Repurpose Reuse Redsign your interior space

Hi everyone,

My sister calls to inform me the sun is shinning in CA. And her point? She does kid me every now and again about all the rain here in Portland, OR but somehow we manage not to float away. It is supposed to rain later today, I know she will be thinking of me. HA

Anywho. I'll be staying in this evening. I feel the need to change my own space around. Time to change a few pictures out and accessories. Sometimes looking at the same thing month after month makes everything look boring and tired. Here is what I'm going to do and you can try this in any of your rooms as well.

The dining area is open to the kitchen and living room so the changes I make there will affect the other rooms as well. So here goes.

I'm going to take down the wine related pictures, the wine sign, and other wine related items in the space.
Actually I'm going to use pictures from a chef calander that my sister gave me. These are not the typical pictures you see everywhere. I have picture frames that I will take the old pictures out and put these ones in.
The large black matte will make these colorful pictures really pop. I'll take down the current drapes and put the light yellow tab top curtains up. It doesn't matter that it is technically winter, I want a change and light yellow curtains are going up.

This is how I picture it now, but things could change and that is part of the fun of doing a redesign, even my own!

Think of what you have in your home, what pictures can you reuse? Bring out old family pictures and swap them out. Great conversation starters, especially for younger members of the famly to see pictures of relatives or even their parents.

Think outside the box and reuse or repurpose what you have. It is about making your home, yours!
Bye for now,

Pictures with our clients saddle

Hello,
Here is a picture showing how we separated the huge sectional. The corner piece we put at the end of the left sofa, it worked perfectly there. Yes, you can separate a sectional. We kept the saddle near the fireplace, another focal point. The room was no longer closed off and crowed. Our client loved the room!

You want a horse saddle WHERE????

Welcome to our blog. We will be sharing some of the the jobs we have done as interior redesigners. Gayle and I would love to share some of the challenges we have had and also get your feed back on how you feel about this service. We will add photos often of our work and would love to have you bring your questions, ideas, suggestions , what ever across to share . We are hoping for an open discuss and maybe hear of your experiences with rearangement of your furniture. Good or Bad!!!! Here we go----------

What a pretty easy job this will be Gayle and I thought, only have the living room and part of the dinning area to work on. Should be done in about 3 hours maybe 4.

Things started off as they should with talking with our client and listening to the request she had about what she wanted to see in the redesign. Could we open up the room more for the traffic from dining area to living room? Not to big of a challenge , we can do that. The next request was could we bring more of the horse photos into the room that were scattered through out the house. Oh and also a lovely Horse Saddle that she wanted displayed near the fireplace. ( Had to take a deep breath and remember that this is not our home but hers) Did I mention that we also had a sofa that was a sectional and that was about the only piece used for sitting?

Guess we may be using the full 4 hours Gayle!!! This room was big and we needed to really open it up but not let the furniture be lost in it. Needed to be cozy, rustic, and have a flare of whimsy.

Well friends, you be the judge of the final production. We had fun with this job and the client was so surprised with the end results. She Loved it. Open , functional, cozy and yes had all the things she wanted to show off in her 'new' room.

Notice the horse saddle at the corner of the fireplace!!!

Yes, we listened because it was her personality and style that we left in those rooms.