Making Traditional Contemporary
What I mean by this topic is mixing Contemporary fabrics with Traditional. This combination radiates comfort and appeal for homes. Guests can’t figure it out, but they say, “Your house is so warm” or “Your home is so inviting”. For me, I study each home for the beauty...
Wake Up Beautifully
I saw this phrase a long time ago, “Wake Up Beautifully”, and it stuck in my head. The reason it did was that I love premier bedding. It took me many years to realize that a master bedroom, and at least one guest room, should have comfortable soft sheeting and the...
Original Style with Interior Design
With so much innovation within the design industry, we are in a good place as a design and general contracting firm. We have the benefit of being able to deliver a turnkey project from start to finish. North Carolina is a great location and state to move to. We have...
Elegance is an Art that meets Casual
Elegance is an Art that meets Casual. It is easier to achieve the farmhouse style with so much of the market saturating magazines and social media. Designers also put their spin on styles with their names on products that show up when resourcing. But every style...
The Perfect Cover-Up
This title explains it all. I think of carpet, fabric, and wallpaper when the term cover up comes to mind. A beautiful runner is a cover up on wood stairs or painted stairs, but I love the chance to put a pattern and some color on stair runners. Another place to...
Passion for Houses & Design
I’ve written numerous times about editing the mix of periods and styles that each play to and off of others. Now that is a mouthful, but the trick is to not overwhelm the space. It is what I have done with my own home throughout. I cannot seem to get away from it. ...
Blue or Green, What Will it Be?
You may notice, the color world is trying to bring green back around again. I like green, but we were so dosed with it in the past, it is sometimes hard to get past that. If you grew up in a mid-century modern house, as I did, you probably had avocado green...
Casual Sophistication
Each week we write blogs about what we do as a design firm and general contractor. What one might call casual, others might call sophisticated. We love it all. Mixing oriental accents on a bookshelf and modern fabrics for pillows is easy for us. We use our visual...
Traditional Design is Not Stuck in the Past
As I see more and more vintage antique stores popping up, I understand from going to markets that we were going to start seeing trending traditional again. When we meet with clients and show them a design of a room and furniture we suggest, they tend to move towards...