Debbie Wiener's Blog

Our new virtual client in Colorado purchased a beautiful old Victorian home with stained glass windows.  She’s a young newlywed with modern taste so she asked our designer Sharon to turn this 1905 house into a beautiful and comfortable 21st century home.  She has two active dogs and wanted a durable design.  Here are a few pictures of the new home she received from the previous owner…

…and the design board Sharon made to create this client’s ideal 21st century home!

The design board shows our Megan sofa in Vedlt Brown with Georgian Green walls and a nature inspired area rug to compliment the original wood columns. Sleek draperies with grommets soften the windows and three Slobproof! cubes provide a place to rest your feet.  The dining room gets an overhaul with a gorgeous drum shade and the multicolored area rug adds dimension to the small dining room.  Paired with her dining room table is a set of Slobproof! dining chairs in Prairie Earth.  Then fresh coats of paint in Benjamin Moore Concord Ivory and an accent wall in Carmel Latte add a bit of drama to the room.  The finishing touch is a window seat in Slobproof! Polka Dog Cardinal fabric to pay homage to her dogs.

So if you love our designs but you are outside of our service area, don’t worry!  Designing Solutions has gone virtual!

No, but it’s a wonderful treat when my clients have grandchildren!

My favorite job here is definitely “Photoshop Wizard”. Here is an inspired piece of Slobproof! marketing I made as a joke once…

What can I say, a girl has to have fun at work sometimes!

-Caitlin

See our colorful indoor basketball court/rock climbing wall in this week’s featured ideabook on Houzz!

The Problem:  We wanted to give our client the look of wallcovering without damaging his walls.

Our Solution:  Order wallcovering and have it applied to wood panels that can be mounted to the wall!  We painted the edges of the panels to give it a finished look and then mounted them behind our client’s bed.  Now he has three pieces that look like high end art work and can travel with him to his next home!

One of my jobs here at Designing Solutions and Slobproof! is to fix everything. Phones, computers, email, iPads, copiers, you name it and I have fixed it. So I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when I found this note on my desk…

It’s time for the second installment of Desk in the Middle Mondays!

If Debbie has ever done a Designing Solutions appointment in your home, you probably know that she loves the cold. Sometimes the office is so cold in the winter that Sharon and I keep our coats on inside. The good news is that we have a space heater to help keep us warm, and it looks like we aren’t the only ones who like it…

Hello everyone! If you have called Designing Solutions or Slobproof!, you have probably talked to me. I’m Caitlin, Designing Solutions’ very own quirky young employee. I’m here to keep Debbie and Sharon on their toes…well that and fix their computers when something goes wrong. Anyway, Debbie has given me the go ahead to start Desk in the Middle Mondays! What is this fabulous day all about? Every Monday I will be posting my real, unedited observations of the wacky things I witness from the middle desk in the Designing Solutions and Slobproof! office.

Don’t believe that working here is quite the challenge? Well take a look at this to-do list I found on Debbie’s desk the other day…

Have you seen our new Slobproof! Adventures page? We are always looking for new and exciting places to take our Slobproof! furniture, so let us know where you want to see Slobproof! next!

Okay, so you like the idea of having Slobproof! but you can’t figure out what fabrics to use.  Call us!  We love decorating.  Check out the cool pieces we picked for a client in New York.