For those of you who are ready to get some painting projects up and running, I’ll post excerpts from my book “Paint Saves the Day” all this week. Lots of @benjamin_moore twittering going on about the book. A special thanks to Danielle (@dhatfield) for reminding everyone to get a copy and get painting!
I’ll be giving away one of my books on my Really at Home Facebook page. You have till February 29th (yes 29th!) to enter.
We’ll start with my purple predictions Circa 2010, and here are a few purples that will really SAVE THE DAY.
Color Stories Colors faded violet, pinot grigio grape, & purplicious
BTW-They’re giving away Benjamin Moore Color Stories fan decks today at www.colorchats.com, You’re sure to be inspired. Enjoy!
Lu
Design*Sponge one of the leading design blogs featured my Horse Stall Door projects today. Thanks D*S, and hi to all the new friends who have wandered over. Come back and visit again! lu
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While preparing my winter workshop in the barn for all the projects I’m planning to work on, I discovered an unfinished door project worth revisiting. Those of us who collect things know, that there comes a time, when whatever it is you’ve been accumulating, stacking up, and squirreling away, needs to be put to good…
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I envy those who love Halloween. The candy part aside, even as a kid, I was never really a Halloween enthusiast. Maybe it was my mother’s instance that roaming the neighborhood in my grandfather’s fedora constituted a suitable costume. I think her lack of interest in sewing me up some sort of lavish costume had…
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There are things in life that only your mother will tell you. For example, the Scarsdale diet is easy to stick to. My mother reminded me often, without being asked, that leather should not be worn by anyone over 35. She never visited me without throwing in a load of laundry (“Why do you let…
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I don’t have a year round winter-proof painting studio here at my house on the river, so every October the paint moving ritual begins. It’s a gigantic pain in the neck, but keeping all my “babies” (paints), from freezing or getting cold, is an imperative, so off to the warmer basement they all go. In…
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