This award winning kitchen was designed by Rachel Hernstrom. The kitchen is a unique mixture of stains and paints all on the Chesapeake door style. The stain is Truffle on Walnut, mixed with white pewter with allspice highlights on maple and color match moody blue paint on maple. The countertops are Cambria quartz Bellingham. The kitchen won the grand prize in Candlelight’s national contest for the best looking kitchen.

This sprawling, curved Trex Transcend deck project earned Archadeck of Central Iowa the Grand Prize honor in Archadeck's Design Excellence Award program for 2016. Featuring a sunken, fire pit seating area under the pergola at left and a raised, oblong seating area at right, this deck provides lots of space for entertaining and relaxing in many different ways. and stunning views of the Iowa countryside. See more about this award-winning project at: http://central-iowa.archadeck.com/galleries/archadeck-design-excellence-2016-grand-prize-winner-curved-trex-deck-central-iowa/ Photo by Archadeck of Central Iowa

This award winning kitchen was designed by Rachel Hernstrom. The kitchen is a unique mixture of stains and paints all on the Chesapeake door style. The stain is Truffle on Walnut, mixed with white pewter with allspice highlights on maple and color match moody blue paint on maple. The countertops are Cambria quartz Bellingham. The kitchen won the grand prize in Candlelight’s national contest for the best looking kitchen.

A unique Mining Themed Home Designed and Built by Trilogy Partners in Breckenridge Colorado on the Breckenridge Golf Course. This home was the grand prize winner of the 2008 Summit County Parade of Homes winning every major award. Also featured in Forbes Magazine. 5 Bedrooms 6 baths 5500 square feet with a three car garage. All exterior finishes are of reclaimed barn wood. Authentic timber frame structure. Interior by Trilogy Partners, additional interiors by Interiors by Design Michael Rath, John Rath, Clay Schwarck Photography

Make your choice of decking worthily of an award-winning custom design with Port Orford white cedar. Professional architects seek out Port Orford cedar for distinctive projects. It is prized for both attractive appearance and long-lasting performance.

The home of Nobel Prize and Pullitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Each year they host the Festival of Trees holiday event. I was selected to decorate the large library. The tree depicted holiday traditions throughout the world. Different framed photos were hung, along with traditional holiday decorations. A sleigh filled with gifts and books sits adjacent to the tree. A bircage filled with seasonal decor is the focus of the seating area. Two carolers adorn the fireplace.

This award winning kitchen was designed by Rachel Hernstrom. The kitchen is a unique mixture of stains and paints all on the Chesapeake door style. The stain is Truffle on Walnut, mixed with white pewter with allspice highlights on maple and color match moody blue paint on maple. The countertops are Cambria quartz Bellingham. The kitchen won the grand prize in Candlelight’s national contest for the best looking kitchen.

Spacious Modern White Design Brings New Light to Busy Kitchen For this busy family of Mclean, Virginia, converting a limited kitchen space to a modern kitchen space was a much desired and necessary upgrade. This kitchen space was limited by an adjacent laundry room and family room walls. By relocating the laundry room to the second floor, extra space opened up for the remodeled modern kitchen. Removal of the bearing wall between the kitchen and family room, allowed an increase of daylight into both spaces. The small windows of the previous kitchen and laundry room were replaced with a large picture window to allow maximum daylight to shine from the south side. Relocating the stove from the old island to a back wall and replacing the older island with a beautiful custom stained island provided extra seating capacity and expanded counter space for serving and cooking uses. Added to this gorgeous prize-winning kitchen were double stacked classic white cabinetry with glass display cabinets, along with lots of direct and indirect lighting and gorgeous pendant lights. A 48-inch gas oven range and large scale appliances contributed to this stunning modern kitchen space. New hardwood flooring with espresso low gloss finish created an endless look to the entire first floor space. Life is now grand with this new spacious kitchen space.

This kitchen was a joint project with James Curran of Curran Interiors. It was awarded the 1st place prize for small kitchens in the 2011 ASID Southern Arizona Design Excellence Awards, and was published in Tucson Lifestyle Home and Garden Magazine of Febuary 2011. This kitchen features natural maple, wide stile shaker doors with slab drawer fronts. The main focal point is the dramatic use of the multicolored, metallic mosaic tiles, which coordinate beautifully with the Blue Pearl slab granite countertop. The stainless steel apron front sink, the brushed nickel cabinet pulls, and the simplicity of the door style makes this kitchen lean toward the modern to transitional style. The original kitchen was a U-shape with 2 peninsulas. In order to open the space up, the peninsula between the dining area and the kitchen was eliminated. Photos courtesy of Haskell Photography

This award winning kitchen was designed by Rachel Hernstrom. The kitchen is a unique mixture of stains and paints all on the Chesapeake door style. The stain is Truffle on Walnut, mixed with white pewter with allspice highlights on maple and color match moody blue paint on maple. The countertops are Cambria quartz Bellingham. The kitchen won the grand prize in Candlelight’s national contest for the best looking kitchen.

