Atlanta - December 20, 2006

Hand-Painted into a Corner

Apt. 20 Designs

This season, you could spend hours fluffing pillows and arranging pretty water pitchers in assymetrical couplets.

But the fact remains: They’ve already not picked you for season one of Top Designer.

Once you’ve calmed down (and come to terms), turn the spruce-up job over to furniture painter Alison Evans at Apt. 20 Designs.

The ex-jewelry designer makes small, brightly colored furnishings like storage drawers, photo frames, and mirrors.

Shop Evans’s quaint Etsy gallery for ready-made pieces or invite her over to doodle, stencil, and paint the heck out of anything that hasn’t yet achieved its aesthetic potential.

She’ll show up — bursting-at-the-seams idea binder in hand — and get dirty for your sake.

Leaving you free to wash your own mitts of the entire ordeal.

Available online at apt20designs.com; by appointment (404-771-1362).