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(Originally published in PLC's newspaper column, Demystifying Design, in the Napa Valley Register)

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Mixing High and Low-End Furnishings

When it comes to home furnishings, I know it’s true. That is, investing in select pieces, while holding back on others, can create a well-pu

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Looking at a Space with a Fresh Eye

There’s a Stephen Sondheim song titled, “A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.” That’s how I felt on my way out the door after mee

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3 min

When to Create an Accent Wall

When is the best time to create an accent wall? While the idea is still brewing in a designer’s or architect’s imagination and in time to be

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Glassybaby: A One-of-a-Kindness Company

What do you get when you combine a 4,000-year-old craft with optimism, comfort, persistence, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a big heart? Gla

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Rainbow Fresh

The fabric designers who produced the Rainbow Collection must have been on creative overdrive because their color combinations were luscious

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Demystifying the San Francisco Design Center

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Demystifying the San Francisco Design Center

Have you ever browsed through home decor magazines and wondered where to find such beautiful furnishings? You know you haven’t seen them in

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Client Asks for a Joyful Experience

When clients, Jeff and Cathy, asked me to help them remodel their kitchen, I did what I always do. I asked them to write a list of their goa

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2 min

Dark Shadows

Lighting has a powerful impact on emotions. So much so that it can keep memories vivid for decades. In design, it adds texture, volume, cont

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Question: I need knobs and pulls for my new kitchen cabinets. Is there a rule to using knobs ...

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Question: I need knobs and pulls for my new kitchen cabinets. Is there a rule to using knobs ...

When it comes to shape, style, and sometimes finish, let your plumbing and lighting fixtures be your guide. Are these fixtures modern, tradi

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Question: What is the difference between wood, engineered, and laminated floors?

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Question: What is the difference between wood, engineered, and laminated floors?

The type of wood flooring we’re most familiar with is hardwood made from oak, walnut, teak, maple, mahogany, hickory, beech, and alder to na

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2 min

How Words Define Your Tile Style

Envisioning my clients’ goal came easily. Listening to the operatic passion of “La Boheme” while I sketched set the mood and inspired me fur

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3 min

Three Enduring Trends

Is “enduring trends” an oxymoron? This year alone, I’ve read that gray is the new white, that navy is the new gray, that jewels tones rule,

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Catch-All Rooms

Do you have a catch-all room? Part home office, part guest bedroom, and part storage for this and that? My client, Jane, had such a room. Ti

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3 min

Looking Through the Looking-Glass

When Lewis Carroll wrote “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” in 1871, I wonder if he knew that mirrors had such an int...

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Historic French Rugs

the “Savonnerie”, was considered the most prestigious of knotted, pile rugs in 17th century Europe. Its name comes from its manufactory, lo

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3 min

Rome built in a day?

Imagine this … Pope Julius II walking the streets of the Eternal City noting the progress of Renaissance masters at work. Imagine architects

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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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Kitchen Countertop on the 6th Fairway

I could see the fear in my client’s eyes. Display after display begged him to make a decision. Phil wanted to be on the golf course, next to

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3 min

Not Your Parent's Parquet

Did you jump on the Downton Abbey bandwagon? I did. Now that Season 2 is over, I’m suffering from jittery withdrawal! What eye candy could p

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Oscar Wilde's Last Words

It is believed that on his death bed in a cheap hotel in Paris, playwright Oscar Wilde said, “This wallpaper is atrocious. One of us has to

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P L C

Interior Design Services

Napa County

since 1989

(Originally published in PLC's newspaper column, Demystifying Design, in the Napa Valley Register)

Mixing High and Low-End Furnishings

Looking at a Space with a Fresh Eye

When to Create an Accent Wall

Glassybaby: A One-of-a-Kindness Company

Rainbow Fresh

Demystifying the San Francisco Design Center

Client Asks for a Joyful Experience

Dark Shadows

Question: I need knobs and pulls for my new kitchen cabinets. Is there a rule to using knobs ...

Question: What is the difference between wood, engineered, and laminated floors?

How Words Define Your Tile Style

Three Enduring Trends

Catch-All Rooms

Looking Through the Looking-Glass

Historic French Rugs

Rome built in a day?

Micro Spaces

Kitchen Countertop on the 6th Fairway

Not Your Parent's Parquet

Oscar Wilde's Last Words

N A P A V A L L E Y M A R I N S A N F R A N C I S C O

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