Junk to Treasure

Turning the Dated

into the Sublime

So you have a dated only turn of the century house or just maybe one built in the 70s or 80s that just looks every bit its age.  You probably have wondered what you could do to give it some new life.

Did tearing it down and starting over come to mind??  I hope not!!!

As you will see via the link below, you only need a creative home designer and a vision for the house to take the drab, dreary oh I am so out of date home to become a perfect master piece.  A master piece so nice that it would be featured in a magazine like Home by Design!

And then posted on this blog(and shared again and again).  

Get your inspiration!  Click below!

A Perfect Blend

2014 Color Palette

Stylish Painting 

at Your Place

     If your home is bit drap or you just must have the latest color palette present in your home, you may just want to click below.

As with Spring Fashion, given colors are always the focus of designers and designer clothing.  One can always find a baby blue blouse or a red dress shirt.  But a given shade of blue or canary yellow may only  be found in the hottest styles a given season.

Though house paint, interior or exterior, can be mixed to almost any shade of whatever color desired, color fashion is always present in home design.   Have you seen a dated home with multi shade green shag lately?  I have and of course that color is decades out of style.

Most homes, including your home, isn't that bad.  Yet, it makes the point that colors go in and out of style in our homes.

So for the latest and greatest in home colors, click the link!!!

This Year's Colors

Bring a bit of Punch to Your Home Design

How to Bring a Home to Life

A sleepy old cottage in North Carolina is renovated.  Yeah, could be about anything from a fresh coat of paint to some new hardwood flooring.

Or it could be a total refurbish with an eclectic palate of design that garners "French Eclectic" from the editors of HomebyDesign magazine.

I know I am a Realtor and not a Interior Designer as was Lisa Sherry of Lisa Sherry Interieurs.  With lovely style and amazing craft, Sherry transforms a narrow dining room into a  room with 

area for lounging and chatting with friends and a separate dining area.

And it all fits so well!!

 Click to read:     A Fancy Design for Your Home

Though I am not sure it fits my design vision, I do hope it gives you inspiration to transform that room that just does nothing for you. 

Christmas will be a memory in two weeks so it will be time to put your winter "inside time" to good use!!!

New Weekly Article - Mediterranean Muse || Home By Design

Have you been to Italy yet??

It is a beautiful, and I would call "quaint" country, from what I saw of Southern Italy.  The people are pleasant though a bit rushed on the roads as they travel; just like you see in the movies set in Rome or Italy somewhere.

This is probably the third or fourth article in the past couple of years that Home By Design took its inspiration from Italy.  I understand why as the beauty of design ranges from the elegant to the common place....though it never seems common place.  Perhaps it is the simply "historical" context.

Click and enjoy a great read and perhaps an inspiration for your home!!!


New Weekly Article - Mediterranean Muse || Home By Design


What do you think?

Redesign or just move to Italy???

New Weekly Article - Farmhouse Chic || Home By Design

Where ever you live, city or the farm, you can live in style.  It can surprise a few urbanites that rural homes can be quite the show place.

Frequently, the family home has many generations of ownership and one of the younger generation gives the home a face lift.

Have you ever done this???

Read all about it:   New Weekly Article - Farmhouse Chic || Home By Design

Powerball Listings: Six Most Expensive Homes Currently For Sale

Want to dream???

Don't know if you ever imagined winning the Power Ball and wondered what to do with 400 or 500 hundred million?

Perhaps a home like this will motivate you to get up everyday for work!!!

Click and enjoy!!



Powerball Listings: Six Most Expensive Homes Currently For Sale

Courtesy of Realtor.com