Feb 28, 2014 | Miscellaneous
When I am asked “What do you do?” (for a living), I find myself slightly cringing while I wait for a response to my answer of “Interior Design”. Probably half the time, I hear something like, “Oh, that must be fun!” or….”My sister-in-law does decorating...
Feb 4, 2014 | Miscellaneous
For some people, the idea of designing and decorating the space you live in is just too much. That’s why we sat down with Janet Brooks who owns and manages Janet Brooks Design to get the insider scoop of choosing the right interior designer for you. Tell Us...
Dec 15, 2013 | Design Styles
Due to the abundance of hills and small mountains in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, many of the most desirable homesites in our area are on the sides of hills. As anyone who has been to the beautiful Medieval towns of France, Italy and Greece has seen, hillside building...
Dec 15, 2013 | Design Styles
Adobe construction is one of the first building materials used by ancient human beings, and is a good building method in warm, dry climates such as the Southwestern portion of the United States. Variations of adobe built structures go back thousands of years, and...
Dec 1, 2013 | Design Styles
The comfortable feeling of a ranch home in the Western U.S. has been a popular architectural and design style in the last half of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century. It might be viewed as the western equivalent of the eastern and Midwestern farmhouse style....
