How to Rock the Color!

So who remembers this: That’s right, the color wheel.  Favorite of elementary school art teachers everywhere and essential to understanding relationships between colors.  These relationships are the key to using color to manipulate emotions in your space.  In other words, knowing the color wheel will help you figure out how to design or decorate a [...]

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What’s New – Goin’ Country

For most of us, the word “country” indicates a rustic space full of highly distressed pieces and old-fashioned florals.  But the times they are a’changin.  Country has been given a new life.  Gone are the heavy distressed oak pieces and pale pinks and blues.  In their place are lightly distressed driftwood pieces, black metal accents, [...]

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Tribal Touches for Your Home

Accessories and accent pieces are the easiest way to inject life and personality into your space.  Just what that personality is is up to you.  Today’s topic of interest is Tribal accents and accessories that can liven up a space.  This works especially well in neutral spaces, because color is not one of the hallmarks [...]

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Integrate the High Point Trends

As our regular readers will already know, Fridays are a day to talk about integrating design trends into real world, real life spaces for our clients in Minnesota and beyond.  Today, we will explore the overall trends shown at High Point market in April 2011 and how they can be integrated into current spaces. 1. [...]

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