Design royalty paid a visit to the Boston Design Center this week to share their stories of their rise to fame and tips for building your brand as an interior designer. Both Mary McDonald and Martyn Lawrence Bullard are stars of the popular Bravo TV reality show Million Dollar Decorators. They were both funny, gracious and very [...]
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Over the past couple of years there has been an explosion in the popularity of outdoor rugs. One of the reasons is that outdoor rugs have evolved from being bland, scratchy and plastic looking to being stylish, fun and fashionable. In fact, the technology has so advanced that many times it is difficult to even [...]
Ronda Rice Carmen’s New Book “Designers At Home”
This past Saturday I came home to the BEST surprise, a Fedex package containing a book I had won from Interior Designer Karen Davis’s blog giveaway. Karen doesn’t know this but her blog called The Adventures of Marker Girl was one of the very first blogs I started reading when I first got into reading Design [...]
Coastal Inspired Family Room Make Over
I recently worked with a wonderful client who’s family room that was in some serious need of updating. She had originality decorated it in the 1990′s and everything was right on trend back then; the sponge painted walls, the elaborate (and very expensive) custom window treatments, and the 90′s color pallet. Since her BEFORE and AFTER photos were so dramatic she [...]
My Olioboard Guest Bedroom Comes to Life
One of my favorite design tools that I use for both myself and for my clients is Olioboard. In case you haven’t heard of it, Olioboard is an online design program where you can create 2D or 3D inspiration or design boards simply by clicking and dragging an almost endless library of real life products. It [...]
7 Tips to Create a More Soulful Home
I just read an interesting article about how Oprah is redecorating her Montecito California home. In the article (you can read it here) Oprah shares how even though she has decorated many beautiful homes over the years not one of them ever really felt like her home nor did she ever feel completely comfortable in them. Oprah says rather than decorating around [...]
3 affordable ways to wake up tired rooms
This time of the year a lot of us are suffering from holiday let down or the Winter Blues. In the North East the days are short and cold, causing many to feel just a little tired. Our rooms can look tired this time of the year as well but adding a little energy is [...]
How an old pile of wood gave a home a soul
For most of us, our home tells the story of who we are. Our rooms are filled with an assortment of new and older furniture, inherited items, collections, kids art work, books, family photos, Flea Market finds and the stuff of day to day life. These are the things that give our home a personality [...]
My Shocking Christmas Confession with Photos!
Several years back when I was still working full time as a photographer I used to have the most beautifully decorated house at Christmas. My photography business slowed down right after Thanksgiving and I had a full month to decorate, shop, wrap, and bake. I would spend hours at the kitchen table creating Martha Stewart [...]
Five Minute Thanksgiving Decorating
These past few weeks have been a complete blur for me. I am working with a wonderful new client who is moving into a new home and by choice has decided to start from scratch. He is bringing absolutely nothing with him other than his clothes…seriously… nada…not even a fork and spoon. Oh, and to [...]
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