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Why a Roman Shade with Cafe Panels was the Right Choice
The other day I showed you the ‘Anthropologie’ inspired bathroom. In that room we made a roman shade with coordinating café panels.
By cleverly mounting the roman shade way above the actual top of the window trim, it instantly tricks the eye into believing the window is larger! (I am always amazed with that trick!) click here to read the rest of the story
Blast From the Past… Our House Dining Room Series
Since it’s summertime with more folks taking time for vacation and travel, and well, because I’m in the midst of another remodeling project that is taking all my time and energy, and since I have a ton of new followers that possibly haven’t read about the dining room, (thank you!!) I thought it’d be fun to revisit some stuff I wrote at the beginning of when I started to blog… (sounds like a long time ago, but was actually less than a year ago) anyway, for the next few times I’ll be re-playing the series I did on the dining room at ‘Our House’…
Our House: Strategic Planning, Taking it from Garage to Studio to Dining Room, Chapter 2
Continuing with the “Our House” welcome tour, in Chapter 1 you were left inside this French Door entrance in the dining room next to the antique coat tree. (You can see the edge of the French door just to the right in this picture.) When you come in from the outside, your feet immediately step onto the red rug you can see at the bottom corner of this pic. Then to your right, (or the left side of this picture)
just to the left of the coat tree you see a door with shutters and oversized keys. Let me tell you about that. It’s actually a seldom used door that goes into a little vestibule connecting to the back entry and mudroom. Read on…
Our House: Strategic Planning, Taking it from Garage to Studio to Dining Room, Chapter 2
Continuing with the “Our House” welcome tour, in Chapter 1 you were left inside this French Door entrance in the dining room next to the antique coat tree. (You can see the edge of the French door just to the right in this picture.) When you come in from the outside, your feet immediately step onto the red rug you can see at the bottom corner of this pic. Then to your right, (or the left side of this picture)
just to the left of the coat tree you see a door with shutters and oversized keys. Let me tell you about that. It’s actually a seldom used door that goes into a little vestibule connecting to the back entry and mudroom. Read on…
