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Attention, Class: Show-and-Tell Time With Carleton VarneyNew York TimesThe interior designer Carleton Varney is a man of many talents. He has designed furniture, lighting, dinnerware and linens; he has two lines of fabrics, as well as a CD (“Carleton Varney, Music With Style”); his client roster includes luminaries like ... |
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Robb Decors finds new home in CharlestonSILive.comBy Howard W. Siner Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinRobb Decors co-owners Alfonso Lanza, left, and Christopher Parente say what separates their interior design firm from others is the number of products they have to offer. |
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Business Beat: Chapman joins Woods Bros. Office in YorkYork News-TimesShe graduated from Kearney State College with a degree in Home Economics; consequently she has always had a flair for housing designs and interior decorating. The Chapman's have lived in York since 1996. Their two sons, Tony and Tyler, ... |
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Making the masTrinidad & Tobago ExpressI have a degree in interior and exterior decorating so I did work along those lines. I was mainly a person to do more private jobs so I did not work for any specific company. Practically, I have been self employed my whole life which is quite enjoyable ... |
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Designing the landscape of a successful ventureLivemintChennai: Sanjay AJ's entrepreneurial venture, AJS Services, which offers landscaping, painting, electrical, interior decorating solutions, began as a means to make some money to repay his parents. Sanjay had been feeling guilty that his parents had to ... |
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On Online: Jenita MillerStyleBistroIn the past 5 years, I've gain interest in interior decorating. I've also always wanted to be a model and I have tried out for Barbizon modeling agency while attending college. I do feel my business degree is a great foundation for the fashion world. |
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Meet Joe SheridanWilkes Barre Times-LeaderHe has been a cake decorator and from 1997 to 2007 owned floral shops called the Clay Pot with locations in Larksville and Forty Fort. Joe is also a retired substitute teacher who taught at Wilkes-Barre Vocational Technical School and Luzerne Community ... |
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WWBeds Custom Furniture announces new ownershipLog Cabin DemocratHe has completed an Aircraft Modification and Installation course from Pulaski Technical College and an Interior Design course from Chandler's School of Interior Decorating as well. WWbeds Custom Furniture, formerly Waterful Wonderbeds, specializes in ... |
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Partners expand salon, boutique with home furnishings storeWestport-NewsThe duo from Westport decided to become business partners with the opening of the new shop to capitalize on Casabianca's experience in the fashion world and Ryan's flair for interior design, Casabianca said. "We came up with this expansion with her ... |
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At Home: Peoria couple built a house around a housePeoria Journal StarKathy Millard, who has a degree in Family and Consumer Science Education from Bradley University, taught home economics at several area high schools before retiring from teaching several years ago. She enjoyed teaching interior design, and she is fond ... |
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Interior Decorating Featured Article
Book Shelf Decorating Idea & Tip
02/08/12
by Jack Hudson
If you have book shelves in your home, and lots of books, you've probably discovered that bookends don't always keep everything in order. Sometimes your collection of books on the shelf are just too much for the bookend to hold.
Here's a great tip that also doubles as a wonderful decorating idea: Use curtain rod finials as your bookends! A finial is a carved or shaped decorative detail used as ornaments to spruce up all sorts of items in a room. Curtain rod finials are used to make curtain rods more decorative, and also to keep curtains from sliding off the ends of the rods. Regular architectural finials are often used as enhancements to a room's decoration and style. Sometimes you'll see them for instance, at the top of a staircase post or on the tops of bedposts.
Curtain rod finials usually come with a screw set inside. All you have to do is drill a starter hole in your bookshelf, then screw the finial into place. You can also use standard wood glue on the bottom of the finial, to be sure it stays in place at all times... by doing so of course though, you won't be able to change the finials to a different style later.
If your curtain finial doesn't match the shelf, or you bought it unfinished, simply paint, stain or varnish it to fit your room and shelf decor.
Take this decorating tip even further by buying finials of different sizes, shapes and colors. Then change them with the seasons, each time you want a fresher, different look to the room, or each time you re-decorate completely.
Alternatively of course, you can simply buy a plain architectural finial without the screw already in place - then just glue that into place on your book shelf.
Start shopping around for decorative and unusual finials today, and get your bookshelves all spruced up for spring!
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