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Part 3, The Customer Who Had It All #antiques #interiordecorating

May 20, 2014 - 0 comments
If you missed part 1 and part 2, you can go there really quick and catch up!! Vada's dining room is not apart of the main living area, so it provided a good opportunity to change the wall color. She wanted the space to feel open with cool, fresh colors. We choose Clear to See PX-0697 from Behr. The dining room chairs are from a local design shop. Kasey recovered the seats with fabric from Cowgirls and Lace, painted and distressed them.  With my snazzy wheelin' & dealin', we got a kitchen table and 6 chairs for a great price. Wheelin' & dealin' is simply asking. You would be amazing how much money you can save by just asking...and having me there! The table that came with this set of chairs was not the style we were looking for so you know what we did, SOLD IT! The two chairs on the ends are from Restoration Hardware...again, on a super duper great sale!!  Sometimes staying in your budget is not the most important but getting exactly what you want is.....when you can do both. Jackpot! The dining room table is from Pottery Barn Outlet. It was a display and had scratches on the top and it was perfect. We wanted a table that was worn and had character.  Added an enamel antique white paint to the legs to match the chairs and the room was coming together.  Side note:  that enamel paint will burn your nose hairs and make you see Elvis...open the windows for sure.  We had Vada's dog bouncing off the walls.  The shorter antique buffet serves as a great display for her grandfather's cash register and other knick knacks he passed along to her. The wall above the buffet is waiting for Vada's vintage rolling pin collection.  A project she wants to do on her own time. Gotta love it when your customer gets inspired and takes ownership. The wall art is very special too.  It was hand made by Jo Momma's Junk  who has booth at the Wimberley Market Days with us. The colors are amazing and Vada loves to have scriptures displayed in her house. On to part 4 ..... Photography credit: Bold Photography Bold Photography  (1 of 31) Bold Photography  (4 of 31) Bold Photography  (5 of 31) Bold Photography  (6 of 31) Bold Photography  (7 of 31) Bold Photography  (10 of 31) Bold Photography  (12 of 31) Bold Photography  (14 of 31) Bold Photography  (15 of 31) Bold Photography  (16 of 31) Bold Photography  (17 of 31) Bold Photography  (19 of 31) Bold Photography  (20 of 31) Bold Photography  (21 of 31) Bold Photography  (22 of 31) Bold Photography  (24 of 31) Bold Photography  (25 of 31) Bold Photography  (26 of 31) Bold Photography Pt.2 (30 of 31) Bold Photography Pt.2 (31 of 31)    

My color pick for #2014. #hometrends #picoftheday

Jan 03, 2014 - 0 comments
I love Pinterest...literally changed most of our lives. Although 25% of me is still old school and I love to thumb through magazines to find inspiration. I am going to let you in my office a bit. And just to make you feel better I will show you that even my house isn't completely decorated. You can see my half painted wall and frames with no photos. My business kinda blew up in the middle of this remodel. (Thanks to you guys:) 2014-01-03 17.06.44 2014-01-03 17.11.45 I am going to half agree and disagree with Project Runway: All Stars for naming "Radiant Orchid" the color of 2014. Radiant Orchid is a dusty pink-ish purple....I am leaning more towards coral and salmon. More of a pink than red. These are not my photos and I honestly don't know any of the peeps in the pictures, just wanted you to see how you can use coral as a accent color or a main color in your room. Notice in a lot of the photos they have paired coral with grays and charcoals...of course, white too! Clean, crisp, pretty. ~Jessie

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#Hashtag who? #introductions @JessieClayton @KaseyLaborde

Oct 17, 2013 - 0 comments
Ladies and gents, let me introduce you to #Hashtag... I consider myself an Austinite, even though I was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. My parents moved to south Austin when I was two and this great city has been my hometown ever since. I did move away for about five years to Colorado Springs, Co. and even though it's a beautiful state with so much to do I couldn't wait to get back home. I worked the corporate world for several years and was fortunate enough to work for a company that allowed me to bring my son with me to work right after he was born. One Friday afternoon I was packing up, ready to head out for the weekend, when my boss asked to chat with me, I quickly realized what the chat was about. I was jobless! By Monday I had processed this change and was now thanking God that He had answered my prayers and desires to stay at home with my then six month old son. Fast forward a few years and my family had grown once again, we had a beautiful little girl that completed our family. After adjusting to being a family of four I began to want to scratch the itch to bring home an income. That's where Hashtag began. Jessie and I started turning our creative wheels and making home decor out of anything we could get our hands on, from items left on the curb to friends and family begging us to take pieces off their hands. Since we started, less than a year ago, not only has our company evolved but we have grown in so many ways. Kasey LaBorde

