ikea

IKEA Has Gone Gray – And That’s a Good Thing

October 12, 2011 By Kristie Barnett 14 Comments

I’ve been ordering furniture for a client over the last week from IKEA, so I was really excited to see that they have added another option to their black, white, or birch furniture finishes. IKEA’s finally gone gray! Actually, gray-brown. I hope this is the final evidence if you need confirmation that gray-brown is the new expresso brown.

Hemnes Dresser from IKEA

The gray-brown finish is available only on selected IKEA furniture, and they can barely keep them in stock right now. I found gray options in the Hemnes, Isala, and Lack series. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Color Consultation, Retail Therapy Tagged With: coffee table, decor, decorating, furniture, gislev, gray, gray is the new brown, gray-brown, hemnes, ikea, isala, lack, table, trend, wood finish

How To Personalize IKEA Furniture – A Decorologist Tutorial for Additik Stickers

September 23, 2011 By Kristie Barnett 18 Comments

I’m really excited to share a little Before and After of a pair of LACK side tables using a fabulous new product. Additik is a company out of France that has launched a whole line of appliques to personalize many of our favorite IKEA furniture.

Sometimes it’s good to be The Decorologist – the nice people at Additik sent me a few samples so I could show my readers how they work! I pulled out a few of the LACK tables I use in home staging – these are black, but they also come in birch, white, and red.

IKEA LACK side tables – Before

The appliques from Additik arrived in the mail in these tubes.

Additix Delivery

IKEA Bookcases – So Many Ways to Use Them!

January 21, 2011 By Kristie Barnett 41 Comments

The Expedit Bookcase is one of IKEA’s best-selling products, and it’s no wonder. They’re inexpensive and incredibly versatile, making them the best value I’ve found in a bookcase. They’re backless, so the color from the wall behind can show through.

source

IKEA Dishtowel Prize Winner!

July 31, 2010 By Kristie Barnett 2 Comments

Happy weekend, dear readers! The winner of my most recent Prize Give-A-Way is Karina A.! Karina has won this cute set of dishtowels from IKEA. I enjoyed your comments over the last few weeks. Keep it up – I love hearing from you all!

Filed Under: Retail Therapy Tagged With: ikea, ikea dishtowels, prize winner

IKEA and a New Prize Give-a-Way!

July 21, 2010 By Kristie Barnett 20 Comments

Last week I got to do a little shopping at the IKEA in Cincinatti. I bought some gifts for the ole gift closet and some staging props for my business. And a little something for one lucky reader. But we’ll talk about that later. First I want to share some of my favorite things I saw at IKEA. Like these cool bookcases. They are decorated with freestyle writing and doodling, and they come in 3 colors ($199 each). My daughter, Audrey was trying to talk me into getting them for her room.

2010 07 13 13.15.55 IKEA and a New Prize Give a Way!

Mimi’s Garden Florals & Free Prize Give-a-way!

April 16, 2010 By Kristie Barnett 9 Comments

Today I want to share with you the talents of one of my dear readers, Dianne Tant. Dianne is the owner of Mimi’s Garden Florals. She provides flowers and beautiful tablescapes for events and weddings.

DSC034482 Mimis Garden Florals & Free Prize Give a way!

Creating a Library

August 15, 2009 By Kristie Barnett 2 Comments

I’m always encouraging clients to make their rooms more functional, more beautiful, and more “them.” This is a great example of taking an underused room and making it highly useful and true to the homeowner’s interests. These homeowners are true bibliophiles (that means they’re readers

). But all their books and bookcases were stuffed into a guest bedroom. It made perfect sense to bring the books into the place they actually lived – or should I say, now actually live. This room had little function for them before, except to hold hand-me-down furniture that didn’t reflect their own tastes.

[Read more...]