Want the secret to taking the Bah Humbug out of your Christmas decorating? Keep it simple. Based on your past experience, it sounds easier said than done, right? In this post, Sally and I will share our Christmas decorating secrets, as we take you through how we decorated one of our favorite client’s home. We...
I know what you’re thinking. “Argh!” Not another *Best Kitchen Planning Tips* post!” But perhaps you’ve never seen an actual case study that shows you how an interior designer actually applies those tips to one of their own projects? If that’s the case, read on, while I illustrate each of the 7 best kitchen planning...
This started out being the summer of the great disconnect. That’s right, I got disconnected. For four days! I had no internet access and no cell service- nada. Granted, the circumstances were somewhat unusual. A friend cajoled me into joining him at a camp on a pond in the northern woods of Maine. No Facebook....
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending a panel discussion at the Boston Design Center titled “The Continuing Relevance of Classicism in Contemporary Design” hosted by the New England Chapter of The Institute of Architecture and Arts, aka as ICA&A or #ICAA. With its roots grounded in empathy for the human scale and form, its rich...
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...
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,...