Around the House, The Powder Room

Is your powder room ready for the Holidays? If you are planning to have guests over or throw big parties — don’t forget the powder room! Your female friends especially […] Read more »

Around the House, Choosing and Displaying Artwork

Choosing Artwork for my clients can be the most difficult of my tasks. Artwork, it seems, is a very personal matter; people don’t want just anything hanging on their walls […] Read more »

The Master Bedroom

Often, when clients have a busy family life revolving around the diverse activities of their young children, we take a step-by-step approach to decorating and design. Read more »

Around The House, Good Bones

As much as I love offbeat design and contemporary architectural inventiveness, I find there is something immensely satisfying about walking into a house that has a balanced layout and well-proportioned […] Read more »

Around the House, Sleeping on the Porch

Recently, a couple that I have been working for left the country for a month-long sojourn through Europe. Just before they left I stopped by their house on a Saturday […] Read more »

Around The House, The Basics on Oriental Rugs

Oriental rugs: this is a vast and colorful topic. Aficionados of the subject spend a lifetime learning and buying exotic rugs. But for the average person who wants to buy […] Read more »

Around The House — Notes on Spring Cleaning

There was a time when housewives took spring cleaning seriously. They dusted and mopped, washed the windows, scrubbed down the tile floors and swept the cobwebs from the basement and […] Read more »

Around the House, Designing the Small Kitchen

The kitchen is usually the most intensively designed room in the house and a small kitchen even more so — inches can make the difference. It’s like putting a 3D […] Read more »
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Around the House, Window Dressing

How do you dress a Window? Amateurs beware, this is one area where even the most intrepid do-it-yourselfers may suggest you to find this professional for help. Windows are always […] Read more »

Entertaining and the Dining Room

Typically, in new construction these days, the living room is shrinking — the real "living" goes on in some combination of kitchen and great room. Read more »