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How To Pick Paint Colors For Your Home’s Interior
Picking paint is one of the most challenging parts of designing a room. I've done it enough to share designer advice, tips, and tricks on what to do and what costly mistakes to avoid when choosing interior paint palettes. When picking paint, whether it's a neutral palette or saturated color, these paint selection guidelines will help you find shades that not only can you live with but you love.
Design Influencer Conference 2020 - Actionable Tips (plus how to define your Ideal Client)
I just came back from the Design Influencer Conference 2020 in San Francisco. It’s a gathering of interior designers, design influencers and home decor brands from all over the country. I was on the fence about going because a) I just started this little blog o’ mine, and b) I’m not an interior designer (landscape designer by trade). After checking out the lineup of speakers though and more importantly, the topics covered, I decided to make the investment (plus San Francisco is only an hour from Napa, so no corona-virus petri-dish flight involved). So I got my boys sorted for the time I’d be away and bought my ticket.
How to force spring flowering branches to bloom indoors during winter
Forcing - refers to the process of getting your spring-flowering branches to bloom early. Essentially, by cutting them and bringing them indoors, we’re tricking them into thinking it’s spring. Whether it’s forsythia, quince, or spring-flowering fruit tree branches like cherry or plum, putting together a floral display with these spring harbingers can provide the winter mood lift we need.
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Saucer Magnolias [Winter Flowering Trees & Shrubs]
When winter is dragging on long after the holidays have come and gone, (perhaps the only time some of us may be excited about cold weather) saucer magnolias suddenly appear to perk us up with their large goblet-shaped flowers that bloom on bare wood.
Magnolia x soulangeana typically blooms from mid winter to early spring, depending on variety and climate, when most other garden plants are still in deep in winter sleep. In Napa, CA where I live, it’s mid February and they are blooming all around town now.
Neutral & Natural | Target Spring Modern Home Decor 2020 Roundup
Lately I’ve been gravitating more and more to neutral, textured, and natural interiors. It happens post-holidays every year, a reaction to all of the color and glitz, but nowadays, these neutrals have a lot more staying power for me than they used to.
The weather is another factor that’s gotten me thinking about a neutral and natural spring refresh. It’s been so warm here in Napa lately, 80 degrees today! So it feels like spring is springing, even though we’ll no doubt get more chilly weather.
Regardless, it got me in the mood to look at what Target is offering new for spring home decor, and as I think many of us have noticed the past few years, there’s a lot to like!