Blog Details: My Romantic Home |
| My Romantic Home | | Category: Home + Garden | | Added: March 17, 2007 | | Blog Owner: Cindy Santiago | | Description: Come visit me and see the before and after pictures, thrift store and flea market finds and anything that makes my home more beautiful. I like to buy old things and paint them and you can see the transformation on my blog. | | Editor's Review: None | |  Rate this Blog |
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Gina wrote: | | I found you first on Rate My Space and fell so in love with all your pictures of your house and then was delighted to find your blog. What fun it has been to spend a Friday night reading this and looking at all your glorious roses. Modern life is so fast and everything seems to be about doing things the easy and most practical way,what a lovely change of pace to see beautiful linens and lovely china and truly inviting homes. Thanks for the breath of fresh air and break of cookie cutter decorating. |
Debra Ortt wrote: | | Love this site.love the how tos...wish you were closer and i could come for coffee |
Nancy Kemper wrote: | | Love your blog. Your home is beautiful. Mostly ,I love all your tips on painting furniture. Great job. |
Kathy Blake wrote: | | This blog is absolutely AMAZING! Such wonderful ideas and inspiration! LOVE IT! |
Heidi Thacker wrote: | | This blog is so inspirational about how to have a lovely romantic home with a flea market/charity shop budget. I get so many ideas from Cindy's blog. |
Joanne wrote: | | I found your beautiful home's pics on RMS and found your blog. I am totally new at this -- just started looking at blogs this week. Yours is by far my absolute favorite. My home used to be a lot like yours but now it is more traditional with more old-world touches but I love to still look at homes with your style. Besides owning my own handbag and jewelry business, my favorite thing to do is go garage saling. Oh, the treasures that I have found and the knowledge that there is always another treasure right around the corner!! I would love to start my own blog (to show my found treasures, my business, my home, etc.) but I have absolutely no idea how it's done. Guess I'm going to have learn something new. |
decorator101 wrote: | | I discovered your blog today. Love it.. I can tell you have a lot of fun redoing the treasures that you find. There is so much love put into them. Can't wait to catch the update tomorrow. I must get back to the work at hand around here. DH is gone for the next 2 weeks and I've got to make every moment count. I'll be checking in again. Hugs to you . Lynne |
Sharon wrote: | | Hi Cindy,
I'm not a blogger. Don't like most of them but had to write and tell you that yours is the best and most useful I have ever read. It is also the most attractive one I've seen. How did you create such a beautiful site? I recently read about your paint technique for the bed you painted (gorgeous by the way) and tried the idea when I painted a bookshelf for my daughters house. I painted it red but used your idea of the brown craft paint to give it a rustic finish. I then put on a coat of paste wax as you recommended. It turned out nice although the wax gave it a shinier finish than I would want if I were doing something like the finish you got on your bed. I'd like to try a dresser in aged white with the technique. How can I achieve a satin rather than shiny finish?
Thanks for sharing your talent. We appreciate you out here. |
Jinny wrote: | | Lovely blog from a very clever and inspirational lady |
Rose Johnson wrote: | | I love your site and you are awesome. Respectfully, another shabby chic girl, Rose Johnson |
Tracy Sharon wrote: | | I adore this site! Great ideas and beautiful photos...this woman is amazing! |
rondell konat wrote: | | Love your blog....although I decorate prim I still use your ideas on how-tos. Loved the way you added the lace to your toilet and how you painted your hutch...just everything. Also just bought the Alpha Hi Droxey at Rite Aid and on sale. So you see you don't have to decorate in the romantic style to enjoy your blog which I read everyday! Thanks and keep up the great work. |
Ann Finch wrote: | | Your blog is beautiful, just how I'd like my home to be. Thanks
Ann |
Ardith wrote: | | Love this site,i am so glad I found it!
Nice to see someone else who likes romantic country decorating on a budget! |
Nancy Cole wrote: | | I love your blog, check it often. Love the step by step painting tips...have learned a lot. Can't wait to see you on HGTV! Be sure to let us know when it is going to be shown. Best of luck with the filming! |
joyce Taylor wrote: | | my daughter sent your website to me and I love it. I love the journey it takes me on every time I connect. |
Belinda wrote: | | I found your blog through RMS and loved seeing all your beautiful pictures and reading all your posts. I was taking a break from gardening (sore back) and decided to vegg on the couch with the computer. Wow your roses are amazing-what am I doing on the couch?? I have work to do outside!!!:). I can't wait to see your home on HGTV-keep us posted-Hugs from MA-CIAO! |
RedHairedMare wrote: | | Hi...I saw your lovely posts on RMS...your rooms are so pretty and feminine and tranquil. I think that is what I like most...the peace, happy feeling your rooms convey. I would rate your blog a 10 (finally...I get to 'double' that RMS 5!). I've bookmarked your blog...and look forward to coming back and 'visiting' again. Trully lovely...and best wishes with your upcoming TV gig... :)Mare |
Rita May wrote: | | You are a 10. Wonderful pictures of your charming home. Love the before and afters, the shopping tips from flea markets to Marshalls, are all great. I check your blog every few days, it's bookmarked.
