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Winter Decor

The holidays may be over, but you can still embrace the season with these winter décor tips. 1. Combine greenery that you already have with pinecones, antlers, etc. to create a cozy forest sort of vibe.[Photo: Savvy Southern Style]  ...
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Keep It Simple

#KeepItSimple Saturday: Winter cold season is here! Fight the germs in your bathroom with disposable disinfecting wipes.
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Design basics: repetition

How often do you look at a room and just feel like it flows or "works"?  If so, it's probably because its individual elements have been arranged in a rhythmic way.  The room is a collection of well-designed elements that...
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Anything but the blues

The whole world is wrapped in blue, from the sky to the ocean, from soothing to vibrant.  Blue is so ever present, it can almost escape notice...which is why blue is also a wonderfully calming color in nearly every shade. ...
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Color of the year: Alabaster

Pardon me for writing three posts in a row about paint, but I LOVE to talk about color. It's just about my favorite thing!  And I always specify Sherwin-Williams paints - while any paint formula can be matched and mixed...
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Color: rules to consider breaking

Most bathrooms are on the small side, as rooms go!  And most folks I meet with are terrified of using dark, saturated colors in that small space.  "Small spaces demand lighter colors."  THAT'S a rule I say you can break....
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Directions in Color

I was fortunate enough last night to attend a presentation by one of PPG's Global Color and Design Trends team members.  Every year, these experts from around the world converge to combine their collective research and develop color forecasts.  They...
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Accessorizing outside the “bathroom box”

I talk a lot about bringing decorative elements from other rooms in your house to the bathroom.  You don't have to think of those "bed and bath" stores as the only source of bathroom accessories!  What you need might be...
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Design basics: unified and timeless

Whether you're remodeling your entire bathroom or just updating some of the elements, the result will be a new "look" and, hopefully, a new and improved level of functionality.  When it's all said and done, I want you to be...
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Bathroom remodeling transformed, courtesy of the Internet

Three years ago, my daughter-in-law told me about this thing called "Pinterest".  Just three years ago...hard to believe! Until very recently, a homeowner thinking about remodeling would have checked out books from the library, perused design magazines, asked friends for...
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