Want to know the average cost to remodel your home? Houzz has a very useful guide about what are others doing with their home renovations in your area. One question to ask is it a wise investment?These just may be some of the things that are on your mind with fall approaching but while you're hopefully sitting on a beach or relaxing somewhere on a summer vacation, Continue Reading
Design Motifs and Their Meaning
You may like peacocks, pineapples and ikats but do you know what these design motifs symbolize? Before you rush out and buy a design motif it might be a good idea to understand it's symbolism.For instance, you like stripes and chevrons in particular and are thinking about a pink and white chevron rug in your daughter's room. Think again. The chevron design motif Continue Reading
Packing a Student for College?
It's overwhelming and difficult to pack your child/ student for college. Just the act is a right of passage for your child leaving and transitioning to young adulthood. Being the parent, you have to help ease the emotional separation on both ends -- theirs and yours. Moms have a knack for doing this well but often disregard the emotional toll on themselves. If you are Continue Reading
Feeling Hot? Think Cool…
A way to beat the heat is to think cool. I've often thought the hottest days of summer are in July and we're right smack dab in the middle of it with that sweltering, soupy, humid heat. Dwell magazine touts what's hot with new, modern decorating trends and products and décor. Bold, hot walls were noted recently in an online posting. Here's their example.We Continue Reading
What’s Read, White & Navy?
It's July 1st already and we're getting ready to celebrate the Fourth of July! Therein the question, "What's Read, White and Navy?" Well, our American Flag of course is red, white and blue, but so is the upcoming July 15th issue of Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, read all over that is. They have kicked off this year's Holiday House Hamptons with their All White Continue Reading
