Slipcovers for Your Walls

To paraphrase the Pointer Sisters, we’re so excited!  We’re so excited to collaborate with Libby Langdon on her collection for Casart.  We first met Libby in High Point at Fall Market.  Libby is creative, talented, up-beat, genuinely down-to-earth nice, and she looks like “the girl next door”. On top of all that, she has more energy than anyone else we know!

The collection includes four bold geometrics and scroll-like patterns in classic lines given an updated twist.  Each design is available in four different collorways with the option to customize.  An added advantage is either vertical or horizontal installation.  The designs are offered in small, medium, and large rolls as well as stair risers, borders, backsplashes, and bookcase backings.  The Libby Langdon Collection for Casart Coverings is designed to work together with her Upholstered Furniture Collection for Braxton Culler as well as her Rug Collection for Tiger Rug.  Here’s a composite view of the designs and colorways.

Libby will debut the collection at the Holiday House Hamptons in Bridgehampton from June 23- July 21 along with a complementary rug from her Libby Langdon for Tiger Rug Collection.

Libby is one of 22 top designers invited to participate in this luxury designer showhouse sponsored by Hamptons Cottages & Gardens magazine.  The proceeds benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

“Holiday House Hamptons is an amazing opportunity to launch my Casart line.  This showhouse suports such an important cause and I really wanted my design to be something special,”  Libby says.  “And since showhouses are short-term, I can use my wallcovering knowing I will be able to easily remove it without damaging the walls.  Plus, it’s reusable, so I will feature it in another project, which is truly an example of sustainability!”

Libby adds, “The timing is also perfect for my partnership with Casart Coverings because I am shooting my own new television show, Daykeover with Libby Langdon!  My show is an interior design makeover that happens in less than 12 hours.  I’m working in one of my actual client’s homes each segment, so it’s not just thrown together for TV.  The designs have to be real, livable and beautiful…but also fuss-free for the fast pace of finishing it all in one day!  So when Casart collaborated with me on the collection, it couldn’t have been a better fit!”

We agree, and we’re so excited!  We can’t wait to see Libby’s installed design.  Watch for that post coming soon!

Ashley, Lindsey and Lorre Lei

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Just what is the significance of Flag Day?  Until 1776, colonies and militias used many different flags and it became apparent to our Founding Fathers, that we needed a flag that would unify us.  Three members of a secret committee from the Continental Congress came to call upon Betsy Ross in May of 1776. Those representatives, George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross, asked her to sew the first flag.  Betsy was a widow struggling to run her own upholstery business. Upholsterers in colonial America not only worked on furniture but did all manner of sewing work, which for some included making flags. According to Betsy, General Washington showed her a rough design of the flag that included a six-pointed star. Betsy, a standout with the scissors, demonstrated how to cut a five-pointed star in a single snip.  Impressed, the committee entrusted Betsy with making our first flag.

Betsy Ross House

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, seeking to promote national pride and unity, adopted the national flag. “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”  There have been twenty-seven official versions of the flag so far; stars have been added to it as states have entered the Union. The current version dates to July 4, 1960, when Hawaii became the 50th state.

I happen to own a replica of the Star Spangled Banner flag, so named because that was the flag flying over Fort Mc Henry Sept 13, 1814, the night Francis Scott Key wrote our Star Spangled Banner.  The original flag is now preserved in the Smithsonian Museum.

Replica of Star Spangled Banner flag

You can notice the “tilt” in some of the stars above just as in the original Star Spangled Banner.  If you visit Ft. McHenry, you can purchase a replica of the flag in the gift shop, take it to the U.S. Parks warden on duty, and he will run it up the flag pole.  Then your Star Spangle Banner flag will have the distinction of having flown in the same place as the original almost 200 years ago!

This Flag became the Official United States Flag on May 1st,1795. Two stars were added for the admission of Vermont (the 14th State on March 4th, 1791) and Kentucky (the 15th State on June 1st, 1792, and was to last for 23 years. The five Presidents who served under this flag were; George Washington (1789-1797), John Adams (1797-1801), Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), James Madison (1809-1817), and James Monroe (1817-1825).

The 15-star, 15-stripe flag was authorized by the Flag Act of January 13, 1794, adding 2 stripes and 2 Stars. The regulation went into effect on May 1, 1795. This flag was the only U.S. Flag to have more than 13 stripes.

Both President Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 1927, issued proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as the National Flag Day. But it wasn’t until August 3,1949, that Congress approved the national observance, and President Harry Truman signed it into law.   Successive Presidents have issued annual proclamations.  You can learn about all of our flags at U.S.Flag.org.  Although Flag Day is not celebrated as a Federal holiday, Americans everywhere continue to honor the history and heritage it represents.   So proudly unfurl your flag tomorrow!

-  Lorre Lei

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Stripes really never go out of style.  Their colors, and combinations, widths and positioning are constantly changing. This makes them fresh, new and now. Elle Décor featured stripes as a Trend Alert in their March issue.

Here are some inspirational stripes in a barrel-vaulted room. These stripes help to soften the expanse of the ceiling height while adding interest and color to the room.

We are proud to announce that we have a brand new collection of Casart Individual Stripes and Combined Patterns.

You can get instant impact with individual or just one single stripe or with multiple stripes that have been paired from these singles into combo patterns for full removable wallcovering coverage at 52″ wide.

Cool, now you can have instant stripes with no effort! Just think, no measuring, no taping, no painting, and most importantly, NO painstaking, time-consuming TOUCH UPS!

Click here for our NEW Stripes Collection to see all the new colors for the Individual Stripes and Stripe Combo Patterns.

Now its super easy to get your stripes on!

– Ashley

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