With it’s mostly neutral palette and simple silhouettes, the Contemporary Casual style is easy to blend alongside a variety of other décor styles throughout your home. While there’s plenty of room to play with pattern and color alongside these pieces, we think they work wonderfully alongside highly textured natural finishes like grasscloth wallpaper, or applied wall finishes such as clay, plaster, or concrete.

With it’s mostly neutral palette and simple silhouettes, the Contemporary Casual style is easy to blend alongside a variety of other décor styles throughout your home. While there’s plenty of room to play with pattern and color alongside these pieces, we think they work wonderfully alongside highly textured natural finishes like grasscloth wallpaper, or applied wall finishes such as clay, plaster, or concrete.

With fun pieces drawing inspiration from the curved silhouettes of the 1980’s, this bedroom collection is equal parts earthy and refined, with a stylish yet liveable “modern retro” vibe.

Now that the hectic holiday season has passed, I’ve recharged my batteries just enough that I’m getting the itch to clear out the cozy and lighten things up! Sound about right for you, too? To help you “spring” into the season, we’ve rounded up our of must-have décor to refresh your environment and reinvigorate your life — let’s take a peek!

Inspired by nature, evoking a sense of vitality and newness, a plethora of greens have appeared on the rosters of some of the our favorite names in paint. With shades ranging from the gentle and serene to the more vibrant and invigorating, there’s truly a flavor for every taste in this viridescent collection!

We believe that good design is about so much more than fabrics, paints, furniture, and décor. It's about living well, and intentionally carving out some space for the things that bring you joy — big or small! This year, we launched a "12 Days of Design" campaign leading up to the main event in hopes that we might interrupt some the chaos of the season by bringing a little beauty and clarity to each of you.

Although we’ve still got a few new things up our sleeve to wrap things up for the year, we first wanted to take a moment to share a “best of the blog” year-in-review. To make the cut, the following six posts were either “fan favorites” that generated the most blog traffic over the last twelve months, OR were simply ones that we really enjoyed writing for you.

If you ask us, there’s no better gift than seeing the look on someone’s face when they open the beautifully wrapped box you just handed them. And we’re talking good ol’ fashioned, face-to-face joy! No offense to Zoom — but that’s simply not the kind of gift-giving moment Buddy the Elf would want for any of us.

Want to know which tools and supplies it takes for me to get the job done right? It varies slightly depending on what I’ve got scheduled, but here’s a quick sneak peek at what might be inside my bag(s) on any given day!

As an interior designer and an unabashed homebody, there’s something oddly satisfying about this time of year. We care less about chasing endless sunny days and gradually make our retreat back to the great INdoors — my happy place.

Now that the world is starting to open back up, we’ve been getting the itch to travel again! How about you? To help you plan your next trip — or maybe just to encourage a little bit of daydreaming — we’ve rounded up a list of ten of the most swoon-worthy boutique hotels in some of our favorite destination cities across the globe.

When it comes to a home design project, there’s nothing quite as exciting — or as daunting — as tackling a kitchen. And after almost ten years in the business, with just about as many kitchen projects now under my belt, I’ve learned a thing or two about what it takes to make this central hub of any home as functional as it is beautiful.

As someone who primarily focuses on interiors, it always feels like a rare and special treat when my design work has the opportunity to spill across the threshold to the exterior of a client’s home. These projects are most often focused on things like patios and pool rooms, but today I get to share a fun before and after for a completely different type of project — a new porch addition!

A few weeks back, we hosted a fun “Ask Me Anything” through our Instagram stories (Currently saved in our "Fun Stuff” highlight reel in case you’d like to take a look!) where we got to answer many of your questions on topics ranging from paint colors to mixing patterns. As expected there were a few repeat questions, and it got us thinking about the handful of questions Interior Designers always seem to get.

Even if April in Pittsburgh can be a little bit dicey, we can take solace in knowing that warmer temps and sunnier skies are right around the corner. That means it’s time for the great indoors to finally spill back out into the great outdoors as we reclaim our dormant yard space from Mother Nature!

I’m sure you’ve heard it mentioned before that kitchens and bathrooms have some of the greatest impacts on a home’s resale value, and that’s for several reasons.  For one thing, you spend a ton of time in these rooms. They need to be as functional as they are beautiful. Second, they are anything BUT evergreen, meaning our collective design tastes and styles are more likely to change faster than the actual hard materials and fixtures in place degrade and need to be updated. 

In this age of online discount codes, two-day delivery, and instant gratification we’re all more than a little suspicious when it comes to paying the full sticker value for just about anything. I mean, there’s a reason the “S” in “MSRP” stands for “suggested,” right? Now don’t get me wrong — I love a bargain as much as the next gal, but my time and experience in this industry have taught me there’s a painful amount of truth packed into the old phrase “You get what you pay for.” 

We grow up with books. Beginning with picture books, we advance to textbooks, then move on to a wide variety of books we read for pleasure. One thing that never goes out of style is a great coffee table book!  

If I had to rattle off 10 or so items I’m always on the lookout for as far as home decor accessories go these would be my top picks. Whether I’m looking for a client, or just browsing for myself, these are the items I tend to gravitate towards when I’m styling a home or an individual room.