Design Challenge

Help is on the way!

This is Debra's living room at

She recently asked all her readers to chime in on whether she should paint most of her furniture in 

her living room or not. She got tons of response and advice on what she should do.

Most of which she took. The results were a room she totally fell in love with again.

Now she probably would have done all these changes anyway....but it pushed her

to do them with everyone's encouragement and validation.

So this has inspired her to start a new feature called...

I know I'll probably be taking advantage of this service.

The idea is you send her a photo of some problem you have in your home.

Or something you are thinking about redoing and don't know

quite what to do. We will then all talk about it and give our advice as to what we'd do 

with the room or piece of furniture or whatever it might be.

Sounds like fun?...no? 

Sounds like the potential to hear some things you might not want to hear...perhaps?

Sounds like it might give you the push you need to try something new.

Also sounds like it could enable you to create something great you'd never thought of all on your own.

This is another project that Debra just finished where she painted a table and chairs she'd had and

asked everyone if she should paint them or not.

We all said YES. And look how nice this vignette looks. 

It so looks like Debra's style.

Anyway....I'm looking forward to all the interesting projects to comment on at

Thanks everyone for your nice comments yesterday about Harvey and me rescuing the little terriers.

We were pooped after all the dust settled. We went to bed finally about 10 am.

But every time we got up...Harvey went to the baby gate that blocks the entrance to the

dining room and living room.

He'd bark and sniff and look for the terriers. 

Finally, I had to just let him go in there and have a look and

a smell and then he was satisfied that they were gone.

The other day I posted photos of this kitchen.

The response was huge. Everyone loved it.

I got a comment yesterday from Sharon of

telling me that this kitchen is from a home in her native South Africa.

This is another great shot from the same home.

You can view lots more photos of this home and the kitchen photos much larger at

http://labrocanteuse.blogspot.com/2010/08/paulines-white-house.html

Lots of pretty greige.