Never too old to learn

I've always heard, "You're never too old to learn," and it's as true for me as anyone.  I'm learning about "Blogging" and up until now I couldn't have been less interested!

         This is what happens when you surrounds yourself with young, smart, talented and creative young people and become part of their amazing new world of communication. You struggle to catch up, keep up and you marvel at the possibilities of which they speak in a language you do not know.

         So, here and now Andrew Downs and company enters the world of technological communication. Even though I don't really know what I'm doing here's what I hope our blog will mean to you.  

    Our shop has just begun our third year and I've learned a lot in those two years. My young, wonderful staff and I spend our days on journeys into the environments you call your homes and I'm learning more each day that the journey is far more intense and mystifying than I would have imagined.

         Each person who comes into our shop brings with them concerns from the color of a wall, to how to perk up a tired room, to how to hang art, to designing the interior of a new home and those concerns goes on and on. Each one of those concerns become personal to us regardless of the task.

         Recently, we had a client bring in a friend who told us she had wanted to come in for about a year but she was intimidated by the shop and we can all sense from time to time that others react in a way that suggest to us they are uneasy.

         We have worked and continue to work each day with the goal that our shop at the very least will inspire and at best will allow us to open a dialogue with you that will demystify interior design, brighten your day or even elevate your environment. That's what we do all day long.

         So, we hope our blog will become a first step for us to get to know each other. If there is any way this blog can lessen your decorating concerns and make the journey on interior decorating your home a little easier and productive then the time I'm spending learning to blog will have been time well spent!

         By the way, the friend who brought her friend is now a wonderful client coming along nicely in the redecoration of her home. Getting to know her, however, is as exciting as our working for her.
 

    Duralee Fabrics is one of our favorite fabric lines and a couple of weeks ago our rep Jud Stone, dropped by to show us their new collections. The president of Duralee , Marty Rosenberger, just happen to drop in with him. That doesn’t happen every day!

    One of the new groups, The Wainwright collection, sent us into a fabric frenzy and you can see it right now at the shop even though it isn’t available until June.

 

  By the way... Duralee is 10% off everyday!!

    There is a fashion to all things and there is nothing we will not do to make the point! At the recent "Art meets the Runway" fundraiser we turned an old chair into a piece of art and made a skirt of the fabric for Valerie Aldridge to wear as a show end-er and a show stopper.

 
 

    There were more flowers inside homes in Broadlands than blooming in their gardens last Saturday. The annual Tour of Kitchens benefiting the Georgia Children’s Chorus took place and it was our job to turn one of the kitchens into an indoor garden or that’s what we did, anyway. It’s amazing what a little tree fern and thousands of daisies can do to a kitchen. 

 

Comments

[Brandy]

I LOVE the blog! Congrats you guys!

[Angie]

My new favorite blog.

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I LOVE the Blog !! More importantly, I Love the Trina Turk design Chair. The Matte white painted/waxed finish and fabric design is Fabulous !! I can't live without having this design chair in my house !...and I have 3 Black cat's...Wonder who will sit in it?

[Rob]

My first blog experience and It looks great, well done by all!!!!