{artisan home tour 2017}

If you’re shopping for a new home, looking for inspiration, or thinking about a remodel, the Artisan Home Tour  should be on your weekend radar. Step inside these luxury homes, from the area’s most exclusive builders and remodelers, and see for yourself why these are million-dollar-plus homes.

ARTISAN HOME TOUR 

The Artisan Home Tour features 19 new one-of-a-kind homes and two remodels which will be open this weekend, the final weekend of the Home Tour.

The following homes all used products from Hirshfield’s!

• Home #1 Lecy Brothers Homes & Remodeling: Interior and Exterior | Painting by Cityscape
• Home #3 Stonewood, LLC: Exterior | Painting by Cityscape
• Home #6 Denali Custom Homes:  Interior and Exterior | Painting by Legatt Decorating
• Home #9 John Kraemer and Sons:  Garrison Landing Project. Cityscape painted all of the common areas including the corridors, lobby, and stairways.
• Home #11 Carl M. Hansen Companies: Interior and Exterior | Painting by Cityscape
• Home #12 Narr Construction, Inc:  Interior and Exterior | Painting by Cityscape
• Home #13 Great Neighborhood Homes, Inc. Interior and Cedar Exterior |  Painting by Archer Painting
• Home #18 Highmark Builders: Interior and Exterior | Painting by Cityscape
• Home #19 Hendel Homes: Interior and Exterior | Painting by Cityscape

Tour details available here.

 

Since Frank and Elizabeth Hirshfield opened their first store in 1894, it has been our mission to do the best job possible meeting customer needs and solving customer problems. Hirshfield’s. People and products you can trust.

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{friday finds: january color of the month}

Color of the Month: Morning Blush 1083

Bring in the New Year with this cozy, warm, and fresh morning blush pink! We are calling this the pink of pinks! Morning Blush doesn’t stand out, but flatters everything around it. It’s a warm pink with a touch of peach. Not necessarily feminine, but is elegant and sophisticated.

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{color of the month: spacebox 0493}

Hirshfield’s Color of the Month for December is Spacebox 0493, a green-blue-gray, depending on the light. Think of eucalyptus, the little berries on spruce tops, and the blue-green rosemaling color of years past.

My Scandinavian Home shows Spacebox 0493 as an accent color warming up an all white  interior.

{friday finds: bachman’s holiday ideas house 2016}

Guest Bedroom – I’d love to see this at night with the overhead light turned off and the headboard lights on.

Visiting the Bachman’s Holiday Ideas House is a perfect zen way to ease into the holiday season. A mixture of old, new, and repurposed, the Bachman’s design team brilliantly transforms the family home with the change of seasons. The Ideas House offers all kinds of inspiration from gift ideas, table settings, and decorating ideas for inside and outside of your home. An added bonus for me was a room painted in my new favorite color – pink.

The Holiday Ideas House 2016 theme  is “Winter’s Frost  & Glow” with the following key trends:

• Glowing Lights – Illuminate the season with a magical glow of string lights, candles, and lanterns.
• Birch – Embrace the beauty of nature with birch details found throughout the house.
• Mixed Metals – A mix of galvanized metals, gold, and silver find a perfect match to add elevated sophistication.
• Plaid Patterns – Cozy layers of buffalo plaid pillows and accents transform the home into a welcoming space.

Ceramic deer off to the left add a bit of whimsy to the table.

{hirshfield’s color of the month: 0913 angel food cake}

Cozy up any interior with November’s Color of the Month: Angel Food Cake 0913. With a nod to fall, the staff at Hirshfield’s Design Studio chose Angel Food Cake for its versatility as a neutral. It goes with so many colors:  blues, browns, grays, and reds.

Rachel Blindauer

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The Pantone Fall 2016 palette shows their gold (Spicy Mustard) with a red and orange color combination that we’re use to seeing as the leaves turn colors. That’s comfort food for Midwesterners.

{product spotlight: hirshfield’s platinum ceramic paint}

When you think of ceramic tile — or anything else for that matter — you probably think of high quality, easy cleanup, and a long-lasting finish. And “ceramic” paint is no different.

Hirshfield’s PLATINUM CERAMIC™ with Ceramic Stain-Release Technology is a premium acrylic latex interior paint that helps walls maintain that just-painted look in homes, schools, health care facilities, offices and more — thanks to the power of tiny ceramic microspheres.

What are ceramic microspheres?

