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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Chatting with Lauren Liess of Pure Style Home

This week on The Skirted Roundtable we welcome blogger and interior designer Lauren Liess. You probably love her popular blog - Pure Style Home - as much as we do, so be sure to tune in! Lauren is so talented and inventive. She is full of wonderful ideas that you can take with you to use in your own house. We were captivated by the recent renovation of her new house and were full of questions for her.

Her entry is so great! Lauren tells us all about the framed prints she used on the walls.

Her living room - the furniture arrangement changes daily it seems!

Another view of her living room, another arrangement. Her husband stenciled the faux fireplace wall. It's phenomenal!

Lauren's dining room with the oversized print. Lauren tells us all about the print and where to order one of your own.

The playroom - Joni tells us how she ordered a lantern just like Lauren's for $89.00 after Lauren sourced it for her. Sweet Lauren!

Lauren's new baby's nursery. She and her husband printed that fabric themselves. Don't ask!

The breakfast room - the wallpaper is so cute!!!!

The kitchen - we talk about Lauren's disastrous episode with painting her appliances stainless steel - it doesn't work, btw.

Where it all started. Before the Liess' moved into their new home, they lived for almost a year in her parents basement. She totally transformed the empty space into an adorable home. Here is her office from those times.

Be sure to tune in to listen to Lauren Liess, our guest this week. You'll be ready to go out and redo your own place too! To check out Lauren's blog, go HERE.

Also, let us know what other bloggers you would like us to interview. We would love to know who you would like to hear! As always, thank you for your support.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Knock Knock: It's Opportunity (Plus the book giveaway winner!)

This week Megan, Joni and I discuss different opportunities that can arise from blogging (speaking, writing, etc) and social media in general. What doors have been opened to you?

And, by random selection, the winner of Susanna Salk's book "Room for Children" is Kristi Ripley of T's Tutu's and Designs. Kristi - please email Linda your address and Rizzoli will send you out your book!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Endorsements, disclosures and the economics of blogging

The week, Joni, Megan and Linda discuss the recently released FTC (Federal Trade Commission) guidelines relating to bloggers' endorsements of products, disclosure of financial or product arrangements, and the economics of blogging now and in the future.

Click here for links to the new FTC Guidelines and various reactions around the internet.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Fabrics We Like AND Technical Tawk

Barrymore by Kravet - one of Linda's favorite, and yet never used, fabrics

This week we talked about fabrics we love, designers and fabric houses and a little bit about how we use them!

And in our chat on blogging, we talked about technical issues like how we upload photos, what applications are available to help us write and format posts and pics and other little tidbits. There's always something to learn.

As always, thanks for stopping by and for all your kind comments and emails!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Interior Design Inspirations AND Blog Rankings!

PART ONE: This week Megan is back at the Skirted Roundtable! Please join us as we first discuss Interior Design: where we get our inspiration for a new job and how we come up with ideas for a room's design. The three of us weigh in on what steps we take when we start with a new client.

PART TWO: Be sure to listen this week's Blogging discussion. It's all about Blogrankings, the newest way a lot of blogs are finding out how many readers they actually have. We also talk about the pros and cons of Google Analytics and Technorati. Listen as we try to figure out why we care, or in Megan's case, why we don't care how our blog ranks compared to our peers. As always, thank you for stopping by.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Blogging and Design with Susan Serra, CKD

(image courtesy of Susan Serra)

Linda and Joni are joined by Susan Serra, aka The Kitchen Designer to chat about blogging and kitchen design. Megan was on vacation this week.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Blogging: What motivates us to keep on going?

How do you find the motivation to keep going and have you ever decided to hang up your sneakers?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Blogging - Finding an audience, finding a voice

Welcome to Week Five of the Skirted Roundtable. The Blogging Topic this week is "Blogging Without an Audience and Finding Your Voice" This intriguing topic - something every single blogger deals with - was sent to us by Victoria who writes the blog Art House Design. If you have a specific question you want us to address, please leave a comment. We are processing all the requests and will try to answer them one by one.

The Interior Design Topic this week is "Hanging and Displaying Art." A highly personal topic, we give our views on how high to hang a painting, how to display photographs and we hotly debate whether art should match the interior! Don't miss it!!!!

As always, thank you so much for tuning in - we hope you are enjoying the Roundtable talks enough to return for the next installment!!

Linda, Megan and Joni

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

To Ad or Not To Ad - Advertising in Blogland

Joni, Megan and Linda discuss advertising on blogs - are they good or bad? Do they diminish the voice of the blogger? We also chat about other forms of promotion - products, events and book reviews.

If you're a blogger, do you accept ads and what is your criteria? And if you chose not to, why not?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Blogging: Content Is Key

Image courtesy of Library of Congress