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- Column number 300.
- Cushion season starts now!
- The price of TP in 2022
- My Home Should Support Me
- A Plan
- The Power of Little Wins
- The curse of the Collection
- It’s Just NOT Worth That Much!
- Is it Clutter or clutter?
- Yetza Hara
- A new definition of clutter
- Where do I find drapery hardware?
- What comes after black and white?
- Quality
- What is ‘BEST’, anyway?
- Instant Expert
- Heat, from under the heat dome, July 2021
- Hints for keeping cool, summer 2021
- Are you a student, or just avoiding doing the job?
- You’re never too old for a hobby.
- Noise. Period
- Floor plan — first step to a wellness-centered home.
- What is Wellness Living.
- Clutter vs/or Organization, what’s the difference?
- Duvets: silk, bamboo and wool.
- What makes a house a home
- Got stuff?
- A refresher on choosing paint colors for your walls.
- The most important design guideline ever. Yes, ever.
- Permission to Do Nothing, Take Two.
- Slipcover. Yay or nay?
- Resolution? Start with a plan.
- Stop Getting Ready to Start
- 9 Ways to Reduce Home Heat Loss
- A Quora Question
- A Year, Already???
- I Don’t Need as Much as I Thought
- Summer Furniture Fabric Round-up
- Is a T-shirt the summer shirt?
- Let’s talk the same color language.
- Maybe it’s time to re-purpose a room or two.
- It’s OK to use wallpaper again.
- What is an ‘Expert’ anyway?
- What color is that?
- Colour Forecast for 2019
- Christmas and The Storage Room
- New Blinds Safety Guidelines
- The Black Hole of DIY
- Why you need a plan; yes, I said NEED.
- Six DIY mistakes you can avoid.
- 3 Ways to Reduce Heat Loss through Windows.
- Retro-fit your blinds?
- Ditch Your Corded Blinds
- Your Outdoor Room
- Outdoor Curtains Which Won’t Take Your Eye Out When the Wind Blows
- Full Spectrum Paint
- What you need to know about outdoor cushions.
- Choosing Window Treatments Part 2
- Simplified: Choose sunblock
- How to Choose a Window Treatment
- Theme. Why you you need one.
- Hurry up and wait
- Colour forecast 2018
- Slipcover: formal to fun
- Design Guidelines vs Design Rules
- Heat Loss Through Windows. Once Again
- Memory Foam or Latex Mattress? Some answers.
- Thread Count Explained. It’s not as important as you thought.
- Splurge or Scrimp 2
- Splurge or Scrimp? Part 1.
- How to Feel Cooler in the Heat
- Decorating or Styling?
- Five Things About Solar Shades
- Beat the summer heat.
- Summer Sun Blackout Window Covering Sale
- Modern Farmhouse. What?
- A New Home!
- Window Shadings Decision-Making Help Guide
- The Last Column
- Your Window Covering Wish List.
- How to do Pops of Colour. (If you really must)
- Buying Sheets. Step 1.
- Trends, Fads and the New Neutral
- Lighter in ’17, Please
- The Last One About Lighting
- FREE 6 Steps to Fool-Proof Picture Hanging
- A Few Things
- How to Choose Lighting
- LED or CFL? How do I choose?
- Floor Plans, One More Time
- Room Usage
- A Bakers Dozen of Tips
- What To Do With The Ashes
- Two ‘New’ Things
- How My Columns Come to Be
- One Colour-confused House
- Fixing MY Floor-plan
- What do I know?
- Timeless and Classic
- Stuff That Does Nothing
- Mistakes Happen
- Paint Color Matching?
- Solar Shades 2016
- Pick a Lane
- Custom Workroom Conference
- No More Colour Confusion
- Three Drapes in One
- The Cost of Doing Business
- Who’s the Boss?
- Final Colour Forecast 2016
- Duvets 101
- Colors of the Year, 2016
- Things that go “Pop”
- How to Choose Paint Colors
- You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know About Blinds
- She who hollers loudest.
- You Choose
- See No Evil
- Too Many Books?
- 184
- Corner Fireplace Connundrum
- Two Fours
- Repetition
- Recycle and Reuse
- Beat the Heat. For Free
- How to choose the right solar shade
- Balance
- Choosing gray wall color
- Slipcover Season
- No Fuchsia Chair For Me.
- The Price of Custom Drapery
- Add Privacy to the Front Door.
- Paint the Brick!!
- 5 Drapery-Maker’s Secret Tools
- How to save $5K on a new countertop.
