Decorating In TV

[lindaz]

Ladies,
I am so excited I just had to post!!!! I found a replacement for the vertical blinds on my sliding glass doors. These look like sheer curtains from the front and act like opaque blinds from the back. They are new from Hunter-Douglas. The choices of colors and fabrics are awesome. The look is fabulous. I had just purchased some plantation shutters from Joy's Blinds in Wildwood on 301. I went into the showroom and they demonstrated these new blinds. I thought they were sheers at first, but they have pockets and the denser fabric is in between. They are not inexpensive, but they are beautiful! I am saving up to do all 3 of my sliding glass doors.
Highly recommend looking at them. Take your Dear Husband as the showroom is right next to a motorcycle store. Could not have worked better for me.
I can vouch for the quality and installation as they did such a great job on my shutters. I am excited!! :bigthumbsup:

[graciegirl]

That is great to hear because we didn't order blinds for the triple wide sliding door in our great room. Stock blinds wouldn't fit it the 100" width and I am not really crazy about verticals period. I made offwhite drapes and put them on traverse rods with a valance for now. I am always changing things so who knows what I will do next.

Speaking of decorating. I live in Cincinnati where FrontGate, (the magazine you see on airplanes) has it's national distribution center. Today they had their annual sale and I found two or three things that were just what I wanted and a lot less than the exorbitant prices they usually go for.

I love fixing up houses!

[jojo]

Gracie,

Are you for hire? I have problems visualizing furniture placement and am not sure I'm ready for all the decorating decisions that will need to be made when we move in. Since it is a resale, I'll live with the window treatments. In earlier days, I did sew but I've long since given that up. Sounds like your place will be a showcase for your talents. We'll have to get together when you come back.

[graciegirl]

You give me too much credit. I sew curtains only because I can sew a straight line. Every other sewing project causes extremely bad language to emerge from my mouth. I just love putting a house together. It is like a huge blank canvas for me. I impose on myself price restrictions, (I am SO tight) and for this project it MUST be COMFORTABLE, CHEAP, CASUAL and my granddaughter inserted COOL, to keep up with the "C" theme. I am trying to think of the best lines to buy from WALLWORDS. Should it be profound, witty, ribald, funny or what?

Oh this whole thing is so much fun!!! JOJO. You can be my partner in crime. I will come and cheer you on in your decorating efforts. AND you must promise to lie if you don't like my efforts.

I can't wait until the fall. By the way JOJO. Kroger has some great looking 7' artificial palms and bamboo trees for a $59 in their MarketPlace stores. At stores near TV they are asking well over a hundred bucks and they don't near as good. Of course we have to rent another trailer now. Cheaper than the COMPANY STORE.

[lindaz]

I am glad to commisurate with other decorators. I really do not care for the verticals or the mini blinds. The mini blinds went first and those plantation shutters are just the ticket. I was really excited to find just the right thing to replace those verticals. I wanted a softer look, but still needed the privacy. Hats off to the sewers, however, I am sure I could not do a straight line for any reason. I am doomed to pay for someone else's talents.

Thanks for the info.

[PJ]

Hi lindaz,

I'd like to find some curtains like that, so I checked Hunter-Douglas site, and didn't see what you mentioned. Can you please tell us the name of these curtains that are sheer but opaque? They have so many kinds on their site, so the name would help.

Thanks!

[lindaz]

PJ,
So sorry I did not get the name. Joy's has a really nice display over on 301. I would suggest you look over there and then you can price out what you like on line. They had many many fabric choices and other brands. I just liked the Hunter-Douglas the best. They are really cool to see in person as I have not seen these anywhere else. As you can tell I was really excited to see those verticals go and have such a soft beautiful solution.

I am sorry. I will ask for a name the next time I talk to them.

[PJ]

Thanks lindaz!!

[maxine8]

Ladies - I 'd like to recommend my dear friend Mrs. Corrine Wasicek for all your decorating needs. She specializes in sewing... Cornices, Valance boards, Curtains, Pillows, etc... ! and she's just south of 466. Her phone number is: (352)751-4625.

I can understand your furniture placement problems if any... A flair we're not all born with! She knows of a wonderful lady that is a Furniture & Accessory specialist... (I can't think of her name). She has wonderful ideas on furniture location and practical ways to arrange them. She's also familiar with what works best in many of the models in the Villages. I'm pleased with what she did in my parents home in TV.

Give her a call, I'm sure You'll be pleased.. and she's very affordable!

