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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...
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....
Love it or loathe it? Marsala is 2015’s Color of the Year
Worldwide color authority Pantone (yes, that IS a real thing), recently announced the 2015 color of the year: Marsala. As the name suggests, Marsala is a red wine hue, sort of a faded burgundy....
Gift Guide 2014: Shop These 18 American Artisans
For my fourth annual holiday gift guide, I decided to expand my search beyond the Carolinas to include the whole US of A. I scoured Etsy to come up with a curated list of unique, finely crafted...