"Home Love" Interior Design Blog
Designing with Bold Color
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but Benjamin Moore’s color of the year is Caliente. It is a spicy red with warm, orange tones and it is very bold. It looks like the design world is making a push towards warm tones this year, so I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of red and...
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Holiday Favorites
Here are some of my favorite holiday decorating and entertaining photos from Houzz.com I love the rustic simplicity of this design. Note that the holiday decor coordinates with the decor of the house, making it feel seamless and integrated. Photo by Piccadilly Design...
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A Personal Take on “Home for the Holidays”
There is something so comforting about home around the holidays. I love the tradition of pulling out all of the holiday decorations and giving the entire home that festive, decorated feeling. In my family, we typically wake up early on the first Saturday after...
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Designing for Entertaining
There is an art to entertaining. I believe that the key ingredient to being an effective entertainer is loving the home you are entertaining in. If you love your space, if it’s reflective of who you are as a person and as a family, if it feels amazing to you and makes...
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Holiday Entertaining? Be Our VIP!
Is your house entertaining-ready? Olamar is offering a promotion on our VIP Day service to help you get your house show-off ready. Normally $1750, book a VIP Day session with Paola in the next 2 weeks for November or December and pay only $1500. Call (571) 239-8845...
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Small Space, Big Function, Bigger Style
A small kitchen gets a major upgrade Living in Northern Virginia can often mean living in small spaces that are often outdated and dysfunctional. These clients came to us with a very common dilemma. Their kitchen was tiny and lacked functional storage for everyday...
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Trends from High Point Furniture Market
If you follow me on social media you would have noticed that this month my team had the opportunity to go to High Point Furniture Market. If you don’t know what furniture market is, let me tell you, if you are a designer or design enthusiast, it’s like being a kid in...
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Home Love
As I immerse myself in all things design this week at High Point Furniture Market, I can't help but be reminded of the reasons I got into this business eleven years ago. I absolutely love beautiful things. But it's not just that, it's not things for the...
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Layering with Light
We recently finally completed a photo shoot at a project we actually completed a couple of years ago, a West Virginia weekend mountain home, and it brought back so many good memories. These wonderful clients and their two amazing pups, were such a pleasure...
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Just For You: Custom Built-Ins
If you have specific storage and design needs and haven't found "off-the-shelf" solutions, you are probably familiar with the flexibility that custom built-in storage can provide. We have been working with our amazing woodworker Ben at Ark Woodworking for...
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