The Nerve!!!
Susan Ford
re-doing a college girl's room on a small budget. Well, the girl had a
log cabin quilt on her bed, and they used the BACKING as basis of the
room's colors and design. And then they TURNED THE QUILT OVER to use it
as a bed covering. ARGH!
The quilt was by the girl's great aunt, and a favorite of hers. If
someone had done something like that to me, I'd had a fit! TV cameras or
no!
Pissed me off....
Susan
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NoM...@spam.com
front? Does she also hang pictures backwards???? Christina
Allen Scheef
dorm at college, they were probably very wise to use the back. The front
would have taken a Lot of wear and tear, and maybe have been damaged. Dorm
beds are actually chairs for most of the students. They are often tables
and exercise mats, too!
Jane in WI
, >log cabin quilt on her bed, and they used the BACKING as basis of the
Susan Ford
should have turned off the tube and gone to bed long before... :)
And the girl was older than typical dorm room age, so fear of spilling and all
is pretty much past, plus her room was in her parent's house. The quilt was
done in fields and furrows style, log cabin, mainly blues with some other
colors mixed in. A very nice quilt, I thought.
I had to lecture Michael about the back. My sampler quilt used the focus fabric
as the backing, so it's patterned. Sometimes when he tucks it around me he
would try to put it on upside down. I scolded him on it and told him after all
the work I put into it, I want to see the top! He understands, now. I also
pointed out that he'd never do that to RQ2, would he?? :) No, he wouldn't.
Susan
NoM...@spam.com wrote:
> Where do we email this "decorator"???? why not base the rooms design on the
> front? Does she also hang pictures backwards???? Christina
>
> Susan Ford wrote:
>
> > Watched one of those HGTV decorator shows yesterday and they were
> > re-doing a college girl's room on a small budget. Well, the girl had a
Ellison
Did the back have anything to do w/ the front?
Often I put a complimentary or almost-matching
back on the quilt; but sometimes I go or something
completely different (like Monty Python). Such
as the Fans quilt, which has a really weird back,
and the fabric I call the ugliest in my stash and shared
w/ several RCTQers last year (and some of you
strange people like it!). So, I wonder if
the back is nice, it probably coordinates w/ the
quilt top; or maybe the daughter just fell in love
w/ the backing fabric, which is really o.k., 'cause at
least somebody loves fabric!
KnowwhadImean?
Ragmop
NoM...@spam.com wrote in message <37F21BA0...@spam.com>...
Chris Ingle
"Ellison" <Elliso...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> but sometimes I go or something
> completely different (like Monty Python).
What? You have Monty Python fabric?? (just kiddin', but if you do,
will you share?)
--
Cheers,
Chris
(who wishes she could find MP fabric, not that it necessarily exists)
"It's one of the universal truths: Texans always go home"
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Susan Ford
and pastels for the light colored furrows. Looked completely different, and the
front would stick out like a sore thumb if turned over in the room they
decorated around it.
Susan
Lynne in Toronto
I find some of these programmes immensely helpful, and some, pretty
darned silly. I have seen decorators take a perfectly good room and
ruin it by applying bright red paint, or imitation zebra skins, or
something.
And no matter what they say, I still think that painting a room a dark
colour DOES close the room in. So decorators don't always know
everything, in my view. And many of them just don't "get" quilts... so
it doesn't surprise me that they would just turn it over and ignore the
wonderful workmanship on the front. (workwomanship?)Sometimes I think
that the room is just the canvas for the decorator's ego!
(Come to think of it...maybe that's why I stopped going to the
hairdresser...I never could get them to do my hair in a way that suited
me...always came out either like a big, blonde poofy helmet, or in the
latest style the hairdresser wanted to try, but which didn't happen to
suit my face.)
There is a decorator in Toronto who is wonderful, and very, very
talented...but he only ever seems to work in neutrals.....beige to
taupe...and that's it! Guess if you want pink and yellow, you don't use
him!
Oh well, enough ...but I DID pickle a dresser this weekend....and that
should be good for a few jokes.
Cheers,
Lynne in Toronto
Marcella Tracy Peek
<susa...@slackford.norman.ok.us> wrote:
> I don't remember which show it was I was watching. It was late at night and I
> should have turned off the tube and gone to bed long before... :)
It was called Decorating Cents.
