Welcome to our 2018 Winter Living Room. Winter has always appealed to me, both as a season and as a decorating opportunity, because Winter is actually a bit of a ‘free for all’. There are no rules, or parameters that need to be followed. So when the new year arrives, and the calendar shows…
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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. …
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…
How to Store Christmas Decorations
This post is to share a system of storing holiday decorations that is flexible, simple, and is guaranteed to make this process easier for you in 3 ways: It will help you easily store decorations, easily find specific decorations or bins you are searching for, and easily re-pack bins quickly and efficiently. Step 1: Use…
