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, Peony, 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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