What better gift for the new or expectant mother in your life this year, than healthy, organic cotton baby bedding from Delano Designs Baby?
Let them know how much you care with one of our handmade pieces, or an entire bedding set, today! Shop now and be sure to receive 10% off any purchase from Delano Designs Baby between now and May 20th, during our special Mother’s Day sale!!
In celebration of earth day receive 10% off of any Delano Designs Baby bedding order. All fabrics are 100% organic cotton and the quilt batting is 50% organic cotton and 50% bamboo, so these products are kind to the earth and to your baby!
Enter coupon code: EARTHDAY2012
NOTE: The Earth Day sale has ended.
It’s that time of year again – taxes are in by April 15! And if you’re receiving a refund, now is the ideal time to tackle that project you’ve had your mind on. Whether winter storms took their toll, or you just want to take that Spring Cleaning a step further, Delano Designs would like to help you create the home or workplace you’ll love. To meet your budget we’ve developed several packages to refresh old spaces or design new ones.
Check out the packages below and give us a call between April 15 and May 15 of this year to take advantage of these special offers.
1/2 Day Refresh and Renew Package - $225.00
Delano Designs will come to your home or workplace and spend 4 hours working with you to redesign a space. Including rearranging furniture, bookcases, artwork etc. We will look for pieces you already own and help you utilize them in a new and fresh way.
This package is also great for:
- Moms and Dads struggling to organize/hide those baby toys
- New and established business owners
- People who feel stuck in a rut
- People who have a room with an awkward layout
Basic Design Package - $550.00
This package is perfect for those who are getting ready to update an old space, or even design a newly constructed one! Delano Designs will develop a floor plan* for your home or workplace. We will also provide you with a list of recommendations for any furniture, cabinetry, flooring, wall coverings, accessories, etc needed to complete the space, as well as where they can be purchased.
*Includes one revision
This package is also great for:
-People with a tight budget
-Newlyweds
-New home owners
-New and established business owners
-People who want to complete their project over time
- People who are out of town (great way to design from a distance!)
Basic Plus – $775.00*
Add 4 hours of shopping and/or ordering to our Basic Design Package. Delano Designs will shop alone, or with you, to pick out items for your space, and will take care of the ordering process.
*Price does not reflect price of items purchased. Fee is for Delano Designs services only.
This package is also great for:
- People who want the experience of working with a designer
- People who want to skip the time and hassle of the ordering process
- New homeowners
- New and established business owners
- People in the mood for something new
Deluxe Design Package – $1000+*
Whether you’re starting from scratch, creating the kitchen of your dreams, or looking to design multiple rooms in the same space, our Deluxe Design Package is flexible to fit your needs. For the starting price Delano Designs will create a floor plan** and 3-D images of your newly designed space. We will also order all of the materials and furniture specified, and work with the installers to implement the design.
*Price does not reflect the cost of items purchased, or installers fees. Fee is for Delano Designs services only.
**Includes two revisions
This package is also great for:
- New homeowners
- People who want the full experience of working with a designer
- People who want to skip the time and hassle of the ordering process
- People who want to skip the time and hassle of overseeing the installers
- New and established business owners
- People who have an open floor plan and want to create cohesion between multiple spaces
- People who are ready to undertake a bigger project
Plywood is a workhorse, and while it can be beautiful as well as functional, in most instances it is also a large contributer to indoor air pollution. The glues in plywood are generally urea formaldehyde based. What this means is that as it sits, the formaldehyde used to create your beautiful new piece of furniture is actually off-gassing toxins into the air in your home.
Formaldehyde, depending on the level of exposure, and the sensitivity of the person exposed, can cause physical symptoms. According to the EPA (http://www.epa.gov/iaq/formalde.html#Health Effects) such exp
osures can result in: watery eyes, burning sensation or irritation of the eyes and throat, nausea, headaches, difficulty breathing, wheezing and coughing, asthma attacks, fatigue, skin rash – and may cause cancer.
Now again, not everyone experiences these symptoms, but when your family’s health is at stake, why take the risk? I don’t know about you, but if there is an alternative to using products with formaldehyde or without, my vote is for without. So, the question is, what do you use instead? Columbia Forest Products, based in Portland, Oregon – Yay Oregon! – has a wonderful product called “Purebond” (http://columbiaforestproducts.com/PureBond). Purebond is a plywood product that uses a soy-based glue rather than a formaldehyde based one. And what’s more, it’s beautiful!
Purebond is available at many home improvement stores like your local hardware or chain store, such as Home Depot. So next time you need plywood for a project consider Purebond. You and your loved ones will breathe easier.
