What Are The Top 5 Questions To Ask An Interior Designer – Before You Hire? This post explores just that question. I hope you’ve been enjoying this new series I’ve been writing. For those of you that have shared the first two posts with your friends and colleagues: thank you! This is the 3rd installment in...
If you read my first post in this series, “Do I Need To Hire An Interior Designer?” and decided, “Yes, I do”, you may be now asking yourself, “How Do I Find An Interior Designer?” “Where do I begin looking to find an interior designer I would enjoy working with?” I hope today’s post, the 2nd in...
“Do I need to hire an interior designer?” If you are thinking, *probably not*, please read this post first to see if it helps you consider, in more depth, when it might make sense for you to hire an interior designer. Let’s examine these points further. 1. You want your home to look beautiful, but you’re...
I am always happily surprised, delighted and inspired when something happens that triggers a connection between seemingly disparate thoughts and moments in time. Such was the case when I visited the display of #BlogTourKBIS sponsor Wellborn Cabinets during #KBIS2107. The trigger was twofold. First was seeing a fabulous wine bar vignette, (see the actual picture of...
Having sat with squinting eyes, hunched in front of my computer screen all day, I find myself yearning for a long hot and the 2017 introductions by LIXIL’s Grohe and American Standard brands would be perfect. Particularly, the F-Digital Deluxe steam shower by #BlogTourKBIS sponsor, Grohe, is near the top of today’s wish list! Read along with me:...
I had never thought to associate the word jewelry with the word bathroom, but there I was, with two projects in mind, thinking that very thing as I walked through the DXV display of one of my#BlogTour2017 sponsors at #KBIS2017. I realized what I was seeing and thinking was completely consistent with today’s trend towards...
I doubt #BlogTourKBIS sponsor, Metrie, was planning it, but as I approached their booth at #KBIS2017, I began to feel a sense of home. Their “vestibule”, with its wide horizontal siding, island blue door, individual coat hooks and country-style bar cart could have been lifted from a beach cottage on the Cape or Islands. (Can spring come any sooner, please???)...
Who else is excited that the sun is starting to shine a little brighter in Boston these days? Sally and I certainly are…and that means sunny days spent by the ocean are ahead! It also means we’re starting to hear from our past clients and new clients with ocean homes that need renovating or updating,...