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...
Renovation
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...
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...
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...
How To Style Your Room With Accessories
Perhaps you are at the end of a successful major renovation project. You might have had professional help from a design and build firm like mine so you were successful in the process. You didn't have to spend your days navigating through the endless options of...
Transitioning Your Home to be a Multi-Functional Space
With a world that seems to be spinning out of control, we are realizing that if everything else gets taken away, family, faith, friends, health, and our home are most important. Our homes are now more than ever a refuge from the world. Our homes also need to function...
How To Take Action On Your Interior Design Goals
Every homeowner seems to have a list of projects that they would love to do in their home.
How To Work With An Interior Designer – Part 3 – Implementing Your Project
Part 3 of my series on how to work with an Interior designer. Implementing Your Project: Even the most beautiful and well thought out design plan cannot transform into reality on it's own. If only we could wave a magic wand and have a space transformed into it's...
How To Work With An Interior Designer- Part 2- The Design Plan
Part 2 of my series on how to work with an Interior designer. THE DESIGN: The most crucial step in any renovation project. Yet, when homeowners are embarking on a renovation project it is the step that most people tend to skip, moving forward with a few random...