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Terrific online resources for art buffs

Everyone knows how much I love art and I am loving all the new sources popping up on the web that put original art right at your fingertips. Gone are the days of exclusive galleries that you may not have heard of. These website bring you great art at a great price. 1) 20 x [...]

DIY Home Staging For A Pink bathroom

Last week I flew to California to help a client stage her home. She and I remodeled the entire house in 2006 and 2007 but we never started the master bathroom. It was the project we were always ‘gonna get to’ and never did. Now the homeowner/client has purchased another home in another state and [...]

Home staging-Transforming a pink bathroom

Home staging is big business these days. With so many homes in the inventory system a lackluster home filled with dirty floors, strung up laundry and trashed carpet no longer fits the bill…if of course you want to sell your home it doesn’t. Home staging is necessary if you want to show your homes best [...]

A moment of peace

This week is proving to be very busy and hectic. So in an effort to calm my nerves and just take a deep breath I will pretend I am in Tahiti….OK, much better! Have a great week everyone! Need help with your next decorating project? Want your home to be stylish and bring you ultimate [...]

Home Staging-How to tackle small projects to reap big rewards

In these economic times home staging has become increasingly popular for people who want to sell their homes quickly. With so much inventory to boot and sellers still picky about their list of needs, now is not the time to be cheap. Potential staging clients call me all the time wondering if temporary staging really [...]

Interior decorating-How to start a project and decorate with confidence

I’ve been in the design business for thirteen years and the most common thing that comes up with clients is their lack of confidence with decorating. Design can be quite easy if approached correctly. We all have an innate ability to decorate because we all know what we like and don’t like. The issue that [...]

Feng Shui-What does your front door say about you?

When I was going through design school in California back in the late nineties I studied the methodology and energy practices of feng shui. Since being in Tennessee I have utilized very little of this training but have maintained a closet addiction, and secretly applied it through many of my interiors because I think everyone [...]

Phone Consultations

AB HOME Interiors has been offering online design for over two years but after reviewing our survey from a week ago, we discovered that a majority of our readers don’t necessarily need detailed design plans, but rather prefer quick and easy phone consultations to get their design questions answered now. You asked and we responded! [...]

The art of being an entrepreneur

When I first started my company seven years ago my mindset was, “I want to work from home and not for someone else.” I really had no intentions of being an “entrepreneur.” But I will be honest, I had a terrible track record working for other people. Overall I was a good employee, or at [...]

12 EASY things you can do today to reduce your carbon footprint

The very convenient truth about our carbon footprint is that each and every one of us have the ability to make an impact. For years the task at hand seemed daunting to me. How on earth (pun intended, Har!) can I make a difference? After watching Al Gore preach to us about Global Warming, and [...]

How quantity over quality can sacrifice your style

In the last fifteen years there has been a slow yet rapid shift in the quality of products sold in the US. Everything from our clothes, furniture and even food has seen a decline. Furniture and accessories are all being sent over to China for production where every corner is cut to keep costs low. [...]

How to create an office that makes you more money

Imagine going into your office and sitting with a client dressed in your pajamas. How would you feel? It’s likely that you wouldn’t feel professional, and lets face it your game would be off. You wouldn’t be able to put your best foot forward, and really sell your offerings with confidence. (not with felt scooby [...]

Toxic food-The secret behind eating raw produce

About four years ago I started making small steps to eat more organic food, especially produce. Prior to this I was assuming that all produce was the same produce and no reason to spend more, right? Wrong. Organic food is more expensive yes, but are you willing to risk your health for an item that [...]

Beyond the plastic yard flamingo- 4 new ways to rethink pink

Its no surprise, I love pink. Always have. In fact it has been the core color of my wardrobe for over 10 years. Early on my mother told me I would tire of it, or rather grow out of it….but I still love pink. The value or intensity does change over the years, but the [...]

Homemade Potato Soup-Amanda Style

Last year I discovered a great Potato Soup recipe from Mama loves food, that is really good and fairly simple. But being a vegetarian and having limited utensils in the AB HOME kitchen it was my goal to take an already simple recipe and dumb it down even further…aka, doin’ it Amanda style. Heres what [...]