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Kitchen Design: Real Cooks Need Real Kitchens
Have you ever imagined your dream kitchen? What would it look like? How and what would you cook in it? Yes, kitchens are still for cooking, though they are also social hubs in most homes and with the right kitchen design, can sometimes be beautiful show pieces as...
The Charm of Asian Design
Have you ever imagined your home with an Asian design influence? You love all things Asian: the food, the textiles, the ceramics, but you are still not sure how to incorporate Asian artifacts into your design scheme. The very good news is that a little visual spice...
Artful Artifact and Art Display
Have you ever been flummoxed about how to display art and artifacts collections? Ceramics, glass, figurines, baskets, and small paintings all require a well-organized environment for artifact and art display that allows each object to show its individual beauty. Art...
Space Planning: Hidden Spaces
Have you ever looked around your home and wondered where all the space went? Even with tidy closets and lots of storage you are still feeling hemmed in - what’s going on? The answer lies with space planning in the many unrevealed spaces that are not being utilized to...
Language of Color: Seeing in Color
Language of Color Series: Seeing in color You have probably wondered, when looking at a piece of art, why the artist made certain choices. Why did Picasso have a blue period? Why did the impressionists paint in that pastel, high-key color palette? Why did Rothko paint...
Kitchen Design: Real Cooks Need Real Kitchens
Have you ever imagined your dream kitchen? What would it look like? How and what would you cook in it? Yes, kitchens are still for cooking, though they are also social hubs in most homes and with the right kitchen design, can sometimes be beautiful show pieces as...
The Charm of Asian Design
Have you ever imagined your home with an Asian design influence? You love all things Asian: the food, the textiles, the ceramics, but you are still not sure how to incorporate Asian artifacts into your design scheme. The very good news is that a little visual spice...
Artful Artifact and Art Display
Have you ever been flummoxed about how to display art and artifacts collections? Ceramics, glass, figurines, baskets, and small paintings all require a well-organized environment for artifact and art display that allows each object to show its individual beauty. Art...
Space Planning: Hidden Spaces
Have you ever looked around your home and wondered where all the space went? Even with tidy closets and lots of storage you are still feeling hemmed in - what’s going on? The answer lies with space planning in the many unrevealed spaces that are not being utilized to...
Language of Color: Seeing in Color
Language of Color Series: Seeing in color You have probably wondered, when looking at a piece of art, why the artist made certain choices. Why did Picasso have a blue period? Why did the impressionists paint in that pastel, high-key color palette? Why did Rothko paint...
GUEST BLOG: Artistic Connections by Linda Kolsky
If, by chance, you just happened to be in the market for an original piece of artwork for your home and you don’t want to pay museum prices, and, if by chance, you met an artist who claimed the following, what would you think? {My goal} is to “develop practical spaces...
COLOR Basics I. – Color and Design
COLOR BASICS I. Some of the most frequently asked design questions center around color – especially paint colors. Questions like: “Where do I start?”; “I like them all - which one should I choose?”; “How can I tell from this tiny color swatch if it will look right in...
Co-creating Effective Design Solutions
Team work equals success in today’s design market. Gone are the days of the lone entrepreneur waiting for the phone to ring. Utilizing unique creative resources and incorporating multiple design solutions, by working with a variety of art and design professionals,...
Manners, lovely manners
Manners were devised to create a mutual ground of equal advantage; a social playing field that acknowledges everyone as the winner. After reading Jane Austen’s Emma for the umpteenth time, I was struck by an important aspect of this astute story: I was stunned...
The Business of Imagination: New trends in decorative design
Spatial design innovators know that the reinvention of the industry’s décor wheel is the business of imagination. By creating new trends in decorative design, progressive artist/designers are making important revisions to the way that we view Art, Architecture, and...
