I had never heard of Marian McEvoy until I started reading Domino, and to be quite frank, some of her tips remind me very VERY strong of this woman I used to know who taught charm school in the South (the undirrrty version, thanks). For example, there was one article in which Ms. McEvoy strongly encourages us to consider our bedrooms to be the equivalent of our lingerie...and then proceeded to give us tips on how to scintillate our beds with lavendar spritzes and petit sachets of potpourri.
Well. I don't know about you, but my underoos drawer doesn't resemble anything close to having heart-shaped bags of dried rose petals. And looking at my bedroom (and subsequently, my friends' bedrooms) with these X-ray glasses had me shaking in my skivvies: my bedroom has strong preppy undertones which means what exactly? That I wear argyle grannies with tummy control? (I don't. But I do like argyle). So, I called over one of my most girliest of girl friends to help my make over my bedroom. It wasn't productive (if it were, I wouldn't have yoinked those photos from Domino), mainly because I kept sputtering, "But...I HATE peach! And pink! And lace-edged sheets will make me itch like crazy!" to the point where my poor, poor friend gave up.
(For the record, we ended up looking at photos of bedroom makeovers and assigning them underwear profiles. This one was entitled, "No-Nonsense Tug-Free Ahh Jockey Knickers turns into Laura Ashley Big Time Bloomers.")
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my bed is shiny, has a crazy high headboard and footboard, and is the focal point of my studio. Does that mean I'm a thong-sticking-up-over-the-waistband kind of woman? (please don't answer that)
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Marian McEvoy has been around for a long time. She was editor in chief at both Elle Decor and House Beautiful. She's the one that's been glue gunning her way thru life for a several years now and has a book or 3 out about glue gun projects.
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I'd never heard of Mary before, so I googled one of her glue gun items:
http://www.oprah.com/presents/oathome/200504/tours/tours_c.jhtml
Good grief? Did she glue gun her own facelift? Scary!
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This is great! I once selected the paint color for my bedroom to match a lavender bra. I didn't quite get the paint color right since I was wearing the bra in the paint store, and couldn't really get it next to the paint chips. I wound up remixing my color when I got home with some blue leftover from painting my bathroom. I loved telling everyone who asked that the name of my paint color was Lavender Bra.
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I love how Ms McEvoy assumes that all of her readers are female. I for one am not and I love Domino. I would never, ever want my bedroom to resemble my underwear- which I rarely wear. My bedroom is a sanctuary and my underwear is kept neatly folded in a dresser drawer- where it should be, not displayed on the walls.
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