"Home Love" Interior Design Blog
Designing Healthy Interiors
Design has the amazing ability to affect our physical and mental wellbeing. Just ask anyone who got through 2020 in a less-than-ideal living situation! Designing and building healthy spaces is even encouraged by the CDC, who deems the interaction between people and...
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10 Home Updates You Should Consider in 2021
This year, we’ve all been forced to look long and hard at the ways our home serves us, and the ways it does not. It’s no surprise that as the relationship with our living spaces has changed, more people are looking to improve the functionality and comfort of their...
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How to Make a Smaller Thanksgiving Feel Just as Big
Thanksgiving this year is not going to look like any we can remember. But that doesn’t mean it can’t feel festive! Decorating can go a long way towards making Thanksgiving feel like an occasion, even if it does look different this year. How? I think we should take...
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Why Buying American-Made Furniture is Worth It
I’ve had more and more clients lately get excited about sourcing affordable home furniture overseas. If they can save money on that part of their renovation or redesign, they think, then they can splurge somewhere else. I get it! But, while I’m all for saving money...
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Transform Your Home Into Your Favorite Vacation Destination
As inviting and comfortable as you’ve made your home, a change of scenery once in a while is still necessary, especially during vacation season. If a getaway is not in the cards for you this summer, there are some simple design tricks you can use to prepare your home...
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A Parent’s Guide for Setting Up a Homeschool Space
Interior design is about creating inviting spaces that family and friends will love spending time in. It’s an endeavor best tackled when you have ample time for planning and as little stress as possible. That is, the opposite of a global pandemic. Still, as any good...
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Working From Home? Home Office Design Tips for Function and Comfort
With most of the world stuck inside and required to work from home, many of us have been forced to get creative in order to balance our careers and our home lives. Working from home for the first time presents a whole new host of challenges: kids walking in on video...
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5 Simple Tips for Creating Fun and Functional Children’s Rooms
5 Simple Tips for Creating Fun and Functional Children’s Rooms Remember when you first decorated your baby’s nursery, when you could choose any style and color you wished to prepare that special room for your special little one? Well, now that baby is growing up,...
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Achieving that Modern Farmhouse Look – Part III
Sorry to leave you hanging. Things have been so busy at our offices. But I wanted to circle back and give you the final pictures and thoughts on achieving that modern farmhouse look. We have not begun the furnishing process, for several reasons out of our and the...
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Achieving That Modern Farm House Look – PART II, Selecting Finishes – An Inside Look at Our Purcellville Project
The process of choosing finishes for this particular modern farmhouse design, I have to admit, was beyond fun. I knew these clients were going to allow me to do some unique things in order to incorporate the "modern" into this modern farmhouse design. I set out to...
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