Happy Earth Day! Looking for a way to celebrate? Delano Designs is here to help! In honor of Earth Day, we’d like to encourage everyone to get out there and make a difference, so from now until the end of the month we’re offering a 10% discount on our services! Contact us at (541) 686-3151 for more information, and be sure to check out our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Delano-Designs/134901728558
Home Sweet Home. Home is Where the Heart is. Home is somewhere I hate being away from, and yet that’s exactly where I found myself one winter in 2002. My daughter and I came home to find a pot of split pea soup on the stove had burned nearly away, and completely filled our home with thick, gray, disgusting smoke. After frantically locating our pet rabbits who had taken refuge under the couch, and opening every door and window, we got out. But not without the smoke clinging to us and coating us in a thin stinky gray film.
Oh what I have learned. Smoke like that penetrates everything, walls, woodwork, paper, fabric, you name it, it infiltrates it and deposits its nasty smell. So we were, in a manner of speaking, at the moment, homeless. Not in the sense of having nowhere to go, and for that I am eternally grateful, but in the sense of being without our home.
My daughter was crying one night, missing home, and feeling guilty for this – feeling she had no right to be sad, the house didn’t burn down, no one was killed, she wasn’t in some catastrophe, nor did she know anyone who was, and so her problems seemed petty in comparison. They are small indeed compared to loss of life, but our homes are a huge part of us, I’d come to realize, thinking about this.
So I reflected on home and why we are so devastated by this, because we are. Home is powerful. How else do we understand people who rebuild the same house on the same spot after a natural disaster? How else do we understand trying to keep a powerful ocean from eating our house? How else do we explain Israel and Palestine and Yugoslavia and Serbia and Bosnia and on and on and on? How many wars have been fought to preserve our right to our home? How do we explain “homeless” camps where people carve out their own niche and fill it with their own collection of things, even in the absence of four walls? How else do we explain the need to go back to our roots, revisit our past homes, or the homes of our ancestors? Do we think we can recapture lost time?
I remember a book my daughter had when she was little, in which two birds lived in a “home” and decided they needed a new one. They searched and searched and found a variety of different homes, yet none suited them. In the end they managed to find the “perfect” home, which actually turned out to be their original home. They returned to their roots.
So what is this mysterious power of home? It’s not just a place for shelter, nor our things, if so, it wouldn’t beckon us the way it does. I think it’s like a second skin which enfolds us and all we love. It’s appeal is universal.
I am so excited! As part of our desire to help people create a healthy nursery for their babies, Delano Designs is developing a line of baby bedding!
All of the bedding will be handmade out of 100% Organic Cotton fabrics, and machine washable. We have already gotten in some of the fun and colorful materials, and can’t wait for you and your baby to enjoy them as much as we do.
If you want to help us name one of the lines in our collection, visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=134901728558&aid=291854 and post your suggestion in the photo comments. If we like it, we’ll use yours, and you’ll win one hour of free design consultation from Delano Designs!
Be sure to check back regularly both here and on our Facebook page for updates!
If you’d like you to reserve your collection today call or e-mail Delano Designs at (541)-686-3151 or contact@delanointeriordesign.com for pricing information and availability options.
Here’s a sneak peek at what’s to come!
I’ve had several calls recently from prospective client who want help with “just a small job.” They were hesitant and almost apologetic for wanting “just a little help.”
My response is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting “just a little help.” A little assistance with a designer can go a long way. In a few hours a designers can help you in a variety of ways such as helping you pick colors, identify your style, create a more functional yet still beautiful space or help you edit your space (adding or subtracting items) to make it feel more complete.
Many people watch design shows on television where people tear into their spaces ripping out and discarding everything. While the end result is dramatic and new, it is often a very costly and potentially wasteful process. And more importantly a beautiful space can often be obtained much more simply and quickly.
Here’s a few ways a decision can assist you in a limited amount of time:
These are just a few of the ways a designer can provide assistance. Getting “just a little help” up front can save you a whole lot of drama, work and money! An added benefit is that you can feel good about being green. Cutting down on waste, reusing what you have and purchasing wisely are all great ways to be green.
So pick up the phone today and ask for “just a little help.”
Maybe it’s of my background in psychology, where the understanding of relationships is so important, but when I think of design I think that it too is about good relationships. What makes good design is the creation of a relationship; creating a whole from all kinds of different parts. The difference between clutter and beauty can be a fine line, but clutter feels like a bunch of things haphazardly thrown into a room taking up space. Create a relationship between these items and you might just have a great design. Read the rest of this entry »