Lindsay Ballard, Author at Makely

My Christmas House Tour 2013: The Front Porch Edition

by Lindsay Ballard on December 12, 2013 1,836 Comments

Welcome to the second half of the My Awesome Christmas Home Tour! We’ve already taken a look at the vintage inspired interior decorations – complete with a vintage aluminum tree, an old Santa cookie jar turned tree stand, and garlands galore. Now, let’s see what I’ve done on the outside, shall we? And welcome to those of you joining me from Dwellings by DeVore on the White Buffalo Styling Co Blogger Stylin’ Christmas Home Tour!

I had grand illusions of lights strung along our two story rooflines, wreaths on every window and garlands for miles. But, because I had some professional painters come in to help me paint some 3o foot vaulted ceilings in our home, that was just a pipe dream. I’ve spent the better part of this week with scaffolding and extension poles being staged on my front porch, so I’m glad that I kept my outdoor decor to simple and easily moveable pieces.

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The Painters Tape Showdown

by Lindsay Ballard on December 11, 2013 3,016 Comments

This post brought to you by FrogTape provided by ShurTech Brands, LLC. All opinions are 100% mine.

A few weeks ago, I talked about my new love affair with FrogTape® for Textured Surfaces. It is the next best thing to sliced bread for those of us who live in homes with textured walls. It makes striping and getting clean lines so easy.

I’m sure several of you just about fell off your chairs when you saw that colors I was using – two shades of greige (grey/beige). “Lindsay choosing greige? Well, I never!”

Never fear! The wall I was striping was for a friend’s beautiful, gender neutral nursery. During my last post, I detailed how to use the new line of FrogTape® and finished the big stripes in the room – but we wanted to do an accent stripe, as well. You know I pretty much never take the simple design route.

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