Traditional Storage And Organization design by Other Metro Williams-Sonoma The kitchen is truly the heart of the home. It’s where everyone ends up gathering and it’s a living space in your home that gets used at least once a day! No matter how hard you try when you have guests over inevitably most everyone…
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Conversation Areas
Eclectic Living Room design by Minneapolis Interior Designer Riehl Designs, Inc. Conversation areas are an important detail to incorporate into your design when decorating your home. When entertaining either a group or just an intimate get together with one other person, it is important to have a place to sit and enjoy each other as…
2013 Pantone Color of the Year – Emerald Green
Contemporary Family Room design by Atlanta Interior Designer Cristi Holcombe Emerald Green is the Pantone color of the year and it is one of my favorite jewel tones – maybe because of my Irish heritage and my love of Ireland, also known as the Emerald Isle. Sometimes I wonder why I don’t wear it more…
Fabulous Fireplaces
Contemporary Basement design by Houston Architect RD Architecture, LLC As I sit here watching the presidential and local election results come in and sip my One Hope Chardonnay that I purchased in October to support breast cancer I am thinking of fireplaces and how wonderful they are! The weather in New England has become…
Dramatic Dining Rooms
What makes a dining room dramatic? It could be the view, or the use of a vibrant or unexpected color, or just the table that makes it dramatic. It could be the view of the surrounding rooms in the house or the spectacular architectural details, the floor…maybe even leather walls…maybe a fabulous chandelier or chairs…
Refresh your Home with Pillows
Throw pillows can be an inexpensive way to change the look of your decor or transition your decor with the seasons. You can have a lot of fun with them and really let your personality shine. For example whimsical or sea-themed pillows can be fun at a cottage by the sea. In the winter opt…
Outdoor Spaces
Summer, summer, summer…oh, how I love thee! I live in New England and we get a smorgasbord of weather. Fall used to be my favorite season but now summer is. I love heat, but hate humidity and bugs. I would love to live somewhere dry with hot days and cool nights so that I could…
Stunning Chandeliers
Chandeliers are the most elegant of lighting. A chandelier can change the whole look of a room and add an incredible amount of ambiance. Lighting, in general, is a very important component of your decor. It creates atmosphere conveying different moods. Much can be done with different types of lighting and the placement of lighting. …
Entertaining Tips
With preparation and planning, entertaining can be very enjoyable and a lot of fun. If you do as much planning and preparation in advance as possible it will allow you to have fun and enjoy your company making it both satisfying and fun. The other thing that helps the entire experience is to clean everything…
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