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Formal Gardens and a Lifelong Lesson
‘To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn How would you like a productive and creative exercise that takes place...
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Small, Medium, Large ... the Key to Good Design
I have a friendly challenge for you. There’s no prize at the end other than a growing awareness of what constitutes good design. The...
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Can you Give Some Tips on Creating a Gallery Wall?
There are as many ways to create a gallery wall as there are walls in the world. There are no rules but I can give a few tips to make...
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The Golden Ratio
But how do these Golden formulas address our universal consensus of pleasing proportions? Back to nature’s spirals. It turns out that they a
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Micro Spaces
Can you fit a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, closet, and living space into 220 square feet? San Francisco may soon change its building code to
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Inside Out
I hear this phrase all the time, “bringing the outdoors in”. Today, I’m bringing the indoors … out. Design is about space, scale, balance, f
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The Defining Coffee Table
Think of your coffee table as a necklace on the “little black dress”. A string of pearls conveys a formal and classic look. A silver chain i
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The Bowling Alley Effect
Classically, proportionately, and visually, a rectangular room is considered the most attractive and easiest to decorate. But not so if it l
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Art versus Design
Art versus design has been a provocative topic throughout the ages. But there are points that can be agreed. The success of each is the resu
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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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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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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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