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Welcome!
Finally, after months and months
of construction, I’m
proud to announce that the website is up and running! I’ve
received countless wonderful emails from so many of you and my hope is
that through this blog I’ll be able to keep up with all of the questions
and chat with ya’ll on a regular basis.
Even back in my days at a firm, working
with much larger budgets, I practiced high style at every cost. Sometimes
the perfect piece really is the least expensive option and sometimes
it’s not. Good
design is about finding a balance between the two and creating a beautiful
aesthetic within your means. There’s nothing satisfying about
living a beautiful life if it puts you in the poor house! Where do
you put down a real chunk of change and when can you do the same thing
for a fraction of the price? My goal has always been to help people make
smart informed decisions, and to take the snoot out of beautiful living.
Case in point: I just took a quick,
much needed Memorial Day weekend trip with my fiancée Scott, our Yorkie Floyd and a
few close friends. I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to catch
up on some work, draft by the pool, and pour over all of my new design
mags for inspiration. This is a luxury beyond words for me. As a matter
of fact, if I had to describe a perfect day, this would be it! The problem
with this theoretical perfect day was that I found it to be depressing.
Page after page of uninspiring expensive rooms that don’t work for
real people, beautiful shots of food that none of us actually have time
to prepare and stories about building the perfect wardrobe for “the
average career woman” that involves $1200 vintage couture shoes
as “staples”. $1200!!!!!!! I own lots- people I mean
LOTS of shoes, and I don’t think any 7 or 8 pairs combined equal
that! My point is that I look to these pages as inspiration, not to
feel like a loser!
Although I’m known for being thrifty, I’ve
never been cheap. I like beautiful things, but I have no problem pairing
a vintage lamp from Goodwill with a new custom shade. I live a very
real, very hectic life and you know what? I think it’s pretty beautiful. I
feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to do what I love
and do it in a way that reaches out to so many people. Think of me as
your go to girl for all things timeless as well as trendy and I’ll
work hard to keep finding it for you.
I’m looking forward to using this website as an
opportunity to share all of the things I’m madly in love with- be
it products or websites- and things that are inspiring me at the moment. I
encourage you to share what you’re loving and bounce ideas off of
each other via the message board and to give me feedback as well- I’m
a big girl, I can take it! If you think there are things you’d like
to see covered on the show or in my segments, drop me a line. Running
into HGTV fans and hearing that they used something they learned on
our show is glorious and the emails let me know that all of the work we
put into it is worthwhile.
I’ve got a few irons on the fire and will keep
you posted on all of the news.
Thanks for watching and stay tuned…
Love,
Kristan
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