Interior Design in Naples and Bonita Springs

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A Cool Kitty Cut – I’m Not Lion!

cat 4Meet my beautiful blue eyed kitty, Frank, or Frankie as he prefers to be called. Named after Old Blue eyes himself, he is popular with all the ladies and pals around with all the men. Frank has certainly become a prized member of my household. Let’s face it, whether he is lounging on my Family Room sofa, basking in the afternoon sun, strewn about my Living Room ottoman, or snuggled up amongst the pillows on my Master Bed, he just helps everything seem a little cozier and more inviting. Not to mention his  fresh pop of white against my  brightly colored  house is always a welcome accent.

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Fabric Care for Dummies

You went to great expense to have your home professionally designed, and it looks fantastic. You know it doesn’t end there, though, and that now that you have gorgeous furniture and fabrics in your home, you need to maintain them. So you look for tags under the seat cushions or for the care and maintenance information that came with the furniture and find the instructions that you need. You might see an S, a W, or an S-W or something that looks like this:

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Wow, these Cleanability Codes and Care Symbols sure are helpful — if you’re symbologist Robert Langdon or Dan Brown himself!  You wonder if these were explained in a Home Economics course that you rebelliously elected not to take in high school.  For a little help deciphering these mysterious codes and symbols, I turned to Osborne & Little and Century Furniture.

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