Oh, the open floor plan: soaring ceilings, lots of light, flowing traffic patterns — and no wallspace! With all those windows, fireplace walls and the occasional built-in bookcase, there’s often very little room left for an entertainment cabinet or storage piece.
Enter the corner unit: furniture made to fit in corners — a highly useful but often overlooked category. A corner piece can make a television or home office look appropriate without crowding or competing with other elements on a wall, and by their very nature they are hardly ever in the way. Unfortunately, not many [ read more… ]
There are so many new leafy fabrics, from cool and woodsy to delicately embroidered tendrils and tropical philodendron.
To quote the Gershwin song, “S’wonderful, s’marvelous” — the new Baker furniture at Toms-Price.
There’s something really transformational happening with traditional furnishings — they’re going modern. Are modern furnishings going traditional? To some extent yes. While “modern” adds on curlicues and flowers, “traditional” peels away excesses of ornamentation. I guess it had to go that way. I mean where could over-the-top embellishment go but the other way — towards [ read more… ]
Here are some photos of the newly transformed upstairs area in our Wheaton store. Could we have predicted this evolution ten years ago? We now have an abundance of traditional modernish designs from all the biggies — Baker, Stickley, Century. All our stores have experienced this evolution. Come and see it, I think you’ll be [ read more… ]
Ever come away from a bridal shower feeling like you needed one more than the bride? After admiring all the brand new stuff, it’s hard to go home to faded bath towels, mis-matched coffee mugs and cooking pots that have seen one too many boil-overs. And you think, maybe it’s time to start replacing.
Any well-lived-in rooms can start to look a little time worn. If you haven’t repainted or rearranged or added a new accessory in several years, maybe it’s time to take inventory. Not that you’re about to jettison everything; few of us can afford to do that. But some bright new accent pillows or updated lamps [ read more… ]
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t pursue this decorating thing all backwards. We start with the big things first — the sofas, the cabinets, the beds; and only then are the smaller things, the accents and accessories that make the space our own, paid attention to. What if we started with the personal and the [ read more… ]
