we searched the office for something we could use because I’m not really a fan of the clear square and cylinder shapes we keep on hand. Instead, I like to place flowers in [...]
Posted by: Wendy 6/23/09 at 5:42 pm
Last week I wrote about outdoor decorating with birdhouses and wouldn’t you know this week I pulled into a mobile home park to turn around and there was another adorable example of outdoor birdhouse decor. Thought you’d all love to see it. Too cute! (You can click on the photo to enlarge)
Doesn’t it just make [...]
Posted by: Joan at 9:32 am
Gorgeous spaces don’t have to cost a lot. It’s all about thinking outside conventional decorating ideas. Textiles are, by far, my favorite design element. Instead of thinking in terms of tradition and using textiles to dress windows or reupholster a sofa, I use fabrics—and items made of fabric—in new ways.
Posted by: Wendy 6/22/09 at 12:53 pm
My nice niece sent me an e-mail last week looking for some ideas on decorating her yummy chocolate brown accent wall around a new TV, and a one year old baby (he’s adorable). The TV was already mounted on the wall (see before picture below), but it needed some additional elements to function, accent and contrast the wall. I [...]
Posted by: Cathy 6/20/09 at 10:16 pm
Have you ever dined at a fabulous restaurant and wished that you could repeat the feeling of fine dining at home? An evening spent in an amazing city enjoying delicious food and wonderful company is an experience we would like to taste again and again.
I must admit that when I first heard that HG [...]
Posted by: Deb 6/19/09 at 4:30 pm
