How to Work with an Interior Designer: What to Expect
Hiring an interior designer is an exciting step toward creating a home or workspace that reflects your personality, meets your needs, and looks beautiful. Whether you’re redesigning a single room or remodeling an entire property, working with a professional can save...
How to Find Your Design Style
Creating a home that feels truly “you” starts with discovering your unique design style. But with so many interior aesthetics to choose from – minimalist, farmhouse, industrial, and so much more – it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The good news is that finding your own...
Ideas…But No Idea How to Execute Them?
I love working with clients who have ideas about what they want in a new interior design for their home. They know, though, that just having ideas is not enough to be able to execute a professional interior design. That’s why they call a la carte DESIGN. Creating and...
Art That Compels Imitation
It is not unusual for a client to have a particularly striking piece of art—a painting, a sculpture, tapestry or pottery—that becomes for me a source of inspiration when I am creating an interior design for the home. Using art from the client’s personal collection in...
5 Lamp & Lighting Trends that Shine
It always amazes me when I find that a client’s home is filled with contractor-grade light fixtures that obviously date to when the home was first built. Changing lighting is one of the easiest ways to begin to update a home. It is easy to buy a new table lamp or...
Making a Home Comfortable
By Jeane Dole Above all else, when a la carte DESIGN has finished its work for a client, I want the client to experience a sense of comfort in their re-designed home. Often, clients associate comfort with improvements in the way the spaces in their home work. They...
Fireplace Updates: A Small Way to Make a Big Impact
Explore the ways an update of your fireplace can change the style of the entire room.
Keep Your Kitchen Organized with a Pantry Update
15 Smart Ideas From Beautifully Organized Pantries
Check Out My Interview on This Dream House
I recently was a guest on the radio program, This Dream House, broadcast on Sports Radio 104.3 on Sunday mornings. Talking with the hosts about kitchen design and how I got into the interior design business was lots of fun. Hear my segment by clicking the play arrow...