50 years of interior design, it hardly seems possible. Yet here I am, my wife and business partner Sally by my side. I invite you to join me as I look back and celebrate our years together. We each took different paths along the way to our careers in the business. Sally was living in...
Is it possible to design great looking modern traditional trim using classical proportions and guidelines? The short answer is yes. As it turns out, the long answer will take several posts.(As I prepared this post it became clear I could create so much content in response to my question I needed to write several posts on...
Kitchen trim was on the mind of kitchen designer, Scott Koehler, when he contacted me several weeks ago. He was designing a kitchen with 10’ high ceilings and wanted to make sure the crown moulding’s proportions were right. Drawing on my understanding of the Classical Orders and Proportion, could I help him make sure this...
Today, I will be sharing my top interior trim tips. This post was inspired by a conversation with a fellow designer who had questions about the proper proportion and scale for the crown moulding in a kitchen he is designing. While I have written previously about this topic, this conversation got me thinking specifically about...
When is a kitchen not a kitchen? That is the question I’ve been asking myself recently. It’s been prompted by several things. First, as consequence of the pandemic, we all have been forced to use our homes in ways we had never previously considered. For example, in my son’s family both dad and mom are...
Kitchen lighting is a challenge in the best of conditions. Lighting levels, fixture spacing, ambient lighting, task lighting and decorative lighting are all in play. In my last post, I alluded to a particular challenging lighting challenge relating to the placement of a soffit crown moulding above a row of kitchen cabinets. The underside of...
At the end of my last post, I promised I would talk about the online kitchen design portion of our consultation with our Houston client. ONLINE KITCHEN DESIGN CONSULTATION: THE AGENDA Our clients’ questions seemed to be straight forward. Comment on the current layout. How might the upper cabinets engage the ceiling and crown moulding?...
Last week, I concluded an online interior design consultation with a client living in Houston. They are designing a new home and the online consultation addressed their concerns about the 24′ wide x 50′ long room running across the back of the house. The room consisted of a kitchen, dining area and family room area. They...
The thought of doing an E-Design interior trim package was not in our wheel house in January. Today, it seems we’re doing all our design work remotely. (Along with everyone else.) It’s seeds were sewn rather innocently last Fall – because of traffic. With projects on Cape Cod and Cape Anne, the thought of spending...
Self care and wellness. I’ve been working on both since Sally and I downsized last August. It takes discipline to shut out life’s distractions and take care of those necessities of life – your necessities. Every morning, one of my necessities is to sit at our front window and watch the world awaken. Early last...