When I was unpacking the kitchen boxes at The Country House, do you recall me telling you about the ungodly amount of pastel china and pink glassware that I own? I couldn’t bring myself to part with it – but I also didn’t have a plan for using it in the new kitchen. So, sometime late [...]

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When I was 12 or 13 years old, my parents built a house just outside of town. We’d drive to go visit it and check on the progress almost daily. When it came to decorating, my Mom wanted our new home to be bright and colorful. She selected all the colors off of tiny paint [...]

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The good thing about the power being out at The Country House? I have been in the city non-stop since last Sunday. I often find a reason to go up there at some point during the week – it usually has to do with meeting workmen at the house or with cleaning it – but [...]

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Last weekend, I spent the morning cleaning our little apartment. I found myself dream decorating as I crawled under the bed to reach the dust bunnies and up onto the step-stool to clean windows. It’s amazing how inspiring it can be to change your viewpoint in a room! Perhaps it was the arrival of our cocktail table [...]

  Posted by Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo / Dream Decorating and Interior Design as Inspiration and The City Apartment and Uncategorized

Snowman image from a new to me blog called Kris’s Color Stripes – it’s worth a peek… she does absolutely breathtaking things with color! All the rest of the pics are mine. (They’re taken by my crappy and nearly dead Fiji digital snap-shot.) Next on my list: figuring out my Nikon DSLR. Gawd, I am [...]

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