Austin: Vacation Rentals
If you watched the ads that ran during the Super Bowl, chances are good you were as psyched as I was to see the Griswolds in their family truckster, reunited for a Home Away ad. Home Away is a company [...]
Makeover In Progress: Furniture Transformations
So you've seen Faye and Jason's striped wall in the family room I've designed for them...now some of their furniture has been made over as well. And it's a good thing these pieces are finally done too, because the anticipation [...]
Bathroom Before/After
Room Fu client Kathy hired me to consult with her for an hour to get some design direction before she embarked on her master bathroom remodel. She brought me back in before the contractors started, to help her make final [...]
Austin's Art of Jewelry Grand Opening!
The owner of Austin's Art on 5th art gallery is opening a new gallery/store featuring amazing wearable art. As the Design Guru at Room Fu, I've had the privilege of designing the interior and as a result, have spent the [...]
This Robin Finally Tweets
Hell is a cold, cold place since Sunday afternoon. Thanks to my BFF Karen, my client/friend Dana, and never-met-before-but-follows-my-blog Josef in Dallas, I have embraced Twitter. This is a line I swore I would never cross and actually thought the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My Clients are the BEST!
I recently began working with a photographer on his new studio space and the subject of a rust effects paint I used on the fireplace below came up. While discussing the (exciting) possibility of using this material on the main [...]