>
> And the girl was older than typical dorm room age, so fear of spilling and all
> is pretty much past, plus her room was in her parent's house. The quilt was
> done in fields and furrows style, log cabin, mainly blues with some other
> colors mixed in. A very nice quilt, I thought.
Actually, she was 19 and had just moved home again and wanted a room where
her friends could hang out and listen to music. They set up the bed to be
a couch when the friends were there so I'd say sitting on the back is
probably a good idea.
The quilt was gorgeous though, and it seemed a shame to flip it. Hang it
on the wall, decorate around it and stick something else on the bed.
geez.
marcella
Susan Ford
white walls in most of the house. I like to use color as an accent. I have on huge 6
x 4' oil painting in bright colors, and a smaller one by the same artist. They
provide a huge color splash, and are set off by white walls. I have a deep green
carpet, and am in the process of replacing my living room furniture. Since we're not
rich at the moment, we have to do this a piece or two at a time. I don't mind that
I'm "in transition" though I am getting increasingly unhappy with my couch.
My bathroom is "under construction" sorta. We ripped up the shag carpet in there six
years ago and have been living with bare concrete since then. I finally had a vision
about what I want it to look like. I'm going to go for the Miami South Beach look.
Pastel sherbet walls, each wall a different color, white trim, and some accents. I
have some fabric that is absolutely perfect for this, so I'll make a wallhanging and
match everything to that. I'll paint the floor, too, until I can get around to making
tile. I'm going to make a tub surround out of tile, too. But in the meantime, I'll
start with paint.
The wallhanging will probably be some Mariner's Compasses (Compassi??), three in a
row. I have a friend who will paint a mural, if I want one. Haven't decided yet. She
had a nook in her house where she painted a huge Michaelangelo's David. Looks really
good! Since she has a small girl, she painted a gargoyle in his crotch. Very cute. I
wouldn't mind a David painted on the inside of the bathroom door. Sans gargoyle, of
course! Maybe get some thin wood and paint some boxer shorts. I could stick them over
the painting if I have kids over (which is rare, not many people a know have
reproduced).
Hmmm, gonna go look at that South Beach fabric again... :)
Susan
Lynne in Toronto
Hey Susan....
I just painted my LR walls a quiet yellow.(Well, okay, it was last
November.) Looks great. I am waiting for a new couch too...and have
decided I want a sort of Terra Cotta - orange-red one, with orange and
white piping.
Just pickled an old dresser which is in the LR and looks great.... am
now thinking about pickling the parquet. Zowee! Then add some
architectural molding around the ceiling and it will look great!
Now about your bathroom...there are lots of patterns or painting faux
finishes on the floor...you can make them look like tile, flagstone,
bricks......whatever you want. Might look really nice!!!!
Ellison
The first time I saw Nancy Martin's books
about decorating w/ quilts, I knew I had found
"it", the combination of quilts and decorating
all in one place---Nirvana! <g>
She knows how to use the quilts, how to
decorate w/ the quilts, around the quilts, for the
quilts. Love it, love it, love it!! Got her books
for myself, won't let them out of the house! <G>
Susan, some of the decorators don't get it,
never will. Some decorators are just nuts,
not even big pecans. ;-P
Btw, the morning decorating programs
are usually better than the late night ones <g>
Ragmop, remembering the ladies who went
to the same "beauty shop" as my mom;
I could tell at 10 paces or less if a woman
had had her hair "done" by Donna, 'cause all
of Donna's clients' hair looked like my mom's <BG>
Pickles, Lynne?
Lynne in Toronto wrote in message <37F26086...@yorku.ca>...
NoM...@spam.com
Susan Ford
:)
Susan
Ellison wrote:
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Susan Ford
cartoons all over it, a dead parrot, a cardinal (holy, not feathered),
and a silly walk? :)
Hey, Jinny... can we get some Monty Python fabric? You know people,
right?? :)
Susan
Chris Ingle wrote:
> In article <7stcnr$qk1$1...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>,
> "Ellison" <Elliso...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > but sometimes I go or something
> > completely different (like Monty Python).
