Welcome to the 2017 Festive Fall Home Tour at Red Shutter Cottage! Thank you so much for coming by! I hope you find inspiration and ideas here for your own Fall decorating. Please make sure to visit the Festive Fall Home Tours of 4 more very talented bloggers, all listed at the end of…
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The One Thing That Changed My Housecleaning
It’s my Mom’s fault. The whole time I was growing up, we had housekeepers who cleaned our house. So I never actually learned. Consequently, I am not responsible for the fact that I don’t really know how to properly clean a house. Okay – the above is a total lie. Not about the cleaning ladies. …
2017 Summer Living Room
Welcome to my tour of my 2017 Summer Living Room. Am I too late to share a summer living room? Maybe I am… but perhaps something you see here will serve as inspiration for future summer decorating. It’s only been the past few years that I have really started to focus on seasonal decorating. …
5 Decorating Pieces I Use Year-Round
Living in a small house can only mean one thing; limited storage space, and worse, small storage areas. This simply means I have had to be creative and use the same items over and over again, from one season to the next. Here is a list of my 5 decorating pieces that are flexible enough to…
Tutorial – How to Decorate a Summer Mantel
Here is a tutorial with some ideas on how to decorate a summer mantel. In essence, a mantel and hearth are an oversized vignette; sort of a big vignette, made up of smaller vignettes. It makes sense, then, that the principles of a vignette apply to both the big picture and the smaller, individual…