Posts Tagged ‘Re-decorating’
A Cozy Chic Family Room
Natural textures, chinoiserie accents, and a blue and white palette create a cozy yet chic family room! I am dreaming of new furniture in our family room. Our current sofa is about 9 years old, and while I loved the sofa when I purchased it, now it is starting to show some age, and I’m…
Read MoreColor Scheming: Why I Chose a Home Color Scheme
Choosing paint colors, as I’m sure you agree, is one of the most fun and difficult aspects of home decorating. You get to play around with color and use your imagination. Plus paint collections have such creative names, who doesn’t want their walls tradewind blue or sea salt gray or indigo batik? But this is…
Read MoreThe Benefits of a Home Design Collage
I ? Southern Living, and I know y’all to do! This month’s issue featured the Southern Living 50th Anniversary Idea House. Its gorgeous. Go check it out if you haven’t. Anyway the spread inspired me to do an actual home design collage or mood board instead of just a digital one for my whole house.…
Read MoreLiberate Your Walls! Wallpaper Removal Tips
Have you been putting off wallpaper removal in your house? Do you find a million other things to do every time you think of tackling it? Is the fetal position one of them? Well, if your growing accustomed to those acid colored daises in the kitchen or you find yourself naming those cute little ducks…
Read MoreCatching up…
Pender & Peony has been inexplicably silent lately, and I’m sorry. There are a billion and one excuses I could blame it on: work, which has been unusually hectic, or our house renovation, or even our latest family addition — Henry ( an utterly adorable rascal for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel). None of this…
Read MoreWhimsical Home Décor
WHIMSICAL /’hwimzikəl/: THE QUALITY OF BEING SLIGHTLY ODD OR PLAYFULLY HUMOROUS, ESPECIALLY IN AN ENDEARING WAY. S. and I have lived in our current home for just over two years now, and though there is still work to do including a major kitchen over-haul, I am happy with the decorating choices I have made so…
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