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Example of a large classic u-shaped medium tone wood floor enclosed kitchen design in Los Angeles with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, marble countertops, white backsplash, subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

A unique Mining Themed Home Designed and Built by Trilogy Partners in Breckenridge Colorado on the Breckenridge Golf Course. This home was the grand prize winner of the 2008 Summit County Parade of Homes winning every major award. Also featured in Forbes Magazine. 5 Bedrooms 6 baths 5500 square feet with a three car garage. All exterior finishes are of reclaimed barn wood. Authentic timber frame structure. Interior by Trilogy Partners, additional interiors by Interiors by Design Michael Rath, John Rath, Clay Schwarck Photography

This award winning kitchen was designed by Rachel Hernstrom. The kitchen is a unique mixture of stains and paints all on the Chesapeake door style. The stain is Truffle on Walnut, mixed with white pewter with allspice highlights on maple and color match moody blue paint on maple. The countertops are Cambria quartz Bellingham. The kitchen won the grand prize in Candlelight’s national contest for the best looking kitchen.

A unique Mining Themed Home Designed and Built by Trilogy Partners in Breckenridge Colorado on the Breckenridge Golf Course. This home was the grand prize winner of the 2008 Summit County Parade of Homes winning every major award. Also featured in Forbes Magazine. 5 Bedrooms 6 baths 5500 square feet with a three car garage. All exterior finishes are of reclaimed barn wood. Authentic timber frame structure. Interior by Trilogy Partners, additional interiors by Interiors by Design Michael Rath, John Rath, Clay Schwarck Photography

Spacious Modern White Design Brings New Light to Busy Kitchen For this busy family of Mclean, Virginia, converting a limited kitchen space to a modern kitchen space was a much desired and necessary upgrade. This kitchen space was limited by an adjacent laundry room and family room walls. By relocating the laundry room to the second floor, extra space opened up for the remodeled modern kitchen. Removal of the bearing wall between the kitchen and family room, allowed an increase of daylight into both spaces. The small windows of the previous kitchen and laundry room were replaced with a large picture window to allow maximum daylight to shine from the south side. Relocating the stove from the old island to a back wall and replacing the older island with a beautiful custom stained island provided extra seating capacity and expanded counter space for serving and cooking uses. Added to this gorgeous prize-winning kitchen were double stacked classic white cabinetry with glass display cabinets, along with lots of direct and indirect lighting and gorgeous pendant lights. A 48-inch gas oven range and large scale appliances contributed to this stunning modern kitchen space. New hardwood flooring with espresso low gloss finish created an endless look to the entire first floor space. Life is now grand with this new spacious kitchen space.

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Spacious Modern White Design Brings New Light to Busy Kitchen For this busy family of Mclean, Virginia, converting a limited kitchen space to a modern kitchen space was a much desired and necessary upgrade. This kitchen space was limited by an adjacent laundry room and family room walls. By relocating the laundry room to the second floor, extra space opened up for the remodeled modern kitchen. Removal of the bearing wall between the kitchen and family room, allowed an increase of daylight into both spaces. The small windows of the previous kitchen and laundry room were replaced with a large picture window to allow maximum daylight to shine from the south side. Relocating the stove from the old island to a back wall and replacing the older island with a beautiful custom stained island provided extra seating capacity and expanded counter space for serving and cooking uses. Added to this gorgeous prize-winning kitchen were double stacked classic white cabinetry with glass display cabinets, along with lots of direct and indirect lighting and gorgeous pendant lights. A 48-inch gas oven range and large scale appliances contributed to this stunning modern kitchen space. New hardwood flooring with espresso low gloss finish created an endless look to the entire first floor space. Life is now grand with this new spacious kitchen space.

Pretty Garden Shed among ferns and woodland plantings, set under the trees
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Open windows viewing the warmth of the Northern California Bay surround this intimate Living space and it’s tranquil colors of the nearby landscapes. The inspiration was to create an intimate space for entertaining while allowing the depth of exterior colors to transcends throughout the in and outdoor space. GRAND PRIZE WINNING DESIGN