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Summer of Growth and Change at Tamara Heather Interior Design
Summer 2016 was the busiest time ever for Tamara Heather Interior Design. Business grew, the office got bigger, and new talent joined our practice. The workload was such that a little vacation...
How to Shop for Furniture
I recently attended High Point Market, North Carolina’s bi-annual furnishings trade show. It’s a multi-million SF venue for those in the trade to see new products and test out the comfort factor of...
Don’t Learn to Decorate the Hard Way
Last week, while skiing in Colorado with my husband and son, I fell and broke my leg. I wish I could say I was attempting a particularly difficult trail, that it was my first black diamond run. But...
Our Blue Ridge Retreat Featured on Houzz
In 2008, with our then one-year-old in tow, we began searching for land in the mountains near Asheville, our first step towards realizing a long-term dream of a vacation home in the area. The house...
My Favorite Before & After Photos of 2015
I am excited to wrap up 2015 by sharing some of my favorite before & after images from projects completed and photographed over the past year. Each of these photos represents a...
Trendspotting
Both at the Maison & Objet show in Paris and more recently at High Point Market, I had the opportunity to attend several presentations on trends in home furnishings. Trend reports are...
My Design Tour Through Paris
In early September I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a "designers' tour" through Paris. Led by Parisian decor maven Deb Barrett, the tour granted access to specialty fabricators and...
Design Destination: Denmark
One of my greatest influences as a designer was my semester spent studying architecture and design in Copenhagen in 1995. As a student I was won over by the warmth and simplicity of...
5 Solutions for TV-Challenged Spaces
Do you have a room that simply does not have a good place for your TV? You’re not alone. It’s probably the challenge that comes up most frequently when I work with clients. Houses built before 1950...
Will Getting Tidy Change My Life?
One of the things that drew me into the profession of design was a love of beauty, and beautiful things in particular, from clothing to art to furnishings. But having too many beautiful things...
My New Office
Earlier this year I decided it was time to move my home-based business to an office location. As much as I enjoyed working from home the past four years, my 64 square foot dormer office was barely...
Easy Decorating: The Guest Bedroom
If you're fairly new to DIY decorating, a guest bedroom is the perfect place to start. I am currently learning to ski, and in skiing terms I would rate guest bedrooms an easy, green circle level....