Cool shades are an easy way to punch up the color in a room is by simply changing out the lampshade. Change a dull beige colored shade to a stripe or pattern for a subtle change in your room. Because the color is in one spot it isn't overwhelming and doesn't slap you in the face. Here are a few suggestions for lampshades with a design punch.Whimsical shades Continue Reading
Power of Color
Businesses employ the power of color. Pumpkins and orange must still be on my mind, despite that today is the first day of November (!) and the kick-off-time counting down to the holidays. Then I started thinking about how businesses have branded themselves with colors like Hermés Orange, Tiffany Blue, even Juicy Couture Pink and Brown and how powerful the nature of Continue Reading
Entertaining Tips That Simplify or Mystify?
We've come across some designer's entertaining tips for upcoming holidays that appear to be confusing.Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve-they are creeping up on the calendar and that means the season of entertaining, including breakfasts, brunches, lunches, cocktail parties, dinners, and whatever other creative event you can imagine. The November issue of Continue Reading
Pumpkin & Spice and Everything Bewitching
It's a bewitching time of year and we're thinking of ways to use orange and black colors that don't scream Halloween -- unless you want them to.How easy it is to get in the Autumn spirit by just adding a few pumpkins outside your door, but what about when those ghosts and gobblins come a'calling (and I'm not talking about the relatives for upcoming holidays -- Continue Reading
And We’re Walking or Dancing…
We are walking or dancing in our new video that illustrates just some of our Casart Carryall designs and color combinations. We’ve previously done a post about our Gulf Coast Recovery effort. Wanting to do something to help as we watched oil flow into the Gulf off the Louisiana coast, Ashley came up with the idea of a Gulf Coast Mural depicting all the area species Continue Reading
