Your Home and Office ReDone
WOW. It’s over! The five-week project for Macy’s has come and gone and, I have to tell you, it was an amazing experience – six different stores, five weeks of work, three major cities, and one really tired guy (that would be me)! But seriously, and less dramatically, the entire time I was off galavanting [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, ReDo Readers! I hope this coming holiday finds you happy, healthy, and ready to celebrate all that we are thankful for. When I consider this thought, I’m always struck by what comes to mind first: I’m thankful for my good fortune of having such a wonderful extended family made up of blood relatives, [...]
Here we are, again ReDo Readers, at the end of another week. I’ve been gadding about Chicago, having a remarkable time staging for Macy’s furniture department in several stores, but I’m back home in St. Louis now, attempting to catch up on all that I’ve missed the last three weeks. As I continue to get [...]
Hi ho, ReDo Readers! I’m back from my first week in Chicago, where I staged the furniture sale at the Oak Brook Macy’s Home Store. I have a lot of good decorating ideas, great design schemes and color stories, but best of all, I have a week worth of hard work under my belt, which [...]
Not every ReDo project involves cleaning out a dusty cobweb-filled basement, or finding ways to add new life to a tired room. Sometimes, we are forced to think bigger. Much bigger. Here’s the latest example: The grand 1901 Marshall Fields on Chicago’s State Street (now Macy’s) is a Louis Sullivan masterpiece in The Loop. The [...]
I was grateful for another opportunity with the local Macy’s to stage their furniture sale at the West County Mall and Galleria stores. Jim White, the District Visual Manager for Macy’s Midwest Big Ticket, had initially hired me in June 2009 for the summer furniture sale. I was happy to be asked to return and [...]