"Home Love" Interior Design Blog
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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Achieving That Modern Farm House Look – An Inside Look at Our Purcellville Project
Approximately eight months ago we received a phone call from a very energetic gentleman in search of the perfect interior designer to assist him and his husband with the design or their newly purchased home in Purcellville, VA. They knew that they wanted the home to...
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Incorporating Your Travel Into Your Interior Design
I am often asked by my clients what the best way is to incorporate photos and memorabilia from their family vacations. And what better way to relive those amazing moments often, than by giving them a special place within your interior design? Inevitably, my answer...
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Mother Nature is the Best Designer
I recently had the privilege of visiting St. John on a family vacation. And it was truly nothing short of breathtaking. The beaches, the color of the ocean, the colorful homes and cobblestone streets and the beautiful people all helped to make the vacation truly...
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Why Interior Design Is So Important To Me…
I was driving home today after a long day of client meetings, installation appointments and networking events, thinking to myself, "gosh, I can't wait to get home." I happened to manage a couple of minutes to stop by Michaels to pick up some frames for my son's...
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Great Room Challenges: Two-Story Entryways
We’ve been doing a lot of talking about open-concept homes and great rooms. We have seen a lot of homes with two-story or large entryways that open up into other rooms, such as family rooms, living room and dining rooms. We are often challenged by our clients to...
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Great Room Challenges: Part II
We are often asked to design great rooms or sections of great rooms, always with the challenge of tying them together and making sure they are very functional for the families living in them. One of the biggest challenges we face is dealing with the two-story family...
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