Meletio Lighting Sale!

Meletio Electric’s Preston Forest location is closing with a huge 75 percent off sale on lighting this Thursday and Friday, from 10 a.m - 4 p.m. See you there?

Design Ovation Awards

The ASID Design Ovation Awards dinner was at Victory Tavern last night, a really cool place for a cool event. I chatted with 1st place award winner Sherry Hayslip for a bit, and she explained to me just how incognito these awards really are chosen. Photographs are submitted to a committee that then choses an undisclosed ASID chapter to judge them, there are no names or identification. This year it was Orange County, last year North Carolina, so the entrants don’t even know where the photos are going. Pretty amazing, and the entrys were extraordinary. Among the happy winners were Kathy Adcock-Smith, Mary Ann Smiley, Lynn Sears, Marilyn Rolnick, Richard Trimble, and Stephanie Moore.

Birds and Butterflies Flying Around Fabrics

When I’m feeling a little stressed, I go out and look at fabrics. Just seeing the new ideas, images, and details delight and inspire me, for no other reason except they are visually pleasing. Not particularly necessary or life saving, unless living in a beautiful world is important to you. I’ll be sharing a few with you… Christopher Hyland has a new collection at William Wesley, unapologetically traditional with classic weaves and colors, not for the minimalist. Read below what Seth Pariser says: (more…)

See What I Mean?

Welcome to the upstairs bathrooms of the Dream House.  I fear offending someone…again.  No doubt there is a person out there on the Information Superhighway is thinking, “Wow, I love that wallpaper!”

No wonder my exchange student wanted to leave.  It’s a simple matter of ichthyology.

Mom, Can I Trade Rooms?

The Spawn approached me about a week ago.  She feels like she’s outgrown her bedroom. I’m looking for some ideas here… (more…)