Put a bird on it! My new awesome wallpaper
Fred and Carrie were right! Everything IS better when you put a bird on it!
My fancy schmancy Nina Campbell wallpaper went up yesterday.
What can I say: it might have been the happiest day of my life....
Thanks, New York Times! Big furniture, big mistake
NYT, thanks so much for including me in Steven Kurutz's article today, "Relax. There's Plenty of Room."
It's about oversized furniture and the ridiculousness thereof. I'm pretty sure this blog post - and this one - posts helped me land the gig....
Ringin’ in the new year with metallic paint. (Also, Nina Campbell wallpaper = Merry Christmas to me)
What did YOU do over the holidays?
Really? Fun!
Me? Oh, the usual...ate too much...drove too much...got a little jiggy with metallic paint...
Let me back up. I haven't yet confessed to you that I went on a bit of a decorating bender at the end of 2011....
Pantone’s color of the year 2012: 17-1463 Tangerine Tango
Kristie at The Decorologist broke the news to me first. Pantone's color of the year for 2012 is a dark reddish orange called Tangerine Tango.
Sigh. Was it too much to hope for a nice, grassy green?
Leatrice Eisman describes Tangerine Tango thus...
Imaginary friends: Foolproof paint colors for a bachelor pad
I mean, why not? I can't work with every single person who contacts bossy color, tragically. But some fairly universal paint color challenges do exist, so I thought if I came up with some foolproof paint colors...
THE IMAGINARY FRIEND: a youngish bachelor.
THE IMAGINARY HOME: a one-bedroom apartment in the city....
I know it’s still November, but…Christmas stockings from Etsy
I'm one of those people who thinks it should be illegal even to THINK about Christmas before Thanksgiving.
Usually.
But ever since my highly organized sister-in-law asked me what I wanted this year (dessert plates and Steve Jobs' biography, if anyone's listening), Christmas has been on my mind...
Heellllllloooooo!
Hello, Gentle Readers! I missed you!...I hope you had a wonderful summer and that you're now frolicking in big piles of yellow leaves...
So what's shaking? Over here in bossyland I'm excited to have a new colleague to brag about...