This past weekend, I put the final touches onto my traditional slim-line tree.  Each year, I ask myself how I should improve my tree.  I have over 2,000 ornaments and adding more each year; most have been collected for over 30 years.  Handmade ornaments, to stuffed...

 Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is all around us...trees to decorate, presents to purchase, dinners to plan, and parties to attend.   A few decorating tips..... Once the tree is up, you know to put the lights on first.  What we do that saves time and fills the...

When we started with a client that lives in a Low Country home a few years ago, we conceptualized the finished look.  It is a dream home that anyone would appreciate; it is pure magic, and the sounds of her house are as romantic as the feeling of her home.   We used...

If the first curtains were blankets tacked to windows, rods and rings weren’t far behind.  From about l650, the most important European rooms had paired curtains hanging from rings on poles, though many windows were left bare until the 1800’s, when industrialization...

The furniture market this year in High Point revealed domestically-produced products on the rise.  We are excited with the end result being new resources for products that are made in America.   We have supported local manufacturers for a long time, Hickory Chair,...

I am still caught in a trance from the past several weeks of the High Point Furniture Market.  Thinking about all the new fabric books we just received and new catalogs from our manufacturers we saw at market, I daydream about putting those ideas to work in someone’s...

The High Point Fall 2013 Market felt very global.  We loved all the interesting fabrics and tasteful design.  Each showroom showed off their luxury treasures.  Staple colors of blue and white showed up in every showroom, making blue the strongest color this year. ...

With nearly 3,000 visitors over two weekends, I will say this year’s Parade of Homes was well worth the effort!  The home builder, Don Hamrick, took home the Platinum award, scoring 499 out of 500 points.  With the combined talents of several professionals, the home...

After many months of strategic planning, purchase orders, meetings with builder and client, the countdown to Showtime for the Parade of Homes is ON. Each day we arrived, there were worker bees in the yard and in the house finishing all the final details:  touching up...