Thanks, Apartment Therapy! Budget-friendly ways to get design help
Well! How exciting to be the primary source of info. for Apartment Therapy's post yesterday about seeking affordable design help!
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Bossy color’s living room, part we’ve lost count: Benjamin Moore’s 343 Sunrays and a new art wall
Gentle Readers, how bossy color has missed you! What with the blog migration (nearly finished), client projects (exciting), a new assistant (fabulous!), and, as you know, personal decorating trials and travails (often frustrating), life has been unusually hectic.
Let's catch you up on bossy color's living room. Here is the most recent "Before:"
Welcome to bossy color blog on WordPress!
You made it! Welcome! So glad you're here.
There is still much work to be done, including re-entering the last few posts from Blogger. But we prefer to rip off our Band-Aids with one rapid yank, rather than slooowwwwly peeeeelll back the plastic, listening for the tiny ping of each breaking arm or leg hair as we go.
Bossy color’s living room, Part one million and one: Here comes the sun (doot n dewdewww)
Just as it is impolite to ask a lady her age, so too is it impolite to ask bossy color how many times she's painted her living room.
The answer, she fears, would shock and horrify you.
Therefore, let us skip the introduction and go right to the pictorial essay, shall we?
Bossy color’s living room, Part One Million:
It's Thomas Jefferson's fault.
And Mrs. Blandings'. She is the brilliant blogger who today celebrates that super duper New Orleans designer, Melissa Rufty. You know, the inspiration for bossy color's living room.
Cheerful gray dining room: Benjamin Moore’s AC-28 Smoke Embers
"Cheerful" and "gray" don't sound like they belong in the same sentence, do they? But look:
Thanks to painted wainscoting that covers a third of the walls, a dramatic curved window, and a coral rug, gray is anything but dreary in this D.C. dining room....
Child’s bedroom makeover: the challenges of small and north-facing
Just when you’ve cracked the code, they change the code. That was our conclusion when our twin daughters were babies. The moment you think you’ve nailed down a sleep schedule, food preferences, and personalities, they change. Willfully. Bossy color has news for you, Gentle Readers. The code-changing continues! We really did crack the code on …