Start on more pieces

As I told you yesterday, Do Before and After Shots, you will really see the difference.

I will be jumping around on the blog a bit, as now we are starting to get into the designing of your home.

 You should now be purchasing your paint.  Take all the accessories out of your room, and all the accessories out of all the rooms in your house that are similar in color to the ones in the room you are doing.

Take whatever you can out of the room: 1. all accessories, lamps, pictures and any small pieces of furniture.  Prepare you room for painting.  The preparation is the longest part.  Using painters tape, tape off woodwork, trim or anything that you don't want paint on.  If you are more fortunate, and are hiring a painter, just empty the room of what you can.

When the painting is done, wait a few days until it is completely dry.  Place your major pieces of furniture where they belong or where you have decided to put them.  Many times, I make a template out of newspaper the size of the piece of furniture.  It is much easier to move a piece of paper that a piece of furniture.  Sometimes you will find new placements for your furniture.  Keep the newspaper shapes and make them and save in an envelope, with what it is on the outside.  You will have them for future use.

Now comes use into the picture.  What is this room used for?  Who uses the room?  A quote from "Ann Omvig Maine" in the Feb/March 2013 Issue of Traditional Home Magazine , states " What families are craving it seems, is not a showplace, but a "share place ".  A light flooded home with fabrics you don't have to fear spilling on, pet friendly spaces and chairs so cozy, they practically wrap you in hugs".

So these are the things we have to think about now.  Let's take each space in our house and ask these same questions.  Put all these things in your journal. Everything in your journal will be of great value in the end result.  You can compare all the things you wrote, to all the things you have done.

Recently, I had clients in their late 70's, they had a sunroom that faced west.  Their furniture fabric was just rotting.  This is called dry rot, from the heat and brightness of the sun.  This is a major problem  in the South and the West.  The answer is Sunbrella fabric.  It holds up under the extreme conditions.  The greatest thing that I have found using it myself, IT DOES NOT FADE,  what a plus.
The humidity and mold in Florida, are easy to handle with sunbrella, it washes off.  It is a choice for indoors and outdoors, a totally different subject.  Check out Sunbrella Fabrics and see the great color choices that there are.

If you are following this blog, you have come quite a ways already to redesigning your rooms.