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Refresh Decor With an Ice-Cream Palette
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Refresh Decor With an Ice-Cream Palette

By Carleton Varney

Palm Beach is like towns and cities across the globe — constantly changing. We see new architecture, new styles of clothing, new landscapes, new stores to try, new movies and shows to see — everything...
Crayons Enliven Decorating Choices
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Crayons Enliven Decorating Choices

By Carleton Varney

Were you a Crayola child? I know I was, and I believe nearly everyone has been influenced in one way or another by those crayons in Crayola’s distinctive yellow-and-green box.
Let Your Paintings Inspire the Decor
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Let Your Paintings Inspire the Decor

By Carleton Varney

I find that art in the home expresses a lot about a person's style.  Enjoy someone's art and I've found you'll often enjoy the person.  Many of my clients over the years have been painters...
Palm Beach Couple Embraces Colorful Design During Ireland Trip
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Palm Beach Couple Embraces Colorful Design During Ireland Trip

By Carleton Varney

Front doors should be beautiful, providing a warm welcome to visitors. And the front doors of Dublin’s Georgian mansions are indeed beautiful, along with the back doors and double doors of the cottages along the...
Help Your Living Room Bloom in Springtime
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Help Your Living Room Bloom in Springtime

By Carleton Varney

I’m thinking about springtime decorating, and that often means designing a room in green and white. It’s often said that a room in blue and white is magical. But a room in green and white...
Even Umbrellas Make a Design Statement in Palm Beach
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Even Umbrellas Make a Design Statement in Palm Beach

By Carleton Varney

Although its been a dryer-than-average spring so far in Palm Beach, we have seen a few April showers — and, yes, they do bring the flowers that bloom in May. That’s why April is what...
Look For a Visual Symphony When Decorating
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Look For a Visual Symphony When Decorating

By Carleton Varney

I love music in the home, and I believe music is as much a part of interior decoration as color. Sound — and music — can add a happy note to rooms. If you’re like...
Mural walls worth a look in a home or business
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Mural walls worth a look in a home or business

By Carleton Varney

Decorating trends come and go, but there are a few evergreens. And among the latter are murals — hand-painted sometimes on canvas and then applied to wall surfaces and sometimes painted directly on the wall...
Decorating for a baby? Sky’s the limit for color, pattern
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Decorating for a baby? Sky’s the limit for color, pattern

By Carleton Varney

I’m Grandpa, the decorator. And “joyful” is only one of the adjectives that can describe the birth a year ago November of my first grandchild — a boy named Bowie, born to my daughter-in-law, Victoria,...