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As decorators and homeowners, we are used to reconciling a variety of styles, opinions and budgets. Clients often have partners or family members who weigh in during the decision-making process, and taking everyone’s needs into consideration becomes a delicate balancing act.  Over the last year and a half I’ve been helping clients across the country decorate their homes, and I’ve been loving every minute of it.  Aside from meeting the sweetest people, the problem-solving aspect of decorating is what keeps the process interesting & fresh for me. Each project comes with its own set of restrictions and challenges, and budgets are often at the top of the list. In an ideal world we’d all have tons of loose cash laying around, waiting to be spent on lovely things for our homes, but for most of us this is not the case. The good news, however, is that reconciling budgets (or any other set of constrains) often forces us to think creatively, and arrive at original solutions we wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

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Another busy week has come and gone, and with it we’ve had much needed rain, which made our thirsty plants quite happy. Sadly, a thunderstorm earlier this week felled one of our larger trees, blocking our street and requiring several police cars and a late night intervention from the town’s tree removal department to clear away. Losing a tree that’s probably been here for decades made me sad but there was nothing we could do to save it. Thankfully, the damage was minimal and no one got hurt.

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Hello, friends! How’s your weekend going so far? I hope you’re enjoying some lovely weather (wherever you are) and having some relaxing times outdoors. I think there’s nothing more restorative after a stressful week then being outside, if only for an hour or two. We’re blessed to live in a small town surrounded by woods, rivers and wetlands, and there’s no shortage of outdoor activities on beautiful days like the ones we’ve been having lately. Since we didn’t take any interesting trips, I’ve been spending happy moments in the garden, checking things off of my fall to-dos list. I replanted some of our hydrangea shrubs and cleaned out a couple of flower beds that were getting out of control. And I did it all with only minor scratches and injuries. (Our climbing roses have thorns sharp enough to perform minor surgeries, if needed.)

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Our series of Create Academy class reviews continues with what has been one of my absolute favorite courses on interior design & decorating available on the platform so far – Amanda Lindroth ’s course – Design Interiors for Entertaining. While the title encompasses the premise and the reward of this class, the series of beautifully shot lessons teach us valuable lessons in decorating that will both empower the novice decorator and inspire the experienced designer with useful insights, tips and techniques from Lindroth’s own toolkit.