When a painted floor project comes along that promises to be extraordinary, it’s good to have friends in the biz! For this floor project, I called upon my most favorite stencil supplier, Victoria Larsen. The designs Victoria features on her website are so versatile and well conceived it was hard to keep my colorful floor…
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June 18, 2012 by Lu in Aubuchon Hardware,
Decorating, Ideas Worth Stealing, Obsessions & Fixations
Lots to plan for and to do, and I’m excited to have a reason to get busy designing a full blown nursery. The plans are just underway, and I’ll keep you all informed on a color scheme and design ideas. Send me anything you’ve seen that would be fabulous for baby???? Right now it’s first…
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Loving my six greeny-yellowy-grassy-appley- not white, and no longer red, Adirondack chairs. There’s a reason these iconic chairs of summer are typically painted white-no doubt about it-they are one big fat pain in the neck to paint. 6 white chairs in a row is too much white in my summer scene. This combination, of varied…
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a new life for an old door
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November 3, 2011 by Lu in
Decorating, Ideas Worth Stealing
While preparing my winter workshop in the barn for all the projects I’m planning to work on, I discovered an unfinished door project worth revisiting. Those of us who collect things know, that there comes a time, when whatever it is you’ve been accumulating, stacking up, and squirreling away, needs to be put to good…
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Halloween – Beau Gardner Style
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October 31, 2011 by Lu in
Decorating, Ideas Worth Stealing, In the Garden
I envy those who love Halloween. The candy part aside, even as a kid, I was never really a Halloween enthusiast. Maybe it was my mother’s instance that roaming the neighborhood in my grandfather’s fedora constituted a suitable costume. I think her lack of interest in sewing me up some sort of lavish costume had…
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Aubuchon Hardware Store Love
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September 28, 2011 by Lu in
Decorating, Obsessions & Fixations, Travels with Eddie
One of the few things I really love about getting older, is how the littlest things I happen upon can unexpectedly spark a vivid memory from my past. Tiny brown bags have this effect on me. I can recall the smell and taste, of the pink bubble gum cigars my grandfather would slip me, always…
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