Making and displaying attractive curb your dog signs will be more apt to change the behaviors of dog owners and protect and beautify your neighborhood. In my blog, Curb Your Dog – Signs of the Beautiful, I promised to help you create your own signs. Some steps are a bit finicky. If you need help…
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Curb Your Dog Signs – Signs of the Beautiful
When it comes to public space, decorating and vandalism are the opposite sides of the same coin. Both are trying to establish ownership. It is for this reason that our building cares for the public space between the building and the street curb. With this in mind, we plant flowerbeds, maintain tree guards and post…
A Smile in Every Room – Decorating for Joy
I try to approach interior decorating with a sense of intellectual rigor. My rules are strict and relentless. In this, my first blog, I intend to discuss where those rules come from, why they are important, and how we can beautify and uplift our own spaces by applying them. But, along with all those lofty…
Small Spaces – Decorating from a Metaphysical Approach
Despite this age old wisdom, small spaces are not only difficult to live in but also to live with. When my future husband bought a NYC apartment in the late ‘80s, he thought he would never marry again. The apartment was small for a man living alone, but little did he know, I’d…
Magazine Clutter…..What Should I Do with all My “Marthas?”
I give lots and lots of advice about decorating, but now need some myself. I simply don’t know what to do with magazine clutter, specifically all my Martha Stewart Living magazines. We have over twenty years worth and they are taking up a lot of space and emitting an explosion of magazine clutter. As a…
Unavoidable Plastic – How to Minimize Its Aesthetic Effects
Unavoidable Plastic I hate that we must live with unavoidable plastic. I hate the look of plastic and hate being near it. Through the metaphysics behind decorating, I concentrate not only on the subtle energy generated through seeing objects. I also look at the relationships with the objects around us. To me, plastic is not…
Clutter Emergency? – How to Cope with the Stress
All of us have dealt with clutter .Sometimes, however, we can find ourselves in a paralyzing situation, I call that a clutter emergency, This blog is a how-to help. It can happen to anyone, no matter how neat our living quarters. At one time or another, any one of us could be at risk. We…
What Should Be Beautiful
I wonder how often people choose what should be beautiful and what should be ignored. What is the impetus to make things beautiful? I hated taking the drafting class I needed for interior design. It was the most unforgiving medium I had worked with. If I started a blueprint a sixteenth of an inch off…