Category Archives: Design Elements
A Guide to the Latest Interior Design Trends for Flooring in Your Home
When we were approached to host this guest blog, about one of our favorite topics, flooring, we jumped at the idea. Choosing the proper flooring from a functional and aesthetic point of view (always consider both!) is one of the … Continue reading
Peek Inside Celebrity Bathrooms
For some reason we like peering into the private lives of celebrities. Well, thanks to this guest post, you will have the opportunity to check out 10 master bathrooms of the stars!! Hopefully they will provide you with some inspiration to make over your very own bathroom this year and express your STAR power in your master bathroom! Continue reading
Filed under Bathroom Remodel, Design Elements, Interior Design, plumbing Fixtures
Dining Room Decor
Putting a dining room together is one of the most important steps when completing the layout of your home. After all, this is one of the most important rooms in your home! You will have romantic candlelit dinners and festive family get-togethers, tasty meals and perhaps even family game night all around your dining room table. Even though we are just through the holiday season of entertaining, having a functional and beautiful dining room is always important. Continue reading
Filed under Design Elements, Dining room, Interior Design, Lighitng, Redesign, Residential design
Multi-Function Rooms
In October I was contacted by a potential client with a unique design request. She is an accomplished artist; a painter of wild life, nature and domestic animals. She worked out of a room in her home that while large in dimension, was cluttered, dark and unorganized. Not so unique you might say. Here are the other details that earn it the UNIQUE title Continue reading
6 Eco-Friendly Options 4 The Office
I am pleased to share a wonderful blog post from a guest blogger Angela Taylor a blogger and aspiring designer. While there is a lot of information focusing on green/eco-friendly options for the home, this is a wonderful focused look at what we can do specifically for our home or small office spaces in that regard. Take a read and implement some of the great ideas! Continue reading
S Interior Design “Pawprint Design Services (TM)”
Today S Interior Design had a great opportunity to be the special guest on the weekly blog radio show-FURvently Speaking Great discussion about how we can have a fabulous looking, feeling and ‘smelling’ home even when we have one or … Continue reading
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Ask an interior designer about how to best use mirrors in your room designs and you are sure to get a lot of different responses. S Interior Design always tries to use mirrors when they can reflect a beautiful accessory … Continue reading
Optimizing Natural Light In Your Home
When I got asked if I would enjoy a guest blog post on the subject of Natural Light I immediately said YES! I am a firm believer in the power of light and how it impacts how a room looks and feels, and often say to my clients that we need to leverage natural lighting in our design work together. Of course living and working in perpetually sunny Arizona brings great options to work with natural light. So assess your home and see where you can install a Solar Tube or get rid of heavy window coverings and let in some of nature’s bounty—LIGHT. Continue reading
Filed under Artwork, Bedroom Design, Colorization, Design Elements, Dining room, DIY, Interior Design, Lighitng
It’s Time—–Your Home Needs a Make-over Today
Another guest blog post to share with you! An interesting point of view on the subject of when is the ‘right time’ to do some make-over work in your home. A lot of us procrastinate because we are over whelmed or even scared to make changes to our home environment. I am working with a client who read in her journal from January , 2010 about what she wanted to do to her space and had put off for over a 1 1/2.
Yes, she is a bit scared to finally start making the changes she has thought about for so long. I am guiding her and providing a design plan that she is comfortable with. So, don’t put it off any longer, dive in or slowly put a foot in the water. You may find out that if FEELS GOOD! Continue reading
