Home makeovers should not be limited to people with long purse strings. And, thanks to Refind Interiors, LLC, it's not. The company has launched a new design service - the room makeover service - which gives budget-minded homeowners and renters an affordable option for redecorating their current living spaces.
This new design service is the only one-on-one design service in Chicago that focuses on creating high-style makeovers within a low budget.
With this new room makeover design service, there is no need to spend tens of thousands on new furniture and accessories to put a fresh new face on a room. And, because the service uses what the client already has, the cost of new furniture is almost always eliminated.
The room makeover includes a one-on-one consultation in the client's home; and a design plan that transforms the space into something that better fits the client's desires and lifestyle. There is also a shopping service that is optional and can include some new furnishings, if desired. The whole process takes only an hour or two, so the client is not inconvenienced and can also get immediate satisfaction. The whole room can be made over within a day.
The cost of a room makeover is $495.
Jill Weinberg, owner of Refind Interiors says, "This makeover service allows people to take advantage of the luxury of a professional decorating service without spending an excessive amount of cash."
She adds that, "New spaces and appearances also deliver a renewed sense of satisfaction. Peace of mind often results from a room that feels just right. It can enhance confidence and is a great antidote to the stress and anxiety people are feeling right now."
About Refind Interiors, LLC
Weinberg has been designing unique interiors for more than 25 years. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including: Interiors; North Shore Lifestyle; Chicago Social; and the Milwaukee Journal. Jill was also named South Florida Designer of the Year for four consecutive years.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
New Design Service Gives Budget-Minded Homeowners Professional Room Makeovers
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New Highland Park business The Soap Box Shop would make a good spot to hit for holiday gifts. The cozy downtown store specializes in bath and body products such as Himalayan bath salts, handmade soaps and herbal facial gels, but also carries a small selection of accessories, including a large variety of soy candles and organic cotton totes. Prices range from $6 for a bath fizzle to $134 for Jurlique Soothing Herbal Recovery Gel.
Don't know about you, but some of us would die for an invitation to tiptoe through the White House. Who knows what we'd do if someone raised the velvet ropes and took us into places where the plain old public never gets to poke around. Well, the good folks at C-SPAN, the political cable network of record, hauled their cameras into nearly every nook and cranny of America's First Home over the last year and a half, and wound up with some 130 hours of hi-def video footage. Beginning with a 90-minute documentary, "The White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home," which airs at 8 p.m. Sunday [Dec. 14] in the Chicago market, the weeklong series (same time every night through Dec. 20) will give viewers a peek inside rarely accessed rooms of the presidential residence. You'll see the newly renovated Lincoln Bedroom, the Yellow Oval Room, which is the First Family's private living room, and the rooftop Solarium, most notably the site where President Ronald Reagan recovered from his gunshot wounds. You might be delighted by the Children's Garden, where among other curiosities, you'll see the handprints of each child who has called the White House home. First Lady Laura Bush provides what she calls "an insider's view." So even if your mailbag doesn't hold an invitation, sit back and tour the Obamas' soon-to-be new home. Check local cable listings, and the C-SPAN Web site at c-span.org/white house.
Canines Battle Bed Bugs in New Business Venture
STRATFORD, Conn., Dec. 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Bed Bug Finders, LLC announces this week the launch of a new business serving Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. It's a business that was created to help homeowners and businesses deal with the ever-growing bed bug population in North America. In New York City alone, in 2007, there were over 7,000 complaints filed with the New York City Department of Health.
"It's a unique business," Donald Frey, owner of Bed Bug Finders, LLC says. "Our company detects bed bugs by using highly-trained dogs. They are quickly able to seek out these difficult to find pests."
Bed Bug Finders, LLC is only a bed-bug detection company; it is not an extermination company. The company will work with any extermination company to remediate bed bugs by identifying their exact location.
"When our dogs go into a home or business," Frey says, "they find the exact site of the specific infestation within minutes."
This saves customers a significant amount of time and money. For instance, dogs can search the average hotel room in less than two minutes. Many times the solution is fast and easy and may simply call for throwing out an old clock radio or book to resolve the problem.
The company's approach is to perform a "search and destroy" process and not a "spray and pray" approach when it comes to the detection and remediation of bed bugs.
Bed Bug Finders works with many different types of customers that include, but are not limited to, residential homes and hotels; apartment buildings; nursing homes; and hospitals.
The members of the canine team are more than 96 percent accurate when it comes to locating bed bug infestations. Often, the company will use two canine members to verify the infestation making its accuracy nearly 100 percent.
Businesses and hotels who have bed bugs often suffer financially from the loss of business interruption. Bed Bug Finders offers their customers peace of mind.
So, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite."
President-Elect Obama's Message of Believe in Yourself Resonates in New and Unique Room Decor for Children
PALESTINE, Texas, Dec. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- President-Elect Obama speaks of "Change" and today more than ever our economy, and overwhelmed and stressful lives, need change. With determination Obama made history, being the first President-Elected African American, making what once seemed impossible possible. His powerful message of "Believe in yourself" and "Change" resonates in new and unique room decor called Motivating Decor (www.motivatingdecor.com), whose mission is to help children live their best life into adulthood.
