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Dress up your garage entry

When you park the car in your garage, do you walk around to the front door to enter the house?  I didn’t think so!  If your family is like most, chances are you come and go by the garage entry door something like 97.3% of the time.  I totally made up that statistic out of […]

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How to hang a wall cabinet the easy way

So happy with the  transformation of my $5 bathroom cabinet!  I think it turned out well and I love, love, love the amount of storage we have now!   The white really pops against the new paint color — Frost, a very light gray with blue tones that goes from lavendar to blue to gray as […]

How to choose color for your home

This is not a how to post on choosing color in the usual sense. There is a lot of information available about color choosing.  For example, how to be aware of the undertones of colors – even neutral colors have an undertone and those with blue undertones don’t play well with those that have yellow […]

Stellar Staircases — The Results or How to install a stair runner

For weeks I dreamed of a stellar staircase with dark stained treads, white risers and swirling teal stenciled leaves.  Then reality happened and I found out there were some questions I should have answered first.  Now that we have the answers, here is where we arrived.  Those stairs needed padding and floor covering.  Not wall […]

Stellar Staircases – The vision

I love painted staircases.  Dark treads, painted or stained a deep rich brown.  Or may be black or a dark gray.  Light colored risers — preferably white to contrast with the dark tread.     I finally narrowed my Staircase dreams to ten possibilities. Classic dark and white appealed to me:                                                                        Bloomerism So did the dark […]