Interiors, Styling

Adding Personality to Your Home: A Look at Master of None’s Set Design

I can get lost in movie and television set homes. Here's what you can learn from set designers to use in your own home!

Before and After, Interiors

A Denver Renovation: Before and During Photo’s

Check out some before and during photo's of a ranch remodel in Denver's hot Crestmoor neighborhood!

Interiors, Styling

We Are Family: Display your old family photo’s alongside the new

Do you want to display more family photo's but aren't sure how? Here's some great advice for getting family photo's up on the wall!

Current Sensibility

David Bowie and the Business of Life and Design

David Bowie has been on my mind since learning of his death this week.  I wholeheartedly admire Bowie's uniqueness and his ability to change and take risks with his art.  He was a fascinating and unusual person who through his art and music always gave me the feeling that it's more than okay to be different and to… Continue reading David Bowie and the Business of Life and Design

Interiors, Styling

Creating a Beautiful Home: 4 Tips to Remember

Happy 2016!  I took a few days off here and there over the holiday and had time, in between scarfing down silly amounts of holiday cookies, to think about houses and the process of creating a beautiful home.   I thought I would kick off the first post this year with a few thoughts that have been… Continue reading Creating a Beautiful Home: 4 Tips to Remember

Interiors, Kitchen

Succumb to the Dark Side: 8 Dark Kitchens to Satisfy your Noir Cravings

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will...” ― George Lucas The age old struggle between dark and light happens not just to Luke Skywalker but to Interior Designers too.  I love the all white trend for interiors and white kitchens are some of my all time favorites.… Continue reading Succumb to the Dark Side: 8 Dark Kitchens to Satisfy your Noir Cravings

Holiday Decorating

A Colorado Christmas Tree with inspiration from Scandinavia

Every Christmas in Colorado, the National Forest Service sells about 30,000 tree cutting permits for people to venture out into the wilderness, Christmas Vacation style, and cut their own tree. This year they opened the permit sale the day after Thanksgiving and sold out quite quickly in the areas closest to Denver.  We purchased our permits ($10.00 per… Continue reading A Colorado Christmas Tree with inspiration from Scandinavia

Before and After, Entries, Interiors

Entryway Ideas: One Entry 3 Ways

I have a wonderful client who moved to Florida this past year and is struggling with a really plain entryway that has no architectural interest or even definition between rooms.  I thought I would use the blog format to show how to create an entry just using furniture, rugs, lighting and art. Here's the Entry:… Continue reading Entryway Ideas: One Entry 3 Ways

Current Sensibility

#OptForFamily

Hello!  I took the week off to be with family and attempted to schedule this post for the week of Thanksgiving - it's a little late, but the thoughts are true for the upcoming holidays. I hope you had a great holiday with friends and family! REI's retail decision to #OptOutside and be closed for… Continue reading #OptForFamily

Bathrooms, Interiors

Vintage Mirrors: 6 Easy Ways to Add Character and Style to Your Bathroom

Changing out a boring, or downright ugly, bathroom mirror with something interesting is such an easy thing to do, yet "new mirror" is something that keeps getting added to the new "to do" list and always lands somewhere after #10.  It's obvious when they need updating, especially if you've landed a home with that sweet flat piece of… Continue reading Vintage Mirrors: 6 Easy Ways to Add Character and Style to Your Bathroom