"Today children are growing up fast and need the wisdom to have a successful life. What would be a better gift than to surround children with a nurturing and uplifting atmosphere of good words and good thoughts to help promote a good foundation and counteract some of the world's negative input, negative influences and stresses," says Bea Holley one of Motivating Decor's designers.
One never out grows the uniqueness because it is not based on TV or movie-pushed characters but real character traits that positively change lives with empowering words; such as you are special, patience, peace, faith, you can do it, be thankful, forgive, joy, respect, and many more enriching words and beautiful artwork that draws attention and nurtures each child's imagination. In addition, incorporated into the designs are the six pillars of character, which are the core ethical values from the foundation of the Josephson Institute of Ethics Character Counts; that is utilized in schools throughout the United States.
Psychiatrists say 40 percent of happiness is formed in childhood, what we experience, how we view our experiences, what we do and how we think about what happened. Motivating Decor helps to stimulate happiness.
Motivating Decor is great for children of all ages, reasonably priced and is excellent for bedrooms, classrooms, child care centers and pediatric offices for daily input of love, joy and peace. Presently the three motivational and inspirational collections consist of wall borders, photo frames, large colorful ceiling mobiles, growth charts and posters which we will continue to improve and expand. There is something for everyone.
Motivating Decor desires to collaborate with a partner who will help expand their wonderful line of room decor collections to include matching bedding, lamps, pop-up hampers, wallies and more -- as seen on the Motivating Decor website -- and make them available in retail outlets for easier accessibility for everyone.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
"A Garden" In Harmony With Earth, Wind and Fire with
THE first clue that a visitor to Tatwina and Richard Lee’s hilltop property is headed somewhere unusual is the approach, as it’s known in landscape design parlance. The nearly half-mile of dusty road winds dramatically up an intermediary ridge of the Diamond Mountains above Napa Valley. Each turn raises the expectation that the house will soon appear, as houses normally do, but even when the gravel parking area at the top is finally reached, there’s no sign of a house or a garden, just a simple path of crushed stone edged with mounds of green-gray Sonoma sage and California lilac. This, it turns out, leads over a rise to a low, rammed-earth house hidden on the other side.
The house — really a line of four one-story buildings made of earth, concrete and steel — sits in the depression between two knolls on a narrow, rocky peninsula, with steep, pine-covered hills swooping down on three sides to vineyards famous for their cabernet sauvignon.
The land immediately surrounding the house is given over to a naturalistic garden, which has been carefully designed not to look designed at all. In the context of the recent building boom, when hills across the country were clear-cut to make room for suburban-size lawns and topped with large houses, the hunkered-down house and its restrained, almost imperceptible garden have a quiet but powerful presence — even as they are invisible from the closest roads.
When the Lees bought 30 acres of the hilltop for $500,000 in 2001, it was a relatively bare, stony site that had never been built on. Ms. Lee said that neighbors told her that its tall redwoods had been cleared to gather lumber for the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, and something, perhaps its remote location, had kept people from putting a house there since. But the arresting mountain views instantly attracted the couple, who live in Berkeley and were searching for a weekend home. “The West Coast is not as laid back as it used to be,” said Ms. Lee, a fund-raiser and trustee for the San Francisco Foundation, a community grant-making organization, and a fourth-generation Californian. “My husband and I needed someplace to go just to exhale.” Mr. Lee is an eye surgeon.
To design the house, the Lees turned to their son and daughter-in-law, Eliot Lee and Eun Sun Chun, both architects in New York City. The resulting home (the cost of which the Lees would not disclose) is really a compound: a living room with a kitchen and dining area, a master bedroom and bath, a guesthouse with two bedrooms, and a sauna and spa, which add up to about 2,500 square feet of indoor space, all connected by gravel paths and stone steps that circulate around and back to a central outdoor kitchen and dining area. An elevated lap pool continues out from the emphatic angled line of a rammed earth wall bisecting the compound. “Once we saw the site we knew we couldn’t just do a house that could be found anywhere,” said Ms. Chun, a partner in 212box, an architecture and design firm. “It had to fit here.”
Eliot Lee, a partner at Steven Harris Architects, was advised by Mr. Harris to begin the landscape design during the initial process of designing and placing the house in order to smoothly integrate the structures with their setting. Several landscape architects were interviewed, and the architects found Eric and Silvina Blasen, of Blasen Landscape Architecture in San Anselmo, Calif., to be the most sympathetic to the idea that a light touch was needed when it came to replanting the surrounding land after construction.
THE Blasens were particularly concerned with preserving the existing land contours and protecting the native vegetation, especially several old manzanitas (Arctostaphylos), a shrub Californians prize for its twisted red branches and tiny bell-like flowers.
“Even though we were very impressed with what they wanted to do, which was so in tune with the land, every time you build a house — well, it’s like a bomb going off in the surrounding landscape,” Ms. Blasen said. “We knew we would have to bring back the same feeling of what was originally there and make it kind of come up and touch the architecture of the new house.” Read More..
