Wallpapers have been transforming the ordinary into extraordinary for centuries. At least since the Chinese began gluing rice paper to their walls (B.C.). until somewhere in the 1600’s (France), when the technique of block printing in a continuous pattern was created,...
When I was growing up in a 150-year-old farmhouse, our walls were visibly bumpy with canyon-sized cracked plaster. In fact, I'm sure layers (and inches) of history and bad taste seriously impacted the square footage in some of the rooms. And when we eventually...
I have waited to post this at just the right time, and the whimsical side of Easter seems fitting. After all, what is Easter without the Easter Bunny? That cute little ball of fur with the quintessentially floppy ears, that ended up as the poster animal for all things...
I'm just back from attending the West Coast Art & Frame Expo as part of the 2016 Bloggers Tour. It was truly an incredible experience lead by industry tastemakers Jill & Steve McKenzie, and quite frankly I will never look at framing in the same light again....
I have always loved wallpapers, even when they weren't so "de rigueur." In fact, my mother was "on trend" when she papered my childhood bedroom in Monet-esque flowers with a pink ticking stripe accent wall. Wallpapers have been around for centuries, and it's continued...