P.S. I believe Corrine is away for the summer till August 15th, 2008. If you prefer you can pms me for more details.

[scottke]

Has anyone heard of string curtains and if so do you know where you can get them. You just cut the bottoms to the length you want.

[Muncle]

Okay, I'm a straight guy, so I'm not really in to decorating. I know your basic colors, there's about 6-8 of them, and everything else is foo foo BS. When I bought my blinds, er, sorry, window treatments, the lady had about 20 pieces of white material. She and my sister, who thank God was here to help me move in, discussed in detail all the slight nuances between the egg shell, the ivory, the buff, the cream, and god only know what else. THEY WERE ALL WHITE!

Well, I tell you that to just reinforce that I ain't no decorator. I have a few pans and skillets that I use regularly, I wash 'em and probably put them back on the stove. I leave my toaster out since it seems silly to keep puttting it away and getting it back out if I use it a few times a week. I've got an el cheapo bookshelf stuck under the breakfast bar, behind the dining table, because I do much of my reading there and the bookshelf holds many reference books -- you never know when you might want to know who the Empress Maud was and whether she had a right to the throne or who the guy was who hung around Thalia Menninger. That's the way a guy lives. I've got all my Volksmarch mugs above the kitchen, my Homer Winslow(?) picture that I got at a deadpeople sale above my computer, and my centerpiece painting is a neat landscape I bought 30 years ago at a shopping center art show. I just had it re-framed at one of those fancy schmancy places and paid 4 times as much for the frame as I paid for the picture.

All the above rambling is to build my creds. Now down to the nitty gritty. Does anyone read the feature in the Saturday paper by the cute blonde (Dyer/Dwyer -- something like that maybe). I really like her columns, very readable and normally interesting and pertinent. I remember she says that she's available to speak to neighborhood clubs and the like and I expect she does private work. Anyone dealt with here? Is she as good in person as on paper? And no, I'm not stalking her.

[graciegirl]

Okay, I'm a straight guy, so I'm not really in to decorating. I know your basic colors, there's about 6-8 of them, and everything else is foo foo BS. When I bought my blinds, er, sorry, window treatments, the lady had about 20 pieces of white material. She and my sister, who thank God was here to help me move in, discussed in detail all the slight nuances between the egg shell, the ivory, the buff, the cream, and god only know what else. THEY WERE ALL WHITE!

Well, I tell you that to just reinforce that I ain't no decorator. I have a few pans and skillets that I use regularly, I wash 'em and probably put them back on the stove. I leave my toaster out since it seems silly to keep puttting it away and getting it back out if I use it a few times a week. I've got an el cheapo bookshelf stuck under the breakfast bar, behind the dining table, because I do much of my reading there and the bookshelf holds many reference books -- you never know when you might want to know who the Empress Maud was and whether she had a right to the throne or who the guy was who hung around Thalia Menninger. That's the way a guy lives. I've got all my Volksmarch mugs above the kitchen, my Homer Winslow(?) picture that I got at a deadpeople sale above my computer, and my centerpiece painting is a neat landscape I bought 30 years ago at a shopping center art show. I just had it re-framed at one of those fancy schmancy places and paid 4 times as much for the frame as I paid for the picture.

All the above rambling is to build my creds. Now down to the nitty gritty. Does anyone read the feature in the Saturday paper by the cute blonde (Dyer/Dwyer -- something like that maybe). I really like her columns, very readable and normally interesting and pertinent. I remember she says that she's available to speak to neighborhood clubs and the like and I expect she does private work. Anyone dealt with here? Is she as good in person as on paper? And no, I'm not stalking her.


Muncle.

You are something.

If only I could write like you.

[dreamweaver]

Muncle,
You sound like Andy Rooney. Are you related?

[maxine8]

scottke - I found an interesting web page on string curtains!

http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/string_curtains.html

They are beautiful... INDEED

[lindaz]

I could not use the string curtains. Although they have a wonderful light look, I need the privacy of being able to close the drapes and block out the view.

That is why I was excited about the new sheer verticals.

[chelsea24]

Hi Lindaz, thanks for posting this. We have new verticals because we moved here not long ago. But I never cared for verticals either. Well we can't replace them now, but definitely in the future. I'll run over to Joy's and have a look for the heck of it. Thanks again. :bigthumbsup:

[Russ_Boston]

Wait - I guy can't enjoy some decorating talk and be straight?

