Palette shopping? How about an afternoon at your local museum.... On a recent visit to Washington DC, I enjoyed an afternoon at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, visiting one of my favorite paintings, The People of Chilmark by Thomas Hart Benton. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘paint’
August 3rd, 2010 - 1:59 pm § in Color
White Paint: Choosing the Right White
Who would have thought that we would need a Best Seller list for the many shades of white? Merriam-Webster defines white as being "free from color", pure white that is. Whites can have a warm or cool [...]
Back Splash – The Heart of the Kitchen
It took me a long time to decide on our back splash. It was a great lesson for me. I have since designed many back splashes[...]
June 26th, 2010 - 7:53 pm § in Architecture, Color, Draperies, Floors, Furniture, Layouts, Lighting, Walls
Balancing Act
You don't have to be a professional designer to know if a room projects the qualities of balance and harmony. You can feel it intuitively. People naturally enjoy balance and harmony, it is comfortable[...]
Remodeling the Kitchen and Bath with a Green Mindset
In our recent article, The Three R’s of a Remodel we mentioned that to remodel is to rethink, reconfigure and restyle. All of which do contain the essence of a green mindset. How do we take that a few steps further with the intention of true sustainability? To do so would re[...]