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Nov 15

We all know about the Man Cave…but what about the Mom Cave? Today we’ll be giving you 4 tips for creating a space where you relax, get your creative juices flowing, hang with girlfriends, or just plain get away.

1) Give yourself some positive reinforcement. The Mom Cave is the perfect place to put some wall art with words of inspiration because sometimes we all need a pick-me-up.

2) Pay attention to the 5 senses. For example, if you’re crafting or scrapbooking in your Mom Cave, lighting is of utmost importance so that you can SEE! If you’re trying to relax, lighting your favorite scented candles is key. Capri Blue Candles.

3) Make sure the furniture is comfy!!! Again, if you’re using your Mom Cave as an office or workspace, make sure your desk/work chair is the best one you can find – the health of your back is worth it. If you’re using your cave as a place to sit down and relax…pick a chair with an ottoman…or even a chaise. Via Color Outside the Lines.

4) Go a little wild. This is YOUR space so try some things you maybe wouldn’t elsewhere in your house. Maybe it’s a crazy chandelier, maybe it’s wild colors, maybe it’s, gasp…white furniture!!! Only if it’s a kid-free zone, of course. Via Better Homes and Gardens.

If you want even more tips on how to make your Mom Cave a reality, the Home Goods website has a great video series from designer Elaine Griffin.

Nov 6

If you’re anything like us, by mid-November, you’re so000 over Fall decor and already thinking about what you’re going to do for the holidays. Yep, you’ve got the Pumpkin blues. Those things have been kicking around since well before Halloween, and you’re tired of looking at them. The only problem is that you’re still got to get through Thanksgiving, and pumpkins still seem like an easy thing to decorate with. Never fear, Fluff Your Stuff Interior Redesign is here. We’ve compiled some great ideas on how to extend your pumpkins’ shelf lives through Turkey Day. Hopefully they will help motivate you to stay in the Fall spirit at least for another couple of weeks. And we promise…after that…it’s open season on winter and holiday decorating.

Idea #1: Copper/Silver/Gold Leaf Them!!! We love all things shiny, and applying a metallic leaf to a plain ol’ pumpkin makes it extra chic! HGTV shows you how to do it.

Idea # 2: Make them more exotic! Ethnic prints like Suzanis and Ikats are all the rage these days, and Alisa Burke’s painted pumpkins fit right in with that vibe.

Idea # 3: Add some rustic tacks in a pretty design. Adding tacks to your pumpkin is super easy and it looks really cool. If you’re not sure on a design, try using them to monogram your pumpkins!

So there you have it Fluff fans. 3 awesome ways for you to add a little flavor to the October pumpkins (or gourds) still kicking around your house. Have a great pumpkin-makeover idea of your own? Feel free to tell us all about it in our comments section!

Oct 3

The Pantone 2012 Fall Color Trends are pretty exciting, so we decided to do a little blogging about them. On the list this season? French Roast, Honey Gold, Pink Flambe, Tangerine Tango, Ultramarine Green, Bright Chartreuse, Olympian Blue, Titanium, Rhapsody, and Rose Smoke! Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute (the organization that puts together the color trends each season) has explained that this fall’s palette is the perfect blend of neutral and bold hues. We’ve scoured Fluff Your Stuff’s vendors as well as online retailers to find some of our favorite items in a few of these amazing shades. For our next blog, we’ve designed a mood board for a living room that utilizes each and every hue on the list!

French Roast (18″ Parisian pillow, Fluff Your Stuff, $34)

Bright Chartreuse (Leather Armchair, Crate and Barrel, $1699)

Honey Gold (Panorama Chandelier, West Elm, $399)

Titanium (5×8 Peacock Rug, Fluff Your Stuff, $284)

And finally, a Rhapsody and Tangerine Tango sitting room for a little inspiration! Via Elements of Style Blog.

Stay tuned for our next blog, where we’ll show you a few more of our favorite things + an interior design mood board assembled entirely around the 2012 Pantone fall color palette!

Sep 19

As summer draws to a close, thoughts of fall barbecues and football parties and general outdoor merriment dance through our heads…which gets us excited about cozy outdoor living spaces. For today’s blog we’ve decided to put together the perfect recipe for how to redesign your summer patio/porch into a cozy, fall patio/porch. So get inspired, and if you need a little extra help, you know who to call.

Fluff Your Stuff’s Tips for Creating a Cozy Outdoor Living Space:

Throw in some throws…and poufs for good measure. We’re partial to anything cable-knit or made out of baby-soft wool. All throws/poufs pictured are available through Fluff Your Stuff. Prices upon request.

