P L C 

images%20(3)_edited.jpg

I N T E R I O R S

Interior Design Services

Napa County 

since 1989

  • Home

  • Patti

  • Services

  • Portfolio

  • Published

  • Contact

  • Blog

  • Fabrics

  • Reviews

  • Shop

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • CATEGORIES:
    • Construction / Remodeling
    • Kitchen / Bath
    • Tile / Countertop
    • Client Stories
    • PLC Stories
    • Ask PLC
    • Art
    • Fabric
    • Color
    • Symmetry / Balance / Scale
    • Furnishings / Products / Decorating
    • One-Offs
    • Exteriors
    Search
    Three D-I-Y Problems Solved
    PLC
    • 2 min

    Three D-I-Y Problems Solved

    Today’s column comes to you by way of permission from three recent clients. Clients who, before undertaking do-it-yourself projects,...
    14 views0 comments
    Mixing High and Low-End Furnishings
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    13 views0 comments
    Looking at a Space with a Fresh Eye
    PLC
    • 2 min

    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
    18 views1 comment
    When to Create an Accent Wall
    PLC
    • 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
    28 views0 comments
    Glassybaby: A One-of-a-Kindness Company
    PLC
    • 4 min

    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
    71 views0 comments
    Rainbow Fresh
    PLC
    • 3 min

    Rainbow Fresh

    The fabric designers who produced the Rainbow Collection must have been on creative overdrive because their color combinations were luscious
    4 views0 comments
    Demystifying the San Francisco Design Center
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    11 views0 comments
    Client Asks for a Joyful Experience
    PLC
    • 4 min

    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
    12 views0 comments
    Dark Shadows
    PLC
    • 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
    17 views0 comments
    Question: I need knobs and pulls for my new kitchen cabinets. Is there a rule to using knobs ...
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    12 views0 comments
    Question: What is the difference between wood, engineered, and laminated floors?
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    44 views0 comments
    How Words Define Your Tile Style
    PLC
    • 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
    34 views1 comment
    Three Enduring Trends
    PLC
    • 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,
    4 views0 comments
    Catch-All Rooms
    PLC
    • 2 min

    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
    42 views0 comments
    Looking Through the Looking-Glass
    PLC
    • 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...
    4 views0 comments
    Historic French Rugs
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    98 views0 comments
    Rome built in a day?
    PLC
    • 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
    3 views0 comments
    Micro Spaces
    PLC
    • 3 min

    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
    6 views0 comments
    Kitchen Countertop on the 6th Fairway
    PLC
    • 2 min

    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
    11 views0 comments
    Not Your Parent's Parquet
    PLC
    • 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
    4 views0 comments
    1
    2
    34

                                                        C L I C K                 T O   F O L L O W   O N   I N S T A G R A M    @ P L C I N T E R I O R S                                      

    • Instagram Social Icon

    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     

                         (c) P L C   I N T E R I O R S