When decorating a great room, dining room, or home office, many people emphasize the room’s fireplace through furniture placement and forget all of the other design factors that are a crucial aspect for creating an eye-catching focal point within the room. To make a room impactful, it's important to position...
An important and often overlooked element to a completed design space is the artwork. Whether chosen at the end of the process, like an exclamation point at the end of a sentence, or used to build the entire design concept, artwork can elevate a design and transform a room into...
There is nothing I love more than fabulous art. I am addicted to all kinds and love depth and meaning in them…pieces that make you think or feel. I prefer to be moved on the left and right side of my brain to think, “Why?” and then care about the...
There is nothing I love more than fabulous art. I am addicted to all kinds and love depth and meaning in them...pieces that make you think or feel. I prefer to be moved on the left and right side of my brain to think, "Why?" and then care about the...
As an interior designer in Kansas City, it is so humbling to have our firm's work recognized. Thank you, KC Magazine once again. To follow is our bronze in the Living/Dining Room category. These wonderful clients had a living room space with an awkward floor plan. It was a long room with...
Anyone who knows me, knows I love art. I don't know what it is, but it stirs me all up. I have painted many pieces myself and loved it so. Because of that when I study a piece, I enjoy thinking about the artist and how they felt in...
First off, I have to apologize for not blogging in a month. I have been SWAMPED with work and am so thankful to all of you for so much great opportunities to make people's homes amazing right now. During that time, too...was the High Point Furniture and Accessory Market. What...
Being a designer, one of the things I crave in life is creativity, inspiration and joy from looking at beauty, art and design. You will find I talk quite a bit about art and will go to a museum any time I can...though that never seems to be near as...
More photos from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. The exhibit: The Poetics of Space. So interesting what each piece "says" about the people that live and breath there... (Please see the previous blog to this blog by scrolling down) Notice the position of the bed in the...
To follow: a series of shots I took of photographs at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The series is called The Poetics of Space and will be on display until March 15th, 2010. I urge you to visit! It is a fascinating group of pieces (among many more) that...
People ask me all the time about how to select art for their home. I have one answer, it must "move" you! I am not a big believer that art must "match" a room. One thing I love in a great interior design, is when art stands on it's own. It...
As much as I love the rich, warm and delicious colors of fall, I love the bold, striking and metallic colors of the winter season, too! So until we say, "Hello," to the festive colors of December, let's enjoy one last day in my favorite season of fall. So alas, I...
What can we say? We are fabulous, aren't we? I do love Kansas City and think this is a most flattering article published by Elle Decor. I enjoyed our local Patricia Shackelford's incredible ability to capture our cities graces and she did so by highlighting the best and brightest, yet not...
I cannot believe another High Point Furniture and Accessory Market has come and gone. This enormous, biannual international market is brimming with the latest and greatest from designers and companies around the world. It is what a runway show is for fashion, only it is for home fashion...and we do all...
LOVED Elle Decor's article on Kansas City. My clients, friends and I fully agree it is the fabulous and creative heart of our nation. What a pleasure to have such a gorgeous publication highlight it’s fine beauty, talent and history. It was a wonderfully written piece we can proudly add...
