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Greetings!
This month we want you to get over your fear of
decorating and jump in and try something new. Leave your
doubts at the door. We have lots of great ideas this month
from staging ideas to get you through the holidays to
getting the spooks out of your living room. So be
sure to read through and give us a call if you have any
questions or need our help!
Have a frightfully fun halloween! Lori
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Real Estate Staging Solution |
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Problem: This empty master bedroom sitting
area created no visual interest for the home buyer.
Solution: We found some items to place in
this sitting area that now creates an inviting
space. Now the home buyer can visualize herself
reading, relaxing or perhaps exercising in this
special space.
Thank you very much,
Irene Woodworth
One Day Redesigns, Inc.
"Transforming Your Home >From Tired To Terrific!"
www.OneDayRedesignsInc.com
(208) 853-2772
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Fall centerpieces – like poetry! |
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Greet your friends with elegance, warmth, and a
personal touch by creating a fall centerpiece on an
entry way or dining table. Create a haiku for fall
and bring it to life in your home!
A haiku is a poem that often illustrates some aspect
of nature or tranquility. Try writing your own haiku
by following these guidelines:
Focus on just a few concrete images. A Haiku only
has three lines; the first line has five syllables,
the second has seven syllables, and the last has
five again.
To get started make a list of “concrete” objects of
fall, then make a list of your feelings and senses
you have in the fall. From these lists be choosy --
and create your own Haiku using images and objects
of fall, or feeling.
Finally, translate your Haiku into a visual
showpiece, using found objects in your home like
baskets, ceramic bowls, natural objects from the
outdoors, and your haiku – hand written upon a piece
of natural fiber paper.
Fall Haiku
leaves like falling stars
aflame with gold awaken
endless shades of fall
Julianna Hind
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Interior Redesign Before and After |
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Before - This living room seemed dated because of
the color scheme, and it was not arranged
effectively because it didn't address the focal
point, the fireplace. It also didn't have a very
good conversation area with the furniture pushed up
against the walls.
After - With the new furniture arrangement guests
can enjoy the fireplace and have comfortable
conversations. And just by using a new splash of
color we brought the room into today.
Just like all of our redesigns this
transformation happend in just a few hours!!!
Lori Brasseur ~ LB Designs and Room for
Improvement
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The Unliving Room |
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I wrote this peice last year and it is still my
favorite decorating article so I thought I'd reprint
it again for you. Hope you like it as much as I do.
I bet some of you have a room in your home that
nobody uses. A ghostly room that sits quietly
off to the side, where people just look in and walk
by. Maybe it’s a room that has accumulated all of
your frightfully old, left over furniture.
Maybe it’s those dreadful piles of boxes and
clutter that you don’t have anything else to do
with. Or maybe it has the best furniture in the
house and it’s practically covered with plastic so
it stays nice and clean, and neat, and your guests
are afraid to go in there. These are signs of
an UN-LIVING ROOM.<br>
No matter which scenario is yours, an un-living
room is a waste of prime real estate! Square footage
is valuable and every inch should be used to the
fullest potential. People would die to have
an extra room for family living, sleeping, or
eating. So let’s not be scared and jump in
there and organize and redesign this dead
space.
It’s time to move out the ghosts and get rid
of clutter! My favorite saying is “You can’t
organize clutter!” And why would you want to. If you
haven’t used it in six months, if it doesn’t fit you
now, if it’s broken, torn, stained, missing pieces,
or out-of-style it goes! Believe me, you may be
terrified at first, but once it’s gone you won’t
worry about it again. Now, access what you
have left and find a new home for it if it isn’t
staying in the room.
Next, determine everything you will need to add to
this space to make it livable. Remember function
first! It has to be comfortable and be able to
function for how it’s intended to be used. I’m
talking to all of you petrified people out
there whose hair-raises if the kids have a
bloody red cool-aid in their hands. If you have
young children or pets and are worried about
stains, and wear and tear, then don’t buy a $4000.00
silk coved sofa or a white carpet. I learned from
experience that even if you have put the fear
into your kids not to eat in the living room you
will go out and buy a puppy, and I swear they know
what color your carpet is! There are many new
treated fabrics available that are very durable and
stain resistant as well as furniture that is made to
withstand even the most ghoulish neighborhood
horror child. So, don’t set yourself up to be
fearful every time someone walks into the room.
Now, and only now, is it time to decorate. And don’t
be nervous about using beautiful things in
the room with young children. Just be smart and make
sure they are unbreakable, not poisonous, and
can’t be swallowed, or get creative and put them out
of reach of creepy, crawly fingers.
