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Green Galley Kitchen
Long time clients, Russ and Stephanie, love green. Not the eco-friendly kind per se, but the color - from sage to khaki and all shades of ol

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The Tale of Toile
Toile de Jouy, sometimes abbreviated to simply “toile” is a type of decorative pattern on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly comple

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The Defining Coffee Table
Think of your coffee table as a necklace on the “little black dress”. A string of pearls conveys a formal and classic look. A silver chain i

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Mega-Money-Making Summer Weekend
How would you like to automatically and easily add value to your home? What if it hardly cost more than a little sweat equity and a...

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Uncommonly Colorful Words
Words can stir your imagination and create visions in your mind’s eye. If I told you about my newly painted green walls, what would you...

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Question: I just bought a plain, white box condo. I have zero furniture. I like many colors and ...
styles and haven’t decided on anything yet. I want to use color in a big way. I saw on your website that you sometimes used it...

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Changing a Room’s Style
Are you tired of your home’s current decor? Do you have another style in mind that you’d like to create but don’t want to start from scratch

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Beige Three Ways
Fill in the blank: Beige is (a) safe and boring (b) classic and sophisticated (c) casual and charming (d) dramatic? The answer is “all of th

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House of Flax
Nothing feels better to wear during the summer than cool, lightweight, and breezy linen. My closet runneth over. Linen is also one of my fav

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Silk Road to Silk Robe
A couple of weeks ago, the new series, “Silk”, started and I’m hooked. Set in London Judicial Chambers, it’s about two rival barristers comp

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The Art of Batik ... An American Couple Relocates to Bali and Starts a New Company
Batik is a wax-resist dyeing technique that is applied to cloth (which has first been washed, soaked and beaten with a mallet). “Wax-resist”

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Art versus Design
Art versus design has been a provocative topic throughout the ages. But there are points that can be agreed. The success of each is the resu

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Making an Impact
Impacts come in all shapes, sizes, costs, and commitments. They can be tackled one at a time or as many as one’s emotional and financial bud

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Intrigue of the Oriental Rug
What would 30 centuries of mystery, history, and tradition look like? Imagine patterns and colors filled with symbolism, folklore, and triba

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Red, White and Blue in Home Decor
Happy Independence Day! While red, white and blue wave in our flags outdoors today, how do you use these colors in your interiors? Here...

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Which White Works?
As we went down her written list of questions, we came to the subject of wall color. I suggested one that may not seem very creative. White.

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Color Wheels and Paint Strips
Even the great masters were stumped by color choices. “Color is my day-long obsession,” said Claude Monet. The next time you’re fanning thro

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When Couple’s Styles Clash
It’s not often that couples tell me, “We have the same taste, the same ideas, and the same goals.” So, a few years ago, I created an exercis

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Question: Can you shed some light on buying leather chairs?
Let’s start with the basics. The strongest and most durable part of a cow hide is just below the hair. Leather made from this area is called

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Question: How can we paint different rooms in our house different colors without making...
Let’s say your house has 10 rooms on a single floor and that you have three distinct paint colors in mind (not including trim and door color

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