[lindaz]

Chelsea,
I am saving up to do mine too!
I am glad you have the same problem with the verticals. I also just like to look at what's new, so I was really excited by these.

Sorry guys! You can go look at blinds too!!!

[efrahin]

I got into this trend by error, but when did curtains became "window treatments"? Just asking.

[uujudy]

scottke - I found an interesting web page on string curtains!

http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/string_curtains.html

They are beautiful... INDEED



Oh man. Would Baby Monroe have fun with those! He would make a tangled, knotted mess of them in no time at all! :yikes:

[scottke]

Thanks Maxine8. I will check the website out further. That's not a website that I had found. I do think that type of curtain is a window treatment but then again I could be wrong. I'll also check out the sheer verticals. Thanks.

[njgranny]

If you watch HGTV, anything that goes over, under, around, near, or on a window is a "window treatment." :) :) :) :dontknow:

[chuckinca]

Wait - I guy can't enjoy some decorating talk and be straight?




NO ! ! !

[shighsmi]

We ordered blinds for our whole house from 46 hour Blinds. The Triple patio verticals were free with the whole house order. $635.00 The blinds are the two inch faux wood with valances included. Village of Hadley. We closed in Nov. 2007 Steve and Carol Highsmith

[shighsmi]

Sorry i meant 48 Hour Blinds

[graciegirl]

We ordered blinds for our whole house from 46 hour Blinds. The Triple patio verticals were free with the whole house order. $635.00 The blinds are the two inch faux wood with valances included. Village of Hadley. We closed in Nov. 2007 Steve and Carol Highsmith


Nice to meet you Carol! We have a house in Hadley too!!! Where are you?

Do I read wrong. $635 for the whole house? WOW!

[mzmom3]

Hey, guys, this is a great topic. I'll need all the ideas I can get!

We'll be there in 12 days! Wow!

[beady]

Where is 48 hour blinds? I love the price!

[graciegirl]

We just today bought a love seat from Ikea that makes into a bed. It is a new item for Ikea. It looks great as a loveseat for the third bedroom as a den or office and then it pulls out into a bed when guests come. We have an Ikea very close to us in West Chester, Ohio and there is one in Orlando. This love seat usually sells for about $400, but we found one in the clearance. (An unimportant part had been damaged) for $183.

The unfortunate part is we are here and here is where we have the time to shop. We will be pulling a trailer again when we come down, but it turned out to be not hard to do. You can rent a trailer in your own city and turn them in Leesburg. It requires a hitch to be put on your car or van however.

[jojo]

I visited the IKEA store in Palo Alto CA last week when we were visiting our son and grandchildren. Have you had any experience with the quality of bookshelves etc? We are going to need a lot of shelving for stuff. I knew there was one in Orlando so browsed with that in mind.

[Time for Tee]

:clap2: Hey Gracie, I ordered from Wallwords in French! My husband put it up over the Master bed and looks just like hand painting in Script. Each and everyone that happens to see it ~~~~~~~~~wonders what is say,s , We will never tell!!! If you speak French you have to stay outdoors! Such Fun! ;D ;D

[graciegirl]

Vraiment?

[renielarson]

I am an IKEA shopper and frequent the store often, so please don't take my comment wrong.

One problem I have with IKEA wood bookshelves are the screws that often show on the outside once they are put together.

[shighsmi]

48 Hour blinds are in wildwood off of 466A jus off of 301. They are also listed on The village sun sight. and advertise in The Village sun.They were very professional and prompt as well as fast. Yes that was the price for the whole house.

[graciegirl]

We found vinyl mini blinds at Penneys for less than 20 dollars for a 35X64 inch window, actually there were only two in a Camellia that were bigger than that aside from the two sliders. We found verticals for the bedroom slider for less than 60 dollars at Meijers and the same vinyl blinds for ten there. The two larger ones were still less than 20 at Meijers. We knew we were going to go down for a couple weeks to settle in, pulling a trailer with the items we needed, and that when we left we would have to have the windows covered. They are absolutely the same quality as the builder puts in a lot of houses.

We bought them with the idea that we would replace them with something else later.

Blinds are really not hard to hang.

I know that Meijers is a northern chain. But Penneys has a store in Leesburg.

