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Coffee Tables and Ottomans are Not Created Equal

June 18, 2012 - 33 Comments

One thing on this week’s agenda is to finish up our family room and finally do a full-reveal/budget breakdown. We have been on a slight hiatus from the project (doesn’t that always happen near the end?) as we turned our …

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Making Music

June 14, 2012 - 22 Comments

In addition to tackling the dining room nook, I also helped Aaron and Heather out with their music room (sorry folks, the living room is gonna have to wait until my next trip). Their music room is the first room …

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Happy(?) Yellow

June 5, 2012 - 16 Comments

In the last installment of our “Readers’ Choice” game, we allowed you to choose the paint color for the desk lamp in the studio–I was happy to hear a lot of cheers for chartreuse and yellow. That is the way …

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Semiflush Drum for the Win

June 4, 2012 - 7 Comments

I love looking at before pictures of spaces in my house. It is quite amazing how a room can look so bad. And although the carousel horses stenciled around the borders and the circus valence may have you mesmerized, don’t …

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Reader’s Choice: To Pop or Not, That is the Question

May 31, 2012 - 36 Comments

Once upon a time, my studio desk had a great task lamp attached to it, and it has disappeared. Which could be a sad tale, but I found this great lamp in the as-is section at Ikea and it was …

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From Terrible to Sterile to I-Can’t-Look-Away-Stunning!

May 29, 2012 - 24 Comments

After painting the walls, ceiling, and floor of the studio–and living with it all for a week or so, it all started to feel a little sterile. I waited anxiously for the floor to cure up so that I could …

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New Lamp Love

May 16, 2012 - 12 Comments

Last week, I quickly relayed that the living room didn’t really look like this anymore: And that a lamp had been purchased to replace those two black floor lamps flanking the couch. You see, originally we had planned to have …

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Reader’s Choice: Curtain Call!

May 14, 2012 - 24 Comments

Today’s poll will be the icing on the studio’s cake. In this crazy turn of events, we have allowed you readers to design my new art studio. You have voted on color scheme, ceiling color, area rug and lighting and …

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Room Swaps

May 10, 2012 - 10 Comments

It’s almost a joke to bring a third room into the equation when we are knee deep in a studio renovation and at the tail end of the family room renovation–but the living room has been stripped of a few …

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Reader’s Choice: This Little Light of Mine

May 8, 2012 - 13 Comments

Our area rug poll has crowned a victor! Roadside Attraction got the most votes and will be hanging out in the studio with me. I was originally pulling for the Sophistikat option, but in the end–I feel good about the …

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