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I have piles of these archival family photos lying around.

Decorate My Dining Room, Part 3

By ADD | Published: July 28, 2010
Good Morning DIY’ers!  Welcome to part 3 of the ongoing series, DECORATE MY DINING ROOM.  In part 2, I showed you the Flor carpet tiles that I’m considering.  I haven’t ruled Flor out, but I’m not sold on it yet either.  But don’t fret, there will be a carpet under that table when all is [...]
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A Bathroom Love Affair

By ADD | Published: July 27, 2010
I was just clicking through the June/July issue of Lonny (I know, I am so behind) and I noticed this black bathroom.  I thought if I put it on the same page as my bathroom, the two would have a wild love affair and spawn some great ideas. I just need more stuff in mine.  And some [...]
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A Wallpaper Interlude

By ADD | Published: July 24, 2010
I’m overwhelmed by your fantastic suggestions for my spartan dining room.  I plan to read every thoughtful comment and visit each and every one of your luscious links on Sunday in search of much-needed inspiration, so thank you all, my decorating committee. I’m a bit disappointed that I wasn’t floored by the Flor samples that arrived in the mailbox [...]
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Flor Corrogated Rib in Cinnabar

Decorate My Dining Room, Part 2

By ADD | Published: July 23, 2010
Following up on my recent invitation for readers to DECORATE MY DINING ROOM, here’s a wider view of the sad and barren room.  I got some great feedback in the comments to my first post and I hope you will keep the tough love coming. First things first, this room needs a rug to both warm [...]
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a very bare dining room after renovation

decorate my dining room, pretty please

By ADD | Published: July 16, 2010
Readers, please help this wayward blogger.  Renovation of the dining room on the parlor floor of our brownstone apartment is DONE.  But as you can see, this naked room is crying out for decor.  And a mop, but that’s a story for another post.  I thought I would decorate the minute we moved back in, [...]
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Natural seagrass herringbone rug in living room.

Natural fiber rugs- love or hate?

By ADD | Published: July 15, 2010
I love seagrass, sisal and natural fiber rugs in general, but I was always cautioned against them by people whose opinions I respected.  Is it a high traffic area?, they would ask.  Do you have pets or children?  Do you eat in that room?  Or drink red wine?  Or even water??  Then don’t get a [...]
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diywithadd choosing paint colors brownstone renovation

Do what I say, not what I did: painting

By ADD | Published: July 14, 2010
I just got this hot paint tip from Leila of design blog In the Weeds. She responded to my post detailing my haphazard and last minute paint color selections.  Leila says, “ You can also order (for FREE!) bigger color sheets from Benjamin Moore. Go on the Architect/Designer section of the website and you can order a slew [...]
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Beautiful flowers for a beautiful bride.

summer blooms

By ADD | Published: June 23, 2010
Nothing says summer like fresh peonies in a simple mason jar.  I spied these beauties at my sister in law’s picture perfect wedding last weekend and I scrambled through unpacked boxes the minute I got home looking for my own vintage mason jars.  I suspect that Scott may have purged them before we packed up [...]
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Master Bedroom Inhabited

By ADD | Published: June 22, 2010
Scott and I are having sweet dreams now that we’ve moved into our garden level master bedroom.  The room is delightfully cool in summer because it’s at ground level and the three windows look out onto our quiet, shady little garden. Before we renovated, the lower level was a 400 square foot rec room with a [...]
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This 1970's chair is another Granny goody.

Project: DIY Furniture Facelift

By ADD | Published: June 3, 2010
I received such positive response to my latest post about spiffing up Granny’s couch, that I wanted to write about another of Granny’s pieces, a 1970’s Chippendale style chair.  This faux bamboo chair had a black lacquer finish and a tan leather seat when it came my way a few years ago.  It was handsome, but [...]
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