decorating Archive

  • Make a Romantic Bed Canopy

    Make a Romantic Bed Canopy

    Inside many a cosmopolitan woman with rigorously great taste, a darker design ethic lurks. Call it closet romanticism. It’s the polar opposite of the way I really live, but I sometimes salivate over pie safes draped in white lace, sets of floral china, and a...

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  • How to Escape Decorating Inertia

    How to Escape Decorating Inertia

    Whatever the motivation — change of season, change of relationship, change of aesthetic — when you NEED to alter your living space, boy, do you know. I had lived with a charming assortment of found objects/junk for years, to the point that I was starting...

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  • Instant Bedroom Makeover

    Instant Bedroom Makeover

    Our bedroom furniture was looking worn and blah. Like Jocelyn Wildenstein, it needed a new facelift. I needed something quick, inexpensive and instantly updating. What to do? A can of white spray paint to the rescue! In an afternoon I primed, then spray painted our...

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