Well Mother Nature – you did it again. I’m not talking about the thousands of dollars of potential damage you’ve done this year on our property. I admit that I do occasionally (nervously!) survey (each day!) our completely buried English boxwood hedge and I look longingly at the assorted evergreen shrubbery that is either smooshed,…
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Well peeps – in the spirit of adventure, I’d like to take you outside the bounds of what you might normally feast upon in the furniture stores and catalogers that you most likely frequent. As a designer, I get to attend trade shows, presentations, continuing ed classes – not to mention receive a slew of…
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If you love to shop for home furnishings as much as I do – then you must head over to Design Spree at some point. (There’s one in Lawrenceville, NJ – check to see if there’s one near you.) If you have a hard time focusing – then take your designer with you. It’s a…
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Who am I to argue with the fact that “Mother Knows Best.” Me, the girl who couldn’t get or keep any food in for 19 months after my own mother died. Still – there is likely a thing or two about design that perhaps mother didn’t tell you that – if known – may save…
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Well peeps. It happened again just now. On the phone. Another apology casually and sheepishly thrown my way by a new client. ‘Old’ clients do them too. These unwarranted apologies always swoop in out of the blue and always make me feel bad. So – once and for all, I am taking blog in hand…
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Designers have to walk a fine line. (Fade in Music . . . “It Isn’t Easy Being Green”). We need to take care of our clients greatest interior-spatial-yearnings. Speak the aesthetic truth – even if it hurts. Maintain the highest design standard possible in any project. Remember to put our ego aside and serve the…
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I like blogging in blue. It’s a sunnier way for me to work. I also like having either a very, very small – tiny little bouquet of fresh flowers here on my desk, (today they are yellow Gerberer daisy’s – $2.99 at McCaffrey’s food store. What a deal.) In lieu of fresh flowers – which…
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Everyone wants their home to feel warm and inviting but we also want the room to appear larger. As a rule, we recommend mounting window treatments several inches above the window. For example, say you have an 8′ ceiling height and you mount your window treatment under your crown molding or just below the ceiling,…
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