{ Thank You HOUZZ ! }

I found out the other day that The Painted Home has been voted by the Houzz community as a winner of their first-ever "Best of Remodeling" awards!
I was completely shocked and thrilled.

My work won in the "Design" category, and my portfolio included some of the most popular images on Houzz. You can see all the award-winning work in this
 "Best of" ideabook:
I'm completely stunned that my work is placed side by side with such great local Philadelphia Designers and Architects.
Thank you Houzz and the 1.2 million readers!

{ Refreshed Foyer }

I recently spent some time at Carrie's house freshining her foyer.

She has 3 young children, and this is their main entrance.  So, it was a minor hot mess.

It still needs a fresh coat of paint, but here's what we added so far...

Some shelves by the door to drop mail and keys and such.  The basket swill help hold all these without it looking like a mess

 We also hung some art work for a little personality.

The shelves were made from vintage books and brackets from IKEA.
(if you look closely you'll see the title of this book "Historic Philadelphia"...which is were Carrie lives, perf, ehh?)

We also installed this round distressed mirror to reflect the light and add some curves to the space.
The bench was custom made by John Duffy @ Stable Tables.
We'll add another basket under there to corall more shoes.

We also added some vintage books to her son's room to hold his trophys.

Louis had a little nook in is room that was just dead space.  So, we used that space to display his trophies.

{ Design Board - Pay Pal Issues Solved }

* Happy 4th of July Weekend *

if you've been having problems 

when clicking the Pay Pal button 

to purchase a  Design Board

the issue has been solved.

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So, click away!

and enjoy your weekend