Confessions of a Schizophrenic Decorator

Hi All, No I’m not really schizophrenic, in the medical sense. I’m talking about some apparent “multiple personalities” in my decorating life.  I  have a confession to make about my own decorating.  Here it is:  Sometimes I allow myself to get pulled/pushed/swayed/coerced/influenced  into doing something in our own home that’s just not “us”.  There you [...]

Decorating Regression

Have you ever thought you’d like to change styles completely or at least as much as your budget allows?  I confess I have.

Flooring Choices for Your Kitchen

Hello Friends! Is a kitchen  makeover in your plans? If so, there are so many elements to decide on. One of them is your floor. Here’s a beautiful kitchen.  I love the all-white look. I love the dark wood floors. The natural light is terrific! EDITED FROM ORIGINAL POST:  Both beautiful kitchens shown below are NOT [...]

Laundry Room Reveal Part 2 – How We Did It!

Hello There! Here’s the long-awaited (Did you really wait? Ah shucks….) “How We Did It!” Laundry Room Follow Up. Some things were easy(ex: sewing the sink curtain) others were extremely hard to do(ex: mounting our free cabinet/shelf unit over the sink! Let’s just say, lucky we didn’t have to pay for installation labor.) First, a [...]

Our Laundry Room Reveal!! Part 1

IT’S  FINALLY  HERE! The Laundry Room Reveal! Some of you have read the previous post with photos of our incredible (as in “cannot believe its incredible ugliness!) laundry room.  This post is going to have lots of photos! But hey, aren’t we all excited to see those “befores and afters” right there in front of [...]

Blogging woes and Dreams of a House (What?!?!)

OK…don’t laugh just yet! I know. The title of this blog seems to make no sense whatsoever. But you’ll see I do have a method to my madness. (This is sort of a ‘two for one” blog.) Let’s talk about blogging woes first. I was encouraged by my webmaster to start a blog. At first [...]

Ideas for the kitchen table and chairs

In my last post, I showed you our kitchen table and chairs.  As you know I’m pondering a new look  to update them a little. Paint? Recover the seats? Etc.? I’ve gone to Sherwin-Williams’ website to the Color Visualizer and “painted” some options for us to all see  This is kinda fun and the Color [...]

The View out my bedroom window and….

While working on a decorating project for a client and waiting for lots of items to be shipped, I’m fortunate to have some time to enjoy our backyard with my husband and our two dogs. We’ve had some wonderful perfect summer time weather lately! These photos were taken right through the screen of our bedroom’s [...]

Small house living

(Image from Cusatocottages.com) What size is your home? That’s a question that is sort of based on relevancy to your own idea of size. Some people will say they live in a small home of 5000 square feet. Some people say they have a small home and it’s 800 square feet. It’s all relative, as [...]

So….you’d like more yard photos?

OK, not everyone wants to see a ton of photos on a blog.  But if you read my last blog with the yard photos and would like to see more, you can go to this link.  There are two pages. I took a whole bunch and honestly, I didn’t even put all of the photos [...]