Focus on the Fireplace
With a chill in the air and Thanksgiving coming around the corner, this is a great time to start thinking about sprucing up your fireplace area. Here are some tips for fireplace facelifts or just sprucing up with accessories, as well as arranging your floor plan to highlight your fireplace as a great architectural feature, and create an intimate seating arrangement for your warm, cozy fireplace…
Tips for Adding Warmth to Your Fall Decor as it Gets Cooler Outside
Fall colors can really help to warm things up inside as it gets colder outside. The orange and gold tones combined with greens, browns and natural tones add a great deal of warmth and lighten things up as our days get shorter and it gets dark earlier.
Designing Bedroom Interiors, continued: Custom Elements and Bedside Stands
As discussed this week on the Pete and Brenda Radio Show. Wake up with Pete and Brenda every week day from 6 to 9 EST and 3 to 6 PT! on 93.5 FM LIFE – Positive Music for a Positive Life in Rome, Georgia. Click here to listen live from anywhere! Bedside stands: Are a great … Continue reading
Tips and Tricks for Bedding and Pillows
As discussed this week on the Pete and Brenda radio show. Catch us today on Wednesday at 12:40 and Tuesday at 2:40 PST. You can stream it from your computer. Bedding: I recommend staying at some nice bed and breakfasts and/or plush hotels and paying attention to what you like about the bedding. When I was younger, this … Continue reading
My recent Interview for Your Home and Lifestyle Magazine, Sept. 2010 Issue
A Well Designed Plan A Decorating Plan Helps Your Desired Look Come to Life Are you moving into a new home and finding it impossible to visualize a cohesive design? Perhaps you have grown tired of the stale color scheme that’s faded in your living room over the past decade. The task at hand won’t … Continue reading
Important Kitchen Interior Design Components, Final Article in Series: How to Tie it all Together for a Cohesive Look
As discussed this week on the Pete and Brenda radio show. Catch us today on Wednesday at 12:40 and Tuesday at 2:40 PST. You can stream it from your computer. I find there are a lot of people out there who aren’t able to visualize how the end result will look when choosing the primary design components for a kitchen. … Continue reading
Important Kitchen Interior Design Components, Part 3: To Backsplash or Not to Backsplash
As discussed this week on the Pete and Brenda radio show. Catch us on Wednesday at 12:40 and Tuesday at 2:40. You can stream it from your computer. This article is the third in a series that address kitchen interior design components that are important to consider if you are planning to remodel/update or build a new kitchen. In this … Continue reading
Important Kitchen Interior Design Components & How to Tie Them All Together… Part 2: Kitchen Lighting
As discussed this week on the Pete and Brenda radio show… This article is the second in a series that address kitchen interior design components that are important to consider if you are planning to remodel/update or build a new kitchen. Lighting: Lighting especially above your kitchen islands and/or eating nook is a very important area not … Continue reading
Important Kitchen Interior Design Components & How to Tie Them All Together… Part 1: Kitchen Islands
This article is the first in a series that will address kitchen interior design components that are important to consider if you are planning to remodel/update or build a new kitchen. These components include:
– Kitchen Islands:
* Counter tops
* Bases
– Lighting
– Vent Hoods
– Backsplashes
– Window treatments
– How to tie it all together into a cohesive look
Additional types of window coverings that can provide energy savings
This blog is a continuation of last week’s radio show and blog, on the Pete and Brenda radio show, where we discussed achieving energy savings with shade and blind products. This week we discuss…
– Custom fabric window treatments
– Outdoor drapery and awnings
Devine Decorating Results for Your Interior 