Year End Clearance

It's that time of year again, folks. Christmas is over, and people are starting to think about how empty and old their room is looking without the beauty of a Christmas tree. Here at Blackledge Furniture, we're celebrating the old by giving some great discounts on all of our discontinued merchandise, and gearing up for our New Year's weekend sale. Come on in before Friday to get and additional 10-20% off already marked down inventory, or come by this weekend (I'll be here from Friday till Monday) and get some great extra savings on new inventory if you pay with cash, check, or debit! I hope to see you!

Christmas is right around the....

Corner! How many of you are ready? I've finished all my shopping, creating, and decorating, and now it's time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labor. But for those of us that are still struggling with the questions "who am I buying a gift for" and "what am I going to get them"...why not consider something timeless? A new dining set for the woman that's been lamenting that old family-heirloom set she's been forced to keep for the past 20 years? Or a new recliner to replace that old eye-sore that has finally stopped keeping your legs elevated.

Anyway, whoever your gift-recipient is, if you need some help thinking up creative, personal ideas for a Christmas gift, let me know - I just might have a clever idea or two!

Rules Schmules

Who of you out there have ever said to yourself "if it's online, it must be true." Or, at the very least, who thought it subconsciously? Did you? I think that perhaps this thinking affects my responses to some online content, but recently, when I was debating what I'd like to write to you about this time, and landed on one of my favorites - mirrors - what I found online kept prompting me to utter an audible "what?!?!" So, here is a sample of the kind of advice you can find online, and how wrong it can be.

http://www.invitinghome.com/, in their article on Positioning Mirrors, states, "Mirrors should always be hung strictly vertically." Well *huff* what about the rectangular gold-leafed mirror that my grandmother gave me? Every time I've ever hung that on the horizontal, it was wrong? Well, why then did it look so right? Take a look at this fabulous "Darwin" mirror from Uttermost (a fantastic resource for accents) - personally, I think it's even a bit more interesting placed on the horizontal.

I'm a firm believer that aesthetic rules in design can be fun to break. And, furthermore, anyone who relies on "rules" is struggling with a lack of creativity. I'm not trying to step on toes here, and certainly not referring to functional rules, affecting ergonomics and the like. But even pinpointing color forecasts for the year ahead? Well, that's a shot in the dark, in my opinion.