A beautiful guest bedroomEllen’s Blog at TheHome.com poses an important question about your guest room.  She also provides a check list “to see if yours makes the grade”.  A great perspective in creating a guest room might be to ask yourself “What I would expect for my stay from a great hotel room?”  Old stories about guests and fish aside, Ellen’s list might help you along in designing this important room.

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Color Trends for Spring 2010

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Back to the future with UltraSuede?

In the constant search for the new and better, furniture manufactures are looking again at ultra suede.  Ultra suede (used as a generic term for a type of fabric) became very popular some years ago and then faded from favor.  There were many reasons, but chief among them were the proliferation of cheap products calling [...]

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How to Find Quality in Upholstered Furniture

The debate over quality construction of upholstered furniture
Okay, debate may be overstating it. Nevertheless there are a lot of opinions about what features to look for in quality upholstered furniture. Here is ccino’s take:
We get the consumer’s problems:

You can’t see inside a sofa to see how it is put together.
The industry jargon doesn’t mean [...]

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The Ten Commandments of Design

We want to help you create a room that expresses your personal style.  But how do you know what that is?  How do you know what mix of furniture, fabrics, colors and accessories will work to create that harmony of design that will express your unique style?  Here are a few tips that will help [...]

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Special fabrics from fall market

Specialty fabrics often add the flair or punch to a fabulous room design.  At the recent fall High Point market those specialty fabrics frequently came from ikats and susanis.  There are furniture grade designs in these fabrics available.  Most often, fabrics with designs and colors this strong will be used as one of the accent [...]

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