Creating something from nothing… That’s what I’ve been doing these past few weeks. About a year ago, I wrote a blog post about a Houston family for whom I did a one time on line design consultation for the great room that ran across the back of the new house that was being designed for...
Every design detail you create matters, regardless of style… It’s ALL in the details… You gotta get the bones of a house right right… The unresolved DESIGN DETAIL In my recent post, The Wall as a Volume, there was one little design detail that I let slide in the last section of the post called...
Using contemporary interior trim and reveals to design modern traditional interiors was the topic of my last post. While I explored the notion at a global level, but my curiosity was not fully satisfied. In this post, I investigate the concept up close and personal, asking the questions, “What works for me? What doesn’t work...
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...
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...