A case of cabin fever described.Thursday, September 1st. Tropical Storm Lee laboriously made its way across the Gulf, stalled offshore, hovered and dumped band after band of water along with southerly winds driving water through the already badly damaged marshlands into bayous, rivers and lakes.Friday, September 2nd. The day began with flash flood warnings, Continue Reading
Places to see and be seen!
Places Casart Coverings has been seen recently include:1. the September issue of Country Living magazine featuring our charcoal faux padded headboard in a makeover article. You can see that on the Press page of our website. https://www.casartcoverings.com/press-magazines.html or click on the Country Living magazine cover to the right.2. an article by Marni Continue Reading
Escape Via A Labor Of Love
Here's how to escape via a labor of love. Picture a Tudor row house in Brooklyn filled with a "laboratory" of painted floors, custom floral upholstered sofas and lots of whimsical wallcoverings often used in multiple patterns in one room.That's the setting for designers Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke's (pronounced Lucky) design firm, John Loecke, Inc. Continue Reading
Color Shades and Tints Plus Tennis
We seem to be obsessed with color lately (see 7/15 - how do you describe yellow and 7/18 - mellow yellow posts) and here we go again with color shades and tints.Color isn't a simplistic choice and is more complicated than you may think. See Worqx.com for all the nity gritty about color. More about the tennis later.Today, I'm speaking with Dustin Van Fleet Continue Reading
Too Beautiful To Survive
"Too beautiful and too romantic to survive" in a world of tower blocks and concrete. That's what Sir John Betjeman said about this Victorian Gothic treasure and London's aptly named, just opened St.Pancras Renaissance Hotel. First opened in 1873 by Queen Victoria, the Midland Grand was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is said that the design evolved from 50 Continue Reading
