The winner of the New Cottage Style decorating book is…
Janet of Housepeepers!
Congratulations, Janet! She’s a long-time reader who has been visiting Hooked on Houses since the beginning. Thanks to everyone who entered–all 135 of you. I wish I could send a copy to everyone!
This week was a lot of fun. It was great to meet [...]
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I hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend with your friends and family. But first, before you start hunting for Easter eggs and eating those chocolate bunnies, I want to announce the winner of our Book Giveaway.
Drumroll, please. The person who is getting her very own copy of Marni Jameson’s book The House Always Wins is . [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Real homes are to model houses what we normal women are to fashion models. Supermodel Cindy Crawford famously admitted, “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. I have fat days, ugly days, blimp days, days that I just feel terrible about myself. I don’t want to have to be beautiful all the [...]
One of the biggest problems with houses today is that so few of them have any real character. If you read my post about our family-room makeover, or saw the photos from my writing-room makeover, you know we started with a big, blank slate of white boxy rooms when we moved into our house.
Our solution? A [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, since we’re talking about wallpaper today, I have to admit that I used to sell it. I not only worked for a year at Wallpapers to Go, but I sold more rolls than I can count as a designer’s assistant in the 1990s.
Maybe this explains my aversion to it [...]
