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Create Your Own Music Room
Not all music rooms have to be padded studios — this elegant room is a comfortable place to enjoy music. One of the many reasons to hire a designer is when you are doing a specialty room that might...
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The Right Carpet to Really Floor You
Carpet is comforting in a bedroom, where a neutral shade allows for design changes and avoids fading. With so many options in hard flooring these days, it’s easy to forget how luxurious carpet can be...
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Pumpkins and Spiders and Gourds, Oh My!
This weekend is the big Harvest Festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds (visit www.HarvestFestival.com for more info). If you like to decorate your home for autumn and winter holidays, this is a great...
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Belly Up to the Barre
Our precious remodel for a little girl’s bedroom included a ballet barre. We like to tell you about what we are doing “new” for our clients, and one of those popular new things lately is a ballet...
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Make Your Room Pop
If you follow our work at Style on a Shoestring, you’ve probably noticed we lean toward neutral designs with “pops” of color. Why? A couple of reasons. One, the main neutral palette provides...
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Kitschy Kitchens
Some new clients recently asked us to “think outside the box” for their kitchen remodel. “We don’t want the same kitchen everyone else has,” they said. Every design we do at Style on a Shoestring is...
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Make Your Walls Talk Using Wood & Stone
We are always looking for ways to think outside the box and bring visual interest to your home, whether it’s through creative use of accessories, furniture or wall treatments. For walls, we can always...
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Beyond Sketches: See Your New Room in 3D!
Would you like to do some remodeling in your home but you’re concerned about what it will look like? Well, of course you are! And you should be — after all, you want the results to be exactly what you...
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Baby, Baby! Designing for Multiples
It might be the holiday season but that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing our regular design work. And lately that work has been full of baby nurseries! We’ve talked before about how we approach nursery...
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Before & After Kitchen: Tap the Refresh Button
The dramatic “after” effect on this kitchen was easy to achieve with paint, tile and new accessories. We’ve been doing some amazing remodels over the last several months — including one we finished up...
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“Oops!” How to Avoid Design Mistakes
It’s the small touches that matter — imagine how boring this bathroom remodel would have been if those strips of colorful tile had not been included. Most of the time our clients call us before they...
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One-of-a-Kind Furniture? It’s Our Custom!
Our craftsmen built these bookshelves and cabinets to our specifications. Have you ever seen a piece of furniture — perhaps in a magazine or a model home — that you absolutely loved…until you read the...
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Lights, Camera … Action!
Your home theater doesn’t need to be huge — just well designed. It’s not enough to have a television in your family room these days! More and more we are being asked to create a home theater in a room...
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Hanging Out with Chandeliers
Chandeliers allow for extra space on the nightstands below them. I was reminded recently when we installed a $30,000 chandelier for a client how much I enjoy that design element. Yes, a chandelier at...
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Dreamy Beds for Sweet Sleep
Layered bedding is not only pretty but comforting. It’s not unusual to walk into a home store and find people drooling over the luscious beds on display. Those beds always look like you could just...
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A Tale of Tiles
Tile wainscoting paired with wallpaper creates a visually appealing space. The technique known as wainscoting — paneling the lower half of a wall — is a lovely way to add texture, warmth and visual...
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Bathrooms Awash in Light
A variety of silhouette lighting gives this contemporary bathroom an edge. We don’t always do complete remodels — sometimes we go into a home because a client asks us to make little changes to update...
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Two New Feet
Our designer Shannon Weller added a few feet to her home — two precious baby feet! Grant Michael Weller was born to Shannon and husband Brian on March 17. This sweet bundle weighed almost 9 pounds and...
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Introducing Tracy Lynn Studio
We have been busy over the past several months not only working on interior design and build projects but also on evolving our brand. Style On A Shoestring is now Tracy Lynn Studio. Why would we...
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Interior Design Tradeshow – TLS Does Dallas
In years past, our interior design team has frequented the Las Vegas Interior Design tradeshows, to source vendors and keep informed on trends, not to mention, have a little fun with the girls in...
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