Firstly, the use of color is a top decorating trend. Here are two resources to find out: • What colors are trending? -- via Elle Decor and• See how to use them with room visuals as reference. With a plethora of visual ideas via Pinterest. Be sure to see Jennifer Ott's retrospective on last year's vs this year's paint manufacturers' "Colors of the Year" on Continue Reading
Can You Spot-light the Similarity?
Similarity often inspires designs. What is a design inspiration? There are many. For us it comes from so many sources that we cannot begin to list here. For other designers, inspired designs can come from what they've created before and are using in a new way. An example is Libby Langdon's lighting for Crystorama. Can you Spot-light the similarity?Does this Continue Reading
Ways that Wallcovering can Solve Some of your Decorating Dilemmas
Have you ever encountered decorating dilemmas in your house? Here are a few ways that wallcovering can serve as a solution to some of your problems: Do you have markers, pencils, pen marks, or dog scratches on the wall? No problem! Instead of spending all of that time trying to clean it up, consider fixing it easily with wallcovering, while at the same time Continue Reading
Personalizing An Internship
The transitive verb, personalize, means to mark (something) in a way that shows it belongs to a particular person. Wikipedia defines personalization as using technology to accommodate the differences between individuals. Once confined mainly to the Web, it is becoming a factor in education, health care (i.e. personalized medicine), television, and in both "business to Continue Reading
Paraphrasing Style Points from the Pros – Devil in the Details
The summer is winding down and it's time to start getting ready for the fall ahead. It's natural human behavior to want something new in the process. Newness is associated with a fresh start, which ritualistically begins at the time of each new school season. Being good design / school kids, we typically follow the rules but don't you like being a bit of a design Continue Reading
