This boring bookcase wall was part of my monthly subscriber Q and A on Instagram last weekend. The homeowner wanted to know how to update it so that it didn’t feel like a cluttered catch-all. Click through to read my suggestions and see my quick sketch.
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Gardening Has Captured My Heart Again
in Design Plans, Designing, Fun, Inspiration
I’ve been obsessed with gardening this past spring. I’ve rejuvenated my beds with new flowering plants after we had a really hard freeze that killed off a lot in my garden this winter. I’ve got pics of my garden here along with some inspiring gardeners to follow on Youtube and social media.
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Update This Kitchen in a Warm, Traditional Style
This kitchen isn’t bad, but it isn’t what the homeowners want. The biggest complaint was how dark this kitchen really was.
(These are real estate photos, btw, so they are brightened up considerably more than how this kitchen looks in real life. :-( You know what I mean here.)
Come and see how this kitchen can become a more traditional, homey style and lightened up for a more enjoyable space.
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Adding Color and Contrast With Last Layers to a Plain Bedroom
This room is from one of my projects, the homeowner was getting most of the major spaces done first in this new build home as they moved in. Some of the last layers were going to wait till later, when they had lived there a bit and hung the art that they had, etc.
Now we are back in the primary bedroom with some light neutral basics, waiting for contrast and color in the last layers. Come and see how I am going to liven this space up!
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Designing this Bedroom in an Organic Modern Style
This challenge came in from a follower and it, for once, had no furnishings here that had to remain. When I get a challenge to start from scratch basically, I like it! Come and see how organic modern can work with this very yellow wood flooring.
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