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High point Market Notes Fall 2010

For those of you keeping score, I do like to write a travelogue style recap of my trip to High Point each market.  Unfortunately, the more I write, the more I write.  In this age of high speed connections and … Continue reading

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High Point Market Notes-Spring 2010

The trip to market this year started with a crime.   Walking out of my house to jump in the car for the five hour drive to High Point I spied my son’s laptop…and took it.  I was thinking that I … Continue reading

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Notes from High Point Market-Fall 2009

One of my favorite sayings is that history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but it certainly does rhyme.  I used that line a couple of years ago in an editorial, well really an editorialita, I wrote for a magazine a couple … Continue reading

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Sunroom decorating ideas-before and after

Here’s a fun before and after.  I want to show you how fun and easy it is to take a blah space and make it a vibrant part of the home. One of our favorite clients had this mostly empty sunroom … Continue reading

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High Point Market

I’m off to the High Point market for the weekend to check out the new offerings presented by manufacturers from all over the world.  The new trends and colors should be interesting and I am expecting to see a greater emphasis on “green” … Continue reading

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Design Sleuth-Family Rooms

Family rooms are usually one of the more popular rooms in most people’s homes.  For those without separate home theatre or game rooms, it is often where you’d put the television set, the gaming equipment, and in some cases, the … Continue reading

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Design Sleuth-Whimsy

Adding whimsy to your home decor can be as simple and inexpensive as sticking planets and stars on the ceiling in your child’s room or buying a cool accessory, to something more expensive such as purchasing a funky piece of … Continue reading

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Thinking of buying leather furniture?

Ahhh…there’s nothing like the rich scent of new leather.  Smells like…luxury. Before you inadvertently buy one of those big poofy things or something you stick to, here are a few things to consider. If the price of that new sofa … Continue reading

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