Finding Your Interior Design Soulmate: How to Choose a Partner Who Truly "Gets" You
Finding your "design soulmate" is about more than just matching a style; it’s about finding a partner who understands your lifestyle and vision for your home.
Beware of Online Design Promises and Myths!
We have all heard the old saying: If it looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t! If ever there was a shoe that fits that foot, it’s the one about how easy it is to transform your troubled environment into a prize-winning project, just like magic, in practically no time at all – and for pennies on the dollar!
Hired to Fix Mistakes!
The first challenge is the client who is already upset. The best way to begin would be to get the history behind the situation. Learning how and who can be very important down the line.
Your Design Budget? It’s How You Use It!
Focusing only on the size of your available project fund is usually the reason some projects do not go forward. Looking at funding professional design services from more creative perspectives is a much better idea.
Tradition Informing Contemporary
Here we go with “the good old days?” Well, not exactly! But in the Interior Design venue, the good old days with those good old styles, trends and classic elements inform just about every aspect of “contemporary!”
How to Hire an Interior Designer: The Right Questions to Ask for Homes and Offices
Choosing an interior designer is more than finding someone with a good eye for style. It’s about finding a partner who listens, understands your vision, and delivers a space that not only looks beautiful but works beautifully for your life or business.
How to Stage a Wedding in Your Home: An Interior Designer’s Guide
Whether it’s your own home or a family property, hosting a wedding in a house offers a warm, personal touch that many venues simply can’t match. As an interior designer, I see home weddings as the perfect blend of event design and interior design, where thoughtful planning and staging turn familiar spaces into unforgettable wedding venues.
Interior Design in Napa To Fit The Vision – the challenges! Self-Help + Supportive Consultation
DIY Interior Design? Avoid costly mistakes. Get expert guidance and professional advice to plan and manage your home renovation project.
Doing It Yourself – A Trap or A Triumph?
Thinking of doing a DIY project yourself? Discover the potential traps and triumphs of tackling a DIY project and learn how professional guidance can lead to success.
Untenable Choices
We all encounter them some of the time! It just isn’t easy to have to determine the lesser of several evils when all are critical. Recent years have presented challenges to business, residential, professional and municipal Interiors that had to acquire new, sudden characteristics.
What About Clients, Professionals and Friends?
Where are the lines drawn? Indeed, should there even be lines? Even when “lines” are nuanced, they tend to be tentative!
Vacation Homes and Getaways
Not everyone likes to “rough it” as a vacation! It’s great for those who do, but some fancy a second personal environment that provides contrast to their primary living space, yet is also a bona fide “home.”
Interior Re-Purpose Design
Vacant, often decaying vintage buildings in cities of almost any size have gradually been rescued from obsolescence and repurposed into meaningful spaces by innovative interior design teams.
Expansion with a Small Budget
When your business – or your family – has expanded beyond the capacity of your facility or home, it’s probably time to get some professional advice on the best way to address the challenge. Sometimes, the challenge (large) peaks just when the budget (small) can barely accommodate the needs.
Extra Value of Early Team Integration
Sometimes it’s a hard sell, because putting the whole team together at the front end of your project may seem premature and cumbersome. Some professionals may agree with that caution. However, bringing all aspects into focus in the initial planning process has many advantages that outweigh the resistance to do so.
When Disaster Rewrites Your Plans...
There is never a shortage of grief when disaster sweeps through a region, leaving normalcy in the dust. Disasters – man made or natural – seize temporary control of lives and circumstances. Whatever the plans might have been, they have involuntarily been changed. At the very least, they have been drastically delayed.
Connecting The Dots!
Your business or professional environment is an important element of your marketing strategy!
Designers, Decorators, Merchandizers and Stagers!
All professional services in a specific venue have areas where the skills, talents and qualifications touch the edges of each other, and sometimes overlap. There are also many grey areas of substantial misperception and misinterpretation.
Designing to Fit the Vision
Participating in the realization of someone else’s vision for their environment is an honor and a trust.
What About The Family Portraits?
How could family portraits not be a priceless component for your Interior design project plan?
Yes. There’s that great one of grandfather and one of Uncle Silvio.