Visit our new neighborhood pages where you can send in photos, find quick information and news and join our message boards. Visit our new neighborhood pages where you can send in photos, find quick information and news and join our message boards. Whether it's a neighbor with a paintbrush sprucing up the family room or some big-deal designer doing a $1 million renovation, she loves watching how the experts can change a room from yawn to yowza. She dreamed of a similar transformation in her master bedroom but didn't have the confidence to do it herself, or a TV-sized budget to work with. By the time Nguyen was done with her House Call project, her room was ready for prime time. She was every bit as excited as any TV makeover recipient -- and proud, too, that she did it herself. But the TV shows always do the big "reveal" at the end, so let's start at the beginning: Nguyen and her husband, Ken Luu, are newlyweds who have a new house in a south Orlando subdivision. Their little love nest -- with 1,259 square feet of living space -- has the bland white walls common to new homes. Unlike many young couples who don't have much furniture, however, she and Luu have a house full, courtesy of his parents who left their furnishings behind when they relocated to Guam. House Call's visit wasn't nearly the production a TV show would have been -- just a reporter, a photographer and a single decorator with an armful of samples and a partially used can of paint. How do I achieve the look I want without making a big mess or blowing a pretty tight budget, Nguyen asked Deborah Fisher Rudd, a home stylist and color specialist who agreed to share her home-decor knowledge. "The first thing I'd like to do is to put a color on the walls," she wrote to House Call. "I am always afraid of putting on a wrong color. I do not like any dark colors. I'd like to have a light color like pale yellow." Rudd had just the shade, she said, opening a can of Rich Cream for Nguyen's consideration. It's a soft yellow, Rudd said, that can make a room feel as though there's light pouring through the windows. Nguyen loved it. She and Luu, a quiet sort willing to take "honey-do" directions from his wife and the decorator, spent the first weekend after Rudd's visit applying Rich Cream, not only in the bedroom but in the living area, as well. Don't pick a large pattern, Rudd said. It would overwhelm the room. Don't pick anything really contemporary. The furniture is mostly traditional, and contemporary accessories would clash. And look for colors that are similar, but not exactly the same. Don't choose a big yellow comforter, for instance, but rather one with a touch of yellow that would pick up the color on the walls. The furniture was a bigger challenge. The bedroom was jam-packed with a bed, a chest of drawers with a TV on top, a tall chest, an antique chest from Luu's parents, a large upholstered chair, a long table and a nightstand that served as a desk for the laptop computer. Whether it's a neighbor with a paintbrush sprucing up the family room or some big-deal designer doing a $1 million renovation, she loves watching how the experts can change a room from yawn to yowza. She dreamed of a similar transformation in her master bedroom but didn't have the confidence to do it herself, or a TV-sized budget to work with. By the time Nguyen was done with her House Call project, her room was ready for prime time. She was every bit as excited as any TV makeover recipient -- and proud, too, that she did it herself. But the TV shows always do the big "reveal" at the end, so let's start at the beginning: Nguyen and her husband, Ken Luu, are newlyweds who have a new house in a south Orlando subdivision. Their little love nest -- with 1,259 square feet of living space -- has the bland white walls common
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