Aug 13, 2014 | Design Styles, Design Tips
A couple of years ago, I gave a seminar at the Paradise Valley, Arizona Design Center on “White Kitchens” and the prevalence across the board in all design styles to lighten up kitchens and go with variations of white cabinetry and even white countertops. Now, 2...
Jun 6, 2014 | Design Styles
If you were to try to define “Your Style”, say someone asks you to describe your home…would you use words like Mediterranean, or Santa Barbara, or Mid Century Modern, or maybe you don’t know how to describe it by a particular design...
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....
Nov 29, 2013 | Design Styles
The Tuscan interior design style is full of simple, rustic charm and inspired by the country homes of central Italy’s wine country. Traditionally, the farmhouses in this region were made out of readily available materials such as straw, limestone, clay and wood....
