truly claire

Category: Interior Design

  • Cozy Bedroom Updates

    Cozy Bedroom Updates

    I’ve been steadily making my bedroom my place of solitude. Last year I bought the half globe cantilever lamps by Ting Shen off eBay and the mirrors and side dressers from IKEA. In the summer I bought the headboard off Craigslist (brand unknown) added two duvets (used as one) and a new duvet cover with…

  • How To Make a Hanging Plant Chandelier

    How To Make a Hanging Plant Chandelier

    This project has been in the making for literal years. I hunkered down finally finish it and I couldn’t be more pleased. Originally, I planned to use live plants and though I still have the option to, artificial is the way for me. Once I had all materials assembled, this project took about an hour…

  • Furniture Refresh: Reupholstering Andover by Davis Allen for Stendig Dining Chair

    Furniture Refresh: Reupholstering Andover by Davis Allen for Stendig Dining Chair

    About 15 ish years ago I was browsing through the Out of the Closet in West Hollywood as a broke college student. Thrifting for a cause and because I needed clothes and if I was lucky something new to me for my apartment. I came across this gem of a chair for $15. I loved…

  • I Wanted Black Walls and Now I Have Them

    I Wanted Black Walls and Now I Have Them

    Using a starch medium, fabric is adhered to the walls and can be removed by saturating the fabric with water and peeling the fabric off. The fabric can then be laundered and reused. Typically, people use this technique to take advantage of the wide variety of prints available in fabrics, its relatively low cost as…

  • Interior Design As Therapy

    Interior Design As Therapy

    Recently, (as in eleven months ago when I wrote the first draft of this post, hello 2020) I was taken by surprise by how much my new to me sofa (shown in the lede image) made me happy. I think I was more giddy about it than I was when I signed the papers for…