I want to share with you four big mistakes when selecting furniture for the home. While we can’t always be perfect, we can take the time to think through our purchases. Mainly because those mistakes can be very costly. The same principles we use to decorate our homes are also used when we shop for clothing….
I was able to meet up with the dapper Carlton Varney, who is the longtime Designer/ Curator, for the luxury Greenbrier Resort Hotel, located amid the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. He bought the design business of Dorothy Draper in 1960, who was named the “most influential tastemaker of America”. She was the first to…
Dining rooms with personality can easily be designed by you by taking a look at your own personality and life style. You are unique, so show it in your surroundings. My goal with this blog is to help you discovery your unique personality in the elements and principles of good design. You use these traits everyday…
The trend today is to have outdoor living spaces that has more than one function. Here, I will give you some ideas for outdoor living, so you can create your own outdoor living space in style. Make a list of how you want your outdoor living space to work for your needs. If you want…
Choosing the perfect mirror for your room is as important as choosing the right accessories for an outfit. The same way you think of scale and balance for your body, think about the same principles, when choosing the right mirror for your room. See, where I am going? WINK WINK! That’s because you play…
The latest home decorating trend to hit the market is simple greenery. The website Houzz predicts that even the 1970s house plant is back. I want to talk about a unique, and easy way to use simple greenery, using the hydroponics method, to give the home a fresh and lively look. I can hear…
Dress up your dining room chairs with slipcovers that make the dining area look stylish and unique. WINK WINK! Let’s take a look at some of the questions that needs to be answered to design a slipcovers that will compliment the decor. Is the room casual or formal? What colors will best compliment the room? How…
Trompe L’ oeil is a decorative painting technique that uses photographically painted objects that gives the illusion of being three-dimensional. Dating back to 400 BC during the Roman and Greek empires, the decorative techniques were used to create illusion of more space on ceilings and walls in churches and palaces. The French word, trompe l’ oeil is…
Learning how to use scale and proportion to decorate a room properly is vital. Scale and proportion may be the thing that is making your room look unbalanced, dull and muddled. The first thing I do on a new project is rearrange furniture and accessories in order to tell me what is lacking. Usually all…
Painting stripes on a ceiling creates a magical optical illusion in a room. There are many areas of a room to consider when painting stripes. Painted stripes can be on a whole heap of places like the ceiling, walls, floors, bookcases…… list goes on forever. Today, let’s take a look at Ruby George Sun…