Rita |
Rosie wrote: | | I was just telling my friend that I've seem to have lost my creativiy and then I found your blog. Thank you for getting me in the mood again to get "the juices flowing". Your place is amazing. Rosie |
Amber I. M. wrote: | | I love this blog. I love the step-by-step details, but also how down to earth it is. It's not "I bought this reproduction antique for $1,000..." It's "I found this cracked and dirty mirror for $3, painted it, and now it looks like it's a real $1,000 antique..." It gives new meaning to the quote "A home must be made, not bought." -Joyce Maynard. |
Marian Woldhjek wrote: | | I just LOVE this BLOG.
Got the address from another blogger and thought to give it a go, and just adore it.
I like to paint old furniture too, so this gave me many ideas.
Thanks and keep up the wonderful work.
Hugs from the Netherlands |
Sheree Cloyd wrote: | | I love your blog. Your how-to's are fabulous!
You have really taught me so much. Look forward to checking in every night!!!! Keep it up! |
Judi Brayman wrote: | | I absolutely love visiting your blog. Your home is beautiful and the pictures you share are breath taking. |
brenda moles wrote: | | your blog is the first thing i go to every day. it feels like you are a close neighbor.you do and have a lot of things that i do,it just feelsgood.
other blogs dont realize it ,i guess but where they might be informative,i see words,with you,it feels like i am actually visiting your home and go on vacation too dont mean to sound corny,your just a natural at everything |
Aziah @ Fitty wrote: | | Cindy has been my idol ever since I bumped into her blog one day.. I love everything she did and she is a very nice and creative person! |
Pam Pitts wrote: | | This is the first blog that I became hooked on. She is talented and the fact that the decorating projects are completed with a thrifty eye and a thin-ish wallet allows the readers to imagine our own 'romantic home'. Then the instructions show that we don't have to imagine anymore. Thanks, Cindy. |
TressDuvall wrote: | | I go to your blog at least 3 times a week to catch up-I love it as well as our home! |
Bonnie Landry wrote: | | Cindy's blog is the one you can go to and find inspiration in her decor and ideas that she gives to us. I go to her blog daily. Very highly ranked on my list. |
Liz Hockamier wrote: | | I have scoured Cindy's Posts from begining to end.
I check it just about every day. It is posted on my blog as a favorite. |
zakiyah wrote: | | love your blog. give me some inspiration/idea for my house decoration.thanks so much ;) |
Nikki at the Scarlett Rose Garden wrote: | | Cindy's blog is gorgeous. The soft colors and layout, and of course the content. I still have trouble believing she lives in an apartment. Her decor makes her small home look like a palace, yet still cozy. She does such wonderful vignettes.
Thanks for the inspiration Cindy! |
Lynda Lara wrote: | | I love this blog the best. It's so romantic. It's a warm and cozy and inspiring place to visit every day. It makes me happy that I have such a beautiful place to go. |
lorraine kisch wrote: | | The best blog. The second one I read each day...the first is Notes from a Cottage Industry.
Keep on writing...please. |
june semenetz wrote: | | What a blog..its so wonderful..lots of color and really shares her life with you...keep up the good work...js |
Sharon Sarandos wrote: | | Just clicked onto your site and love it. Yes, indeed you have a gift of making a wonderful home for your family. Don't you love most of the antique shop owners when you are out of town shopping and start talking and thinking "I wish they lived closer and we were able to do fun things together"? I live in a tiny town between Dallas and Houston but also am very lucky to have a lot of wonderful friend but none that live close by. We have a small ranch and have a few cows, cats and dogs, big yard and good size house full of way too many collectables! I will be having a home and garden tour the beginning of June and have a million things to do to get ready forit. I told the girl in charge that it should be described as a 'lesson in what not to do' or a'hit and miss'garden and home tour! I really know very little about gardening but do know over the years what works here with the crazy Texas weather! Just to tell you what I am up against thought the red tip trees in the front yard were looking pretty good until I realized that all five have webworms and need to be cut down. I can't enjoy stuff thinking about the dust or spiders or duribility of something! My husband says why can't we be like a lot of people -just sit back and bar-b-que in a yard that looks like a city dump-they seem happy! Anyway, I really got off the subject-wish you lived close by -I know we would be wonderful friends! Sharon |
Tamara Simmons wrote: | | I love this blog. This is one of the only ones that I check on a daily basis to see what goodies have been added for our reading pleasure. |
Cindy Madore wrote: | | Hi Cindy,
You decorate like i could only dream about, way to go girl... keep up the marvilous work you do.you truly inspire me everyday that i look at your blog, you sure do very well on e-bay & craigs list, i live in Fl. just moved here in Sept,07 from Ct. And am loving it in Paradise! i love going to Flea markets, consignment shops & such, am in the process of doing alot of my thrift shop finds, over in Shabby- cottage chic, i get alot of ideas from you, Cindy, thanks.
