“Ok. Got to get back to the blog biz. Bloggers out there are probably wondering what’s going on.” I must mention that this was all completed in the midst of Ken taking on a side job INSTALLING ATM MACHINES FOR CHASE BANK. Yeah, my friend Jessica hit the nail on the head when she said [...]
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So…..here’s a little teaser for you. The powder room floor and paneling are done. Yet to be completed, the wallpaper. Some say they wish that it would remain all white, they say it seems clean and crisp. My friend Jessica says it reminds her of Paris. Gotta love that! However, I feel like the wallpaper [...]
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I’ve been terrible I know, leaving you all in suspense. My hope though is that our loyal bloggers will get a big, giant Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or…) present, in the form of some truly brilliant before and afters. I’ve been inundated with suspicions of certain rooms being near completion and you are all [...]
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I’m getting lazy with the titles and the content. This blog is a hard one to keep up. Ken just keeps on moving and so does my job. I was over at the house Saturday to help work on the deck. It was finished by yesterday evening. Ken plowed forward today with painting interior doors, [...]
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I had to leave work early on Tuesday to get over to the house before 5:30 at Ken’s request. Apparently he has grown tired of our late night debates so he wanted to start early this time. The night previous we re-visited the topic of wainscot paneling in the powder bath. Originally I wanted it [...]
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The tenting was succesful and now it’s back to work. Ken and Margaret are on the job.
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The one major difference between practicing interior design as a profession and doing it for yourself is the ability to make decisions. I can make clear, concise, confident decisions for my clients all day long but when it comes to my own house it is painstakingly difficult. Who knows why. From the very beginning of [...]
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One of my best buds, Alicia, was visiting this weekend so what better time to have our first bar-b-que! Robert made carne asada and Ken built a fire for s’mores. It was lovely and having a place to do this with family and friends could just make me cry
Read moreThings have been very, very busy at work lately. We had our re-launch party last week so there were a ton of last minute preparations in addition to all the day to day stuff. So in conjunction with that and making visits to the house (and a LOT of LA traffic) I’ve had not a [...]
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We're not saying that mauve is a bad color. It's great, if used in the right application. The right application does not, however, happen to be a one piece toilet and a giant whirlpool tub. Mauve has no place in a thousand square foot bungalow built in 1944, no place at all. So we're fixing that... 
