Year End Thoughts

Year End Thoughts

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Healthy, Safe and Prosperous New Year! Feeling grateful to spend time with my family, and feeling glad that my immediate family has remained healthy. Feeling sympathy for friends and family who lost loved ones due to COVID or due...
Thankful for Many Things

Thankful for Many Things

Every year around this time, I reflect on how lucky I am and how thankful I feel for the abundant blessings in life: a wonderful and loving family – a safe and cozy home – beautiful surroundings – nice clients who trust me and who appreciate my ideas...
Soft Green Color Trends for 2022

Soft Green Color Trends for 2022

So…back to color for this October blog. Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams each recently announced their annual Color of the Year selections for 2022, and they are both beautiful colors that will be quite applicable for interior design projects. And, they are...
Vibrant Coral and Russet Colors

Vibrant Coral and Russet Colors

I pay close attention to color when approaching interior design. After all, color is all around us, whether indoors or outdoors, and color definitely influences our moods and perceptions of everyday objects and everyday events. Color preference plays such an important...
Beautiful Blues

Beautiful Blues

I’m excited about this summer’s projects with clients and the directions they’re taking in terms of color. I’m currently helping a client pick out furniture, fabrics and drapery styles for a home set on a knoll overlooking the ocean. We’ll tie in to...
Fresh Summer Greens

Fresh Summer Greens

Green finishes and colors are very popular for interior design projects right now! Just in time for summer, greens are leading the way in trending colors. I just finished a master bathroom project with a soft gray green painted vanity combined with a beautiful...
Design Quiz

Design Quiz

When potential clients contact me to work with them for kitchen and bath design, commercial or office design, residential design, furniture selections, window treatments, area rugs, and paint colors, I like to give them a quiz and I ask lots of questions before we...
Sunny, Mellow Yellow

Sunny, Mellow Yellow

Spring time turns my thoughts to warm, sunny days and to the color yellow! Yellow is a mood lifter, can create mellow spaces or intense, bold spaces, and although it’s associated with Spring and Summer, can be a wonderful color to live in year round. Even on a grey,...