20131013-113842.jpg Born in Alabama, raised in Louisiana, grew up in Dallas and settled in Austin and don't plan on leaving. Sorry mom! I have always had the "junk" bug. I can remember decorating the front room of our house when I was 15 with old suitcases, photographs and vintage clothing. It was a useless room but to me it told a story. I wondered who had this stuff before me and why did they throw it away! I met my husband when I was 17 at a church camp in Dallas where I lived and we dated long distance for 7 months before I decided to move to Austin. Austin and I belong together. Weirdos at heart! I was having a group of moms over to play with, well, they brought their kids too, but it really was about the moms hanging out. Looking at all my friends sitting on the floor of our playroom, next to a window with no curtains, I felt ashamed and embarrassed. I realized I had put our house on hold to raise babies...well, time was up. I didn't want to go blow tons of money on decorating and neither did Cody plus, like I said I like "junk"...pretty "junk". I went to a thrift store, found some really cool old floral print sheets and decided I was going to make curtains with them. I drug my three boys into the woods and set them loose...mission: find mom a 6 foot stick to repurpose into a curtain rod and that they did! Is it weird to use a stick and old sheets as curtains...not in Austin! Everyone raved about it. It hit me then that people like to use things in ways they are not supposed to be used, along with saving money! Hello! #Hashtag was born...Kasey and I started selling small home decor items we had repurposed in an antique shop in Plano and when I say the rest is history, I mean, we haven't had time to look back since! We let God take the reigns and we are just holding on tight during this crazy, amazing, shocking, fascinating, rewarding ride.

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Stage Two CL Customers #InteriorDesign #HomeDecor

Sep 20, 2013 - 0 comments
Stage two of the Craigslist Customers...sounds like a title to a horror story. Pppsssttt...ask Kasey if she was really scared when I hid in one of the empty rooms and jumped out a scared her. Oh, good times. Remember that budget, lets just say it saved us! So many times I would find a perfect piece ..refer back to budget...and then put that perfect piece into someone else's basket because it deserves a home and wasn't coming home with me. However, I do have to say the hard work of weeding through the too expensive and "yuck that's red" paid off!

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New Customers Be Like #newcustomers #interiordecorating

Sep 15, 2013 - 0 comments
First, before I tell you what this blog post is about, I have to tell you a funny little story. I received an email from a customer asking if I would take less than the marked price for a chair that was listed on Craigslist. They stated the reason was because the chair looks scratched. Haha...it's called distressed! I beat that chair up on purpose! And once I was buying a cabinet from a sweet elderly woman and her daughter said, "please don't tell my mom you are going to paint it." Yes, ok, and I won't tell her that I am going to whoop it's tail with chains and add chicken wire where the glass currently is either! Speaking of Craigslist (nice transaction, huh?) #Hashtag was contacted by a young couple through Craigslist who recently purchased their first home. They were looking for interior designers to take the dream of a completed move in ready house and make it reality. Hey, we can do that! With budget in hand, Kasey and I went to Chicafila with our tiniest of kids and drew up a plan. The only way for us to stay within their budget was to #Hashtag the heck out of this house. And believe me...we did! For all the new readers, #Hashtagging is taking something old and making it desirable or repurposing an item, like fence wood on the wall as art. I could write a whole other blog just on #Hashtagging. One day.... Stage one was painting the living room, kitchen, dining, office and master bedroom. We complete the fence wood wall in the entry way. (Shout out to Cristi for killing the cutting in) Here are photos of the process through stage one.

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20130915-014610.jpg It was probably going on the 14th hour at this point. We added an accent color to sunken wall.

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20130915-014722.jpg Entry way fence wood wall.

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20130915-014814.jpg Entry way before fence wood wall was complete.

20130915-014901.jpg Had to show this guy...say goodbye to everyone little weird light thingy!

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20130915-015122.jpg These two pictures were on the listing website. Let's hope we can do better than the way the house was staged to sell.

20130915-015229.jpg After 14 hours of working, stage one was complete...on to fun part or so I thought, SHOPPING!