Designing for Wellness: How Interior Design Affects Mood & Health
Interior design is much more than simply choosing stylish furniture or picking out a trendy paint color – it has a profound impact on how we feel, behave, and function in our spaces. A well-designed environment can boost your mood, reduce stress, improve sleep, and...
Small Kitchen, Big Style: Smart Design Ideas for Compact Spaces
You may want more out of your kitchen, but feel like an interior designer might be out of your reach simply because of the size of the space. Having a small kitchen doesn’t mean sacrificing style or function. With the right design strategies, even the tiniest kitchen...
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.