Designing a room for mental/physical wellness If you’ve noticed similarities in the decor and general aesthetic of successful retail businesses, it is not by chance. Even a simple audit of our personal preferences can reveal that we find ourselves more at ease and relaxed in certain spaces and anxious in others. How is it that [...]

WHY IS SUSTAINABLE INTERIOR DESIGN IMPORTANT? Interior design trends come and go, but there’s one that’s here to stay: sustainability. Going green at home can improve our collective carbon footprint by combating air pollution and wasted natural resources. Using sustainable interior design principles can also improve your indoor air quality at home, which makes it [...]

How Interior Design Affects Mood You don’t have to be a neuroscientist or psychologist to know that the way your space looks and functions affects your mood. And that’s what makes interior design not just an art, but a science too. After all, mental wellness is about more than just indulging in a relaxing massage [...]

Where to Save and Where to Spend in Luxury Interior Design When it comes to designing and decorating our homes, we want them to have that wow factor—a sense of casual elegance and jaw-dropping beauty that you see in magazines or from your favorite Instagram influencers. Unfortunately, most of us can’t afford to splurge on [...]

Top Interior Design Trends for 2021 We don’t think you’ll blame us for wanting to say a very sassy sayonara to 2020. Plus, a new year always feels like a perfect time to change the look and feel of your space. Implementing the latest design trends means we can make our homes and businesses more [...]

Interior Designer vs. Interior Decorator: What's the Difference? Maybe you’ve been sitting around your home for too long and realized your space is in serious need of some new design changes. And in order to fall in love with your home all over again, you know you’ll need to enlist the help of a professional [...]

How Interior Designers Work with Architects Interior designers and architects go together like prosecco and pizza. Great apart, even better together, and certain times definitely call for both. While some interior designers (like myself) can do most interior architecture themselves, there are certain projects that require both. Projects involving architects typically include an addition or [...]

My Go-To Luxury Home Interior Paint Colors It’s no secret that after months of spending forced time indoors, we’re all feeling that desperate urge to make some serious design changes in our homes. But online shopping can be dangerous when we’re cooped up and bored, so my advice is to back away from your laptop [...]

Interior Design Tips: How to Outfit Your Home for Homeschooling Now that so many schools have gone remote to help contain the spread of COVID-19, you may have found yourself with a mandatory new side gig on your resume: first-time teacher. Like most other parents in the same boat, you didn’t have much choice in [...]

My Favorite Outdoor Summer Activities in Austin It’s summertime, and the living should be easy. But as much as we’d like to be packing the hillsides of Barton Springs Pool and sharing blankets—and jugs of micheladas—at Blues on the Green this summer, COVID-19 has other plans for us. Just because shelter-in-place orders have altered our [...]