Design

                         Interior Painting - Modern Interior Design        One of the most important questions when deciding which proposed to eventually follow up with painting the interior is: what can you live or work every day, for days. The bedroom needs to relax so that we can achieve a good night's rest is difficult to understand as much as possible that you will do. Common require living space feel more alive so that we can socialize and be creative. However, waiting rooms and lounges, office space, need to reflect the sophistication of calm so that patients and clients feel welcome and make the quiet house painting.         We want to please everyone somehow ... all the time. But there are colors out of beige, taupe, cream, and eggshell. They will not damage the bank, offend or disturb because th...

                     Modern Interior Design Career Best Collection There is more to Design Interior of home decor. career opportunities for graduates of interior design is not limited. According to the United States Department of Labor, employment of interior designers is expected to grow 19 percent from 2006 to 2016, faster than the average for all jobs you want. If you are interested in hands-on education, working with the latest design software technology, which produces a variety of positions to meet, this may be a career path for you. Getting a Bachelors of Science in Interior Design or Interior Design & Decorating Associates degree and start your career as a: Health Designer - Designing the interior structure of hospitals, doctors offices, medical clinics and facilities. An interior designer's job is to ensure the health of medical facilities constructed within the rules set and...

Spring is in the air, can you smell it?  After weeks and weeks of rain we finally got a sunny day in Sausalito.   Who knew the sun could feel so darn good... We just got an email from our silk flowers vendor today and we have to show you their new stuff.  It's gorgeous and it's a great way to bring spring inside your home all the time. Don't forget, silk flowers are kinda like perfume.  You CAN NOT get the cheap stuff! It has to be upscale or you better off not having nothing at all. Take a look at these... Aren't these beautiful?  We'll be loading them up in our luxury silk flowers section soon, so please check back in a couple of days...

I had two interesting comments via my Facebook feed about my last post. tomato, pepper, and eggplant seedlings Yes, climate change does mean we have more weather extremes and exceptional weather patterns.  No, it doesn't mean that we can plant tomatoes earlier than ever - the April 8 hard freeze of 4 years ago underscored that. The exceptional snows of the last two winters fall within the predictions of variable weather and flows of air north and south, suggested by climate change models. And of course, we should be babying our tomato seedlings in warm sunny spots, currently, however we can provide that. (Mine are still in the garden shed under lights and on a heating pad). Among climate change models, weather in spring is increasingly variable.  Hmm.  We've certainly experienced that in the Southeastern US.

Improvised Hot Box Slow Cooker I read about this method of cooking over at Dani's blog (in South Africa) and thought I'd adapt my own box cooker with what I had on hand to see how this works.  I took a large box and nestled a medium box inside surrounded with packing peanuts.  The bottom of the medium box was stuffed with some shredded newspaper .. then I placed my filled cast iron Dutch oven full of stew that I had prepared and brought to a boil.. wrapped in a large towel in on top of the newspapers .. packed more paper and another towel around the pot .. closed both boxes .. and covered it with a blanket and a few pillows at 10:15 AM.  At 4:00 PM I checked and it was cooked but the meat needed to be more tender so I brought it to a boil again .. packed it up and left it until dinner time at 6:00 PM.   Beef stew boiling hot ready to get covered and placed in box. Total cooking time on the stove with browning the meat and bringing to a boil twice was about 25 m...

Some women go out and treat themselves to a new pair of shoes or a handbag but for me today it was a new gardening tool. I still love my heavy duty 18" screwdriver for digging out those long dandelion roots but I thought I'd invest in a daisy grubber. The postman brought it today so it was waiting for me when I got home after a 12 hour shift at school, (parents' evening). I chose a model with a long ash handle and a 15 year guarentee as I know I will be testing it to its limit with the amount of weeds lurking in my lawns. Here's to happy weeding.

127 Pearl Avenue Interior

I was recently servicing a blind at a client's home~Josephine is her name. Wallpaper has been on my brain lately as you may know and look what was in Josephine's kitchen.  Decoupaged wallpaper on her fridge! I quickly asked if I could take a picture of it thinking I shall use this idea somewhere, someday.  A pair of sub-zeros with french wallpaper cut out into a custom design. Josephine had a talented young designer, Anthony Catalfano,  do this way back in 1993!  Anthony has gone onto huge success and Josephine felt lucky to have his talents working on her home when he first started out. He designed pretty window treatments  for her in a sunny yellow and blue color scheme. Josephine offered to give me a tour of her home as she saw how much I was enjoying this.   I was most happy to accept. However I only had my iPhone to capture these images, so fair warning that photo quality is inconsistent. The cabinets seem to be a yellow lacquer finish. Wallpaper ...