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Double Duty: Reimagining the Home Office

Being an interior designer means you have to have excellent detective skills. Why? As designers, our job is to understand human behavior and figure out how people want to live; Then we create designs for that lifestyle. And, let me tell you, previous living patterns are constantly being rerouted to center around new environments within the home. Case in point: the home office. For a long time, the communications center was the big trend. You…
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Old Furniture, New House: How to Make it Work

I can’t tell you how many of my clients have moved in the last year—I’ve lost count! And with a new house, of course they want and often need new furniture. Sadly, with all the shipping and supplier issues we are seeing, wait times are now up to six months or more! Additionally, manufacturers have whittled their lines down to fewer options in order to meet production demand. The right furniture for your space may…
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Modern Ranch Reveal

We’ve been teasing photos of this home for more than a year and now it’s finally time to share this project in its entirety! It’s always fun to reveal a whole house because you get to see the end result as it’s always been imagined and intended by our team.  This particular project originated when our longtime clients came to us with the idea to build a weekend home. Already owners of vacation homes in…
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21st Century Kitchens: 7 Things We Appreciate in Modern Day Kitchens

We often wonder what people from 100 years ago would think about new technology like smart phones, self-driving cars, and the ways in which we communicate (Facetime, text and social media). But I also wonder what they would think about the rooms in our homes these days, specifically the kitchen.  So much has changed. Here are seven things we appreciate in modern-day kitchens: Wider Spaces Between Countertops Ever noticed that out of the thousands of…
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Keeping Rooms

We know that everybody likes to gather in the kitchen.  But did you know there’s another place in the home that guests will naturally gravitate towards? Depending on where you live, it’s called a keeping room, den or hearth room. A keeping room, as the name implies, “keeps” guests out of the kitchen and out of the cooks way.  It’s truly the best set up for entertaining if your floor plan will allow. On our…
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