Well, it's been a twilight transformation -- working all night to get our booth at the New Orleans Home & Design Show built and ready. We used our lime green Casart Colorwash peel and stick wallpaper because Casart wallcovering is repositionable so we could get it right even it if took a couple of tries and it is removable and reusable so we can reuse the Continue Reading
Decorating with Things You Love
Decorating with things you love is important. As Frank Lloyd Wright said, "...if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." This quote is on Scottish-born interior designer, Kate Flanagan's website, who now lives in Alexander Valley, CA. She was recently featured in Woman’s Day "Budget Decorating, Vol. XIX." She and her Continue Reading
Beige Doesn’t Have to Be Boring
Beige, is a go-to neutral. Who doesn't love a good earth tone? When you combine earth tones with a punch of color the result is quite stunning. An even better way to punch up a flat beige is to add texture. Use Casart temporary wallpaper to create the depth you want without the work of painting or traditional permanent, messy-glue applied Continue Reading
Butterflies are Free to Fly
I love butterflies and they are free to fly, what can I say?! I like that bugs can be beautiful. There's something odd about that dichotomy. Our logo has the transformation of a butterfly from a prickly caterpillar to a beautiful Blue Morpho. It represents the life cycle's transformation and beauty that can occur everyday, right under our noses. As it Continue Reading
The House Always Wins
You probably don’t want to read anymore about headboards, but in this post about the house always wins, Marni Jameson had an article about headboards, entitled, "Naturallement, We Must Build A Bed for Au Pair," in last Saturday’s issue of Inside Out in the Times-Picayune. I had just finished making a headboard for my bed when I read it, such coincidental Continue Reading