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Enhance Your Curb Appeal

Enhance Your Curb Appeal

1. Greenery Never underestimate the power of fresh greenery! Whether your home is modern and in need of simple, clean lined look or more traditional benefiting from lush abundant landscaping, incorporating fresh natural greenery is the way to go! 2. Pathway A stunning pathway, be it simple and charming or unique and exciting, is important for creating a welcoming and inviting front lawn. 3. Colorful Front Door Don't be afraid of color! Painting your front door is a low risk w

To Trim or Not To Trim, That is the Question...

To Trim or Not To Trim, That is the Question...

For years I have been recommending to my client who wants to upgrade their home to consider more trim by adding larger crown molding, larger more impressive casing around doorways and windows, taller baseboards etc. Always considering this to be an inexpensive method to create instant architectural interest. Last year I started getting away from trim appreciating the simple uncluttered look that going trim-less can offer. Crown isn’t necessary if you have an interesting ceili

Unique Kitchen Amenities

Unique Kitchen Amenities

When updating your cabinets or building a home and designing new cabinetry there are a few wonderful new storage ideas that have been developed to make life so much better for the cook! So, in this feature, I want to highlight my new favorites, and what I recommend to my clients. Kitchen cabinets used to be fairly basic: a box with a drawer and a door, perhaps with a shelf or two inside. Today, though, kitchen cabinets come with many bells and whistles that can make your ki

The Return of Wallpaper

The Return of Wallpaper

Once upon a time, the word "wallpaper" was a dirty word. It would bring responses of disgust and flashbacks of scrapping and tearing wallpaper, pulling drywall up with it. However, thanks to the amazing advances that textile companies have made in wallpaper adhesive, wallpaper has become a great way to add texture, color, and interest to a space without the risk of damaging the walls! Along with wallpaper's advances in adhesion, leaps in mold resistance and fire resistance ha

Color Psychology in Interiors

Color Psychology in Interiors

Color psychology is the theory that colors invoke emotions and moods, thus each color has a function that serves specific rooms. This guide takes you through the effects of the colors red, orange, yellow, emerald green, soft green, blue, and purple. Red Red is one of the most dramatic and bold statement colors you could choose. It is inherently exciting and energy inducing. When used as an accent, it can draw immediate focus to a particular element and when used as a dominant

Specialty Rooms

Specialty Rooms

The trend of specialty rooms has blown up in popularity! The rooms where we sleep, eat, and bathe get plenty of attention, but what about the rooms where we play? Our generation has become the hardest working yet, creating a population of workaholics by default. With this rise of homeowners working hard, the importance in playing hard has grown as well. Recreation is very important to this generation, specialty rooms are beginning to get their own share of the limelight with

5 Jaw-Dropping Home Features

5 Jaw-Dropping Home Features

With the rise in popularity of Pinterest and Houzz, ideas spread like wildfire and compile to create more and more unique, inspiring, and all around awesome designs. Some home features that we've seen are downright genius. If you did implement any of these features, you'd need to keep pictures on you at all times otherwise no one would believe you. An Indoor Slide Channel your inner child -or delight your children!- with an indoor slide connecting one story to the one below i

Interior Design Trends of 2017

Interior Design Trends of 2017

The year 2017 has brought a great many changes from its predecessor. VR headsets, Hamilton tickets, drones, and on top of all of that we foresee a great many changes in interior design trends. Green Green is very strong again! Anywhere from lime green to emerald, the hue works throughout the home - whether it's a wall color or a room-filling rug. Tropical Prints The print will continue to appear in wallpaper and designer fabrics, if you don't care for prints in large doses us

Unique Accent Walls

The Principles of Design

The "Tiny House" Movement

5 Latest Interior Design Trends

5 Latest Interior Design Trends

The interior design world is ever-changing. In the blink of an eye the hottest trends can become outdated and tacky, and people can begin clambering over what was passé last year. As an interior designer, it is important to keep up-to-date with what the world thinks is fashionable this season. Opposing Styles A rapidly growing trend at the moment is incorporating opposing styles to create interest. The juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated objects makes rooms look exciting

How to Dress Up Ceilings

How to Work with an Interior Designer

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