Peacock Blue and You

PAPER SOURCE COLORSCOPE:

PEACOCK
"Patient and serious you

do love to explore but you

worry about what you'll find.

Oftentimes you're inflexible,

but the flip side is you are

compassionate and loyal."

images: Pinterest

Benjamin Moore-Revere Pewter

[images from Pinterest]

Summer Crafts

When we go away on our glamping trips we often spend our time crafting. The girls have always painted a rock for me... "Mom" is a good place to start.

Best Selling Whites

photo by: William Waldren for Elle Decor

Elle Decor listed paint companies best selling whites. Take note:

Benjamin Moore- 912 Line White

Sherwin-Williams-SW6385 Dover White

Farrow and Ball-2003 Pointing

Now file that!

Beauty

Lovely art by Southern artist Linda Fantuzzo

Linda Fantuzzo

Linda Fantuzzo

Longing for...

Can't get enough of  Anne Packard's art. It's dreamy. I long for lazy summer days.

at the beach

blue dory

sand sea and sky

My Inspiration

{countryliving}

So fun to run into this photo online. This is the inspiration for painting my dining room table a high gloss light blue, the chairs a high gloss white and the upholstery different on the end chairs. When I went in search of the discontinued Martha Stewart paint color I found out that it is actually a GREEN! So I went in search of my own blue.

Would love to dazzle you even more with professional photographs. But you get the idea. Love that I took a risk-believe me it was scary. If the blue clashes with one of my sets of china then I add a cool heavy upholstery-grade white vinyl table cloth. It creates a modern twist with the ornate-ness of it all.

My dining set was found at auction by Lisa Gleason. It was a 70's stained wood with red crushed velvet upholstery.

Wishing I could afford her art...

Anne Packard titled: Dories in Mist

Titled: The tip of Cape Cod

Titled: Blue Evening

You will find this fabulous art by Anne Packard at Packard Gallery.

Blue Evening is the very one I want. It's so quiet and dreamy. Everything my life is not.

At what point do we splurge on art? Do people save for it? Cut out other extravagances? How does it work? I did notice that Diane Sawyer purchased a piece...

Great Staging!

A 2nd bedroom brought to life with a new paint color (chosen by my sister extraordinaire) and some sweet staging. The space gives out a soothing vibe-anyone would want this room.

The leopard inspired chairs kick up the volume in this otherwise traditional home. The rug adds nice color and livens up the room as well. This room has personality!

Staging adds so much to your home! See what I mean?

Best Foot Forward

I know we keep preaching this but it really works.

Open House LLC was called in to consult on a home that had been languishing on the market for 8 months. My no nonsense sister did not beat around the bush in trying to get the seller to make some very simple changes (we often refer to as defered maintenance). Finish the hardwood floors, change out most of the light fixtures and paint everything: walls, trim, kitchen cupboards, basement walls & floors. The homeowner did only a portion of what was recommended but at least now it was more marketable.

Then came the staging and POW! The home was ready to step out on the market. It had a solid offer within the 1st day.

It pays to put some money and effort into one of the largest transactions you will ever make. We have both built, bought and sold homes ourselves so we have walked the talk.

Best foot forward!!

In this photo of the project we have created an intimate living room all freshly painted.


The owner wouldn't finish the basement but let me tell you after cleaning and painting we created a family room setting so the buyer could visualize the potential. I think it worked.