FOCAL POINT STYLING: retail faves

I was so excited to see my guest post for retailer Layla Grayce go live today! I was honored when I was contacted by Paulette Pearson, the Marketing Director for retailers Layla Grayce & Zinc Door, to write a post about the benefits of using affiliated site Olioboard to help people with their online shopping experience. I was referred to Layla Grayce from Sheilah MacSporran, the CEO of Olioboard as well as Leslie Carothers, the CEO of the Kaleidoscope Partnership (your interior design & home furnishings industry "go to" source for Social Media Marketing). If you missed my guest post about Olioboard Overview & Benefits, be sure to head over the The Backroom Blog on the Layla Grayce site. You'll also be able to shop my 12 Layla Grayce Bedroom Picks I featured on my boards. For additional items or more options for the bedroom design board, see also my Pinterest board: Retail Faves | Layla Grayce.

Room Redux for retailer Layla Grayce by Lynda Quintero-Davids

See items list with links at Layla Grayce - Backroom Blog

I had worked in retail as a visual merchandiser & store planner for twenty six years and I can totally see the wave of change & opportunity for virtual visual merchandising happening now. If you are a retailer and would like a guest post and lifestyle board created for you, contact me at nyclqd@yahoo.com.

Thanks for stopping by!

Note: This post is sponsored by Layla Grayce. All thoughts and opinions are of my own.

Yesterday I received a package in the mail - even larger than the September issue of Vogue! It was the new source-book for Restoration Hardware featuring their new Fall Collection... and I'm in LOVE!! The main source-book has about 690 pages of gorgeous images of rooms, fabrics, and products. The package came with an additional source-book, at 154 pages focusing on small spaces. All of the images are featured on their website, but for some reason, Restoration Hardware hasn't tapped into the social media stream. The books or their website do not have any icons or links to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, tumblr or Instagram - all tools retailers need to utilize to keep the interest of their customers in today's market. Be that as it may, Restoration Hardware does however, have an app to view their source-book on a mobile device. Here are some of my fave images from the source-book...

"We position our stores as showrooms for our brand, while our catalogs and websites act as virtual extensions of our stores."

Visit the website at:

RESTORATION HARDWARE .COM

Click below to read

Letter from Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer

Gary Friedman

I've been creating PinBoards for my retail faves...

and now I've added Restoration Hardware to my collection of faves.

I use to LOVE visiting their store in Aventura and the Falls when I lived in South Florida. Here in Arizona, the nearest RH location to me is up in Scottsdale at