Chocolate. Does anyone NOT like it? We’ve been on a kick lately to eat only really good chocolate and we TRY to eat it in moderation…which is honestly a lot easier with high quality chocolate…
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Spring 2020 Design Trends
So there has been a LOT of buzz about the new trends for the new decade. In fact, I wrote about it recently. But are the “new” trends really all that new or is this Groundhog Day all over again? You know, same old thing, new spin. {Also, I know the furry rodent didn’t see his shadow last weekend so we are supposed to have an early spring. And while I don’t personally trust predictions made by a circus animal with a brain the size of a cashew, here’s hoping!} Some of these trends are definitely …
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Sitting Room Makeover
When our long-time clients contacted us about their sitting room project, we were delighted! We had worked together on nearly the entire rest of the home over the years…the living room/dining room, lower level family room, master suite, stairway gallery wall, various guest and bathroom spaces, and the kitchen eating area to name a few! The sitting room was the last space we hadn’t designed,
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Caramel Popcorn Recipe
If you are looking for something easy and delicious to make for snacking your way through the big game this weekend, this is the perfect recipe. If you have no vested interest whatsoever in involving yourself in the drama of Super Bowl LIV, and plan to just watch for the commercials
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Dining Room Refresh
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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