- Colour forecast 2015
- Vinyl Plank Flooring: To Plank Or Not To Plank
- HER Toolbox List
- Layers are the Key for Reducing Heat Loss at the Window
- Window Heat-Loss Rant
- Make grommet panels work.
- The Pros of Pros
- Remote Controls De-mystified
- 3 Bits of Advice
- Cabinet Refacing
- Corn, Rhinos and Carpet
- Proportion
- Scale: The number one reason for bad design
- Stacked Glass Backsplash Can Date-Stamp Your Kitchen
- Hardwood, Engineered or Laminate?
- Changing Times
- Harmony and Theme
- The Sun List: How to Keep the Damage At Bay
- Types of Color Combinations
- Choose room colors backwards-2
- Choose Paint Colors Backwards
- Neutral Color Schemes
- Home Fashions University and Me
- Colour forecast 2014
- Internet TidBits
- Is it OK to Copy? Ethics in Interior Design
- Hang a headboard
- Towels 101
- How Much Fabric Do You Need for Drapes?
- Space for Door Swings
- Form Follows Function
- Paint the Hallway
- Paying it Forward
- How to Clean the Coffee Maker and Why Are You Wearing a Sweater in the Summer?
- Step by Step Decorating
- Floorcloths and Floorquilts
- Painting wood
- Woods 101
- Your Front Door
- Venetians Blinds 101
- Venetian blinds 101
- Window Covering Costs
- Honeycomb Shades 101
- Vertical Blinds 101
- Roller Solar Shades 101
- Pleated Shades 101
- Blinds 101
- Backsplashes
- Panic Painting
- Some Little Things
- 2013 Colour Forecast
- Everything About TP…
- Beige and Taupe
- What to Put on the Patio Door.
- A Few Ways to Stay Cool
- Mirror Mirror
- Summer. Where??
- Picture Framing 101
- Staging makes you money
- How Loosing My Voice Made Me Clean Up The Office.
- What Size Centerpiece?
- How to choose the right size air conditioner
- Just The Facts.
- “Porcelain” Tile: ??
- Care of Your Shades and Blinds
- What you need to know about your outdoor cushions.
- 5 Reasons to Hire a Decorator
- Trim Colors
- Colors for 2012
- Trust Yourself. Please.
- How to hem pants
- Magnets,, sort of
- Things That Should Not be Trendy.
- Drywall picture hanger
- The Information Sites for Drapery Insulation
- Toolbox for Christmas
- 60-30-10
- DIY Window Insulation
- Catch up
- Rules and Guidelines
- The chair and sofa in the pretty house
- One of the prettiest homes
- The Travel Trailer
- The Bulkhead and Odd-Angled Walls
- The Foyer
- Deck furniture
- What I Learned About Bamboo
- Tables and Rugs
- The Patio Cushions Season
- Trims and Tassels
- The Green Home Tour
- Las Vegas
- My Favorite Books
- Summer Sun
- quick rolled hem
- How to clean your window coverings.
- Keyhole arms
- What a difference a wall makes
- A few solutions
- Clutter
- Follow up to color…
- Drapery Rods
- The banquette
- Catching up a bit
- Color Forecast for 2011
- Winter window fixes
- Space Heaters
- Taffeta slipcover chair
- New Jewelry for a grand old gal.
- An Older Home
- More floor plan
- Before and What If….
- Old Dogs and New Tricks
- Floor Plan continued
- Soft grey bedroom
- A bit of a fantasy bedroom
- A touch of Africa
- The floor plan continued.
- A few loose ends
- Floor Plan Part 2
- A Floor Plan
- Walk along main street.
- Chandeliers
- Visualize this
- The wait was worth it.
- Design on a Photograph
- Shade Fabrics
- Math
- Down in Duvets
- Another ottoman saved!!
- Ladybugs
- More about color
- 4 chairs in a circle
- Poufffffff!!
- How to choose an area rug.
- New old rocker
- What is a ‘workroom’?
- Spring has sprung
- Selling my House
- Staging
- White is nice but the gold is better
- Wallpaper, continued
- What’s new in Wallpaper
- Slipcover for a sad chair
- The floral chair
- Magazines
- Kindergarden slipcover.
- The color primer
- The cut velvet sofa
- Blind Recall
- Happy New Year
- Cushions from leftovers
- How to light a room Part 2
- How to Light a Room Part 1
- How to mix patterns
- Grommets – the new way
- Swivel Rocker
- R-Value and Drape Insulation
- Unity in Design
- Blue chair one more time
- Remake the swag.
- Up from the basement
- Fulling, Felting and Zipper Pulls
- The price of custom
- Pilling
