Lifestyles of Your Pets Contest – Voting Starts April 8th-15, 2010

Grand Prize Gift Basket from Goober Pet Direct! Silk Photo Pillow with your pets photos. 2nd Place Custom Collar from The Decorating Diva Pam Damour and a Pet Photo Pillow 3rd Place a Photo Pillow with your pets photo and..

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Lifestyles of Your Pets Contest – Voting Starts April 8th-15, 2010

 Single Toilet and Towel holder

Scroll Antiqued Toilet Roll Holder in black A wall mounted metal toilet roll holder with a black paint finish with a grey dry brush to provide the antiqued look and take away the harshness of the black.

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Single Toilet and Towel holder

 Eating Area Progress: Window Treatment and New Wall Color

(Note: Kimba at A Soft Place To Land has linked to this post on her Favorite Things post this week. Thanks Kimba! So for those of you who may be visiting for the first time, I’ve added a “before” picture of this eating area to the bottom of this post so that you can see how far it’s come

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Eating Area Progress: Window Treatment and New Wall Color

 Hunting For The Perfect Dining Chairs (Do I Already Have Them?)

I need two dining chairs for my little table, and I have no idea what it is that I want. I search on Craigslist every day, but so far, nothing has really caught my eye.However, I may already have two chairs that will work, so tell me what you think.These chairs are the last remaining remnants of furniture left from my apartment in Turkey.When I moved back to the States, I had most of this

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Hunting For The Perfect Dining Chairs (Do I Already Have Them?)

 Crafty Tute Tuesday:: Fabric Button Fridge Magnets and Push Pins

Today I’m starting a new weekly feature here on the blog—Crafty Tute (as in tutorial) Tuesday. I’ve been working hard on the big projects here around the condo–refinishing cabinets, installing and finishing countertops, building banquette seating, tiling a backsplash, and the list goes on. While all of those things are good and fun, I’ve really been missing those smaller, crafty-type

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Crafty Tute Tuesday:: Fabric Button Fridge Magnets and Push Pins

 TGIF! (And My Super-Secret Project)

Oh, I’m so glad it’s Friday! For some reason, this week has seemed to drag on and on for me. I’m soooo ready to turn my attention to my little condo this weekend and get some things done.Actually, I have one project in particular that I’m going to be focusing on. I’m not going to tell you what it is.

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TGIF! (And My Super-Secret Project)

 A New Project Begins (Bedroom Redesign)

I’m about to start on a new project, and I’m super excited about it! This is a project for a client…not in my condo. (Heck, sometimes I get tired of talking about my condo, so I know y’all must get tired of it, too!)Anyway, the homeowners had been leasing a house, but recently decided to buy it.

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A New Project Begins (Bedroom Redesign)

 DIY Project:: How To Make An Upholstered Headboard With A Wood Frame

When I was trying to finalize the design for the upholstered back on my banquette seat, I spent about two hours one evening looking at headboards online. Upholstered headboards are so incredibly popular right now, and while I knew that, I was still a bit surprised at how many different styles there are available today. Of course, most of them also have a pretty high price tag.Since I needed a

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DIY Project:: How To Make An Upholstered Headboard With A Wood Frame

 A Little Paint Chip Tip

If you’re currently in the process of decorating your home, you can probably identify to my problem–my purse always looked like this:I carried them around with me everywhere, because I just never knew when I’d pop into the fabric store, or find myself looking at rugs or artwork.

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A Little Paint Chip Tip

 Finalizing the Banquette Design (and Hoping You’ll Give Me Your Input!)

Well, my day is off to a rocky start. After staying up until 1:00am trying to work out the details of my banquette design, and tracking my FedEx package from Lamps Plus (my new kitchen light…yay!), I then woke up at 4:00am with a stuffy nose, and a very dry and scratchy sore throat.Yuck.After staring at the ceiling for what seemed like an eternity (and hearing Matt sleeping so peacefully…

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Finalizing the Banquette Design (and Hoping You’ll Give Me Your Input!)

 Here It Is…My Brilliant Idea

As I told you yesterday on the Addicted 2 Decorating Facebook Page, I’ve had a brilliant idea! But first, let me explain the dilemma I had.As you know, I’ve built a banquette seat in my eating area.I wanted to do an upholstered cushion for the seat, and then a diamond-tufted back to give it some pizazz.

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 "Making Do" On A Very Tight Budget (And Learning To Have A Thankful Heart)

Today’s blog post is a bit different from most. Because I’m a visual person (and this is an interior decorating blog) I generally like to fill blog posts with lots of pictures. But not today

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"Making Do" On A Very Tight Budget (And Learning To Have A Thankful Heart)

 Houston, We Have A Problem (But Take A Look At My Awesome Booty!)

Okay, first of all, nooooooo…I don’t mean THAT kind of booty! After all, this IS an interior decorating blog, remember? But more on that in a bit. First, let me tell you about my major kitchen blunder.Here I was, thinking everything was going along just fine, until I tried to turn on my undercabinet lighting on the stove side of the kitchen

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Houston, We Have A Problem (But Take A Look At My Awesome Booty!)

 My Kitchen Progress (and a Peek At My New Lighting)

As promised, I have pictures of my kitchen to show you! I still didn’t get as far as I had hoped, BUT…a promise is a promise, right?So here is the current status of the backsplash installation:As you can see there are still a few things left to do. For example…I still need to caulk where the tiles meet the countertops and the upper cabinets, and I still have a few hinges that need to be

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My Kitchen Progress (and a Peek At My New Lighting)

 Eco Friendly Doorstops Range

Helping the Environment Range of Doorstops These Doorstops have been manufactured from leather off cuts which would normally be sent to Land Fill from the tanneries. This new and revolutionary process produces an environmentally friendly solution

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Eco Friendly Doorstops Range

 We Talked with Jacquline Powers author of a New Remodel Book "Transitioning to Green"

With increasing awareness of the need to use environmentally sound practices homeowners may find it hard to know where to begin with a green home renovation. Listen to Jacquline Powers of Powers Design Company and the author of a new…

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 Wall Treatment For My Home Office:: Trees Or Horizontal Stripes?

I didn’t get the quilted patchwork throw finished for my client this weekend. I did get the face of it finished, with all 56 rectangles sewed together. So far, this is my favorite throw I’ve made

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Wall Treatment For My Home Office:: Trees Or Horizontal Stripes?

 What To Do With Fabric Remnants? A (Somewhat) Quick and Easy Gift Idea!

Every time I wind down a project for a client, I’m usually left with a pile of little fabric remnants from upholstery projects, window treatments, pillows, etc. Most of the time, they’re not big enough to make anything on their own, and so often, I end up just throwing them away.Well, a couple of months ago, I decided that it was incredibly sad to throw away these beautiful fabrics–even the

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 Talked with Krystal’s Design 2009 Slipcover Design Winner

Today I talked with Krystal Close of Krystal’s Design who was our Winner of the 2009 Slipcover Design Contest. click here to listen as I talked with Krystal about her business, her favorite products and her reaction to winning the…

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Talked with Krystal’s Design 2009 Slipcover Design Winner

 A Busy Weekend (And Up To My Ears In Reupholstery Projects)

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Mine was great…although I didn’t have time to work on any projects around the condo. Oh well, there’s always next weekend!What I DID work on was completing some reupholstery projects for a client

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A Busy Weekend (And Up To My Ears In Reupholstery Projects)