[villages07]

We also used 48 hr Blinds (aka "the pink house") to put up faux wood blinds and a 12 ft vertical for slider for our entire house. We have 14 windows of various non-standard sizes. The $635 price might be for a villa or other model with far less than 14 windows. Our whole house price was about $1,100 .... still a decent value. We tried to price out difference between stock prices at Home Depot and what they charged and it was only a couple hundred bucks.... plus they custom measure and cut and put a nice little wood valance at the top of each window. 2 guys installed all 14 windows and slider in about 45 minutes.

[lindaz]

Just found out my neighbor in TV works for the new BEST FLOORING store on 466. She gave me some great prices to replace the basic builder's carpet. Now I am torn between doing the verticals from JOY's or doing the floors. I have to pick one and just wait for a while to do the next one. By the way BEST FLOORING is having some free drawings for area rugs and stuff as part of their GRAND OPENING. As you exit onto MORSE BLVD go east to the little Sante Fe strip mall. You will see all the flags. They have some cool new things too!

[shighsmi]

We have a Wisteria in Hadley. 10 windows and a nine foot slider. Not a villa.

[mzmom3]

Has anyone used DECORATING DEN? I've heard that were somewhere near TV. I'd love to know if they are and what you thought of them. Thanks a bunch!

[lindaz]

All the draperies and flooring I am looking at are custom made sizing. Doesn't matter what size home you have or what size windows or floor.

Have used Decorating Den and was not impressed with the quality in the past.

Check out Best Flooring.

[graciegirl]

I have become an HGTV addict. I also purchased a lot of recent back copies on ebay of both Coastal Living and Cottage Living. A sewing machine is right around $100 dollars at Sears, Sam's, etc. If you are inclined, and Sew Easy Patterns are SOO EASY. Many of us HAD to take sewing way back in the seventh grade. It is kinda fun to have a new adventure and just make simple curtains and valences. All they are are rectangles and lined two rectangles sewn together, use the new circles with pincher things on them and you have a designer look. Great looking curtain rods are not expensive.

[Russ_Boston]

If there isn't already a club for this it sounds like a great idea to put one together.

The Villages window treatment club!

[samhass]

How about just using shutters and NO window treatments? (No dust catchers at the windows) Shutters are so clean. You can wipe them down easily. If you have allergies, they are wonderful. I'm thinking less is more these days.

[lindaz]

I did put the plantation shutters on the windows and they are beautiful! That is what introduced my to the Joy's Blinds store. It is the verticals that were hard to replace with anything that has a softer look. It is why I remain excited about the new sheer vertical look.

[Shirleevee]

Graciegirl,


HGTV and sewing, OMG! you just reminded me that I, too, had sewing in high school and own a sewing machine. Thankyou so much!

Shirleevee

[graciegirl]

I love Plantation Shutters. I am doing a more cottagy look, hopefully without it looking too schmalzy. I have a couple of rooms that will be simpler that Plantation shutters will work but the rest call for curtains, to add color etc.

[uujudy]

I have become an HGTV addict.

Graciegirl, ME TOO! I am hooked on HGTV! Then I watch the virtual tours of the pre-owned houses on TV website. The houses look great from the outside, but some of them.... (in the words of Donna & Shannon Friedman) ... "WHAT were they thinking?!" :barf:
Topic cops :cop:, this does pertain to decorating in TV :)

Russ, Great idea for the Villages Window Treatment Club! You start it so it's up and running when we get there. You can show the world that straight guys can decorate! :hot:

And speaking of sewing.... Where do you get your fabrics? I get email coupons from JoAnn and Hancock fabrics, but you can't feel the fabric if you buy online. Are there any good fabric stores near the Villages?

[Shirleevee]

www.decorativefabric.coM

[uujudy]

Thanks Shirleevee! :bigthumbsup:

[PJ]

uuJudy, It is hard to find fabrics near TV, as the fabric stores are far away. Walmart on 441 has some fabrics, but if they don't have what I need, I go to either Ocala or Tavares to JoAnne fabrics. Hope we get a fabric store someday.

[GERALDINE]

You are tooooooo funny!! I love the way you think and I really love the way you write. You must have been a comedy writer in your past life!!! :joke:




Okay, I'm a straight guy, so I'm not really in to decorating. I know your basic colors, there's about 6-8 of them, and everything else is foo foo BS. When I bought my blinds, er, sorry, window treatments, the lady had about 20 pieces of white material. She and my sister, who thank God was here to help me move in, discussed in detail all the slight nuances between the egg shell, the ivory, the buff, the cream, and god only know what else. THEY WERE ALL WHITE!

