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Home Staging and Paint Color Expert Kristie Barnett, draws on her background in psychology and education to provide design and color advice to residential projects.
My friends at Merridian Home Furnishings just let me know some of the fun prizes and giveways they are planning for my upcoming Decorating Workshop. If you attend my Just the Right Furniture Arrangement Class at Merridian in Nashville, you may be the lucky winner of this fabulous coffee table!
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and long holiday weekend. Before we get full-force into Christmas decorating and shopping, I’d love to get the new Miss Mustard Seed book, Inspired You, into the hands of three lucky readers.
Inspired You, by Marian Parsons (Miss Mustard Seed)
| Oh, how I ADORE a great banquette. What a great way to add architecture and a sense of coziness to a home. |  |
A banquette can be sophisticated like this one.
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Or perfectly kid-friendly, like this one.
If you upholster your banquette seating, make sure it’s outdoor fabric or scotchgarded so crumbs and spills can be wiped up easily.
You can do dual benches, or one bench with chairs on the opposite side. The banquette is a major space saver in a small kitchen!
Or you can even do an L-shaped bench in a corner, then finish it out with a couple of chairs.
Great place to do homework while Momma’s making dinner!
I’ve always been a fan of the nostalgic breakfast nook, like this one here:
Which is why I designed this one for my own home a few years back. I’ll feature the befores and afters in a post sometime soon.
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It’s nearly Spring in Nashville, and I can’t wait for warm weather to be the norm for awhile! Do you have Spring Fever, too? It’s a great time of year to spruce up your house, change some colors, add a few new accessories. I’ve been doing frequent on-line designs lately and decided to host a Virtual Room Design Give-a-Way in honor of Spring! The winner will receive a Virtual Room Design for any room in their home, complete with paint colors, instructions for furniture arrangement and specific product suggestions (furniture, lighting, accessories). It’s a $150 value, free to one of my treasured readers.
To be eligible, simply:
1) subscribe to The Decorologist via email,
2) become a fan on Facebook, then
3) leave a message on this post letting me know which room in your house you’d like me to create a Virtual Room Design for.
For an extra chance to win, post this to your Facebook page, then make sure you leave a comment to let me know you did. I will close the contest in a couple weeks, and the winner will be announced on Friday, March 18th.
Good luck!
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It’s hard to believe it’s almost Christmas! Thought you might enjoy a little tour of my home during the holidays. |
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The winner of the handmade linen dinner napkins from Ruffled Linens is Katie Foss from South Florida! Katie, please contact me with your mailing address so I can send these lovelies on down to you! Do you live near the beach? Because I might just drive them down to you . . . |
Make sure you check out Ruffled Linens Etsy shop, especially if you need a shabby chic/urban country Christmas tree skirt!
| This is the first in a series of Prize Giveaways exclusively for The Decorologist’s readers sponsored by Ruffled Linens. Ruffled Linens offers beautiful, handmade slipcovers, curtains, tablecloths, and other fabric housewares. This giveaway is for a set of 4 luxurious linen table napkins (see below) in slate gray – the hottest neutral of the season. These sell on Ruffled Linens’ Etsy site for $12 a piece – so this giveaway is valued at $48! Great idea for a Christmas gift or for your own table! |  |
| Wanted to share my fun new find with you today! I went to a very interesting estate sale a couple of weeks back. It was the estate of a wealthy doctor in a tony neighborhood in Nashville. The home was built in the late 1960′s to early 1970′s, and it was furnished and decorated to the hilt of that era. I mean gold foil wallpaper, sunken living room (and sunken tub, of course), high-end art. No expense was spared – it was the biggest and best you could get at the time. But then they never touched it again. Not since 1972. A total time capsule – I was walking around with my mouth hanging open. I love that kind of crazy stuff. The bad news was everything was overpriced, no matter how hideous it was. |  |
| Congratulations to Stephanie Manis of Nashville! She is the winner of my February Prize Give-Away! Stephanie will receive this cute wall hanging by Home Inspirations. Stay tuned to my blog for more decor inspiration and fun prizes! |  |
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| I found this cute wall hanging from Home Inspirations just for you! It would be great to hang your keys on by the door or as a place to hang necklaces. It’s made of wood and is about 8″ x 4″ with an aged painted finish. |  |
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