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 […]

Pause For Reflection The Arrival of Summer June brings the arrival of Summer, a time of fullness, ripeness, and greater expression. With it, we can find ourselves moving full steam ahead with work, home life, tending to children, social and networking obligations, commuting, exercising and more. How often do we pause to literally take a breath? […]

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 […]

Clarity Follows Order It is written that order is the first law of the universe. Without it, chaos reigns and the basic patterns and flow of life cannot function, from the rotation of the planets to the functioning of our bodies. Clearing A Pathway I face disorder on a consistent basis working with clients whose […]

What Is your Purpose? Purpose: “the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.” Reason for Being      Purpose is the intentional direction of our thoughts and energy to create our desires into existence. With purpose, we have aim, focus and motivation. We have a reason for doing what […]

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 […]

Space Planning for Interior Design What Is Space Planning?      Space planning is a key component to a well-designed and well-organized space where the area in question operates with greater function, more efficiency, as well is aesthetically pleasing. Too often, I encounter various homes where space planning is given short shrift due to lack of […]

 Spring and Fall we naturally feel inclined and engaged to get into action on delayed projects and tasks as well as take classes to learn something new. With the return of Spring, we have the opportunity to restore order to our surroundings so we can live and work with greater productivity and creativity. Spring is […]

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, […]