Home Staging in Boerne
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a day staging a vacant townhouse in Boerne. Check out how it turned out: I used the existing red paint to our advantage, turning that bedroom into a fun kidspace and incorporated other [...]
HGTV's Design Star: Final Designer Added to Cast
It turns out there will be one more designer added to the Design Star mix...selected by the other 10. Among the options: Gary Andrews If the eyes are a window into the soul, then Mr. Andrews is this season's FON [...]
HGTV Design Star: Season 4 Designer Hopefuls
The Fashion Show has been eclipsed by Top Chef Masters... Project Runway (soon to come on the abused woman channel--er, I mean, Lifetime) hasn't started yet...so thank gawd the next season of Design Star's about to make its debut. My [...]
Best of Austin Three-Peat Buzzkill
I was about to start blogging away, asking everyone to vote for Room Fu in this year's Best of Austin readers poll via The Austin Chronicle. But when I scrolled down to the Services section, I didn't see Best Contractor/Home [...]
Feeling Nostalgic and Grateful
I'm feeling nostalgic about my first year in business these days. For one thing, I'm coming up on the SIXTH anniversary of Room Fu on July 4th--Independence Day! It's an incredible feeling because I never would've thought I'd take such [...]
Arachnophobes – Do Not Read!
Yesterday was c-r-a-z-y. My seventeen and a half hour home-staging-fest in Boerne started with an 8:00 am freakdance on the side of the road after a spider came out a' callin' inside my car. I had to pull over to [...]
Shady Lady
Since I'm such a daring individual, I plan to defy my HOA by burning tealights in a pair of these candle shades... I know. I'm c-razy.
My New Crush
I've never been one to lust after the beefcake they tend to parade around when it comes to home shows on TV. Ty's too obnoxious, Carter is nice-looking but doesn't seem like much of a braintrust, and this dude is [...]
How to Glam Up a Cheapo Bathroom
Our house was born with pretty standard-looking cheapo bathrooms. BEFORE: The '80s vanity light fixture, builder beige paint on the walls, Motel 6 laminate countertop, bargain basement cabinets, giant square mirror. It's enough to make a design guru weep. Well, [...]
Place Space
Ever have one of those d'oh moments where you see something that is so blatantly up your alley and it's been around forever and you feel like a complete doofus because you didn't know about it? Well I should've had [...]