Kathy's Blog

Welcome! I hope you like art, interior design, architecture, and all things creative. This blog is my notebook of design and inspiration. Sometimes, I post my own projects. That's because, at work, I decorate residential homes and commercial buildings, and consult on all sorts of remodels, and renovations. I'm also a professional Christmas Tree Designer. Occasionally, (I never know when these projects will come up), I stage homes for real estate, redesign/rebuild furniture, and design and install window displays. Go here for my portfolio: www.kathyhanson.com Kathy Hanson & Assoc., located in the Willamette Valley and the Central Oregon Coast.

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  1. "It used to be that everyone was going for the high-end appliances, name-brand recognition, and status. Now, while people are still interested in good quality products, they are looking to do that for the least amount of money possible."
    — 

    Wendy Savino, a designer with Metropolitan Cabinets (via: Boston Globe)

    I agree, this is what I’m finding out there. -Kathy

     
     
  2. Via: explore-blog: Truth.

    Via: explore-blog: Truth.

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  3. Look! A ‘whale’ of a flower base. AKA, a flower vase in the shape of a whale. Cute. -Kathy Via: homedesigning: Innovative Flower Vases

    Look! A ‘whale’ of a flower base. AKA, a flower vase in the shape of a whale. Cute. -Kathy

    Via: homedesigning: Innovative Flower Vases

     
     
  4. "They just delivered my new occasional chair, and I love it so much! Now I want to put it in the living room, not the guest bedroom! I’d like you to come by and see if there’s any way it can go in the living room instead."
    — Client who’s having a luncheon and wants some help prior. (I love calls like that!) -Kathy
     
     
  5. “What is the point of enjoying freedom from fear or want, after all, if you cannot enjoy freedom from poorly co-ordinated colour schemes?” Here’s a semi-serious piece about attempts to require useless licensing regulations for various entrepreneurs, including Interior Designers. Never do they mention talent being important for the job. Which, I think entirely misses the point of the work. You can’t teach taste or a natural proclivity. But you can set up limitations and bureaucratic hoops to slow commerce. Dumb idea. No lives will be lost to an unlicensed Interior Designer, but lives will be enriched. -Kathy Via: the Economist  Rules for Fools: the Terrible Threat from Unlicensed Interior Designers.

    “What is the point of enjoying freedom from fear or want, after all, if you cannot enjoy freedom from poorly co-ordinated colour schemes?”

    Here’s a semi-serious piece about attempts to require useless licensing regulations for various entrepreneurs, including Interior Designers. Never do they mention talent being important for the job. Which, I think entirely misses the point of the work.

    You can’t teach taste or a natural proclivity. But you can set up limitations and bureaucratic hoops to slow commerce.

    Dumb idea. No lives will be lost to an unlicensed Interior Designer, but lives will be enriched. -Kathy

    Via: the Economist 

    Rules for Fools: the Terrible Threat from Unlicensed Interior Designers.

     
     
  6. "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
    — William Wordsworth
     
     

  7. The perspective is perfect in these remarkable wall drawings with black marker by Charlotte Mann.

    Via: arpeggia

     
     
  8. Progress…the project starts.-Kathy

    Progress…the project starts.-Kathy

     
     
  9. "We used a Andy Warhol to paint the decor."
    — Tyga
     
     
  10. The basic elements of creativity: copy, transform, combine.  Found here: explore-blog

    The basic elements of creativity: copy, transform, combine. 

    Found here: explore-blog