Best Regards, Cindy M. |
Tammy Christian wrote: | | I check out about 15 blogs a day and Cindy's is by far the best! Always updated, filled with great info, creative ideas and beautiful "after" photos. Lots of soul and warmth comes thru with her easy conversational style making it seem like you're visiting a friend. LOVE IT! |
Barb Maxwell wrote: | | Hi Cindy,
My daughter told me about your blog a few months ago and it is now the only one listed in my "favorites". I look forward to the pictures and note posted every day. Your photos are beautiful.
Thanks for brightening my day. |
LeAnne Chumley wrote: | | Cindy's blog is my very favorite blog...and I read LOTS of blogs! I learn so much from her and I can also relate to her single mom life. I first found her from her Rate My Space photos on HGTV and it led me to other wonderful blogsites. Thank you Cindy....please keep blogging.
LeAnne |
Cindy Sherman wrote: | | As much as I enjoy peeking in to Cindy's blog from time to time, I gotta tell you all of that white makes me crazy! Honestly, if I was living in her home, I would feel like an eskimo in an igloo.
You have my permission to publish this. |
Jayme Lockyer wrote: | | I just found this site and I love it. Thanks for all the painting tips - I'm going to try some out this weekend. |
Cynthia Connor Wagenhauser wrote: | | I love your blog and the ideas for painting your garage sale finds. I am new to computer/internet and have thouroghly enjoyed the links to other likeminded blogsites. Thanks! CindyW |
Nancy Flynn wrote: | | Well, I too am a recent visitor to your space. I feel that your blog is very informative & fun & informational at the same time. Keep up the Great ideas ! Nan(Shortie) |
Debbie Prairie wrote: | | Cindy's blog is the first one I read every day. I love her style, and love seeing all the wonderful treasures she finds. I enjoy seeing how she uses all of her finds to decorate her lovely cottage home. She is such an inspiration. |
Reader wrote: | | This blog is updated regularly. The author describes, in detail, how she turns yard sale and other "finds" into treasures. The author is warm, and her home is warm, and My Romantic Home is one of the few blogs I check daily. |
southernbelle (mimi) wrote: | | After discovering you on RMS and loving everything
you do, I found your blog. I must say it is
something I look forward to every day.Your talent
and creativity and are so inspiring.
You are my all time FAVORITE !!! 10 STARS |
Livia Tage wrote: | | The blog is wonderful and very inspiring! Thank you for sharing your lovely home. |
Anecia D. Ross from SE Texas wrote: | | Okay, okay...nice blog..nice tier dish..nice seashells but I really would like to move on to another room if we could. I've got to use the bathroom! |
MimiG wrote: | | I always enjoy reading Cindy's blog. She shares great pictures and provides easy to understand instructions for projects. Her home is beautiful and her attention to detail fantastic!
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Donna Harris wrote: | | I don't know how I happened upon your blog, but I bookmarked it immediately and it is one of my favorite places to go! Thank you so much for sharing with everyone! |
southernbelle wrote: | | Since I have discovered Cindy's blog I can not
go a day without visiting.I love everything she
does...decorating,gardening,refinishing furniture,
being a wonderful mom and making a happy and
beautiful home for her family. |
Joyce wrote: | | cindy's site is one I read almost every day. The site itself is beautiful and her home........I just want to curl up there and relax. She writes as if speaking to friends and shares her how-to's generously. |
GLENDA PARKISON wrote: | | I found out about your blog in Romantic Country (I think) and am totally in love with it. I wish I had your apartment. I've gotten lots of ideas for my own house. Love all of the "how-tos" since I am not very good at refinishing projects. Definitely a 10. |
Bettsi McComb wrote: | | Cindy, I love your blog! Your home is beautiful and I love the fact that you "keep it real". Done on a budget- not truckloads of money. Small space- not a "mcmansion". And yet, your home is truly beautiful and tranquil. I also want to add that I love your enthusiasm. I wouldn't keep coming back if you didn't make it such a pleasure to visit. Thank you for a wonderful blog! |
Valerie wrote: | | I love your blog! You're very creative and your blog is a visual treat!
