It is about looking great, feeling great and supporting you to BE great. Most people think Interior Design is just about making your house look good. Most Interior Designers will make your house look beautiful and will create a space that functions better with your life style so that you are happy and have a sense of pride when others see it.But great Interior Design is about so much more than looks, form and function. It is about looking great, feeling great and supporting Read more […]
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Do You Need an Alignment?
The Great Conjunction- Now that’s Alignment! Recently, I told you about my philosophy of great Interior Design, which I call Aligned Design. When the three key elements of art, science and energy are aligned, the magic happens.The “Art”, is what most of us think of as “Interior Design”, and includes finding and artfully arranging beautiful furnishings, decor and art to look gorgeous and function perfectly with your lifestyle.The “Science”, is about using color science to take your color Read more […]
Create a Healthy and Beautiful Home with Aligned Design
Has the last year made you rethink how you are living your life and what is important? Has it highlighted all the things that are NOT working in your home now that you have been spending so much more time there? Have you realized what is important if you have required your home to act as your workplace, sanctuary, gym, school, and more? Why not refresh, get inspired, and create a healthy, beautiful home that can handle all the things you need it to do for you now. Imagine a home that looks great, Read more […]
Opposite Colors Attract – Go Complimentary
People often struggle with creating a great color scheme. Often, we start the conversation by talking about the limitations, or the box of colors you need to stay within based on your fixed finishes. In my last few blog articles we have discussed how you could take your favorite color, blue for example and create different color schemes. We explored monochromatic and analogous schemes. Today, lets look at complimentary schemes.Complimentary color schemes are based on using two hues that are opposite Read more […]
Create a Harmonious Color Scheme – Go Analogous
People often struggle with creating a great color scheme. Often, we start the conversation by talking about the limitations, or the box of colors you need to play with based on your fixed finishes.In my last article, Celebrate Your Favorite Color- Go Monochromatic, we talked about how you could take your favorite color and celebrate it in all it’s glory with a monochromatic color scheme. Simple and easy!What if you would like a little more color variety, but still want something that is simple Read more […]
Celebrate Your Favorite Color – Go Monochromatic
People often struggle with creating a great color scheme. Often, we start the conversation by talking about the limitations, or the box of colors you need to stay within based on your fixed finishes. Today, let’s talk about something more fun. If you could take your favorite color and celebrate it in all it’s glory, what could that look like? Monochromatic!Monochromatic color schemes are based on a single hue and use various shades, tones and tints of that color. Picture your favorite color Read more […]
The Colors of Summer- Bring the Outside In
Summer is one of my favorite times of year. It’s warm and the outdoors beckons, the colors explode with flowers, fruit, an explosion of green growth and the showiness of all the male birds. There is a feeling of abundance and adventure. Completion of all the things you have sown. It is bold and beautiful.Would you like to have that same look and feeling inside in your home year round? Take some color and other cues from nature and bring the outside in. Here is an example of what I mean.This picture Read more […]
Bring the Outdoors in with Interior Design
In a recent article, Healthy Home-Feel Good with Biophilia, I talked about how as humans, we want to be connected with nature and other living things such as people, animals, and plants because it makes us feel good. This longing for “connection” is called “biophilia”.I mentioned numerous ways that we could use Interior Design to get that connection for a happier, healthier home including using natural materials, plants, animals, color, art, scents, and lighting.Some of the tips I gave included:Bringing Read more […]
Got the Blues? Try Something New
Each year, the various paint companies and Pantone select their color of the year, expressing what they predict are the color trends for the coming year. Blues are hot this year as three of the 2020 colors of the year are a blue hue (Pantone’s Classic Blue, PPG’s Chinese Porcelain and Sherwin Williams Naval).Pantone’s 2020 Color of the Year is Classic Blue. While Pantone does not create paint, and there is not a paint color available that perfectly matches this color, Classic Blue is used for ink, Read more […]
Healthy Home-Feel Good with Biophilia
As humans, we want to be connected with nature and other living things such as people, animals and plants. This longing for “connection” with other life forms is called “biophilia”. The term was first used by Erich Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) and later by Edward O. Wilson in his work Biophilia (1984). Lately, there seems to be more emphasis on this concept in the world of Interior Design.As humans we have always been connected to nature, for survival, sustenance, Read more […]