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A Few of My Favorite Things: Wall Art Inspiration

October 26, 2019 No Comments

Wall Art Inspiration / www.vanessahwood.com

I love flipping through home decor magazines and catalogs like Restoration Hardware and looking at the wall art. I love seeing how different elements are used to make art. I like how these paint samples are used. If you don’t want to use all of these different colors, you could chose one particular shade {like shades of blue or brown or reds} and design an ombre piece. Paint an entire wall with chalkboard paint. You can do this in the kitchen or pantry, or in a kid’s room. Creating string art on walls takes a lot of creativity. It would […]

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Rooms That Sleeping Beauty Would Love

August 19, 2016 4 Comments

One might say that the living room is where he or she spends the majority of their time when they are home. Others might say the kitchen. And then there are some who would say the bedroom is where they spend a majority of their time when they are home. Then there are those (like me and my husband) who lived in studio-style living quarters and the only thing that separated the living room from the bedroom was an imaginary line down the middle of the room. I always say that “one of these days when I can build a house […]

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Pin-spiration: Living Room Spaces

August 29, 2014 No Comments

Several months ago, my husband and I moved from the large one room studio apartment above his grandmother’s garage and moved into the big house. It was a slow transition, but we are essentially “moved in!” In a few months, my husband will be ripping up the carpet in the living room and the dining room, revealing a natural hardwood floor which will be in rough shape! So to get me excited about the possibilities of what can be, I decided to turn to Pinterest to find some inspiration. Here is what I found… Photo Source: removeandreplace.com Photo Source: honeycombcreativeco.blogspot.com […]

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My Favorite Things: A “Smashing” Idea!

January 17, 2013 No Comments

One of my favorite things is reading and re-reading magazines and then pulling pages of interest out of the magazine to re-read a third time. But all those loose magazine pages can get lost or torn, so I decided I need a way to smash all of those pages together! Remember the “Slam Book” in Mean Girls? It’s the book that the “mean girls” plastered photos in, and wrote mean and cruel things about their peers and the teachers. Well, my “smashing” idea is not so much of a “slam book” but a “smash book”. It is a smash of all […]