Robin Swoboda Show- LaZBoy Design Diva's

As a part of my job I am now taking part of the La-Z-Boy Design Diva's segments on the Robin Swoboda Show on Fox 8 Cleveland. Below is my first segment. It's a little short but hey I'm not a professional TV show host.

 

Stylish

Stylish by aniemancrochet on Polyvore.com

Items in this set:
Madame Noir Chandelier, $1,785
Grey Flannel 2 Seater - Buy from the French Furniture Specialist:..., 500 GBP
Victorian Mirrors | LampsPlus.com, $260
Moulin Noir 2 Drawer Bedside - Buy from the French Furniture..., 190 GBP
Amazon.com: Dendrobium w/Glass Vase Silk Flower Arrangement: Furniture..., $51

Too busy to even shop

I know I haven’t been here to write in a while nor have I had much time to write on my own blog. This with the diet are going alright seeing as I don’t have much time to shop anymore with working 50 hours a week.

I just took a new position at work, I don’t know if I have told you about it or not. My mind is a mess and today has been the first day off that I have actually had a chance to think. So, I am now the store designer at my LaZBoy in Fairlawn Ohio. For those of you who don’t know where Fairlawn is, which I wouldn’t be surprised, it is just outside of Akron, Ohio. 

With taking this new position I realized that I needed to go through my wardrobe and make sure I have outfits that really do say “Interior Designer.” So far so good, but I am making a list of essential items my closet seems to lack. The list isn’t too long yet but I am sure by next September it will be a mile long.

Also while going through my closet I realized a lot of my essentials like spaghetti strapped undershirts are going to fall apart by next September, if not before. Those items are also going on the list. 

I just hope that there aren’t too many things on the list that it negates the whole reason I am doing this in the first place, to save money. It would suck if the money I am saving equaled the amount I would need to spend in September to replace and update my closet. Let hope I save more than that!

It's been awhile

Lately I have been very busy with work that I have not had the drive nor the time to really sit down and write for my blog. I have neglected A Nieman Design and I miss writing and sharing my ideas and projects. 

At work I took a new position as the Store Designer of the La-Z-Boy in Fairlawn Ohio. I have been really busy setting up shop and working on designs. There hasn't been a designer at this store for a year and there I a lot of organizing and paperwork to do.  It has made me exhausted when I come home at the end of the day. 50 hour work weeks are not fun. But finally I have gotten things together enough to relax and start blogging again.


I am looking forward to getting back to my blog and my etsy!



Have a wonderful day!
Ali

The Larson Room

The following La-Z-Boy products can be put together to make a wonderful room. The main sofa is called the Larsen. You can have style with reclining furniture.

The Zoe Room

Today I spent some time putting together some rooms that you may not have thought you could purchase from La-Z-Boy. Unfortunately the format that I created them in is not cooperating with blogger so I cannot show you the exact print outs but here are some of the images. These are all products you can find at your La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery. If you live in the Akron area please stop by and see me at the La-Z-Boy in Montrose and I will custom design a room just for your home!


The Zoe Room:

Guest Blog Series: Elizabeth of Thoughts from an Evil Overlord

This is the first post in a series that will feature other bloggers. First is Elizabeth writer of Thoughts from an Evil Overlord. Please check out her blog if you enjoy this post! 

Last winter, I finished and hung some artwork in my bedroom, which I had been talking about for only a year! I bought this condo 18 months ago, and had big plans which were cut short by the insecurity of being on a medical leave and possibly needing my savings for living instead of all the fun home upgrades I had planned. So nothing big has been done. I don't consider my bedroom a decorating priority in the way many people do. I live alone, so my entire house is a sanctuary. I don't need a special one just for sleeping. But a bunch of my RMS friends "bullied" me into at least doing a few things, including putting up curtains and some art. I didn't even have curtains, just cheap white mini blinds. I'm pathetic, but I don't care. The rooms people see look great!

I got the idea for some really cheap inexpensive art that would make a large impact from my friend AnNicole at Our Suburban Cottage. She had shared this photo with a decorating group when we were discussing alternatives to doing a wall of plates. "I can do that!" I thought, "I even have tons of fabric and a few embroidery hoops I could use!" I'm not going to give you the timeline on how much I talked about the project. Suffice it to say it's been more than a year since I first saw the inspiration picture!

Cheap balsa wood embroidery hoops at A.C. Moore cost me around $12.00 for 13 hoops! Can you believe it?! I already had all the fabric I could possibly use. My mom and I picked out all the fabric we thought might work and threw it on the quilt. Anything that didn't blend in we removed, and then we went through what was left, choosing our favorites, which were about 15 different colors and patterns.

My niece came over and we put fabrics in different size hoops, planning to use 2 of the same fabric at least twice, and finishing with an odd number of hoops. Once we were happy with the sizes we had chosen for the different patterns, she started laying them out on the floor in a horizontal oval. It took a while to get the different sizes and colors and their relationship to each other the way we liked. 

Once it was acceptable, we moved things out of perfect alignment to be more random and took a picture. This all sounds simple, but it took us several hours of switching fabrics out of different size hoops and taking lots of pictures before we were happy with this arrangement. I love using a camera to see things, it gives it a whole different perspective! The hoops were shiny new balsa wood. I used some acrylic paint very raw-creamy looking, so I used some acrylic paints I had around to dry brush the outer hoops in a mixture of gold, green and burnt sienna, aging them up.

My friend Mary graciously hung them for me. No one wants the girl with balance problems (me) standing on a mattress when there is no one else in the house. She didn't even mind that her whole back was in the picture, not that she should. What confidence! We used sticky-tack to hang the hoops, so they can easily be repositioned, and no holes were made in the wall. 

Ta Da! I think it looks great! We ended up hanging 11 hoops with 9 different fabrics. It made a huge impact for less than $12.00! I love the feeling of getting something done! the hoops have been up since February and made it through a humid summer without popping off the wall, which sometimes happens here in Massachusetts. The walls get "sweaty" and the sticky tack  can fall if it's holding something too heavy.

I hope this inspires you to try something a little different. You don't have to be an artist to make some artwork!

A Total Room: Finding Shabby Chic on Etsy

A Total Room: Shabby Chic

Lately I have been posting just some items that I feel are neat design accents sold on Etsy. For some people that doesn’t help them with the whole picture. That is why I am starting a new series with styles and using some Etsy only items together in rooms.

The first room is Shabby chic. Shabby Chic from my perspective is a simplified

attit

ude toward country. It is based on whites and creams then bring colors in

in accents. When picking your accent colors, pick three colors. One will be the dominant one in this example it is pink. The next two add interest by putting them in subtly, that way they do not fight with the main color and cause confusion. Simple is best in a shabby chic room.

Lets start with the headboard:

Add some solid white bed linens:

Layer with pillows:

Some white:

Some Cream:

Don’t be afriad to use So called kitchen furniture in your bed room:

Like this piece:

Everyone needs a mirror in the bedroom:

Every room needs lighting:

And then build with colorful accessories:

Like a hook for your bath rob:

Some decorative hat boxes:

And tie it all together with a little love:

I would love to hear you comments and feedback!

O-H-I-O

Etsy Interior Design:

Terra Cotta for your Home

Etsy Interior Design!

Wonderful Wood for your Home!

Etsy Interior Design: