I used to be emphatically nay. Who wants to look at himself in someone else’s living room? And when you sit down, who wants to look at the ceiling? But Billy Baldwin made the good argument that if you have a beautiful fireplace and a beautiful piece of art, you create visual competition by placing…
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Fuschia Flokati: a success story
I love Flokati rugs. I like to think I was ahead of the curve on this one, but alas, my blog wasn’t up yet, and now you can get them anywhere. The cream-colored Flokati is the most popular and, naturally, the easiest to work with. In part as an experiment, in part because I was…
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Welcome to bossy blog! This is the place to come for interior design nuggets: decorating advice, products I find myself recommending to clients again and again, occasional tales of decorating woe or success, and, above all, thoughts about color.