It's a new year. It's time to freshen up the house with decorating decisions. But, you're not sure what you want to do. Maybe you can glean some suggestions from the magazines. Veranda has a bright cover with the subject, The Joy of Color but when you thumb through the pages, there's only one article with bright colors titled Haute Hues.Well, that's not Continue Reading
Looking Up
Recently we had a post titled Getting On The Map, and another, Things Are Looking Up. Our October e newsletter is about mapping your travels and we have a press release about our new Casart Light ceiling map mural. So when I was on a fall foliage cruise I found myself looking up at ceilings; on the Oceania Regatta and in the Newport mansions The Breakers and Marble Continue Reading
The Alluring Mary McDonald
What lured us back to New Orleans? Well, a family gathering for a sister's birthday, which turned into a family reunion, which morphed into a Thanksgiving celebration, all against the backdrop and initial kickoff event of Mary McDonald's Book Signing at Tara Shaw Maison on Camp Street.Although this was a public event, we had been invited to attend when meeting up Continue Reading
Libby Langdon Times Two at High Point
Libby Langdon must have been a cheerleader when she was in school. She is up-beat, effervescent, motivating, funny, and much more. I mentioned that I had attended both of her presentations in an earlier post. The first, How we really live/What We Really Want: Insights from the Front Lines at Makeover Television, was held in the showroom of Braxton Culler, for whom Continue Reading
Angelo Surmelis at High Point
We met Angelo Surmelis at High Point.I really wasn't stalking him! Ashley was on her cell phone and I saw this man wearing a hat walking briskly in front of me, whom I immediately identified as Angelo Surmelis. Now, I've watched Angelo on HGTV's Rate My Space and knew he had a line of furniture, bedding, rugs and drapes called appropriately enough angelo: HOME and Continue Reading
