Another piece of design

Yesterday we were talking about metals.  Another thing I love is hooks. Most are metal. They can do so much and are so charming in many rooms.  Have you ever been some where and wanted to hang up something and couldn't find a place.  I love hooks of all kinds.  There re so many to choose from and you can usually find some on sale at Joanne Fabrics, or even use a coupon.  I use them everywhere. I have them hanging in all closets, for clothes and curling irons and whatever I choose.  They are great organizational tools.  Here are a few examples of some neat ones, and there are so many more neat ones out there:

 

These are some examples of different hooks.  These are more decorative.  The bird house is ideal for a mudroom or laundry room.  Even outside on a porch.

 

The other one that says family can go just about anywhere.  I have it in the garage for hats.  It is a neat storage place for baseball caps.  It is right outside the door to the laundry room and you can drop one as you go in, or pick one up a you go out.

 

Style is a concept that cannot be precisely defined and yet, when we see it, we recognize it. Just as you see something in a magazine such as a beautiful table setting.  You can tell if it is fairly plain and that you can do, or it reeks of elegance that only the rich can do.  You can do anything that you want.

 

I feel that you can do anything.  You just know how to do it.  Just like with metals, you can find them if you really look.  E-Bay, Craig's list, newspapers, thrift shops, or again my favorite, garage sales.

 

Another word for eclectic I transitional, mixing old and new.  I haven't shopped a lot, for a lot of things as I have accumulated a lot of things in my years as a designer.  Then I have things that were in the family.  When I used to teach design classes, I would tell the people taking the class, there are only three reasons you have something. 

1.  You loved it and bought it.

2.  Someone precious gave it to you( such as mother, children, husband , good friend).

3.  You inherited it.

Otherwise you would have gotten rid of it.  Things just don't appear, unless you live in my house.  I'm always finding that great deal, that I just couldn't pass up.

 

My mother called it the disease.  You walk into a shop, and always find something.  I am really proud when I don't, but it is not very often.

 

An easy way to add a piece of furniture to keep expenses down, add an ottoman, ( that can be used s a

table top, or a seat), small floor tables just sitting around, plant stands, floor vases, garden seats or just a stack of books with a top on it, serves as an extra table.

 

A quote from "Billy Baldwin", "Decorating is never successful unless it is personal".

 

And that is what it is all about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!