Home sweet home.
I'm excited to present a post from one of my favorite sites, ShelterPop! Feeling frazzled from work even after you walk in your front door? That's no good. Six designers tell us how to make your home a stress-free zone. We've already explored how your home can make you look younger and help you wake up early. Now, we're putting it to work again. We reached out to the New York Design Center's Read more
Six weeks is the blink of an eye when it comes to completing an interior design project, yet that was the time frame allotted for SFA Design when they redesigned a second home for the family of an international ambassador. Founder of SFA Design, Sue Firestone, told us that the quick turnaround was an absolute must. "We had a short time frame to complete the design and installation as the family Read more
A former art teacher always told me to take breaks while painting a colorful piece to gaze at the color green. Even the most vibrant greens seem to have an immediate calming effect. It's certainly a refreshing shade, which surprisingly, does help to cleanse the visual palette. I still apply the theory to other art forms; specifically, interior design. While drenching a room in green might not Read more
What do you do when you want to establish a home closer to your kids, but you don't want to deal with the maintenance of an actual house? You move into the Four Seasons, of course! Retired and anxious to leave Hong Kong to enjoy a life closer to their children and grandchildren, this couple decided to settle into a condominium in San Francisco's Four Seasons Private Residences. With a vision of Read more
Yesterday, I shared a sneak peek of Courteney Cox's beautiful new home, which will be featured in the July/August issue of Elle Decor. The home was designed by Courteney's good friend Trip Haenisch, and Courteney was personally involved in every step of the redesign. Trip took a few moments out of his busy schedule recently to chat with me about what it was like to design her home. Take a look Read more
Melanie Brown's pop star days are a thing of the past, and the nursery she just created for her lil one proves it. Prior to the birth of baby Madison earlier this month, the former Spice Girl (aka Scary Spice) and her husband Stephen Belafonte turned to LA's Little Crown Interiors — the same firm Laila Ali worked with — to design a quiet sanctuary from the chaos of daily life with Mel B's two Read more
The following is a story from our friends at one of our favorite shopping sources, Lucky magazine!If you’ve been fortunate enough to spend time in the Bahamas, you’ve probably made it into Harbour Island’s The Sugar Mill. Owned by author-model-designer India Hicks (who also happens to be the daughter of famed interior decorator David Hicks and granddaughter of the Earl and Countess Read more