>
> What? You have Monty Python fabric?? (just kiddin', but if you do,
> will you share?)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chris
> (who wishes she could find MP fabric, not that it necessarily exists)
>
> "It's one of the universal truths: Texans always go home"
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Lynne in Toronto
or, how about different kinds of cheeses.....you know, all the ones
they didn't have in The Cheese Shop. Or darwings of the torture devices
used in the Spanish Inquisition...remember "the cushiony chair" and "the
rack"? Oh, I'm laughing all over the place.
Cheers,
Lynne in Toronto
Pat Winters
Well, I am not much for "Decorating" a house. We buy what we like (and
can afford) and then just try to moosh it together. We've set up house
about 17 times, so this has been a challenge! Different floor plans,
room sizes, etc. have made us rather creative. (Actually I am the
creative one. DH is a meticulous house painter and fixer upper but not
good with color choices at all. I offer choices and if he hates anything
he tells me; otherwise he relies on my judgment. OTOH, for our painting,
etc., I generally act as assistant & go-fer as I am not especially
talented or interested in that. Works out well!) Also, the times we
lived in Germany & even some places in USA we were able to acquire some
unique items. (Painting of bluebonnets, TX; German kitchen table set;
prints of Colonial Yorktown, etc.! Quilts, natch!!) We like them all but
have to be flexible in their placement! Eventually we find it all comes
together in a pleasing way. Pleasing to us! That's what matters!
Now, about your plans for your "Loo"! The South Beach look sounds like
fun! We strolled South Beach (Miami, FL) one Sunday AM in
August....loved the renovated Art Deco Buildings! Suggestion: Go ahead
and paint the cement floor *and* add some blocks in paint.... copy
whatever block/motif use use for the small quilt (ah, on topic here!)
Guess you could use marine deck paint and maybe you'd have to put a
protective coating over it. (DH is not here & he would know, I just
guess!) A mural would be kewl....how about an Art Deco, a la South
Beach?!
Have fun! PAT in Virginia's Historic Triangle
Susan Ford wrote:
>
> --cut--
Pat Winters
editing can do?! ;-D.........Ducking and Running in Virginia, PAT
Lynne in Toronto wrote:
>
--Cut quite a bit--
> I find some of these programmes immensely helpful, and some, pretty
> darned silly. So decorators don't always know
> everything, in my view. Sometimes I think
> that the room is just the canvas for the decorator's ego!
>
> (Come to think of it...maybe that's why I stopped going to the
> hairdresser...I never could get them to do my hair in a way that suited
> me...always came out either like a big, blonde poofy helmet, or in the
> latest style the hairdresser wanted to try, but which didn't happen to
> suit my face.)
>
Lynne in Toronto
In response to the various requests to know who I pickled and
why....and I get to the point about the 3rd paragraph.
First, I USED to make pickles...lots of em... and darned good ones
too. Then I had to start working full time, and all those pickles and
jams and other goodies went the way of the dodo. I used to make the
most amazing peach jam...my mother's recipe...... ummm...and oh, the
pear marmalade we had one year...delish!
And no, I did not pickle the hairdressers...altho some of them deserved
it! And I can't think of a joke here, so maybe Raggmopp or Jude or
Linda will supply one. Now, I have been pickled myself once or twice in
my life...but have decided over time that getting the "pickling juice"
out of one's system the day after is hardly worth the night before...so
don't drink much anymore, just the rare glass of wine. Tho I am
smacking my lips in anticipation of a Margarita at San Diego's Old
Town...and soon!
I did, however, pickle a dresser this weekend...an old dresser I got
from the Sally Ann for $50...bought it because I liked the detailing and
shape of the legs. It goes in the living room and will eventually house
quilting and craft stuff....with the top drawer reserved for gloves and
scarves and other wintry items....and if I had a front hall, would gop
there, placed near the door so one could easily grab gloves etc., on
one's way out! It is made out of some unidentifiable hardwood...maybe
birch...not oak or cherry, that's for sure, but it has a nice
grain....needed some carpentry which my son, the engineer, did for
me...and I decided to give it a very light white wash, and to paint the
drawers sage green and do some stenciling or decoupage on the drawers,
then to paint the handles on the drawers an antique gold, said handles
which I would have preferred to change, but they are stuck on forever in
some mysterious way which I haven't been able to figure out yet!!!
