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Looking at a Space with a Fresh Eye
There’s a Stephen Sondheim song titled, “A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.” That’s how I felt on my way out the door after mee
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When to Create an Accent Wall
When is the best time to create an accent wall? While the idea is still brewing in a designer’s or architect’s imagination and in time to be
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Glassybaby: A One-of-a-Kindness Company
What do you get when you combine a 4,000-year-old craft with optimism, comfort, persistence, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a big heart? Gla
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Rainbow Fresh
The fabric designers who produced the Rainbow Collection must have been on creative overdrive because their color combinations were luscious
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Demystifying the San Francisco Design Center
Have you ever browsed through home decor magazines and wondered where to find such beautiful furnishings? You know you haven’t seen them in
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Client Asks for a Joyful Experience
When clients, Jeff and Cathy, asked me to help them remodel their kitchen, I did what I always do. I asked them to write a list of their goa
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Dark Shadows
Lighting has a powerful impact on emotions. So much so that it can keep memories vivid for decades. In design, it adds texture, volume, cont
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Question: I need knobs and pulls for my new kitchen cabinets. Is there a rule to using knobs ...
When it comes to shape, style, and sometimes finish, let your plumbing and lighting fixtures be your guide. Are these fixtures modern, tradi
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Question: What is the difference between wood, engineered, and laminated floors?
The type of wood flooring we’re most familiar with is hardwood made from oak, walnut, teak, maple, mahogany, hickory, beech, and alder to na
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How Words Define Your Tile Style
Envisioning my clients’ goal came easily. Listening to the operatic passion of “La Boheme” while I sketched set the mood and inspired me fur
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Three Enduring Trends
Is “enduring trends” an oxymoron? This year alone, I’ve read that gray is the new white, that navy is the new gray, that jewels tones rule,
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Catch-All Rooms
Do you have a catch-all room? Part home office, part guest bedroom, and part storage for this and that? My client, Jane, had such a room. Ti
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Historic French Rugs
the “Savonnerie”, was considered the most prestigious of knotted, pile rugs in 17th century Europe. Its name comes from its manufactory, lo
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Rome built in a day?
Imagine this … Pope Julius II walking the streets of the Eternal City noting the progress of Renaissance masters at work. Imagine architects
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Micro Spaces
Can you fit a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, closet, and living space into 220 square feet? San Francisco may soon change its building code to
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Kitchen Countertop on the 6th Fairway
I could see the fear in my client’s eyes. Display after display begged him to make a decision. Phil wanted to be on the golf course, next to
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Not Your Parent's Parquet
Did you jump on the Downton Abbey bandwagon? I did. Now that Season 2 is over, I’m suffering from jittery withdrawal! What eye candy could p
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Breaking Design Rules and Habits
Breaking rules and habits begin by being fearless, or at the very least, being open-minded to new ideas. When making your next design decisi
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My Valentine in Orange
I received a beautiful Valentine’s gift yesterday. One that sent my imagination adrift – to the ringing of Gothic cathedral bells, the clack
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A Winemaker's Bachelor Pad Do it Yourself. Do it with Heart.
Martini-drinking, tuxedo-wearing, Dean Martin Rat Pack movies come to mind when I think of bachelor pads. But my client's home, filled with
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