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Highlight on Houston-Wichita St.

By Jamie House | Published May 24, 2011

2309 Wichita St. 5 Bedrooms. 4 Full & 1 Half Bath. 2 Car Garage. Automatic gate. 4861 sq. ft. Charlie Fondow purchased his home on Wichita St. in 1980 for $35,000.00. Even his realtor thought he was crazy. The home is located in the 3rd Ward of Houston, an area that in 1980 was rough [...]

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Friday Back When.

By Jamie House | Published May 13, 2011

“To be successful, a color scheme must be a source of pleasure for you and your family and at the same time be suited to the room and its uses. Consider the physical aspects of the room-it’s function, size, exposure, and lighting-in your plans.” ” Since the walls constitute the largest area of color in [...]

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Friday Back When.

By Jamie House | Published May 6, 2011

This is my NEW weekly feature that I am so excited about! Each Friday I’ll feature design inspiration from the past! I love looking through old design books, they can be so funny. I’m sure we’ll say the same things about today’s books in 40 years. A lot of the styles in the images aren’t [...]

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Jamie Shops: Deborah Bowness.

By Jamie House | Published April 28, 2011

I haven’t done a Jamie Shops post in a LONG time. So why not kick it off again with an amazing wallpaper designer? Deborah Bowness creates handprinted wallpapers from images or ordinary items. Ordinary, but in a very not so ordinary way. In fact I’m doing her an enormous injustice by even using the word [...]

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Designer in China- The View from My Room.

By Jamie House | Published February 27, 2011

I would love to paint you a picture of how beautiful it is here. But, sadly, this is pretty much what it looks like in Wuxi. I’d say Shanghai is different, & it is, but only that there are more people & theΒ buildingsΒ are taller. That icky smoggy sky is just that, pollution. I haven’t seen [...]

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By Jamie House | Published November 19, 2010

    I had a super cute clever title for this post all worked out & it’s gone. It’s been in my head for a week, I didn’t write it down & there you go. Forgotten. The creative gods have taken it back. You don’t use it you lose it. Maybe next week I’ll remember, [...]

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Workplace Wednesday

By Jamie House | Published November 17, 2010

I love love love seeing where people create. It’s taken me a LONG time to find a weekly feature that I haven’t already seen all over the internet & something that excites me enough for me to keep it up. SO here we go! When I was thinking about what workspace would be my first [...]

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November!

By Jamie House | Published November 1, 2010

Wow can you believe its November already?? This year has FLOWN by me! I’ve made SO MANY changes lately, thus myΒ absenceΒ from the blog Β & nearly the internet completely. I started a job at a furniture store, I lasted 2 weeks, almost. I was sick the last few days so I’m not sure that counts. Nevertheless [...]

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