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

A Throw Here and A Rug There

Bring Some Color

Into 

Your Home

With the advent of  Spring comes the need to brighten up the house.

It is as natural as daffodils poking through the snow or ice jammed rivers in harsh winters like 2013/2014.

Throw rugs and similar accent pieces are easy to swap out seasonally or(to many husband's consternation) every few years to "freshen" the decor.   Rug sales people love the Spring!!!

But there is great news!!    Better Homes & Garden has a link below to some great sale rugs.

Take a deep breath, click and find one perfect for your place! 

              A Throw Here and A Rug There

New Weekly Article - No Boundaries || Home By Design

When one lives where the outdoors is amazing, it is tempting to switch the outdoors and indoors around!!! 

This fascinating article about the Architect in the Pacific Northwest that designed a lovely home to allow the homeowner to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors with the comforts of the indoors will set  you thinking about what you can do at your house.

Note the interesting means he turned it around and brought the beautiful surroundings indoors.

I bet we all can learn a few things here.

What was your favorite idea???

New Weekly Article - No Boundaries || Home By Design

Garden with Glee

Sometimes, I hear that some people believe gardening is a lot of effort with little benefit.   They complain about having a black thumb...if they plant it, it will die.

Yet this article from Better Homes and Gardens gives us all hope that we can have the best flowers in the neighborhood.

Click a link and learn from the best!

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New Weekly Article - California Mission || Home By Design

So many lovely places to live in the States!!!

     Home by Design has picked out the California Mission style home to display in this weekly article.  

I don't know about you I believe Home by Design really finds distinctive yet practical homes to share with us.

I could see many people adopting ideas for their homes as they read the articles.  It could be a family room layout or wall decor idea.   

Making a house a home is much about putting your own stamp on the house.

I hope as you read this and future or past blogs that you will have all you need to make yourself at home!!!!!


New Weekly Article - California Mission || Home By Design

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