The Two Worst 2022 Interior Design Trends

Happy new year! I hope that you were able to spend your holidays enjoyably, surrounded by the people and things you love. Seattle had a particularly chilly holiday season, with plenty of snow to keep us indoors. A blessing in disguise, really, with the Omicron variant running rampant. Who would have thought that, nearly 2 […]

Pillow Talk: Hameau de la Reine

   Historian Arnold Toynbee once lamented the tendency of select colleagues to view “life [as] just one damned thing after another”—a chronological parade of facts with no discernible themes or general movements. On one hand, it is tempting to exercise extreme caution by taking an objective approach and sticking to “just the facts,” eschewing interpretation for […]

Paint: A Primer

Ah, interior paint. Just thinking about it, can you feel your blood pressure rising? When it comes to interiors, paint is probably the one thing I find many home owners fret over the most. I’m not sure why, exactly. There seems to be an overwhelming fear of choosing the “wrong” color, and this can prevent […]