Catching up with Linda

FINALLY, I have put away all the decorations for Christmas. I hope you've gotten your house back to normal. The holidays are such a Huge job. Now we're all getting a good look at our rooms. For some, they'd like to start the New Year by improving and refreshing their homes.

This is a wonderful gift you can give yourself. After the holidays, our homes might seem dark and bleak. What we need is an emotional lift by making our homes our sanctuary again. I'll give you lots of tips. Of course, you don't have to do all of them. Choose those that you can do given your time, budget and motivation. When you're done you'll feel wonderful and you'll definitely want to invite others over to admire your work.

I get lots of messages on Facebook and email asking me to help people with their design questions. Usually they just send me a description of their problem, no pictures. I always try to help.

"Debbie," (no last name for the sake of privacy but she'll know who she is) is an example. It made me think that my answers for her might work for you.

Debbie speaks for most of us. She cares about her house, would like to give it a new twist, spruce up, add some new things and doesn't want to spend a lot of money. She shops with me on QVC and asked me to help her make some choices. I'm hoping to convince her that she should also paint. I know she's a smart shopper because she's taking advantage of my offer to help. I always tell you that when I'm on live on QVC, I'm your Free Decorator For The Day!

I posted some tricks of the trade that address Debbie's questions on my blog over at QVC.