It seems quilting is showing up in surprising places from fabric to furniture to accessories to, yes, even shoes! I found quilted platform heels!The January/February Elle Decor showed a full page of various quilted objects including flatware, crystal and pillows. Hmm, since we now have pillow covers, perhaps that will be our next design.The new Continue Reading
Resolutions You Can Achieve
How often are your New Year's resolutions not achieved? You have good intentions and start out on the right track but time dwindles and so might your commitment. These resolutions below inspired me to repost from Houzz because they are simple and achievable + one of my resolutions is to be more efficient with my time. Thank you Vanessa Brunner and Houzz for helping me Continue Reading
Traveling? — What Makes a Boutique Hotel Boutique
Are you traveling for the holidays and staying in a hotel wherever you're going? You may want to know what makes a Boutique Hotel boutique.While a patron of boutique hotels, you'll immediately notice their variety, use of color, sense of unexpected style with personal touches that larger chains forgo. They express creative individuality, which is often lacking Continue Reading
Emerald Green is more than just a color for Christmas
Emerald Green is Pantone's color pick of the year for 2013. What does this mean? It means big marketing hype but it also based on psychology and what this color represents, money (the country is in need of it) and renewal (heralding Spring and hopefully a turn in the economy). Let's hope as emerald green gets tossed around that some of these things will follow in its Continue Reading
Repositionable Has Staying Power in House Beautiful
We are so thankful to Orli Ben Dur and House Beautiful for including Casart Coverings in their line up of "Peel and Stick" Wallpapers. If this way of wallpapering is new to you, don't be surprised if it becomes the new standard. We are all so busy these days and repositionable, peel and stick wallcovering makes installing self-adhesive wallpaper, removing and in Continue Reading
