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Future-Proof Your Home with These Design Tips for Aging-in-Place
Today, more Americans than ever are interested in aging-in-place, whether that means making renovations to their current home, finding a home that is wheelchair-accessible, or building a new home.
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What Does It Mean to Build Healthy and ‘Green’?
The terms “green building,” “sustainability,” and “healthy building” have been at the forefront of our society in recent years and are directly related to one another in the context of building and remodeling homes.
Professionals Tout Sustainable Home options
From the home building process to interior design, homebuyers have plenty of options for considering sustainability.
Heat Wave Have You Wanting a Pool? Consider These 4 Design Tips
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to watch pool trends come and go and help choose pool shapes, finishes, and pool furniture for my clients. Here are some things I’ve learned about pools during my career as an interior designer.
Getting The Most Out of Outdoor Spaces Takes Proper Planning
When thinking about turning your backyard into an outdoor oasis, here are a few ideas to consider before you start calling contractors.
Four-Step Checklist for Choosing the Best Hardwood Floors
Hardwood is the preferred choice for flooring among designers and homeowners alike.
6-Step Checklist for Making Your Next Outdoor Party a Success
An outdoor party takes a little more planning than an indoor one. Here are some of my tips for ensuring everyone has a great time at your next barbecue, cocktail hour, or pool party.
Vacation Home Design: Three Tips for Creating the Ultimate Getaway
If you’re like many urbanites, you’ve always dreamed of having another place to escape to, such as a mountain cabin, lake house, or beach house.
Dallas Author Whitman’s Latest Book Celebrates Family Traditions
When Dallas-based Kimberly Schlegel Whitman and interior designer Shelley Johnstone Paschke first landed on the idea of creating a book celebrating family traditions, they didn’t know that a pandemic would turn the act of gathering into something rather dear.
Hardware 101: Choosing Styles, Shapes, and Finishes
Hardware is something that you’ll be looking at and putting your hands on every day, so it needs to be both stylish and comfortable to use.
Bring Warmth, Beauty to Your Home With These Fireplace Design Tips
When it comes to fireplaces, there are many options out there. How do you decide which one is best for your home?
How to Use Collections to Personalize Your Home
Collections are so important to interior design that I can’t help but be surprised when I meet a client who doesn’t collect anything.
Feeling Very Peri
Pantone’s Color of the Year could leave you blue, but in a good way.
Don’t Let Your Kitchen Backsplash Be a Missed Opportunity
Even though backsplashes can make great focal points, many people save picking their backsplash tiles for last.
Careful Use of Antiques Can Add Charm Without Dating a Home
There are many reasons to love antiques. They bring their decades, or even centuries, of history into your home.
Interior Designer John Phifer Marrs Sees Collecting as Décor
John Phifer Marrs learned the joy of having beautiful things from his grandmother and turned that passion into a career in interior design and, more recently, writing.
House of the Month: 5335 Meaders Lane
Designed by noted architect Elby Martin and punctuated with Tuscan-inspired touches, this stone-clad estate home with an Italian barrel tile roof sits on a 1.1-acre site in Old Preston Hollow.
A Designer’s Guide to Selecting the Best Tiles for Your Bathroom
One of the reasons choosing tiles for your bathroom can be so tricky is that there are many options, but not all of them will still look current in a few years.
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Industry professionals: Even in a busy market, homebuyers want to fall in love
Try These Four Pointers for Teenage Bedroom Design
Designing a teenage bedroom can be an interesting challenge.
Thankfully, there are some general guidelines you can keep in mind that could apply to any teenage bedroom.
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