Create Good Flow in Your Interior Design

February 6, 2014

Create Good Flow in Your Interior Design

When designers talk about the flow in a home’s interior design, they refer to how you navigate your rooms and spaces. Good flow means the arrangements give the guest and visitor a queue, a hint of where to put a hat or purse, for example, in the foyer. A clear entryway guides guests …

Sketchup Equals Success

January 30, 2014

Sketchup equals success for my creative communication with clients. These days a 3-D picture is the quick way to come to agreement with my clients around the design concept direction. It’s the ‘Ah Ha’ moment when the vision comes into focus. For example, in my Sanctuary Townhome project, we have a tall, narrow home with multiple floors. (Also a great …

Screens in Your Interior Add Architecture

January 23, 2014

Screens in Your Interior Add Architecture

Enter the folding screen, a solution for architectural interest, privacy and a solution for dividing interior spaces. As many of my readers know, I work on many projects in condominiums. Often they are without architectural interest and an open space that my clients divide into home offices, dining, living and sleeping.

Colors and Finishes for Pike Market Project

January 16, 2014

How I Selected Colors and Finishes for Pike Market Project

This before image tells the story of West facing exposure 7 stories above the famed Pike Place Market in Seattle. Accounting for the light guided my color and finish selections for the kitchen and bedroom and the baths with no natural light. It’s a juggling act in the Pacific Northwest …

Enter 2014 with a Tabula Rasa~A Clean Slate for Your Design

January 9, 2014

Enter 2014 with a Tabula Rasa~A Clean Slate for Your Design

My Latin teacher would be pleased that I recalled the phrase, ‘Tabula Rasa’. It just strikes me as appropriate for interior design after disposing of holiday decorations, trees, tinsel and more. I found this definition, “the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or …

Gap to Gucci is the New Design Trend

December 11, 2013

Seems Gap to Gucci is the new design trend language. Previously ‘design speak’ used phrases like low to high design. As I acquainted myself with a new Queen Anne project and clients, we adopted this phrase for our approach to their new home. We will be working in 5 rooms as we combine existing furnishings and …

Winter Berries Bring Festive Holiday Red Into Your Home

December 6, 2013

For this Seattle designer, winter berries bring a festive holiday red into my home. Red equals the holiday season and symbolizes excitement, energy, passion, love, desire, fire, all things intense and passionate. My favorite red is Benjamin Moore Million Dollar Red.

In the spirit of holiday colors, I’ve gathered …

Thanksgiving Equals Counting my Blessings

November 27, 2013

Yes, with family gathered together this Thanksgiving I will be counting my blessings. I confess that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the closeness and camaraderie of preparing a meal, sharing recipes handed down from family, the conversations and stories. There is a warm circle created for me and I treasure the memories I have of Thanksgiving dinners from …

It’s Always a Perfect Occasion for Champagne

November 20, 2013

As a believer that there’s always an occasion for champagne, I’m in the group that keeps a bottle of bubbly in my refrigerator at all times. I see that bottle and it lifts my spirits, makes me smile and I think celebration.

My favorite label

As the …

Area Rugs ~ Finding the Right Size

November 14, 2013

Area rugs serve so many purposes in our interiors so how to determine the right size for your home? Before answering that critical question, I want to point out some of the benefits of area rugs. Rugs protect our floors and offer sound absorption plus they soften the interior design. From a design …