What do you do when you want to set the stage for a creative project but don't know the best way to do it or where go? You call a stager, of course! But not any stager will do. It has to be someone who gets your concept and can achieve the results and plan the preliminaries without the main person being there to call the shots. This is our clue 2 for how our Continue Reading
Antiques Get a Makeover
If you were able to come and see us at the 17th annual Antiques in Alexandria show, thank you! It was a great event with so many wonderful dealers, antiques and of course Mary Douglas Drysdale and other interior designers' booths. The three day event benefited three community charities in Alexandria, Virginia: The Twig (my volunteer group), the small branch that Continue Reading
Folk Art Not for the Faint of Heart
Murals have traditionally been painted to tell a story from the Caves at Lascaux to Renaissance High Church murals to Picasso's tribal-African-mask-inspired Guernica to modern day masters but they don't always have to be realistic or abstract. Sometimes whimsy and stylistic pattern can add a decorative element that realism may bypass.Here are some examples that I 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
Do you See Summer?
How do you hear and see summer?I hear the locusts every evening now and this immediately makes me think of summer but I also think of heat, the 4Th of July (right around the corner) and fireflies, among other things.At Casart Coverings, we've thought of a great way to actually see summer with our Firefly Design. It progresses from the course of the day from Continue Reading
