As so often happens whenever we are working on a room with someone, other spaces start to beg for a bit of attention as well! In the case of our Great Room project, it was the adjacent dining room that wanted some love!
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Project Reveal: A Peek at our Great Room Project
The reason we get hired is generally because clients are looking for solutions to make their lives easier, more efficient, and more beautiful. These Great Room clients were no exception. They had recently moved to this lovely condo and had set up the room with art and furnishings that made the move with them and some new purchases, but weren’t happy with the way it was coming together.
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image via OKL
Top Bed Styles
There are many many bed style and frame choices. From classic brass beds to contemporary upholstered models. The array is staggering! I’ve culled a few favorites that would work for many different applications.
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Bedding Basics
Because these questions come up fairly often, I’ve compiled a chart of bed mattress sizes and a glossary of basic bedding terms. This will be a useful reference guide when you need to buy bedding to help demystify the information on the packaging so you know what it is you are getting!
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Beautiful Stationery Products
One of my favorite passions, right after design excellence and delicious food, is beautiful stationery. I adore beautiful writing paper and note cards, journals and pens, elegant invitations…pretty much anything writing paper related! In this digital communication age, it is truly extraordinary to receive a handwritten note or invitation anymore. Formal invitations and announcements are the only communications that really demand physical paper. And yet there is something so satisfying about putting a well designed pen to paper.
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How to Choose the Right Bedding
January is white sale month, meaning that bed and bath linens generally go on sale for deep discounts sometime during the month of January. This makes it an EXCELLENT time to stock up/replace your bed linens with ones that bring you joy. You use these every. single. day. Shouldn’t you invest in something wonderful?
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Design Trends for the Next Decade
It is always fascinating to watch and predict the design trends. More than ever before, this is a decade of “choose your own adventure” design….nearly anything goes, as long as YOU love it! With a turn of the calendar page, we will enter a new decade, and there are some emerging trends and new classics to add to our design options.
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The Deutschland Miniseries, Berlin and Beyond Part Vier
Here is the final installment of the Berlin Chronicles - I promise to be back to design related posts in the coming week, but travel is such a wonderful opportunity to soak in new design ideas and very educational to observe how other cultures interact with spaces….we can learn so much from one another about the art of living!
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Last Minute Christmas Gifts and Stocking Stuffers
It’s ALMOST Christmas and maybe you just realized you forgot someone, or you need an emergency gift, or you are short a few stocking stuffers…fear not, we’ve got you covered with gifts you can ship direct or get delivered to your door in time! And you can stay inside enjoying your Christmas decor and sipping your beverage of choice while you shop instead of fighting the crowds for a parking space or standing in line at the post office!
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The Deutschland Miniseries, Berlin and Beyond Part Drei
In our continuing Deutschland chronicles, the weekend held a number of highlights including MORE great restaurant finds, museums, shopping, and a train trip!
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The Deutschland Miniseries, Berlin and Beyond Part Zwei
Day two of our whirlwind tour was our crazy busiest…or at least the one we logged the most miles! The shot from our step counter I posted in the last post, was from this day! We started out innocently enough
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Okay, while that bronze statuary on top of this thing looks a bit like giant squirrels knitting from this angle, it’s actually 4 horses pulling a goddess in a chariot!
The Deutschland Miniseries, Berlin and Beyond Part Eins
Today, I’m writing from Berlin, Germany where I’m busy with my diva daughter stalking the Christmas Markets, drinking Gluehwein, and visiting all the things…today we logged over 25,000 steps and more than a few flights of stairs between the hops on and off the subway and the second floor (what Americans would call the third floor) walk-up apartment! We’ve seen a LOT already, so in the interest of not creating a novel, I’ll post one day at a time!
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