The color of the year for 2022 is most definitely GREEN! Is green the new gray? We’ve been finding a lot of perfect color and textile pairings for this versatile color of the year for 2022…here are some of our favorites…
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Perfect Holiday Appetizer Ideas
With the holidays fast approaching, we turn our attention to menu planning for celebratory gatherings of family and friends. Here are our favorite easy appetizers that are sure to be a hit and don’t require hours in the kitchen…
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One Room Challenge Dressing Room Do-Over: Closet Progress
It is the next to last week of the One Room Challenge Dressing Room Do Over Project and …stuff is happening! Will we get it all done by deadline??? I don’t know, but it has been an exciting week…here is what’s going on…
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Trend Report from High Point Market: Part 3
Our final post of High Point Market trends explores some of the details woven through many of the showrooms at market. We were thrilled to spot some of our favorite motifs and inspired by new ideas for design details…
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One Room Challenge Dressing Room Do Over: Construction Underway!
EEEEEEK! It is week 6 already in the Dressing Room Do Over project and that means we are down to the wire! But YAY for progress! Here is what’s happening this week…
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Decor Trends for 2022 Spotted at High Point Market: Part 2
MORE home furnishings trends from Highpoint Market…
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One Room Challenge: Windows and Wallpaper
It’s been a couple of weeks since I reported in on the Once Room Challenge Dressing Room Do Over activity…and that is because not much happened last week! I was at Highpoint Market scoping out the latest home furnishings trends, but I came back to hit the ground running! Here is what has happened this week on the project…
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Decor Trends from Highpoint Market: Part 1
A recent visit to Highpoint Market gives us a clue to the upcoming home furnishings trends. Here’s a peek at what we saw…
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Thoughts on Design: From the hotel room at Highpoint Market
I’m at Highpoint Market AKA Disneyworld-for-designers this week. But my less than stellar hotel accommodations have prompted me to think once again about how much design matters…
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One Room Challenge Dressing Room Do Over Week 3: The Window Saga
It is already week three of this round of the One Room Challenge and we’ve hit a few hiccups…pivot seems to be the word of the year, so here is what happened to the ‘best laid plans’ in our Dressing Room Do Over..
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One Room Challenge: Planning a Closet Layout
Well…we are in the second week of the Dressing Room Do-Over ORC challenge and we’ve made some progress! This week was all about planning and measuring for personalized storage and selecting some neat components to make the most of the available closet space…here is what we decided on…
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#vodkasauce #weeknightsupper #weeknightgourmet #pastasauce
A Pasta with Vodka Sauce recipe, only better
There was a birthday at our house this week, and for my son, that meant he got to choose what to do for dinner. He chose to pick some of his favorites from the menu at Chez Lorusso. This decadent but easy pasta was what he chose, and it is one of my favorites too…
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