Then biotch, better make it count by taking your call in one of these babies:

These booths are just begging to be occupied!

YES! Gorg, right? These booths are just BEYOND sassy, with their new paint jobs…and look at the floors too:

Go ahead...

EAT OFF ME!

These are painted in the company’s logo colors using Benjamin Moore’s Impervex latex enamel paint. It’s water based, so the dry time is substantially less than oil based enamels, but it still took me about 4 days to WERK these two ladies out! Red being the absolute biotch of a color that she is to paint with, and b/c every surface in both of these booths was some kind of weird laminate-y horrid glossy surface, I had to use a primer. I used Benjamin Moore’s Stix Waterborne Bonding Primer, which sounds like some sort of torture method. It too is water-based, so it was really easy to use and dried really quickly. Here’s what that step looked like:

Primed...

...more primed...

...more more primed...on the ceiling too!

I hit both booths with two coats of primer. Then painted both out with at least two coats of paint each. The red lady was all kinds of finicky, as pointed out earlier, so of course she ended up getting like 4 coats. Honestly, I could of done even more, but she wasn’t the only thing on the agenda for this office makeover, the selfish skank! The linoleum floors got some love by being scrubbed and then reconditioned with a generous coating of boiled linseed oil, which is just God’s gift…that stuff works on ALL KINDS OF SURFACES…AMAZE!

I know I look good but keep painting...I'll look better!

Ready and at your service!

This is happening:

PJ calling!

This baby was scored off Craigslist! She’s one of two vintage phone booths– thanks New Jersey!!!– that are being primarily repurposed as privacy booths in a new open loft office design project i’m doing! I mean, it’s like CAKE, right?

You should be boothin'!

I’m painting the interiors, gasp phone-booth-o-philes and eventually we’re going to retrofit the light and even wire them with the company’s phones! For now, employee peeps will just use their cellphones to make those delicate calls…like, to their drug dealers! AMAZE! Stay tuned for more process shots of wonder! And happy FRIDAY!!!

Ok, y’all, I’ve had a serious case of blog-haustion the past couple months, but I’m delighted to share that our apartment is being featured today as part of DesignSponge’s Sneak Peek!!!! Holla! Check out the full story here, shot by the uber-talented, Bob Martus! Thanks also to Grace and Amy (and ALL) at Design*Sponge for the continued support and constant gorgeousness that they put out into the world!!!

Y’all, it’s been since July, but my bathroom pattern repeat paint project is finished…prepare for HOT AFTER ACTION!!!:

Birdcage BlOW OUT

Nina Boesch, NY Skyline (Wine Bottle), 2012.

For those of y’all who are able, please join me this coming Sat 12/8 at Art in Flux Harlem, where along with several other interior experts, I’ll be dishing on how to decorate your home for the holidays and how to incorporate art into the home setting! Slain! It’s also a wine tasting with some nosh and an exhibit! Woohoo! Art-realness!

The event is part of “Art Enology.” Twenty Artists on Wine exhibit to highlight Harlem’s growing art scene. Exhibit runs from Dec 2012 to Jan 2013. Here’s a more official, proper blurb b/c y’all know my jank description above is so not pitch perfect:

‘Tis the Season…for Art & Wine: Sat. Dec. 8th 1-3pm. During the holiday season there is lots of celebrating and decorating to do. In this event, participants will receive tips from experts in art, wine and interior design on how to incorporate art and wine into the holiday season. Questions that will be answered include: how to select art/wine as a holiday gift; how to select the right wine for a Christmas/New Year’s party; and how art and wine can be used to decorate the home during the holiday season and all year-round. The event will also include tastings and an artist meet-and-greet. Fun! Right y’all?? But wait…there’s MORE:

Art.com will be showin’ some love by offering some prizes during the event…’cause that’s how it is when you’re an ‘Inspired Insider’ with art.com…did i mention art.com? The events’ sponsors include Simone International/Papi Wines, Ebony.com and Cuisine Noir magazine, with production by Souleo Enterprises, LLC, an event/media production company.

This is all going down at Art in Flux Harlem, 1961 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd (7th Ave.) at 118th Street, in New York, New York. 646-340-3479, info@artinfluxharlem.com and click here for even more info. Hope to see y’all!!!

One of my many ‘job duties’ as a prop & set stylist for photo shoots is to compose items/objects being photographed, like this:

PJ man-handles make-up!

Y’all, I’m thrilled to share that I was asked to participate in a painting party for MyColor inspired by Pantone paint!!! Holla! What in hell does THAT mean, y’all ask??? Well, along with four other awesome diy bloggers, who will be blogging at the same time with cool projects of their own, I’ll be completing a special diy project using MyColor inspired by Pantone paint.

In addition to learning all the 411 on my project, y’all will be able to scoot over to the next diy blogger’s post in a pre-determined order and get more ideas and inspiration from their projects. The BEST part? Y’all can comment on my post for a chance to win a sample of MyColor inspired by Pantone paint!!! What-What?! FREE PAINT, y’all!!! Get IT! VALUE! Here are the other diy dynamos and the order of the party (they’ll be links and more detailed instructions in tomorrow’s post, this is a friendly heads-up):

Courtney @ A Thoughtful Place
PJ @ Blog-A-Dazzle
Cassie @ Primitive and Proper
Holly @ Life in the Fun Lane
Angela @ Number Fifty-Three
Heather @ Paper Princess Studio

Remember, the par-tay starts at 12p EST sharp. So, this means, regardless of where you live, y’all need to do some math and figure out what time 12p EST is for you and then hit up Blog-A-Dazzle to fulfill your painting destinies, ok?!!

Y’all the headboard & footboard I scored while whoring a few weeks back is starting to take on a new sassy, albeit,stainless steel persona:

Blam! And look at this shiot:

But WAIT, there’s more!:

The paint stripper is like liquid acid! Genius! I’m sure I’m forever changed, metaphysically, from breathing in the fumes at this point, and, of course, I’m not wearing gloves— don’t do this at home Dazzlers— but the process overall has been smooth sailing, and I’ve been taken to new highs I never knew I could reach!!! Styleslapping to come soon!

For some HOT Before and After action up in this ‘dazzle, what…THRIFT WHORE THURSDAY!?!
This thrift store armoire was scored for a client while out whoring weeks ago:

$69.99 thrift Luscious-ness!

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Y’all, I’ve started to strip the nasty finish off my new bed frame that I scored last week while out Thrift Whoring…check it:

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