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Photo by Sean Gin Courtesy Homepolish Dear Internet, Hi there! It’s me, Orlando, here. And I’m typing directly to you. Anyway, do you have a boring dining room? Do you wish the walls had more personality and stuff or whatever? Do you sometimes stare at the wall hoping a giant shape will show up out of nowhere if you stare hard enough? If you answered “yes” or “no” to any or none of these questions than you simply must read the heartwarming story of my dining room’s transformation from moldy to marvelous today on Emily Henderson’s Glamoursite and Homepolish Magazine. CLICK…

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Photographs by Tessa Neustadt Courtesy Homepolishc Dear Zooey Deschanel, Remember when you started a website called Hello Giggles? With your friends Sophia and Molly? And then Hello Gigggles moved to downtown LA? And the office was all beige and boring and made everyone want to claw their eyes out? And you wanted it to reflect the fun, happy vibe of the site instead of being sad and depressing? And then me and Homepolish came over to spice things up? Well now you can see what the office looks like now that it’s decorated? By reading posts on Hello Giggles and Homepolish? WHY…

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Photograph by Sean Gin Courtesy Homepolish Dear Sir or Madam, Remember when you were applying to jobs and you used to write cover letters and you’d always have no idea how to address them? “Do I write ‘Dear Sir or Madam’? Do I write ‘Dear Hiring Manager’? Do I write ‘Hi There’?” It was so confusing, because whatever you wrote it sounded stupid and you felt like you’d never get the job and it seemed pointless and annoying because applying for jobs is the worst thing in the world. Well this post I wrote for Homepolish Magazine is nothing like…

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Photography by Tessa Neustadt Courtesy Homepolish Dear Diary, I spend a lot of time wondering if the stuff I do is weird. Like is my love for peanut butter unclean? Is is wrong to drink so much coffee every morning that I start vibrating? Does it make sense to listen to NPR all day just so I can hear liberal voices murmuring things about foreign policy even if I don’t listen to what they are saying and I just use it as a substitute for being around actual humans? When I’m not neurotically second guessing daily activities, I’m usually wishing that whatever room I’m…

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Photographs By Sean Gin Courtesy Homepolish Dear Slumberers, Do you have a bed with no headboard? Do you yearn to make one alone, by yourself, in silence, whilst weeping? If so check out my latest post for Homepolish Magazine! In it, you’ll learn how to make the lovely headboard featured above. Also, you’ll see hair-raising action shots like this one: Think you can handle it? Head over to Homepolish Magazine and check it out! Best, Orlando READ FULL POST HERE

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Dear The Cast of Melrose Place (the original one, not the Ashlee Simpson one, which I cannot stop watching now that it’s on Netflix because the fashonz are so 90z and amazing), As you may remember, I entered a design challenge recently and I’m thrilled to announce that I have won and that everyone else is a complete loser. Just kidding I don’t know if anyone is actually winning. But if one were to win, I’m hoping it would be me. Or one of the other bloggers who entered the challenge. Or better yet a random person on the street who…

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Photographs by Tessa Neustadt courtesy Homepolish Dear Diary, The owner of the beach house is constantly hosting friends and thus wanted the two guest rooms there to be welcoming and comfortable. I had a great time designing them because there’s always less pressure with guest rooms than there is on bedrooms where people sleep every night, scrutinizing all of your design decisions each night before they go to sleep. I ended up loving the these two rooms, which have the same spare design of the rest of the home but feel a little more playful, more youthful. The goal with these…

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Dear Everyone! I made some changes to my bedroom and now they’re on the internet for you to put your googleyes on! Check out my new, improved, masc4masc bedroom on Emily’s blog! Hurry! There’s not very much time left BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE ENGULFS US ALL IN FLAMES. Love, Orlando SEE FULL STORY HERE! PS: BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE! Check out the step-by-step instructions for how to get this look yourself, including where I bought everything, at Homepolish Magazine! Hurry! READ FULL STORY HERE! Okay bye.

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Photos by Tessa Neustadt Courtesy Homepolish Dear Beach House, Media rooms are kind of the worst. Most designers hate decorating them because there’s all sorts of ugly electronic stuff and electronic stuff makes you think about math and math makes you think about sadness and death. Even worse, you have to think about something clients are always obsessed that you wish they didn’t care about. Comfort. If you ask an interior designer why he became an interior designer he’ll never be like “I always wanted to be an interior designer so I could find functional, slouchy sofa for my clients to wallow on.” If…

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Photo by Sean Gin Courtesy Homepolish Dear Reader, I spent the weekend with my family up north and got to spend a lot of time with my little 3-year-old niece, who is adorable and looks like a Kewpie doll. My parents moved close to my brother so they could hang out with the grandkids and, to my surprise and delight they set up their VCR (analog… so trendy) so that my niece could watch all my old Disney movies (which they kept along with every terrible college paper I wrote). This meant I got to watch ‘Pocahontas’ with my niece…

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Photo Courtesy Hello Giggles Dear Hello Giggles, As you may know, you’re getting a Homepolish makeover (headed up by ME!) in your sunny Downtown LA offices. Because your brand is so youthful and fun, I’m incorporating some fun DIY projects into your makeover. The first of these is this glamourdoor: You can read step-by-step instructions on how I did it over on the beautifully redesigned Homepolish site. Hurry up and do that now or I will die of sadness and it will be, like, all your fault. Love, Orlando WAIT THERE’S MORE READ THE FULL STORY HERE!

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Dear Reader, Whenever people ask me what my favorite project is I always say the most recent one, because it’s the freshest in my mind and still the most exciting to me. I’ve designed for a huge variety of clients and they all have their own styles, but my beach house project stands out for me because it was the first time I worked with a client who had such modern,  minimal taste. My client is a young guy, super cool, who started a tech empire in his twenties and loves art. Since I come from an art background, I…

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  Dear Diary, I had some fun styling with Emily at her new house the other day. Check out what we did with her dining room. Using awesome art from Tappan Collective, vintage accessories, and some cool lamps, we transformed the dining console from grotesque to gorgeous. Happy Monday! Click here for full story! Love, Orlando PS: Click here for a chance to win the beautiful Molly Berman photo we used in Emily’s dining room.

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