Hey Everyone!

A Few New CL Products You Should Know About:

My new Office Depot line is about to debut. I’ve done a series of web videos for you which will be posted soon. When they’re up I’ll send you a link both here and on Twitter. Our first collection was one on the most successful ever in mass market and the new line, we hope, will hit the nail on the head for today’s multi-taskers.

Fabrics Ready for Summer… I’ve introduced some great new outdoor fabrics at JoAnn Fabric and Craft stores. All my fabrics (indoor and out) coordinate with each other so you can’t make a mistake. More importantly, now the transition between indoor and out can be visually seamless—which is how it should be.

My current TV series, “Work That Room With Christopher Lowell“,  is now available both on iTunes and on Yahoo TV. So if you wanted to see the programs but couldn’t, you can view it now. Enjoy!

Ask Christopher Polling:

Polls will remain open for your suggestions concerning our new web series and soon you’ll be able to see my advice column here too, by the same name.

New Ask CL Web Series:

It’s interesting to see the comments between three audiences. The first audience dates back to the beginning, “Interior Motives”, series (1998). They have seen many incarnations of our various series’ over the years. The recent audience are those dating back to our fifth series, “It’s Christopher” (filmed in front of a live audience) and the recent show, “Work that Room”.  The newest audiences are comprised of a group who’ve seen web clips of “Work That Room”, bought my books and also communicate with me on Twitter. However, they have never seen any of my full shows! So, it’s quite a broad span of multi-generational opinions across the board. ALL comments have been great and very helpful, so keep ‘em coming both here and on Twitter, which is where many of them are streaming.

To all of you, I feel I need to tell you that I’m not one to move backwards, especially when transitioning from network TV.  The immediacy of the web, my 15 years in TV production and the past five years entrenched in the internet world has taught me much. Sure, there willl be plenty of educational consistency and carry over, but “Ask Christopher”, the web series, will not resemble any of the past TV shows or try in any way to recreate or recapture them. My goal is to deliver a far more transparent, intimate, one-on-one show than ever before, shot in a more documentary style in real rooms that resemble your homes. And I will be reminding myself of that everyday.

We won’t be bringing an entire lighting crew with trucks of equipment to make our room makeovers look like the cover of Met Home—been there, done that and it was very appropriate for TV. But on this new web series we’ll deal with existing real light so that you have an even more realistic expectation for your finished room once complete! We won’t ‘dress’ to camera and we won’t gloss over function to honor form. Maintenance will be a real focus too – it might look grand but some one’s gotta clean it too—usually you!

Instead, projects will be smaller–focusing on your questions and on various aspects of design that are universal tricks of the trade and which everyone can use. I’ll cover quieter, more compelling and thoughtful aspects of creating a home that don’t just look great, but function incredibly well too. These kinds of segments were hard to get on national TV because of the mandates and formula of that medium. But while, say, the correct night stands, for example, are important, it’s also what goes on them and in the drawers that’s critical too. If you have to use the night stands you have, how can you increase the size of the surfaces so you don’t have to get out of bed to get what you need? Many, I have found, do not spend the time to really think out the ‘what,’ ‘where’, ‘how’ and most importantly the WHY of truly pampering home. Well, I have. I’ve learned to live just as well in small spaces as in grand homes. Frankly, I prefer smaller well-appointed and well organized homes, than the mansions with rooms I never used and stuff that looked great but didn’t add to the quality of life.

So I want you to ask the tough questions and together we’ll solve them.

Much more later!

‘Til then, we can do it!

CL