Using Color Effectively in Your Home Color plays a key role in creating an atmosphere and feel for our living and work spaces. Unless we are particularly aware of color and pay attention to it, we may find ourselves surrounded by bland and nondescript beige, off white and white. For people renting apartments, the requisite […]

7 Steps to Order Order is becoming an increasingly valuable and valued commodity in today’s living and work environments. Those who struggle with it find a loss of productivity and creativity as well as loss of time and increase in frustration and overwhelm. We need order to keep on top of projects and day to […]

Making Sense of Our Stuff When Did We Get So Much Stuff?      When did we find ourselves with so much stuff? Some of us may have discovered this early on in our lives, while most of us found the accumulation process gathering speed once we owned a home, created a family or settled […]

Designing Our Spaces to Reflect Our Tastes Our homes and office spaces serve as outward reflections of ourselves. They can and should tell others aspects of who are we, what we like, and what interests and engages us. Yet for many of us, we don’t know the most effective way to tell this story about […]

Interior Design: Mixing and Matching Styles An eclectic room comes to life with the play of different styles, creating visual interest and engagement. When a Tuscan urn sits atop a stone pedestal next to velvet drapery we may find ourselves intrigued with the ancient and rough hewn nature of the urn juxtaposed with the soft, […]

Color is a personal choice. It evokes particular feelings and creates a sense of place for us. For some color can cause people to recoil in fear and panic and lead to paralysis. They can feel overwhelmed when faced with a palette of 500 choices and default to beige, white or some other neutral because […]

Gray, once thought of as depressing and drab, is hot, hot, hot in interior design with designers pairing it with citron green, bright yellow, tangerine and purple to make the color come alive. When thinking of gray, we may conjure images of an overcast day, feeling alone, forlorn, distant, brooding. While grey has the ability […]

Artwork needs to be seen to be appreciated. It needs to have the proper display area so owners and guests can view it and enjoy it on its own merits. Too often clients have art placed in a haphazard arrangement where it is crowded by too small of a space, it competes with other artwork […]

Interior design can feel overwhelming when faced with the myriad of choices available. The process doesn’t have to be daunting when you break it down into the smaller components of mood, harmony and function. The three, when addressed and used effectively, can lead to a successfully designed space. First, what’s the mood of the room […]

  Verdant green, spicy orange, vivacious magenta, sensuous purple…color surrounds us in nature, is indelible to fashion and art and plays a major role in home decor, accessories and paint. So why do some of us fear it so much while others can paint a wall spring green or a compelling turquoise and another defaults […]