Well, I tell you that to just reinforce that I ain't no decorator. I have a few pans and skillets that I use regularly, I wash 'em and probably put them back on the stove. I leave my toaster out since it seems silly to keep puttting it away and getting it back out if I use it a few times a week. I've got an el cheapo bookshelf stuck under the breakfast bar, behind the dining table, because I do much of my reading there and the bookshelf holds many reference books -- you never know when you might want to know who the Empress Maud was and whether she had a right to the throne or who the guy was who hung around Thalia Menninger. That's the way a guy lives. I've got all my Volksmarch mugs above the kitchen, my Homer Winslow(?) picture that I got at a deadpeople sale above my computer, and my centerpiece painting is a neat landscape I bought 30 years ago at a shopping center art show. I just had it re-framed at one of those fancy schmancy places and paid 4 times as much for the frame as I paid for the picture.

All the above rambling is to build my creds. Now down to the nitty gritty. Does anyone read the feature in the Saturday paper by the cute blonde (Dyer/Dwyer -- something like that maybe). I really like her columns, very readable and normally interesting and pertinent. I remember she says that she's available to speak to neighborhood clubs and the like and I expect she does private work. Anyone dealt with here? Is she as good in person as on paper? And no, I'm not stalking her.

[njgranny]

I, too, am an HGTV addict. It's so much fun to see what they do to the homes, and the creative ideas they come up with.

Do you watch Design Star?

We're redoing our kitchen right now, and I got a lot of my ideas from the HGTV web site.

I learned sewing in 7th grade also. Guys - shut your ears for this part. Our first project was a "halter top" made out of cheap material that we wore when the school doctor examined our breasts. I think back now and wonder why in the world that was medically necessary. It was so embarrassing to a 7th grader. By the time I got to high school, I had figured out how to avoid the physical in school.

[scottke]

I love HGTV and I'm always looking for ways to decorate in TV or change things in our NJ home to help it sell. I too took sewing in the 7th grade and then again in high school. When I got married I made my own curtains and then my own maternity clothes. I haven't sewed in years. Perhaps I should try again although I just gave my brand new sewing machine, still in the box from 3 or 4 Christmases ago to one of my daughter-in-laws. Maybe someone else should sew for me.

[graciegirl]

Graciegirl, ME TOO! I am hooked on HGTV! Then I watch the virtual tours of the pre-owned houses on TV website. The houses look great from the outside, but some of them.... (in the words of Donna & Shannon Friedman) ... "WHAT were they thinking?!" :barf:
Topic cops :cop:, this does pertain to decorating in TV :)

Russ, Great idea for the Villages Window Treatment Club! You start it so it's up and running when we get there. You can show the world that straight guys can decorate! :hot:

And speaking of sewing.... Where do you get your fabrics? I get email coupons from JoAnn and Hancock fabrics, but you can't feel the fabric if you buy online. Are there any good fabric stores near the Villages?




Today I would answer, Where do I get my fabric?........NOwhere! I have been to Joanns, Hancock, Calico Corner and I need 12 yards of inexpensive outdoor fabric in the color palette I am using for our Havana Trail home, pale blue green and pink. I saw a good pink and white plaid and thought I could team it up with another similar fabroc with the same pink plus teal, because they didn't have enough yardage of the pink plaid. I should explain that we found a great deal on substantial wicker furniture for the back porch, but it has orange floral covers. I need a bunch to cover 10 cushions. Two chairs, a love seat and two ottomans.Oh well, no fun without a challenge.

[barb1191]

HGTV is a must. I watch it every night at bedtime. It lulls me to sleep. Love to see the amazing decor with only $2K spent. Also enjoy the buyers making choices of one of three homes on the market in their ballpark. Such creativity with makeovers from what most would consider junk. LOL

barb

[Lil Dancer]

I, too, am an HGTV addict. It's so much fun to see what they do to the homes, and the creative ideas they come up with.

Do you watch Design Star?

We're redoing our kitchen right now, and I got a lot of my ideas from the HGTV web site.

I learned sewing in 7th grade also. Guys - shut your ears for this part. Our first project was a "halter top" made out of cheap material that we wore when the school doctor examined our breasts. I think back now and wonder why in the world that was medically necessary. It was so embarrassing to a 7th grader. By the time I got to high school, I had figured out how to avoid the physical in school.


Too funny!! ;D

[Russ_Boston]

Not always easy but my wife orders many fabrics online. Usually from Handcock fabric I believe.