I was woken up this morning by my three year old using me as a shelf for his pipe cleaner collection. Right now, he mostly uses the pipe cleaners to make letter shapes and simple animals, like fish, but he's getting more... more »

I was waxing nostalgic about Laura Half Pint Ingalls the other day and it inspired me to seek out pictures of barns. The structure of the barn in the landscape instantly conjures a feeling of a simpler time. As agriculture... more »

A hallmark of traditional design, symmetry always does a great job of adding "visual calmness" and balance to a room. There's just something about placing items in an almost mirror image that encourages a very soothing... more »

Your home is a place where you should feel lucky. If the home is filled with warmth, love and things that you appreciate then lucky is certainly a feeling that you'll experience. However, you can also add specific symbols... more »

Ah, the A-frame house. Quirky, as simply geometric as architecture can get, sometimes a bit impractical, but full of retro charm. Lately I feel like A-frames were swimming around me. First, I laughed at the stories in... more »

One of my very favorite patterns/designs for fabrics, wallpaper or even china is, Toile de Jouy, more simply known today as, toile. The origins of this complex pattern go all the way back to the late 1700s when Christophe-Philippe... more »

Discovering how to please both partners in a relationship is one of the best tools I've acquired as an interior designer. Rarely does a couple completely agree on design style. It's my job to find a happy medium between feminine... more »

When I first joined Houzz, way back in November 2008, I was trying to figure out how to organize and decorate a tiny wine cellar my husband built in a part of our basement that's the size of a large closet. After spending... more »