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Design Tips
Preparing For Your First Meeting With A Designer
I get many questions about the process of working with a designer. Once I have an initial appointment set with a new client. I typically get asked if there’s something that they need to do to prepare for our first visit, so, I thought I might share a few thoughts...
Why can’t a renovation go any faster?
Here is a question that many people ask during the process of any renovation. Why can’t this process go on my timeline? The answer to this question is very simple… renovation is much more complicated than it appears. In recent years homeowners have been led to believe...
A few things to consider when thinking about a bathroom renovation.
You were probably thinking about a bathroom renovation for quite a while. You would love to totally redo your bathroom, tear out the old bathtub shower combination, maybe add a freestanding bathtub, and a beautiful custom tile shower. So the first thing you do is...
Pillow Talk
I often run into a local Home Goods or Home Sense store in whatever town I might be working in at the time. I might be looking for a few odds and ends while finishing up a design project or while preparing a project for our final photo session day. A few wine glasses...
Redesigning and Renovating a Vacation Home
Are you thinking about redesigning and renovating a vacation home? Well, summertime is here and many people look forward to spending the season visiting their vacation home. Whether that be a lakeside cabin, an oceanfront home, or mountain retreat, a vacation home can...
How To Survive A Kitchen Renovation
Everyone has heard the Horror stories from homeowners that have undertaken a kitchen renovation. This is especially true of homeowners that hire a contractor to renovate with no concrete design plan but especially from homeowners that decide to tackle renovations on...
Choosing Fabrics For Outdoor Use
Summer is a great time to be entertaining outdoors and with so many people working on the preparation of their backyard spaces.
Filling Your Home With Fragrance
Truly great design should be visually impactful, and should also appeal to the other senses.
How Covid19 Will Change The Design Of Our Homes
In the past few months, as we have watched the world change in many ways, we will also begin to see changes and evolutions in many industries. Those of us in the design industry has been busy preparing for and anticipating some of the many ways that Covid19 will...