I hope you all enjoyed Memorial Day weekend. My husband and I spent the long weekend in our camper in the White Mountains. Since the Camper is “off the grid” we have no internet, no TV, and other than my iphone, no technology distractions. We do have solar panels to run lights so I always bring up [...]
Linda Holt Interiors
With a focus on color Linda Holt Interiors creates
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Before and After…and After… With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint
Remember this table? This was the very the first piece of furniture my painting partner Susan Siefer of Mad Patter Art Design and I painted using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. The top was covered with dirty contact paper that was hiding at least two previous paint jobs: notice the yellow that was painted over the blue [...]
Does This Color Make My Room Look Big?
Last week while touring a client’s home she told me she painted her guest room Benjamin Moore Cape May Cobblestone because she was told it makes a room look bigger. When I got home I did a little research and the Benjamin Moore website does indeed say “This classic, elegant gray confers a sense of spaciousness that [...]
2 Tips to Create a Warm and Cozy, BLUE Bedroom.
Last week while at a color consult my client said she wanted her bedroom to feel warm and cozy and wanted to paint the walls Blue……wait, what??? Since childhood weren’t we taught that Blue along with Green and Purple were the cool colors while Red, Orange, and Yellow were the warm colors? Although it is [...]
Friday’s Photo
I’ve had this image over my desk for about a year now. I can’t decide if I love it or if I am horrified by it. Love it or not, whatever your opinion, it does what all great art and design should do: it evokes an emotional reaction, makes you think and leaves a lasting impression. What do [...]
How Do You Take Your Trim?
Many of you may not remember but back in the 1990′s a very popular paint trend was white walls with very dark green trim. In fact, my husband and I painted the living room in our very first house that exact combination and I loved it. Of course way back then, I knew nothing about [...]
Chalk it Up Baby! Before and After
There is a new furniture paint bursting onto the design scene called Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. It truly is an amazing paint because it goes over anything and there is absolutely no prep work involved. No stripping, no sanding, nada! All you have to do is paint and then seal the chalk paint with your choice of either [...]
3 Tips For Choosing The Perfect White
They say the Eskimos have over 100 words for SNOW. Well not to be outdone, paint companies have hundreds and hundreds of words for the color WHITE. This fact was recently pointed out to a good friend of mine. She and her family are less than one week away from moving to Montreal CA from Boston MA (in a too good [...]
My Ben Moore Color Stories-Story.
I first heard rumors that Ben Moore was going to be introducing a new line of full spectrum paint way back last Winter. I asked all three of my local Ben Moore paint stores and not one of them had heard a thing. Then as luck would have it, my blogosphere friend Kelly of Restyling Home by [...]
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