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Impacts come in all shapes, sizes, costs, and commitments. They can be tackled one at a time or as many as one’s emotional and financial bud
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Intrigue of the Oriental Rug
What would 30 centuries of mystery, history, and tradition look like? Imagine patterns and colors filled with symbolism, folklore, and triba
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Ikebana ... A Contemplative Art Form
You’ve heard the phrases, “Stop and smell the roses”, “Less is more”, and “It’s not the destination; it’s the journey”. Ikebana, pronounced
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Red, White and Blue in Home Decor
Happy Independence Day! While red, white and blue wave in our flags outdoors today, how do you use these colors in your interiors? Here...
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The Art of Storage ... Daily Life Made Easier
“A place for everything and everything in its place.” Although this phrase is sometimes credited to Benjamin Franklin, the Oxford Book of Qu
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Green Geometry
Has the California drought turned your green garden brown? Has the recent rain been enough to revive your dry and dead patches? In either ca
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Which White Works?
As we went down her written list of questions, we came to the subject of wall color. I suggested one that may not seem very creative. White.
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Question: We’re shopping for a new dining table. How do we choose the shape? My husband wants ...
I always start with the shape of the room created by its furniture (other than the dining table). That is, an empty room may start out as a
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Question: How can I make my ceiling seem higher?
Anything that makes your eye look up will help. For instance, place a can light on the floor, at the base of a potted plant, and shine it up
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Question: Do you have any advice in choosing a ceiling fan?
Large fans move more air than small ones so it is more efficient to run a large fan, even on a low speed, than a small fan on a high speed.
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Color Wheels and Paint Strips
Even the great masters were stumped by color choices. “Color is my day-long obsession,” said Claude Monet. The next time you’re fanning thro
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Guidelines to Hiring General Contractors
The Napa Valley just witnessed the destructive side of Mother Nature. While some are at home, slowly decompressing from this experience, oth
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What is Feng Shui and Does it Work?
Feng Shui, pronounced “Fung Shway”, is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics and is influenced by Chinese astronomy. The practice, whi
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Question: We have a two-story house with open stairs. Should we close them? What can we do with ...
the wasted space beneath them? Your open stairs lead me to a few open-ended questions. What is the style of your house? Is your staircase...
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Carneros’s Donum Estate ... An Interplay of Wine, Art and Rejuvenation
A visit to the Donum Estate, tucked in the heart of Carneros, may be the healthiest of prescriptions for destressing and rejuvenation. At le
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When Couple’s Styles Clash
It’s not often that couples tell me, “We have the same taste, the same ideas, and the same goals.” So, a few years ago, I created an exercis
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Design, Draperies, and Math
Math was on overdrive recently while designing draperies. I’ll describe the situation but don’t worry about following it precisely. The idea
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Question: We’re renting a house while deciding whether to rebuild our home or live elsewhere in ...
the future. We lost it in the Napa fires. In the meantime, we’re renting furniture which is expensive to do (and uncomfortable). Can you...
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Question: The inside of my house does not get much sunlight and it’s difficult to grow plants ...
It’s true that many artificial plants look fake. Even the silk ones can look like plastic or paper. But there are companies whose potted pla
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Allure of Craquelure ... The Inspiration for a New Accessory
There is an age-old phenomenon, a fine pattern of dense cracking called “craquelure”, that sometimes occurs on the surface of oil paintings
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