Warning: this isn’t a blog post about ‘lidder-ully’ transforming your old chair or other decor. It’s a metaphor for renewal, reappraisal and a fresh new start. But this process has opened the way for doing what I do best–literal, physical, tangible, furniture transformations. This post …
Sooooooo, we’re blowing this CRAFT thing up into a regular night of MAKING fun and relaxation. Every 3rd Thursday of the month, we’ll have a featured artisanal craft for you to learn. You’ll be introduced to new skills, tools, materials, techniques while you get to …
On the surface, this might seem either really obvious, or impossible. In truth, it’s neither. In my many years of experience and getting to know many many upholsterers, the craft of upholstery can be executed in as many different ways as there are species of …
Summer is my very favorite time of the year. Do you remember when getting your ‘colors’ done was so trendy? We all had a season that coordinated with our basic coloring. I don’t know if this is a fact, but I do think that we …
The entire time I was growing up, my dear mother’s message to me was to stop and be grateful for all the good all around me. Little did she know, I was an unusual child who truly did look for the good all around me. …
Back by popular demand are our spool ottoman workshops. If you’ve ever just wanted to get a taste of what upholstery is like, this is the way to find out. You get it all in this one day workshop. And I’m not even including …
3 Day Upholstery Bootcamp is one of our most popular workshops. Students come from all over the country to experience transformation in our bright roomy workshop. New friends, new skills, yummy treats, creative therapy, reupholstered chair–it’s a five prong winning weekend. Our next Bootcamp is …
As I start to write posts here on my fairly new website, thehomeroomshop.com, I might be overthinking what I should share. After years in the blogging game, then years away from it, I’ve nestled into a comfortable realization that if you write something honest, earnest, …
If you’ve ever tried to create jumbo tassels, you probably realized you couldn’t get the the top part to be nice and round and bulbous, right? I tried and tried to make it work with just using yarn, but, they just weren’t working out like …
After receiving many inquiries into how to create the flat welt cord to cover the staples next to show wood have prompted this easy tutorial. Besides this rather sticky method, you can also use double sided fusible interfacing cut in 1 1/2″ strips and simply …
Being the business owner who is always pitching her products makes me feel a little nauseated. Others are so smooth at weaving their sales pitches into clever blog posts so that readers are looking desperately for the Buy Now button. I’ve never been any good …
It helps that I’ve met these two lovely ladies in person, but even if I had not, I think we could have hit it off due to what intuitively feels like our shared beliefs about making, creating, designing, business and family priorities. It’s uncanny how …