Hirshfield’s PLATINUM CERAMIC™ paints contain ceramic microspheres which are manufactured exclusively by 3M. The ceramic microspheres are tiny, microscopic beads that look like a fine white powder.  The ceramic beads combine with a high quality, 100% acrylic resin to create a hard, smooth surface that is extremely resistant to stains, burnishing, and abrasion. Plus, because of their smooth shape, the paint applies with improved brushing and rolling qualities.

{interior trim 101: five fool-proof whites for all your rooms}

Picking a trim color can be tricky. You want one color to tie all of your rooms together, but you also need to complement the colors in each of those rooms.

The answer is off-white, right? Not so fast.

If you’ve ever tried a white with a green undertone in a pink-toned room (or maybe cream with red undertones in a blue room),  you realize that all whites are not created equal. Some are much more neutral than others.

So, we turned to experts from our Hirshfield’s stores —Sherry from Baxter and Faye from Woodbury — for some of their favorite fool-proof whites that will work in any room.

{color of the month: seeing green with mother nature 0746}

This has been the year of natural and organic shapes and textures — from organic shapes at High Point Market to organic textures in the latest Thibaut books. And now, our color of the month is truly inspired by nature. Mother Nature, to be exact. Mother Nature 0746 is Hirshfield’s Color of the Month for October.

Mother Nature 0746

Mother Nature 0746 is a fashion-forward, organic color — a deeper green that sits somewhere between yellow-green and blue-green. We’re seeing this as an emerging trend color in fabrics, accessories, and wallpapers used as a deep neutral.

And we’re not the only ones with green on our minds. The Color Marketing Group picked Thrive as the North American Key Color 2017+.  And that’s the point. “Green is a color of growth, of newness, and of wellbeing,” says CMG , “and Thrive will be the hue to carry us forward.”

This jumbo croc wallpaper pattern is fashioned after handbags and is stunning in real life. Hirshfield’s Design Studio carries the book. 

{fall painting tips: when is it too cold to paint?}

 

There’s a chill in the air and a few leaves are already falling. It’s autumn in the Midwest, meaning time to pick vegetables from the garden, visit an apple orchard or pumpkin patch, and enjoy the fall colors.

But it’s also time to check your to-do list and finish up the projects you skipped during the summer. It’s not too late to paint your front door, exterior walls, or outdoor trim, but the clock is ticking.

Fall is a great time to paint your home. After all, you don’t have to fight the summer heat. But you should follow these rules:

• Most exterior paints and stains should not be applied in temperatures lower than 50° F. However, Hirshfield’s Paint Manufacturing has a line of premium 100% acrylic latex paints and primers that have been specially formulated to be used in temperatures as low as 35°F.
• Temperatures should not drop below 35° for 36 hours after application to allow proper drying and film formation.

Here are some other tips to make your fall painting project successful:

• The best hours to paint in the fall are between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
• During this summer’s heatwave, we advised painting in the shade. In the fall months, paint your way around the house in the other direction. Follow the sun to speed up drying times.
• Paint dries more slowly in lower temps, so if you need a second coat, wait at least 24 hours to let the first coat fully dry.
• Watch those dew points! Paints, stains, or primers should not be applied unless the surface temperature is at least 5° higher than the dew point. (The dew point is the temperature at which moisture will condense on a surface).
• Check the wind speeds. During the summer, a nice breeze is harmless. Now, even a 10 mph wind can fling falling leaves onto your wet paint! So be careful!

If you have any more painting questions, or need help choosing the perfect fall color, visit our experts in the paint department at your local Hirshfield’s location in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, or North Dakota.

Since Frank and Elizabeth Hirshfield opened their first store in 1894, it has been our mission to do the best job possible meeting customer needs and solving customer problems. Hirshfield’s. People and products you can trust.

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{inside the bachman’s 2016 fall ideas house}

 

The 2016 Bachman’s Fall Ideas House has so much to see, we needed two blogs to do it justice. Last week, we toured the new Bar Shed. This week, we go inside.

The theme of this year’s Fall Ideas House is “Warm Days, Cool Nights,” featuring a mix of terracotta hues, shades of blue, cozy textures, and natural elements. You’ll see mixed metals with green plants and lush florals, with Hirshfield’s paints on all of the walls. Here are some of the highlights.

Living Room

The living room has enough ideas to fill the house, from the metallic leaves above the mantel to the autumn scene filling the fireplace down below.