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Our Home Office

7/21/2020

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​The Home Office has become one of the most important rooms in the house in the last few months, hasn't it? 
We’re Paul and Johanna of Soldier58 in Bordentown, NJ. For this project we chose furniture and accessories to add color and interest to an otherwise neutral room using art, colorful textiles, and furniture painted using Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan.
Paul and I have just finished giving our home office a top-to-bottom makeover and we wanted to share a little tour. 

Since the beginning of the year, We've been renovating our home one room at a time. We began with the Guest Room and the Guest Bath. With those two rooms complete, it was time to focus our attention on home office.

​This was the room we were most excited about working on for a couple of reasons.

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Painting Under the Moon

4/16/2019

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This week the sophomore issue of Annie Sloan's The Colourist arrived in stockist shops and newsstands around the world. If you take a peek at page 10, you'll find a gorgeous ceiling painted using Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan.  This ceiling is the work of our talented friend Santiago.  So, we thought it would be fun to provide a little background on this beautiful ceiling as well the rest of the project.  ​


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Design Dorks Unite!

2/10/2018

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​A couple of weeks ago I was painting alone in our home studio while Paul was at the store.  As I worked in silence I was thinking about a conversation I was having with my friend Carrie over text the night before. 
  • Carrie: I just read that Dorothy Draper and Sister Parish were cousins. Sister Parish was an original decorator at the Kennedy White House, but was usurped by a French decorator. I believe there are still textiles with her name on it. I mention this because I’ve mentioned her to you and you have spoken about Dorothy D.



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Bold Patterns & Graphics

1/17/2018

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​Paul and I often view our work with furniture as functional works of art.  Something special and beautiful to look at, but also something that can be touched and used. This is why we choose special finishes, custom color mixes, an on occasion…bold graphics. 
 
We both have our favorite artists, graphic designers and illustrators that inspire us and in a future post I’ll share some of those with you, but today I wanted to share some of our favorite pieces and talk about the inspiration and how we accomplished these. 


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