Mix in some fall colors. If you’ve got a ton of, say, coral going on, try adding in some spicy colors like cinnamon, paprika, or cumin.

Add a rug. Nothing cozies up a space like an area rug, and there are tons of indoor/outdoor options to choose from now. Via East Coast Creative.

Go mad for plaid. Yep, plaid is trending this fall, so don’t be shy. Via Girl Learning Along the Way.

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Aug 21

This week, we’re sharing with you one of our favorite design concepts: Wabi Sabi! What’s that, you ask? No, it’s not a new sushi restaurant in Omaha (although we do love sushi). It’s actually a Japanese principal based on the acceptance of imperfection. According to Wikipedia, “The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.” Now, before you panic and start thinking that we’re advocating you use a dining room table that’s missing a leg or something, let us clarify. Wabi Sabi is all about finding the beautiful in things that are asymmetrical, rough/irregular, simple, economical, modest, intimate, natural, and that have integrity. Well who doesn’t love that? Striving for utter perfection in your home is exhausting and just plain silly. Wabi Sabi takes the pressure off. It encourages you to go with the flow and embrace things even when they’re not perfect. Sounds like a good life philosophy to us! So, without further ado, here are a few examples of rooms with “Wabi Sabi” mojo and some of our favorite Wabi Sabi-style home furnishings.

Picture 1: via The Style Files

Picture 2: Keeping it simple and natural, via Poetic Home

Picture 3: Natural Wood Table (carried by Fluff Your Stuff, price upon request)

Picture 4: Distressed Chair (carried b Fluff Your Stuff, $225)

Picture 5: Birch Bark Mirror (carried by Fluff Your Stuff, $278)

Picture 6: Norwegian-Style Rug (carried by Fluff Your Stuff, price upon request)

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Aug 17

We’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic these days about college! What fun times those were, right? And while we don’t really want to go back and re-live it all again (final exams? no thanks), we DO wish that would could have a do-over on how we decorated our dorm rooms. If only we knew then what we know now!!! So, just for fun, we’ve put together a few dorm room “mood boards” JUST in case we ever get magically transported into the past.

What’s more, to celebrate the back-to-school season, we’re giving away four, count’em FOUR Pottery Barn Dorm $10 coupons. To enter to win, just leave a comment in the comments section below and tell us how you would decorate YOUR dorm room if you could do it all over again (or for the first time, for those of you who are still in college)! You have until Sunday at midnight to enter. We’ll use our random # generator to pick winners, and we’ll announce the four lucky people in Monday morning’s blog.

Pottery Barn has tons of cute/cool dorm stuff, but we also recommend a few other places for low-cost gear:

Target! (Who doesn’t love a little Target, right? AND they’re having a Back to College Sale right now!)
Urban Outfitters (The stuff is cheap and trendy for all you hipsters)
CB2 (These guys can be a little bit pricey, but troll the sale section, and you can walk away with some great bargains. They also offer pretty gender-neutral goods)
Ikea (duh!)

And finally, here are our dream dorm rooms!!! Ah, the memories…Most of the pillows, poufs, and throws shown on these mood boards are items that Fluff Your Stuff actually carries, so if you see anything that catches your eye, please feel free to ask for additional info/pricing.

Jul 25

Our fabulous intern, Jenny, completed a really neat project this month that we just had to share with you: She created her own upholstered headboard!

The great thing is that, because she lives in a rental, she made sure the headboard didn’t need to be mounted to the wall. (For that reason, this would make a perfect project for your kiddos who are off to college this fall and want to spice up their dorm rooms!)

If you want to create something similar and need some visuals, you can visit the site where she got her original instructions, but here’s an overview in her own words of how she made it all come together:

“I switched up the instructions a bit, because I have a rental house that I am using this in and I did not
want to mount the headboard to the wall as it could leave marks that I would have to pay for when I
move out. I actually made a frame first with 1×4 pieces of wood attached on either side of the main
headboard part using a biscuit cutter and gluing the biscuits into the pieces of wood and then gluing
those pieces together to form a frame. The actual main piece of board I made was for a queen size bed
and measured 30” wide by 60” long, and is made of ½” NAC Plywood. Then I cut 18-10” pieces of ¼”
underlayment and glued quilt batting to the front side. I cut out 13” squares of fabric to have an extra
3” around the sides of the board. I covered the 10” board with the fabric and just glued it with craft glue
onto the 10” boards. The craft glue was strong enough so I didn’t have to staple the fabric to the boards.
Then I attached the 10” pieces to the main board with caulking glue. I let it dry overnight and able to use
it the next day. The last step was attaching it to the bed frame by drilling two holes on either sides of the
bottom of the frame and using bolts to attach it to the frame. Overall it took 3 nights to make it. Cost
was about $150, so more economical than buying one from somewhere, and a lot more custom and
unique.” – Jenny

Pretty awesome, right?!! Here are the finished pictures of Jenny’s new headboard!

