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Friday, February 28, 2014

Helpful Tip Friday

Decorating without Causing Holes

In homes we own and homes we rent we want to personalize our space without the damage. (Either to our walls and/or our deposit.) It’s time to get creative. My go-to favorite will always be the versatile 3M strips, that come in so many different sizes and purposes. However, it’s always good to learn new tricks.

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Use Photo Collages

Hang up some large magnetic/corkboards and centralize your photographs as a collage. Little magnets or push pins help hold pictures in place while giving them mobility. Add them to a white background for faux Polaroids, or have pictures printed straight from Instagram for a casual and modern approach. Add an element of organization, such as arranging pictures by person, color, or time.

Image from Wallsneedlove.com

Vinyl Wall Stickers

This growing trend offers a big room influence and décor with minimal mess. There are so many options, that vinyl wall stickers can complement almost any style. If you’re looking for something more geometric or just a pattern, try making your own designs with washi tape. They can even make creative faux frames around pictures hung with Elmer’s Tack N’Stik.

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Temporary Wall Paper

Fabric, temporarily adhered to the wall, with spray starch offer great results. It adds some color, pattern, and/or texture to any room.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Home Office with Style

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Hindell Park

Ashley Furniture Series H695

This series is efficient, yet stylish. With coordinating pieces, like desk chair, desk, bookcase, and storage cabinet with roll out, ventilated shelf and filing, it is easy to outfit your work space. Beauty and function meet in the Hindell Park.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

The Princess and the Pea

Hans Christian Anderson

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

There, that is a true story.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Vintage Meets Chic in Dining

D530 Dining Table with 6 Chairs and Server

Tripton Dining Room Group

Ashley Furniture Series D530

Vintage meets chic in this exquisite dining room group. A rustic, vintage-inspired table with embellished metal legs in a perfect foil for the tradition-style, high rolled back chairs. The chairs are softly foiled with elegant tufting. A unique server adds to the vintage charm.