It's a new year and we have a new intern.We encourage college age students to apply for marketing and other internships at Casart coverings. We've been lucky to have some fantastic interns over the last year, including students from William & Mary, Georgetown and American University. This is a new year, so it seems fitting to start it off right with another Continue Reading
Examples of Honeysuckle
Did you know that the color for 2011, projected by Pantone Color Corporation, is Honeysuckle? This may be old news to some in the interior design field but I got to thinking about how undefined this color really is.Honeysuckle is one of my favorite flowers, particularly for it's fragrance. I have it growing in my garden and it always reminds me of sunny spring and Continue Reading
A Manse Where the Wallpaper Stars
For 35 years the Preservation Resource Center in New Orleans has presented a tour of Garden District homes. I was visiting my daughter in Denver and was particularly sorry to miss this year's tour because the 1860 era, 10,000 square foot mansion with the famed cornstalk and morning glory fence was one of the homes on the tour. But it was my good fortune that Times Continue Reading
Over the River and Through the Woods
As a child I remember associating songs like Over the River and Through the Woods, Chestnuts Roasting By an Open Fire and White Christmas with the approaching holidays. Of course, growing up in New Orleans didn't lend itself to roasting chestnuts over an open fire in tropical winter weather. Nor could I realistically dream of a white Christmas. However, my mother Continue Reading
Noshing With the King of Color
Noshing with Carleton Varney, the King of Color, tribute.He bought the oldest established design firm from its founder when he was just 29. He has decorated hotels and resorts around the world, a U.S. embassy, cruise ships and private planes. He has been the interior designer for The Greenbrier for 42 years and just completed the design for its new casino. He's Continue Reading
