Posted in Before and After, Crafts, Interior Rooms, tagged cottage, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, interior designer, Interior Rooms, kasey stamey, landscape companies, office, recycled furniture, recycling, romantic rooms, second hand store, shabby chic on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part 4 of the office transformation. I will really stress that I am one who truly recycles and love every moment of it. Below is an eyelet bed skirt from a second hand store. This is perfect for the romantic shabby chic cottage style room I am trying to achieve.
Another treasure I found was a piece [...]
Posted in Before and After, Crafts, Interior Rooms, Recycled, tagged Before and After, cottage decor, Crafts, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, Greensboro, guest room, interior designer, Interior Rooms, office, paint, piedmont triad, recycled materials, redesign, romantic rooms, shabby chic, updating rooms, wallpaper on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recycled a medicine chest my girlfriend was ditching. There was a great opportunity to decoupage and create a one of a kind shelf. It did not have to be repainted and I was able to apply leftover wallpaper from the wall behind, to the underside of the shelves.
I decoupaged old piano music and book pages from [...]
Posted in Before and After, Crafts, Interior Rooms, Recycled, tagged cottage, cottage decor, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, Greensboro, guest room, interior designer, office, paint, piedmont triad, redesign, romantic rooms, shabby chic, updating rooms, wallpaper on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now on to part 3 of the office transformation. Shabby Chic/Romantic Cottage is something I gravitate towards because of the comfort factor and that I never throw anything away. This was a birthday card given to me in the early 70’s. Next to it is a wedding etiquette book by Emily Post (what a joke to [...]
Posted in Before and After, Biz Curb Appeal, Crafts, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged business curb appeal, curb appeal, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, first impression landscaping, Greensboro, Landscape Design Ideas, landscape designer, landscaping companies, NC, trellis, updating rooms, wedding cakes on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Business curb appeal should not be ignored. What is in the interior of your business should gently flow to the outdoors. Landscape design is an important factor in creating a positive first impression.
Because Maxie B’s offers wedding cakes and other sweet goodies year round, the curb appeal should also look good year round.
Curb appeal does [...]
Posted in Before and After, Country Living, Crafts, Interior Rooms, Recycled, tagged cottage, cottage decor, Diana Digs Dirt, Diana Gardner-Williams, Greensboro, interior designer, office, paint, piedmont triad, redesign, romantic rooms, shabby chic, updating rooms, wallpaper on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Onward with the transformation of my office into something shabby chic with a hint of the romantic. Since I am a landscape designer and a women, I am entitled to chance my mind. Instead of the peachy walls, I have gravitated toward a more subtle paint color.
The ceiling color is something I mixed and the wall color [...]
Posted in Before and After, Interior Rooms, tagged cottage, cottage decor, Greensboro, interior designer, landscaping companies, office, paint, redesign, romantic rooms, shabby chic, updating rooms on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Landscape Designers and Landscape Companies need to design within inspiring rooms. Take a trip with me while my office space (formally my son’s bedroom) is turned into a romantic, floral, cottage and shabby chic style room fit for a design queen.
My first mistake was not using Kilz on the ceiling to cover the bright blue [...]
Posted in Before and After, Greensboro Gardens, Greensboro Water Fountains, Landscape Design Ideas, tagged angel, water fountains, Landscape Design Ideas, angel fountain, annuals on July 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is very simple to install a water feature small in size. The sun glistens on the moving water creating visuals of dancing diamonds glistening in the sun and the sound is incredibly soothing for the soul.
You can purchase a fountain kit with all of the components or create your own. All you need to create [...]
Posted in Before and After, Greensboro Gardens, Pergolas, tagged cottage landscapes, focal point, Greensboro, outdoor structures, pergola, pressured treated wood, vines on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pergolas are outdoor structures providing beautiful overheads or roofs for shade, vines, low-level lighting or outdoor ceiling fans constructed of wood, steel, iron or pipe creating intimacy. An arbor is smaller in size usually designed as an entryway feature within landscapes.
The pergola below was custom designed around a stone patio in a circular form.
This pergola [...]
Posted in Before and After, Greensboro Water Fountains, tagged focal point, Greensboro, landscapes, landscaping stone, retaining walls, synthetic stones, terraced landscapes, topography on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Retaining walls are walls serving a function, holding back soil. There are several things inncorrect with the retaining wall and plantings in the photograph below. They are:
The outline or edge of the wall is too curvy and unnatural looking
The top line of synthetic stone is not retaining anything
The base of the wall does not make for easy [...]
