Browsing Category: "Dining Room"
When it comes to the best-dressed rooms this winter, it’s simply a case of Annie Hall comes home. Not since the famed Woody Allen movie, in which Diane Keaton took menswear and added a feminine twist, have we seen such an invasion of decidedly masculine style. This time around, though, it’s in appearance for the home. Read the rest of this entry »
Our family includes three children under the age of four who love to run their hands along the wall. We do live in the living room, so a television and stereo are necessary. I would like to decorate in a country modern theme and the colors I like are peach, green, beige and brown combinations. There is beige wall-to-wall carpet throughout which has to remain. Read the rest of this entry »
The official designation is dining room, but like others living in small spaces who want to expand activities into a seldom-used area, architect Dick Crandall has made it a multi-purpose room. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, I’ve collected a few of the funny things that come up again and again in my profession. Interior design is curiously intimate. It takes you into people’s most private spaces. If you’re a good listener, you hear what their desires, dreams and insecurities really are. I might know more about some of my clients than their doctors ever hear. (Of course, on the really good stuff, my lips are sealed.) Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re able to round up the family to sit down at meals, you’re unusual, highly unusual. In this era of working moms as well as dads, and kids with all sorts of activities that they positively must participate in, it’s a rare treat to have everyone in a single place at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »