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...
Beautiful crown molding is a wonderful way to enhance the style and feel of your home. DIY’ers and readers who are currently in the design process take note! In this post, I am going to share with you, crown moulding details and specifications (and variations) of several of the crowns we designed for a French...
This year, Sally and I thought we’d share our Top 5 Christmas Table Setting Tips and Traditions. While we have several basic ground rules, no year is the same . . . We look into our crystal obelisk and ask ourselves, “What shall we do this year? What do we feel like this year?” Our...
In this post, l’m sharing my *5 Top Tips for Designing Your Floor Tile Layout.* These are all the top tips I have learned over the years, and I hope they will be useful to those of you who are doing it yourself, or the homeowner or contractor working with another professional interior designer. Earlier...
You can always find someone willing to tell you about their renovation disaster. How bad the contractor was. The sub-contractor leaving the job to grab a cup of coffee, only to return two or three weeks later. Worse yet, the story about the house being completely torn apart and the contractor disappearing with all the money! OY!!!! If you’re reading this, you may...
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???)...
As many of our friends know, our grandson’s name is Max. He is almost 2 , the light of our lives, and we know he will love watching our #BlogTourKBIS sponsor, Mohawk Flooring,’s MAX – the rhino, in action! Who is MAX the rhino? Max is the rhino Mohawk used in its promotional videos to demonstrate...
Happy New Year to each of you! Looking ahead to 2017, we are excited and thankful to have new design projects in house, from both repeat clients and new clients, while at the same time starting the year doing a bit of traveling so we can bring you, #DesignCognoscenti readers, inspiring, fresh new ideas for...
We are excited to share with you that we’ve been selected to join #BlogTourKBIS! You may have noticed that we recently added this *badge* to our sidebar: In today’s post, we’re going to explain to you what it means and how we are going to soon be sharing with you pictures and videos + our...
We are so excited to officially share with you the launch of our newly re-designed mobile optimized website, www.wilsonkelseydesign.com + our newly re-designed and re-named blog: Design Cognoscenti! It has been a wonderful, joyful and long process to get it as *just right* as we can, and today, in the balance of this post, we...