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October 2002, I
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October 10th, 2002 ------ October Issue, I ------
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Editorial
1. TIPS & TRICKS
- Quick Picture Change
2. FEATURE ARTICLE
- Developing Seasonal Decorating Variations
3. BOOK OF THE MONTH
- Nell Hill's Style at Home
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1. Tips & Tricks
- Quick Picture Change
This tip is a 'sneak preview' of all the tips you'll find in the next issue:
Do you want to add a quick, inexpensive holiday look
to your wall pictures? Take a look at all the matted pictures
you have decorating your walls.. Now study the picture... does
it contain any colors which would fit into your Christmas decorating
scheme?" Ready for the tip? Go get a mat in one of those
Christmas colors and replace the old mat for the holidays!
Look for more tips like this in the next issue's article!
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3. FEATURE ARTICLE
- Developing Seasonal Decorating Variations
(Part One)
Do you ever see homes decorated for the holidays
so much, that almost everything is in holiday colors? Many
homes show Christmas decorations, but very few include furniture and
accessories as part of the decorations. Would you like to do
that, without really having two of everything? Or maybe you'd
like to decorate more for another season? Well here are some ideas
and secrets, so that you can do this in YOUR home without completely
redecorating all the time!
The secret is to make small items in your home
interchangeable or alterable for different seasons. That way
you'll have several variations of the same decorating theme.
You'd be surprised what a difference can be made by little things here
and there!
The first thing to do is to decide how far
you want to go. Do you just want to have a holiday variation,
and use the other for January through November? Or would you
like to have a different variation for Christmas, Winter after Christmas,
Spring/Summer, 4th of July, and Fall? You choose how many variations
you want to develop, and follow the same procedure for each.
Now consider your decorating color scheme.
Which colors can be used and emphasized in your new alternate
decorating theme? Floral colors are usually used for Spring and
Summer, darker colors for winter, and red, green, blue, mauve,
burgundy, gold, and silver for the holidays. But feel free to
use whatever you want in your variations. Also consider darker
or lighter shades of color.
Write down a list of each color used in your decorating
scheme. Don't forget to include all your accent colors.
Make a column to the left for each variation you want to create.
Now figure out which colors should dominate your decorating variation(s).
Put a "1" in the proper column for any colors that would work well
as a major color for that variation. Put a "2" for any colors
that would work well as accent colors for that variation. Now
you've got a clear list of ideas to work with.
For example... I have decorated my living room in
beige, tan, sage, and mauve focal colors, but there are also small
accents of darker greens, burgundies, and golds. I want to create
a holiday variation right now. The darker green and burgundy
will work great as my Christmas colors, so I put a "1" beside them
in the Christmas column. I don't like the gold as much, so
I'll use that only as a Christmas accent color. So I put a "2"
beside it.
Now all we have to do is go around the house and
discover all the ways that we can incorporate these colors in our home.
Do this exercise and look for the continuation next week!
Have fun!
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This article Copyright 1999-2003 - Kathleen Peters, KatieDid Design. Reproduced with permission.
Kathleen Peters - 'Katie' - is a custom window treatment and bedding designer,
and owner of KatieDid Design, her online shop. She is also the editor-in-chief
of Decor, Decorating, and Design, a free bi-monthly ezine filled with articles,
tips, and guidelines to help with your home decorating.
http://www.katiediddesign.com
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3. BOOK OF THE MONTH
- Nell Hill's Style at Home
by Mary Carroll Garrity and Mary Caldwell
I just got this book, and it's great! "Nell
Hill" is the name of Mary Carroll Garrity's decorating store, which
has become a mecca for shoppers from miles around. This review
describes it best:
"A fabulous home furnishings store in Atchison, Kansas? And one where
95 percent of its customers drive more than 50 miles? Stranger things
have happened--but Garrity's store, named after her maternal grandmother,
is all of that and more. Each of her five major tenets--layer, tell
a story through displays, update with fabric, anything can be a wall,
and home-ize your house--is explained well (with the help of coauthor
Caldwell) through color photographs and a bit of text. In conclusion,
her portfolio expounds on her principles, such as injecting a
sense of humor in a formal dining room, and arranges them into four
lists: 7 rules to break, 5 quick changes to a room, 12 accessories
one couldn't live without, and 8 final steps to luxury living. For
sure, many of her elements are now common in many urban decorating
haunts, but doesn't the heart of the Midwest deserve its own brand
of design?" Barbara Jacobs
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