Almost Time

Well, it's almost time. Just a few things left to do and we go LIVE! I'm really hyped. Now I can get back to the things I really enjoy doing, like decorating and fixing up the house. I've already finished the dining room, except for the crown molding. I love doing great paint techniques and in this room I did a "leather" look on the bottom of the walls under the chair rail. It was very simple. I started out with a deep red paint - let this dry well and then take a clear glaze, add just a touch of dark brown and then use a DRY brush to speckle onto the wall. Twist your wrist back and forth as you do it, so that the marks look random instead of planned. Make sure the brush is dry and don't worry about using those high price brushes that the paint stores will try to sell you. Any strong fiber brush will do. I added a great caramel color above the railing. The room looks warm and inviting now.

Let's go back to the 70's (or not)

As I was working on some of the categories for the site, I had this disturbing thought.....Do people still decorate in "Early American" like my parents did? I sure hope that's not a style anymore.

Time Marches On!

Time marches on! I'd hoped to have the site up and running by now. But, finding decent suppliers is proving to be more challenging than I had anticipated. Though I have found a supplier for areas rugs and I love their products. Great traditional and modern designs. and I still need to get the merchant account set up. So at least another 2 weeks, hopefully no more. Since it will always be evolving and changing, I need to let go and "go live" with it as soon as possible. Blogging is going to be limited until I can get it running. Guess I'll use my lunch hours to keep this up.

Oh - I saw the coolest show last week. Check for it on HGTV.com - it was called the "25 most common decorating mistakes". Great advice, though I did disagree with a couple. Watch it if you can.

In the mean time, stay cool out there (it is August after all) and keep coming back.