Sometimes a house just needs a little loving to bring it back to the best version of itself. I have been working on the renovation of a Dutchess County home that I have grown to love. The project is taking shape and I wanted to give you a sneak peak at the progress. The home is situated on 85 acres [...]
I hope you are enjoying a relaxing Memorial Day Weekend. I can say that I am relaxing now, but during the week leading up to this holiday weekend, we were super busy installing the furnishings in a client's Nantucket summer home. You may have read my March 2018 blog post Nantucket Summer House - Work in Progress where I showed [...]
Welcome to 2018! It is a new year and definitely a time for reflection. But, I don't want to bore you with my new year's resolutions. Instead, let's talk about what is known as the "'aspirin of Feng Shui' because in design, it can be used to 'cure" so many problems" (source: Open Spaces: Feng Shui Mirrors - Do's and Don'ts). And, [...]
Let's talk about gray or as the British prefer - grey. Either works for me. Such a short simple word for a neutral color certainly carries a lot of weight: it's actually a verb, noun and an adjective!; most recently associated with a steamy book series and movie, and; worthy of many, many articles including this Washington Post piece "The Gloomiest Color on [...]
This summer, The New York Times reported on an Instagram meme - "doortraits" - in an article titled, The "Doortrait" Artists of Instagram. This newly coined word "doortraits" has an Instagram hashtag with almost 40,000 posts - #doortraits and #doors has over over 1 millon posts - and dozens of accounts around the world are contributing with names like - doorsaroundtheworld, doorsofdistinction, doorproject, 1000doors, onlydoors, etc. Here's a [...]