Color Trends 2012 video

Benjamin Moore, along with other paint providers, publish great color trend guides to serve as inspiration for your home projects.  What I love about this video is that it features the same vignettes and spaces with two completely different paint colors in a side by side comparison, allowing you to imagine how different your own [...]

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How to Glamp with Extra Style

Glamping, or glamorous camping, is just what the owners of these wilderness retreats get to do.  Take a look at this stunning dining room: Rich colors complement the rustic log walls.  Definitely my kind of wilderness adventure! Or how about this living room: Love the massive stone fireplace and the double mantle.  Fantastic rug, too.  [...]

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Epic Pattern Mixing. Be Brave!

So we all know that interior trends follow fashion trends pretty closely.  The timeline of that pattern is starting to shrink as more and more information is more and more available faster and faster.  This trend seems to break all the rules – mixing and matching patterns with little room for error. Check out the [...]

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Painted Floors?!?

An economical and interesting alternative to refinishing damaged hardwood floors or replacing dated flooring, painting your floor is not for the feint of heart.  Or the damaged of knee.  But the results speak for themselves.  What a fabulous way to add color and pattern to your space!   Obviously, some patterns will be easier to [...]

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What’s New: Welcoming Foyers

As we continue to feather our nests instead of selling them and moving to bigger nests, the foyer is getting more and more attention. During the height of the McMansion expansion, tons of people would wander furniture stores, lost and frustrated, trying to figure out what to do with a 100 square foot, two-story foyer.  [...]

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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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Technology in Our Homes

There’s a HUGE trend now toward integrating technology into our homes.  But how much is too much? Have you ever spent the entire work day emailing, blogging and researching online only to go home and realize there’s a stack of bills waiting for online payments, a message from your parents wanting to Skype with their [...]

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Trick the Eye – Salon Picture Hanging

For most, large walls are intimidating.  A dirty secret of interior design is that designers are a little scared of huge walls too.  Large, overscale walls require large, overscale accessories which can turn very quickly into a large, overscale budget for some projects.  Art, wall pieces, mirrors, accessories – all are necessary to complete a [...]

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Convey it with Color – PINK!

Pink is the color of happiness. This color can be youthful, lighthearted, fun, exciting and romantic. It all depends on how you use it. It is not always about little girls’ bedrooms, either. While it is certainly a favorite of girls the world over, all shades of pink get sophisticated when combined with black or [...]

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