Thank you so much for sharing! |
Terry McCallum wrote: | |
Cindy, love your blog and your home, I like it so much it is 3.40am here (Ireland) and I am still flicking through it.
Slan agus oiche mhaith (bye and goodnight) Terry |
kay phillips wrote: | | I'm assuming a 10 is a perfect score....Your blog is my absolute favorite. You have inspired me to do so many things...I'm painting my bedroom furniture this summer because of your inspiration. I did a chair this weekend to practice! |
Linda Wiford wrote: | | Fabulous site. I can't go a day without checking the "My Romantic Home" blog. Her beautiful shabby chic decorating, and flea market make overs are a true inspiration. Her blog has given me many decorating and craft ideas for my own home. I have also visited several other blogs and on-line shops because of the wonderful things I find here. Can't wait to see her next project ! |
Laurie Salow wrote: | | Great blog, it was the "portal" to all of the decorating and crafting blogs I now visit, thanks for getting me hooked, Cindy! I love your photos, your creativity, your "how to" tips (which I hope to use one of these days) and your honesty and friendliness. |
Pamela Martin wrote: | | I have been enjoying your blog for about a week. I really, really like it. I am new to the blogging community and am glad I found you. |
Lisa Walsh wrote: | | 100/100 for this blog. Cindy is a fabulous blogger and lovely person. I read it everyday and admire her ideas and energy. It's a pleasure to read "My Romantic Home"Blog. |
Jenni Steinhauer wrote: | | I love your blog! I visit it pretty much every day, and always leave it so happy and inspired! I love how you take old cast offs and turn them into beautiful things! (Something I also take pleasure in doing!) I look forward to reading all about your projects! Keep up the good work! :)
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Renea Hipp wrote: | | I think your blog is beautiful, love the photos, and love to see all your wonder found objects. And enjoy seeing where you put them in your home. |
Row wrote: | | I Love how you make your home so beautiful on a budget. and give us all the details on how u do it. and your painting skills rock! : ) |
M Hayes wrote: | | One of the best decorating blogs in cyberspace. I enjoy it a lot and visit frequently. |
SHARON wrote: | | THE BEST BLOG I HAVE EVER FOUND ON THE NET. IT HAS GIVEN GREAT PLEASURE AND LONG MAY IT CONTINUE.
I love Cindy's style and idea's |
c. payne wrote: | | I love your blog! Your home is beautiful--I like your ideas--very "do-able" --I will be checking back regularly for updates and ideas. Thanks for the info about where you aquire your items. I could search all day and not find what you had--it is nice to know where to seek. |
Linda Leclercq wrote: | | Hi Cindy
Love your blog site. I love that you do updates regular and share so much.It makes us feel like we know you. You have done wonderful things with your place,it makes me inspired to do little things all the time.Keep up the good work, you rock!Yours is one of the best sites Ive seen. |
JoAnne VanBrocklin wrote: | | Cindy's blog is both informative and entertaining. She welcomes readers into her home to see what she has done to make it her own. And then she tells you exactly how she did it in case you want to recreate the look in your own home. Her blog has quickly become one of my favorites and I look forward to reading it. |
Gail Eiler wrote: | | Cindy's blogs are so inspiring and helpful. I love checking it every day just to see what she has done. Her furniture refinishing article inspired me to start collecting old furniture again...I really enjoy her beautiful pictures too. |
GERALDINE SHARP wrote: | | Cindy, you are such an inspiration to me and I just love your blog. Your home is certainly a Romantic Home. You are a wonderful interior decorator and can recycle pre-loved items into your own well-loved items. Everything you do seems to turn out beautifully. Keep up the wonderful blog. Thanks, Gerry |
Gail McCormack wrote: | | One of my favourite blogs to visit, interesting, informative posts, easy to read and beautiful photos |
Sherry Ryan wrote: | | I found this blog a few weeks ago and have visited it daily ever since. The photos are lovely and Cindy inspires me to tackle projects I have been putting off. I love this blog. |
kelly ellis wrote: | | daily blog i read and getting reading to paint my first desk in a few weeks, The lady has talent.... |
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Rating: 9 (Votes: 348)
