Living with Color
Sometimes living with color can be as easy as adding a punch of your favorite color to a group of light furniture. Or it can be adding color and living with color as an accent wall or artwork. In the past year, we have seen sofas coming back in velvets and brighter...
Fresh Start
Market is in a few weeks and I always think about the words “Fresh Start” when I go to market for basically fresh ideas. Fresh ideas for Spring, because we in North Carolina normally start to see signs of Spring before now. But, daffodils are blooming, and trees are...
Durable Fabrics and Decor
We are being bombarded with performance fabrics and it is being asked for by all of our clients. Performance fabrics could mean Sunbrella fabrics, Crypton fabrics, and those just called Performance fabrics. All our upholstery manufacturers are offering a variety of...
Beautiful, Responsible and La-Di-Da Rugs
There are so many elements when it comes to design. There are flooring, lamps, lighting, remodeling, CAD drawings and space planning, furniture selections and fabrics, and window treatments. Window treatments are the icing on the cake to implementation. There are...
Southern Style with a Contemporary Panache
We have been working on a Winston-Salem home that the client wanted to be understated modern. We are having a lot of fun interjecting a pizzazz of colors into all the rooms of the home. Light Benjamin Moore Dove Wing walls and whitish laminate wood floors along with...
Fabrics and Paint Color Design
With our twofold design firm and retail store, we order mega fabric samples for projects and strategic planning. When the samples come in, we are like kids in a candy shop. Most of our fabric companies color code their books, so it is easier to research when you are...
Beautiful and Fearless Colors
The hottest colors so far this year are coral and teal, and again blue. Teal can be blue or green. Gold finishes for lighting accented with these colors are beautiful and fresh. The new light fixtures and hardware for cabinets are beginning to coordinate their...
Beautifully Livable, New Year, New Kitchen
We have the honor of designing kitchens and baths, along with other home improvement designs. Kitchens are more interesting these days. There are so many gadgets, new appliances, and loads of countertops to select from. Also, there are literally thousands of...
Visions for the Future of Your Design Projects
It is an exciting time to be a designer. We see all the new movements on the horizon. We just finished the Atlanta market and came back excited to help clients with their projects with new inspirations. There is a trend to freshen up palettes. We are receiving...