Put A Sock On It

The real question is how did you find an apartment with hard wood floors? Then why do they look brand new. That is apartment gold you are residing in. But those thrift store chairs you have are wreaking havoc on those precious floors. Well we all know you cannot go out to Pottery Barn and replace them, but you can prevent that shiny new floor from looking old and haggard. It is time to dress your chair legs up with some Chair Personality Socks. We have all seen the tennis balls your 5th grade teacher put on the bottom of your math room chairs so she could teach you the Pythagorean theorem in silence. These look cool, fashionable, and like they should go on a child's foot. The only way to describe these argyle or sweat sock creations is adorable, quirky or a bit odd. Since there are many options, find what best fits in your place. When your whole place is decorated, these will be the icing on your cake. Next time you have guests over, see who notices them first and try to fight a conversation about them all night. I dare you. Get a pair for all chairs in your home and your landlord will be happy how the floors have looked so great for so long.

The Frustrated Decorator Gets Paid

You have just moved into your new apartment, home, RV, and want to decorated it for the pages of Domino Magazine. I know you plan on going to HomeGoods at my recent suggestion. However, you have no idea where to start. Why not head over to The Style Scoope on HomeGood's site. This is an invaluable tool to find out exactly how you should decorate your new place. This 10 question quiz will help you decide what to do with your new blank canvas. Additonally, it will help you to incorporate trends into your new decor. I am an Elegant classic who has a refinded sensibility that appreciates history and traditon when it comes to my furniature. I value beauty, such as hand crafted items or family heirlooms. As the quiz predictied I appreciate comfort, and have an open environment to welcome guests in. To make this worth your while, once you take the quiz, your are entered into a $5,000 shopping spree or a daily HomeGoods giveaway. With $5,000 to spend at HomeGoods, I hope you have a mansion to decorate. Now go find out how your home should be decorated.

Happy Home, Happy Life

So I am moving into a new apartment, my first real place to call my own. This means decorating like its my home and not my dorm room. So posters of Orlando Bloom are out. However, decorating my new place like its from the pages of Better Home & Garden takes a bank account that is much larger than the one I have. I did have the option of white walls and no couches until I saved enough for the housewares from Anthropologie, but I need a place to sit when I watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians. So I went home to the burbs, to go to HomeGoods with my thrifty mother. As a frustrated decorator, she knew this was the mecca for making my new place my new home. Never the one to care about decorating I was indifferent to this process. Well, that was before I stepped through the doors of HomeGoods. Brought to you by the gods who gave us T.J. Maxx and Marshall's this place only stocks goods for your home, hence the name. Talk about being a kid in a candy store; I was in decorating heaven. This was a 1st people. I didn't know where to start or what exactly I wanted. However, everything fell into place.
HomeGoods stocks everything you need for your home. We started in glassware and table wears where I picked up a serving dish for a dinner party I am hosting. Then onto the artwork, where the next piece was better than the next and priced like the stuff you buy at hotel lobbies. However, the pieces were unique and may even be museum quality, depending on your eye. Then we traveled through furniture, where I picked up an end table, trunk, and a nightstand. They totaled about $200 for 3 pieces, sick! Onto, bedding just to browse, since I picked up something at Bed Bath and Beyond last weekend. But Jackpot! Duvet cover for one-third of what I paid at BB&B. As we rounded the corner, we headed into the bathroom section where we needed nothing, but ended up getting a candle. We needed something from each department to keep it even. So now every time I come home to the suburbs, I think I am going to venture to our local HomeGoods. Its official, I am now a novice decorator. I already have my subscription to Architectural Digest. I need inspiration to design on a dime.