Picture 1, Before the Install

Picture 2, After the Install

Jul 16

Many times when we visit a client’s home, one of the first things he or she asks us is, “How can I hide my flatscreen TV?” Usually they are sick and tired of it stealing all of the focus in a room, which is completely understandable given that most TVs these days are huge! (The good news is that at least they’re flat now because no one wants to return to the days of ginormous free-standing bigscreens or massive 24″ deep space-eaters.) That being said, one of the most effective ways to hide your TV is to camouflage it by surrounding it with artwork, decorative items or family photos. While it may seem counter-intuitive to put more “stuff” around it (“Won’t that draw the eye back to it?” you ask.), doing so actually helps to soften the impact of that big, black, rectangle on your wall! Here are some of our favorite examples of how to hide your TV, including a few that we did recently.

1. Source: Omaha Interior Design Firm, Fluff Your Stuff. For this design, Fluff used large-scale accessories to fill the gap below the TV, and sentimental photos that the client’s daughter had taken to frame the top.

2. Source: Omaha Interior Design Firm, Fluff Your Stuff. Fluff designers used family photographs in a myriad of shapes and sizes to completely surround the TV. By using black frames, they helped the TV to blend in.

3. Source: Casa Sugar. By painting the wall a dark color and using white mats for the artwork, the designer of this room was able to make the TV practically disappear! Your eye goes straight to the white artwork, and away from everything else.

4. Source: Unknown. In this picture, you can see how this technique works nicely in a home office as well.

5. Source: Unknown. What we love about this design is how the designer really mixed things up around the TV by using wall shelving, artwork, photos, and even a large decorative plate. The TV is fully integrated into the overall collage of items.

Jun 18

Fluff loves folding screens. They’re extremely versatile and can be used to solve a number of design dilemmas. If you’ve never considered using one as part of your decor before, here are a few fun ideas for you to consider:

Use a screen to create “levels” in your space. If all of your furniture is fairly low, or if you have extra-high ceilings, a screen can help to add visual contrast.

Place a carved wood screen behind your bed, and, voila! You’ve got a one-of-a-kind head board!

Flanking a fireplace mantle or piece of artwork with matching screens emphasizes whatever is in between. Also, if you’ve ever contemplated wallpaper because you’re bored with your walls…adding a screen in front is a more temporary re-vamp.

Without further ado, here are some of the wonderful folding screens that Fluff Your Stuff carries…Screen A ($538), Screen B ($578), Screen C ($758)

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Jun 11

The desk is somewhere many of us spend a considerable amount of time, and yet, when it comes to design, it’s one of the places we neglect the most. If you’re attempting to style your desk, we suggest you start with the following:

* task lamp – Your lamp is an easy way to add color and style to the desk, so don’t be afraid to choose something fun!)

* books – Every desk needs a few books. Plus, they make you look extra-smart!

* decorative book-ends – See above.

* something to organize your desk accessoriesclock

* storage boxes (for magazines, etc.) – These can be places on the floor beside or underneath the desk.

Here’s a mini mood board we put together of a desk WE would like to sit at!

If you need a little bit of extra inspiration…(via Houzz.com, designer – Incorporated; via Houzz.com, designer – Tiffany Eastman Interiors, LLC; via Houzz.com, designer – Tineke Triggs)

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Archive for the ‘Fluffosophy’ Category

Omaha Interior Design: How to Create a Mom Cave

Interior Design Omaha: Thanksgiving Pumpkin Makeovers

Interior Design Omaha: 2012 Fall Color Trends

Omaha Interior Design: Fluffosophy – How to Create a Cozy Outdoor Living Space!

Omaha Interior Design: Fluff Loves Wabi Sabi

Omaha Interior Design: Pottery Barn Dorm Gift Card Surprise Giveaway!

Interior Design Omaha: Making your Own Upholstered Headboard

Interior Design Omaha: Fluffosophy – How to Make your TV disappear!

Omaha Interior Design – Fluffosophy: How to use a Folding Screen

Omaha Interior Design – Fluffosophy: Accessorizing you Desk!