YMCA ShowHouse Fire

I was so sad to hear that the YMCA ShowHouse I visited in Brentwood last month suffered $600,000 worth of damage in a fire. The builder of the 7,300 square foot European farmhouse bought the home for himself and his family. Here's a picture I snapped of the home...

Estate Sale Finds!

Happy Labor Day! I'm actually working for awhile today, but then I'm going to come home and make myself relax. Today I want to share a few things that I picked up from an estate sale last week! First up, a pair of mounted animal horns. The guy I bought them from...

Heather’s Color Forecast

Heather Spriggs Thompson has a lovely blog that I follow called Gathering Spriggs. Last week, she added her two cents to the Sherwin-Williams ColorMix 2011 post I wrote. Heather has a way of choosing and combining the most beautiful photography and colors. Check...

What You Can Do With an Ugly Basement

Do you have an ugly basement? Think there's no decorating hope down there? Think again. Here is a "before" shot of designer Annie's Selke's basement. Here is the fabulous and fun "after!" Don't you just want to slurp up those sherbet colors? The walls are painted...

What NOT to Do When Trying to Sell Your Home

I'm a Home Stager, and I've staged all kinds of homes over the last 5 years - from small condos to multi-million dollar mansions. Did you know that staged homes sell for 10-17% more in 1/3 of the time of unstaged homes? Good staging is a must in today's difficult...

Colorful Home Tour: Jamie Levitt

Want to add life and vitality to your home? Then add a heavy dose of saturated color. Designer Jamie Levitt did just that in her own family home. Think dark gray is boring? See how fabulous it looks in her dining room when paired with fun, saturated color in chair...

Flea Market Before and After

I found this great example of taking tacky dated flea market finds and transforming them into something funky and modern with a little bit of vision and paint. A little white spray paint (it could have been any number of colors, depending on the color scheme) changes...

Glamping at The Martyn House

When I blogged about glamping, one of my readers commented about how expensive it is to glamp in style. Afterall, "glamorous camping" is all the rage with celebrity-types. So I decided to do a little research to see how expensive it really was and if there was an...

Ideas for Displaying Photos

We've all got them - tons of family pictures in boxes or, in my case, still housed on the computer. Sometimes a little inspiration is all you need to start displaying those treasured photos. An easy way to start is by spray-painting a bunch of frames the same...

Sherwin Williams 2011 Color Forecast

Have you heard? Sherwin-Williams has introduced their color forecast in what they are dubbing ColorMix 2011. The 39 colors selected by Sherwin-Williams color experts for Colormix 2011 are grouped into four palettes: Purely Refined, Bold Invention, Restless Nomad and...