Styling Tips
The Simple Way to Frame a Painting with Offset Clips
5 easy steps to frame a painting on canvas using offset clips and a back-loading frame. You’ve found the perfect painting for your wall after hunting countless estate sales, thrifts, and galleries. It has eye catching colors and a subject that speaks to you! The only drawback…it’s un-framed. Don’t let that hiccup stop you from…
Read MoreElevated Essentials: Bar Cart Decor & Basics
Style an artful mix of vintage and new barware to make it both functional and chic, so you can mix yummy drinks in style. Here are the 10 essentials you need for bar cart decor! When I say bar cart what comes to mind? For me I immediately hear the crooning dulcet tones of Dean…
Read MoreYou Need a Tray for That!
Using trays in your home decor 4 different ways to instantly add style, function, and organization. Always…always buy a lovely tray if it catches your eye, especially if it’s reasonably priced. Trays are one of those decorating essentials that serve so many purposes and easily add style, function, and organization to a decorated arrangement. From…
Read MoreMy Recipe for Coffee Table Style with Traditional Decor
With this 5 ingredient “recipe” you can master coffee table style using traditional decor! Your coffee table is one of those key focal points in your living room that deserves some carefully styled decor. Sitting in the middle of your seating group, the eye is always drawn to this surface, and what you choose to…
Read MoreSewing a Pretty Chintz Tablecloth with Bullion Fringe
Make your own pretty chintz tablecloth with this basic 5 step method to sew a tablecloth with a bullion fringe edging! In no way, am I an expert seamstress! Let me just be clear about that up front. But I do know my way around a sewing machine thanks to my high school home economics…
Read MoreTips for Styling a China Cabinet
Arrange the dishes, tableware, silver, and curios in your china cabinet to charming affect with these 7 styling tips! Recently, I updated my china cabinet with a wallpaper backing in this beautiful coral pink paper from Waverly. It really livened up my cabinet and gave it a fun pop of color. It also complements my…
Read MoreUpdate Your China Cabinet with Wallpaper – Easy Tutorial
With this DIY learn how to line the inside of a china cabinet with wallpaper for an easy updated look! Take you china cabinet from ordinary to FABULOUS with a colorful wallpaper backing! Literally, the hardest parts will be choosing your pattern and unloading the shelves. We have a stately neoclassical style cabinet in our…
Read MoreVintage Vanity Style
Repurpose a bureau à gradin desk as a bedroom dressing table for an elegant vintage vanity style where you can primp at your leisure and organize your jewelry! The crinkle of a crinoline skirt… The snick of a perfectly pulled taffeta bow… The spritz of feminine perfume… The tinkle of bracelets twisted two and fro…
Read MoreHow to Curate a Plate Wall Display
Tips and ideas for mixing and matching vintage plates for a chic plate wall display! Plates, plates, plates EVERYWHERE! Each one of these round beauties is a little work of art in my opinion, and I love to hang them on my walls to enjoy. Seriously, I don’t think there is one room in my…
Read MoreElevated Essentials: Grandmillennial Mantel Decor
2 ways to style a grandmillennial mantel with tips and advice to curate and arrange a charming display! This is Part II of my Elevated Essentials series, and in this post we will be looking at how to curate and style a grandmillennial mantel. This look is more formal, more feminine, and more elegant. If…
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