21 Tips for Downsizing!

I want to call your attention to the latest issue of Oregon Home. They have a very interesting article titled 21 Tips for Downsizing. They interviewed "a designer, two real estate brokers, an estate sale organizer and a downsizer for tips to ease the move from living large to living small."

Our friend RayAnn Bogert owner of 12-year-old Bizy Girl Interiors in Lake Oswego,OR. was the designer interviewed. She offered this advice:

1. Fill your new pad with furniture that's properly scaled to it. - Like a Dachshund trying to push a Great Dane-sized doggie bed into its diminutive crate, you can end up with the same old cluttered-to-the-rafters feeling if you don't consider the scale of the furniture that will decorate your new digs.

Others interviewed for the article are Kent Mathews, a real estate broker at The Real Estate Firm, Karen Young Estate Sales and Appraisals in Beaverton, OR, Connie Osborne, Kim Childs, and a real estate broker with Keller Williams Realty in Lake Oswego, OR.

If you're thinking of downsizing check out the 21 suggestions. Our 22nd suggestion: come see us after the move. You might find your old furniture and accessories a little shabby in you sparkling new digs. Come see us. We'll help you brighten things up!

Bev & Mike
Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery

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Leather-Match Multi-Function Table

Reduce clutter and increase style. Regardless of the size of your living room, you could always do with a little more storage, especially invisible, convenient storage. Whether you want to increase the minimalist appeal or just decrease the scattered look, this Multi-Function Table will come in handy. It features a solid wood [...]

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Fairmont Designs' New Logo Reflects Environmental Awareness

To commemorate its 25 years of producing furniture, Fairmont Designs launched its new logo on January 1, 2009 as an indication of its environmental awareness.



The new logo consists of the company's initials, FD, which forms a unique leaf-like symbol to indicate their green initiatives. A few of their green practices include the usage of wood scraps and sawdust for energy, recycled water for manufacturing, switching to water-based finishes, disallowing certain types of plastics in its offices, and refraining from using rainforest timber or endangered wood species in its furniture production.

The new Fairmont Designs logo also displays the tagline "Furnishing Imagination" which reflects its commitment to provide "creative furnishing solutions" for all its customers including designers, retailers, and end users.

Company Chairman, George Tsai says that this logo will not be a mere image, but will serve as a mirror of their environmentally friendly actions.

"We work together to bring strength to our new brand and this is what distinguishes us from others. The perception of Fairmont Designs must evolve to that of a socially responsible provider of services, rather than just a manufacturer."

The new logo, according to Tsai, will represent their company for the next 25 years.

Fairmont Designs began its environmental campaign by carefully practicing the 3Ps, People, Process, and Product in all its business procedures. They started by making their employees realize the economic and health benefits of achieving environmental goals. Their production process is carefully monitored to generate safer products.

The new company logo now appears on their website, stationery, product catalogs, advertisements, buildings, and warehouses. You can now see the new logo on all products available on the Wholesale Furniture Brokers' website.

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Log Furniture Has Always Been Green and Sustainable

Montana Woodworks explains how they have been environmentally friendly since they started harvesting timber and producing log furniture in 1991 in the new press release by Wholesale Furniture Brokers.

"Only trees that are standing dead, that is, they have died and not yet fallen, are chosen for our furniture," says Duane, Owner of Montana Woodworks when asked if they have any green or sustainable practices of notability. "Removing the standing dead timber from the forests greatly reduces the damage of catastrophic firestorms that have often devastated our lands."

The timber that Montana Woodworks uses is harvested by hand without the use of heavy machinery. Montana Woodworks' commitment to protecting the renewable resources is what help sets them apart from most manufacturers.

View the Montana Woodworks press release and check out their available log furniture products on the Montana Woodworks page.

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