{"id":1799,"date":"2012-03-05T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessafrancis.com\/staging\/today-is-the-day\/"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:35:00","slug":"today-is-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessafrancis.com\/staging\/2012\/03\/today-is-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the Day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stevenandchris\/\">Steven and Chris<\/a> show is taping a few rooms in my house.&nbsp;&nbsp; Blogging has taken a back seat these past 2 weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the Steven and Chris show called to feature my home in 2 weeks I said yes \u2013 sure, no problem, the rooms are pretty done!&nbsp; Boy, was I wrong.&nbsp; There were things I lived with that I wasn\u2019t happy with (like my perfectly fine brown sofa) and couldn\u2019t stomach the thought of being on national television showing these rooms.&nbsp; Sure, I could have turned it down in hopes that I could be featured later (but they already had another blogger lined up after me and they stop taping in April.)&nbsp; Sometimes, you just have to step out of your comfort zone and go for it!<\/p>\n<p>So, I went about getting my trades\/suppliers on board to paint, install hardwood (one room), slipcover, wallpaper, build and sew. 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Thank you to all of them.&nbsp; I shopped, re-arranged my art wall, fluffed etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-bgk-wdMdkI8\/T1TPQjPdVBI\/AAAAAAAAGGQ\/JZXMv6nlwxs\/s1600-h\/DSC03534%25255B3%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC03534\" border=\"0\" height=\"484\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-6ddQv9s-EZE\/T1TPRK_RSTI\/AAAAAAAAGGY\/omSm1MviSVE\/DSC03534_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"DSC03534\" width=\"644\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a sneak peak with my new slipcovered sofas, re-arranged art wall and my beautiful new pillow from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melongings.com\/\">Chanee\u2019s<\/a> new Spring 2012 line.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the Steven and Chris show is taping a few rooms in my house.&nbsp;&nbsp; Blogging has taken a back seat&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steven-and-chris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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