Pretty soon you will be out of the eerie
world of the un-living and back into the
comfort of the living room.
Lori Brasseur ~ LB Designs and Room For
Improvement
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Entertaining ~ Color Changing Bowl
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Oh, this is cool. It’s a milky-white bowl that can
cycle through 7 different colors or just shine with
a season appropriate light. It is powered by
rechargeable batteries which run for about 8 hours.
Can you imagine using this as a centerpiece with
greenery on top and wrapped around the bottom for
you Holiday table, or floating candles, simpler yet,
Jell-O?
Plus it is food and dishwasher –safe.
To order this bowl www.Solutions.com
Remixed Rooms, Marleen
Organizing Your Decorations for the Holiday
Season
It is the beginning of Holiday Decorating season
which means storing those decorations. First the
Halloween decorations, then Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Hanukah, New Years, etc.
One of the most important tips would be to label,
label, and label. This will save you time year after
year. If each container is marked for the correct
holiday you won’t be pulling out the Christmas
things for Halloween.
Within each container label items. If you have
garland or lights that fit a certain spot put a tag
on it that says just that.
Clear, plastic tubs are a great way to store your
decorations. Another idea is heavy divided boxes
that once held wine or liquor. These are perfect for
protecting ornaments and are often sturdier than
their commercial counterparts.
• Wrap the ornaments in tissue paper and let the box
dividers keep them from knocking against each other.
• If the box sections are large and the ornaments
are small, pad the area with shredded paper for
protection.
• You can stack several ornaments in each slot; use
tissue paper to wrap the ornaments and shredded
paper or bubble wrap to separate them so you don't
risk losing ornaments in the packing material.
Make a label on the outside of the box to help you
find the ornaments you want when it's time to
decorate.
Nancy Faust ~ Redesigns by Nancy
Tips for a ghostly Halloween Party
Want to throw the scariest, Halloween party ever?
Just follow these ideas for a party that will leave
the children, as well as adults, with frightful
memories for days to come.
First you need to set the mood. Picture the most
disturbing, haunted house you can in your mind, what
do you see?
- Dimmed lights. Make it eerie by using lots
of flickering candle flames all around. *Don’t
forget safety first. With young children you may
want to use battery operated fake candles.
Strobe lights will also give a spine-chilling
effect.
- Drape old white sheets over the furniture to
make it look abandoned. You can even douse them
with talcum powder to make it dusty.
- Hang lots of spider webs and spiders all
around the room
- Get some old, large, family portraits and
hang them crooked on the walls. Add some creepy
eyes that follow you as you move.
- Make some ghosts out of sheets of gauze hung
from fishing wire with black felt eyes.
- Make fog with a fog machine or with dry ice
- Buy Styrofoam tombstones or make some out of
cardboard for the front lawn.
- Make a witches lair in the kitchen with a
broom stick leaning against the wall, an old
spell book open on the counter, and a disgusting
brew bubbling on the stove.
- And don’t forget the spooky sounds from a CD
or record your own spine-chilling screams and
hollers.
- A/C Moore has flying bats with red glowing
eyes for $4.99 that are soooo real looking I had
to get one! They actually fly around the room!
Now, what do you do at this party? How about playing
your own version of fear factor? Fill clear plastic
containers with some of these discussing items and
have the children fish for gifts, party favors or
treats.
- Use green Jell-O with green olives for
eyeballs and have the child dive face first into
it.
- Cook up some long noodles or spaghetti and
toss with vegetable oil for worms.
- Use rice for maggots.
- Fill it with twigs, moss, fake spiders and
bugs and have someone stick their head in to
retrieve treats with their mouths.
- Instead of bobbing for apples, bob for
floating hands made out of plastic gloves filled
with water and frozen. Freeze a prize inside for
a special surprise.
For more party game ideas go to
http://familycrafts.about.com/od
/halloweengames/.
They have lots of great ideas like an eyeball hunt,
ghost bingo, feel boxes, murder walk, skelootie, and
witch stix.
And finally what do you serve for haunted treats?
There are way too many for me to list but I did find
a great special edition booklet in the checkout
counter of the grocery store from Pillsbury titled
“Halloween, over 100 spooky ideas!” It’s packed with
some really frightful food ideas like monster bash,
fright-night fiesta, hot dog mummies, barbecued worm
sandwiches, garden garbage dip, moldy bones with
ghoulish dip, and many more.
Have a happy, safe and frightfully scary Halloween!
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