Design Blog
Interior Inspirations: Historic Mansion In Charleston Mixes Classic Architecture With Modern Design
With an industry that generates around $10 billion in annual revenue, interior design is never short on ideas. Whether you want to extend one masterfully planned decor theme throughout your entire home, or are looking to mix and match styles to give your space some...
Don’t Make These Common Living Room Design Mistakes
It's no surprise that the interior design industry generates $10 billion in revenues annually. Homeowners love to work with the top interior designers to make their visions come to life right before their eyes. Of course, working with residential home designer is an...
How to Keep your Home Looking Timeless With Design
Over one third of all renovations take over the whole home, not just the master bathroom or pool house. It may be tempting to replace outdated shag carpet with wood floors or to swap patterned wallpaper for stripes, but exchanging one fad for another just creates a...
Easy Interior Design Ways to Make a Statement in Your Home
Decorating your home may not be the easiest thing to do without a professional interior designer, but if you utilize a few simple décor pieces, you can change the look of your space. Please read about a few ideas. Accent Walls An accent wall can really spice up a...
Kitchen Revamp Ideas to Discover This Summer
Summer is upon us in Arizona, so now is the perfect time to give your kitchen a fresh new look. If you’re interested in making changes to your kitchen this summer but don’t know where to start, keep reading. Come Up With a Theme Before you do anything you need to come...
3 Benefits of Hiring an Interior Designer
Picture this: you just moved into a new house and all of your rooms are empty. Sure, they're soon going to be filled with your furniture and boxes, but you're stuck on the idea of how to actually decorate. You're aware of all of the ideas out there, like the ones on...
How to Design a Lighting Plan
It's the first thing we do in the morning once our feet hit the floor. We flip the light switch. Then it's the last thing we do at night. And then we use light for just about every activity in between. Light is fundamental to our lives and most of us take it for...
3 Simple Ways to Decorate a Small Space
It would be a wonderful premise if each space that you lived in expressed the individual style of the person who lived there. Some personalities call for bright colors, while some people feel good in darker shades or cozy hues. What's more, living spaces range in...
A Few of Our Favorite Decorating Tips for Open Floor Plans
If there's one thing potential homebuyers love, it's an open floor plan. Not only do these floor plans signify a step into modernity for many homes, they create open, inviting spaces for all. But how are you supposed to decorate a home with an open floor plan? That's...
3 Easy Interior Decorating Bathroom Tips to Help You Live Large!
The bathroom is one of the most used rooms in any home. With this in mind, it pays for every homeowner to really focus on their interior decorating ideas to the bathroom. This room will be the one part of the home that gets the highest return on investment. But for...
Summer Interior Design Ideas You Can Easily Incorporate Into Fall
Now that September is here, chances are your home is filled with the typical summer interior design trends -- cool linen, and neutral colors. While it's hard not to love this easy-breezy decor, pretty soon you'll have to start thinking about redecorating your home for...
How To Use Color Psychology To Design Your Dream Home
Your home is both your safe haven and a place to welcome guests. By decorating accordingly, you can match your interior design to the mood you want to create. Choosing the right colors is one of the best ways to achieve this. Whether working with interior designers or...
Simple Summer Changes to Keep Your Cool!
Designing the interior of your home is one of the best parts of owning a house. By choosing from an array of themes and color palettes, you can change the look of your home. Altering the interior design of your home for the seasons can give you a sense of refreshing...
Is the Interior Design of Your Home Affecting Your Mood?
Your home is your sanctuary. There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a long day at work and walking into a space that makes you feel happy, calm, and safe. The most popular definitions of a happy home are: a place where you feel safe and secure (69%), a place...
Three Hot Interior Design Trends for 2017
With the continued popularity of home improvement and interior design shows, it's no surprise that the interior design industry brings in $10 billion each year, and specialized interior design is predicted to grow about 20% each year. Apart from the industry...
2016 is Out and 2017 is Paving the Way for New Interior Design
Spring is here, and that means that it can be time to update your interior design! The design process during this time of year can be quite exciting but overwhelming at the same time if you do not know what is trending. How do you know which interior design trends are...
Upgrade your Living Room Design This New Year With These 6 Tips
If your living room has seen better days, you certainly aren't alone. Around 47% of Americans haven't updated their home decor within the last five years, so it's safe to say that your main living space could probably use a refresh. The features that your interior...
Five Mighty Interior Design Ideas for Smaller Bathrooms
If you have a compact or small bathroom, you may feel as if it is impossible to decorate it to your specifications. Most interior design projects are meant for larger bathrooms, but considering the fact that about 60% of all homeowners plan to remodel their master...
Ten Creative Interior Design Ideas to Make Your Small Kitchen Look LARGE!
Just because you have a small kitchen doesn't mean that it can't enjoy some serious style. If you are looking to spice up your small space, look no further than these creative kitchen design ideas. 1. Glass always add light, especially when it is added to the fronts...
Our Project Featured in Houzz’ Remodeling Piece
We're excited to share this recent piece on Houzz covering the typical stages of a home remodeling project, including the nitty-gritty behind the scenes work that contractors perform including HVAC, electrical and plumbing. Our Calm Contemporary home remodel was...
Family Room Design: How Can We Have Our Cake, and Eat it, Too?!
In the layout of our family rooms, there are 3 strategic players vying for attention, and in true American fashion, we want ALL of them ALL of the time: (1) the View, (2) the Fireplace and (3) the TV. How to have all 3 directly in front of you at the same time? Well,...
6 Designer Tips for Making Your Home Look Luxe for Less
In this video segment from ABC15′s Sonoran Living Live, Janet provides some design tips during a segment called “Splurge or Save? 6 Designer Tips for Making Your Home Look Luxe for Less”. She discusses how to build up from the floor to create a design foundation for a...
Choosing the Right Hardwood Flooring
It isn't a secret that hardwood flooring can set a beautiful foundation for the design of a home. Since the flooring of a new-build or remodel is such an integral part of the design, it's important to choose the right hardwood from the beginning. When I first started...
Creating a “Design Team” for a Custom Home Build
You’ve probably heard us touting the benefits of a good design team who is working as “one” on behalf of our clients a few times before…but we can’t emphasize it enough. Just as a team of horses who are pulling in different directions wouldn’t make much progress, a...
5 Design Mistakes To Stop Making
As an interior designer, I've seen it all when it comes to good and bad design over the years. What often starts off as a design trend to follow can easily turn into a "mistake" over time. Believe me, there are a lot more than 5 mistakes you can make when designing...