The DECO-Zone

More Bling…Less Bucks by Triple D Productions

WHAT: More Bling, Less Bucks Webinar

WHEN: September 21, Tuesday, 7-8 PM EST

WHERE: Webinar or Recorded to listen at your convenience

FEE: $39

HOW: Register by Clicking: More Bling, Less Bucks Webinar

Triple D Productions:The Dynamic Decorating Duo-JoAnne Lenart-Weary and Sandy Dixon are presenting a fabulous Webinar-More Bling, Less Bucks. Combining years of experience and creativity with the challenge of working wonders on a budget, they’ve developed a list of 50 tried and true ways that decorators or stagers can utilize to WOW any room and all their clients!  This is the first time, JoAnne of The Decorating and Staging Academy and One Day Decorating, and Sandy Dixon of Interior Arrangements, have joined forces to share their expertise and the joy of the process of creating beautiful rooms. 

Learn how to Generate WOW!

¡ Working  creatively  to provide
¡On-the-spot, low cost solutions that
¡Will not only jumpstart rooms, but make your clients jump with joy!

You’ll learn about and see examples of 50 Ways to WOW with:

• Furniture Finesse
• Color Cues
• Let there be Light!
• Window Treatments
• Art Smarts
• Accessor-ease: shelves, mantels, tables

Learn where Triple D Productions get their inspiration plus favorite decorating books, websites, and blogs.  Hear JoAnne and Sandy’s best advice for incorporating WOW into your business and delighting your clients. Also, watch for Special Offers for Webinar Attendees.

Attendees will receive a downloadable worksheet to take notes and reinforce your learning on the day of the event. It will also be recorded, so you can join JoAnne and Sandy Live or listen in your own home, at your convenience.

More Bling…Less Bucks Webinar by Triple D Productions-$39

September 21, Tuesday, 7-8 PM EST

Largest Garage Sale for Interior Decorators

Need Purple glass bottles?

The Rt 127 corridor garage sale is perfect for Staging, Decorating and just pure fun.

My husbands worst nightmare would be me going next year, with a large truck. Actually a fantasy for me. Hundreds of miles of treasure to try and capture.

The sale starts in Michigan and follows I 127 all the way to Alabama! HGTV usually has a “special” every year on what two of their reporters journey is like and what treasures they find.

You can buy everything there, even “Cracklins” and Hot Dogs. Pure Americana. From Purple glass bottles to old metal signs.

Look, even Darth Vader is a collector!

Anyone else out there a Garage sale Junkie? Perhaps next year we could caravan together with our 18 wheeler behind us to carry our “treasures”!

treasures at The 127 Corridor Garage Sale

 I’m going to plan to go to this unique sale next year….sshhh..don’t tell my husband.

DesAnn Collins

DSA- Staging Director

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. Do you see what I see?

I loved Cheryl Cousins post about mirrors over mantels and what they reflect.  I decided to review photos from  my recent classes and found example after example of mirrors over fireplaces and not one of them reflected anything pretty.  The key is typically you will be viewing the mirror from a seated position in a space,  so you are looking up at it.

Mirror Before

 This completely changes what the mirror will reflect. If you can see the ceiling fan when looking straight on, just think what you will see when you are seated. In this picture you see the mirror reflects the ceiling, the fan and the harsh light. In the after photo, we used art objects to create a pleasing composition. What do you think?

Mirror After

Mirror Mirror on the Wall; It’s Decorator Magic!

Before

For the past few months, I’ve been working with a client who has been a sheer delight…  Ready for change and happy to be “finally” moving forward with her decorating plans, the very first project was an interior redesign of her living room. As you can see from the before photograph, this room included a lovely fireplace with a not so lovely fixed mirror, courtesy of the builder.

Now, I can totally appreciate a well placed mirror, but as is often the case, it usually ends up reflecting the one thing that you least want to see, i.e., the ceiling, a ceiling fan or the kitchen pots and pans.  Once the one day decorating makeover was finished, we simply painted the mirror. It’s true what they say about watching paint dry! While it took 5 coats of the wall color for maximum coverage, the end result is truly the fairest of them all.