Watch Sherri on The Cake Boss Baby Special!
I don’t know about yours, but our family (especially our 10-year-old daughter) is in love with The Cake Boss. Buddy and his passionate fondant-rolling, frosting-piping New Jersey clan have us riveted, hungry and chuckling every week.
So as you can imagine, we were over-the-moon excited to learn that our own Nursery and Kid’s Room Design Contributor, Sherri Blum, [...] Read more »
by Sherri Blum
Here’s the latest decor forecast for the little ones’ rooms, from our Nursery and Kids Room Design Expert and Contributor, Sherri Blum. A pioneer specialist for children’s-room interior design, Sherri designs for celebrities, and for the baby next door.
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Happy New Year! Besides recovering from the holiday madness festivities, the beginning of each year usually means I’ll be interviewed by several Web sites, [...] Read more »
by Leona Gaita
Today from New York, Leona Gaita—Interior Design Expert and Contributor—visits a tradition in design and fundraising. Leona shares with us her inspiring ideas and advice, to help us enrich our homes and lives with beauty and elegance.
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Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2010—a fundraiser for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, and this year a fall event—is chock full of original and inspiring [...] Read more »
Is it possible to discover the true you, with a new bedroom design?
Interior Designer Kristi Dinner helped her client do just that.
Photographs by Emily Minton-Redfield
The Denver, Colorado designer considers listening the most important thing an interior designer can do.
Dinner—who spent several years in Hollywood doing set design for ‘pretend’ homeowners—appreciates creating a space for the real thing. “We would get so much information, [...] Read more »
by Leona Gaita
Today from New York, Leona Gaita talks fashion and interiors. Leona—Interior Design Expert and Contributor—shares her inspiring ideas and advice, to help us enrich our homes and lives with beauty and elegance.
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Fashions from Costello Tagliapietra, Cynthia Steffe, Ports 1961.
Fashion Week, New York just flew through town. One of the strongest impressions left behind, coming from most of the major design houses, was [...] Read more »
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Fabricon September 27th, 2010
by Sherri Blum
Today our Nursery and Kids Room Design Expert and Contributor, Sherri Blum introduces us to one of her peers. A pioneer specialist for children’s-room interior design, Sherri designs for celebrities, and for the baby next door.
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New Girl Nursery Bedding from Katy Mimari’s Caden Lane
As a children’s interior designer and product designer, I have the opportunity to meet some smart, creative, witty and all [...] Read more »
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Kidson August 31st, 2010
Good designers are onto it.
An unexpected element can make a room. Like a corrugated-steel barn door in a
dining room.
“I love them because they are textural and sculptural and unexpected…perhaps three important design concepts I incorporate in all my projects,” said New York designer Gail Shields-Miller, on her design for a Fire Island dining room and kitchen.
“It was a costly choice but undoubtedly the right [...] Read more »
E. Pearce Revisited
Designers often turn to history for inspiration. But rather than looking to reproduce past works, what if instead we interpret, using technologies that are completely current? Extraordinary design can result.
Case in point? This staircase that design firm, workshop/apd created for its contemporary update of a modern Tribeca loft.
The work pays homage to this Baroque staircase attributed to 17th century English master Edmund [...] Read more »
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Inspirationon August 25th, 2010
Designer DIY
by Mari Robeson
Design Junkies, we are in for a treat! Today, designer Mari Robeson joins us as Interior Design expert and Contributor. I am thrilled with the colorful and creative stories Mari has planned for us, about what we’ll learn from her, and how inspired we’ll be. Learn more about Mari at her Web site.
Photographs by Jenny Malott
Have you ever planned a room and [...] Read more »
This master suite’s bathroom glows with confident femininity and elegance.
Photographs by Margot Hartford. (Click on the photos for more detail.)
As I shared in Part I of the Master Retreat story, Jo Ann Hartley and Jennifer Hershon started this master bath design with an innovative material. The designers chose Caesarstone’s new Motivo in the ‘Lace’ pattern (detail right) for the shower surround and vanity tops. [...] Read more »
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Inspirationon August 9th, 2010
I crammed my notebook page with blissful scribbles.
- Tailored yet Zen
- Latte and cream
- Delish fixtures
Photographs by Margot Hartford. (Click on the photos for more detail.)
As I toured Hershon Hartley Design’s Master Suite at this year’s Marin Designers Showcase, I kept whispering to myself, “Wow.”
The spaces were calming and captivating at the same time. It was a retreat in the true [...] Read more »
Designing and remaking upholstered furniture, and combining it well in a space, is an art.
Designer Heather Hilliard is brilliant at it, as evidenced by her living room design for this year’s Marin Designer’s Showcase.
Photographs by Michele Lee Willson Photography
A classical room with grand proportions, Hilliard wanted it to feel “luxurious and refined but understated” and to function well for both formal entertaining and casual [...] Read more »
By Angela Min
Today our new Kitchen and Bath Design Expert and Contributor—Angela Min—joins us! Happily, the pencil is being tossed only over the kitchen island, as Angela is taking over writing duties for her design co-conspirator at The Kitchen Designer, Susan Serra, CKD.
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Breakfast rooms are often the afterthought of the kitchen, a “leftover” space often neglected by both homeowners and designers alike. But what a [...] Read more »
Small spaces in our homes are often treated like afterthoughts. Not so for this dressing room and bath worthy of an up-and-coming fashionista. These were favorites of the spaces we saw at this year’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase.
Photographs by David Duncan Livingston
We loved how the designers—George Brazil and Cecilia Sagrera of SagreraBrazilDesign—brought light and a soft, fresh color scheme into the space. And we were [...] Read more »
…Her Wallpapers, Divine Design & The Future
by Sherri Blum
This week, our Nursery and Kids Room Design Expert and Contributor—Sherri Blum—got to meet someone she really looks up to (literally and figuratively). She shares her visit
with us.
I had the distinctive honor of meeting the one and only Candice Olson of Divine Design this week! I can’t even begin to express how great it was to meet [...] Read more »