So I went to the paint store and was thinking about buying some small
quantity of white paint, and lots of thinner...and then in the wood
staining section I came across penetrating stain called white pickling
stain, and it was half the price of the other stuff so I got it. It is
essentially varasol with a few drops of white pigment in it. Three coats
of stain later, the dresser sits on the balcony, looking very sharp
indeed, and waiting for a coat of varnish or polyurethane to finish it
off. Although I think I have decided I don't really like the pinkish
tinge that light wood takes on when it is "white-washed"...so maybe it
needs yet another coat!
It would have made sense to have painted the drawers at the same time,
but I didn't, mostly because I couldn't stand to have that much mess at
once, so I'll do those next week, and the handles at the same time, so
they can all dry at once. Then I can stencil/decoupage when I get
around to it!
Whew!
Cheers,
Lynne in Toronto where it is a beautiful fall day...cool as anything,
but sunny and the tress are gorgeous!!!!! Scarlet, orange,
yellow..beautiful!!!
Susan Ford
there to make... :)
Susan
Deena Wells wrote:
> "Tropical Punch" has an art deco flamingo quilt that
> would look cool.
>
> the book is out of print, but you can see if your
> library has one.
Deena Wells
antngl.
I know what you mean, that's awful to turn it over and use the backing,
after her great Aunt made it for her. We have those sort of programme's in
ther UK and the designer's sometime's go a bit over the top with
decorating. They use colour's that people say they hate. When you go on
those sort of programme's you have to expect outragious thing's to be done.
At least with the Log Cabin quilt it can just be turned back over so no
irriversible damage has been done.We have lot's of show's and it's alway's
more fun when there is an argument with the design team and the people who
are competing.Thre Show's are Changing Room's, Real Room's, Homefront and a
new one called Better Home's. That one is interesting two people are chosen
to compete but unlike changing room's take no part in the decorating. They
stay in a hotel while the designer's and team do up their room. Before they
begin an Estate Agent(Real Estate I think you call them) does a valuation on
both home's. After the room's are finished a resident Estate agent does
another valuation, he doesn't know what the first one was the home that the
value increases the most on win's the balance of the increase. Sorry I've
rambled on. With warm regards from Gloria in Essex UK
Susan Ford wrote in message <37F1A582...@slackford.norman.ok.us>...
>Watched one of those HGTV decorator shows yesterday and they were
>re-doing a college girl's room on a small budget. Well, the girl had a
>log cabin quilt on her bed, and they used the BACKING as basis of the
>room's colors and design. And then they TURNED THE QUILT OVER to use it
>as a bed covering. ARGH!
>
>The quilt was by the girl's great aunt, and a favorite of hers. If
>someone had done something like that to me, I'd had a fit! TV cameras or
>no!
>
>Pissed me off....
>
>Susan
>
Susan Ford
that sometimes they go way over board. Last week one room ended up LIME green,
and the other terra cotta orange. A bit over the top for even my color starved
brain.... :)
Susan
John McKinnon
terracotta colour, but not the LIME green ( bright fuschia pink wasn't it?) Ugh.
We got the show here on cable a while ago! Then a network in Sydney came up with
an Australian version! Wow, you reckon they go to town on the English one??? You
should see what the Aussie designers do. I think most of the rooms are horrid and
sometimes almost quite vindictive. At least MOST of the English ones are quite
tasteful, and some are even stunning!! Unlike the Aussie one. Shame. Still, it
makes for a nice change from the rubbish on free-to-air TV though!
John
Susan Ford wrote:
> I love your show, Changing Rooms. I watch it on BBCAmerica. I agree, though,
> that sometimes they go way over board. Last week one room ended up LIME green,
> and the other terra cotta orange. A bit over the top for even my color starved
> brain.... :)
>
> Susan
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John
Armidale NSW Australia
sonshine
Your reply was very interesting but not all decorators are narrow
minded you have to find one that is working for you!!! It does not
matter what I like when I am creating a room WITH a client. It is your
house and you have to have a close realationship with the decorator
(there is a huge trust factor) but we are here! I honestly hope you
have a change of heart, If you every have any questions email me or
visit our site we offer free advise.
Thanks
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Sonia owner and interior decorator
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