I could wrap anything in fabric. It’s my favorite aspect of design, to think up clever new uses for textiles.
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I’m a bit of a product junkie. I love tools that do the job efficiently and make life more satisfying in the process.
We understand. We get lots of calls from homeowners eager for us to solve this very problem. It’s overwhelming, but we’re going to break it down into some simple steps to guide you on your way.
You might be thinking, “What?! You design interiors for a living, how can you dislike styling?”
Generally, I don’t care for anything that comes off as forced or deliberate. The exercise of filling a space with objet d’art , tchotchkes, bric-a-brac, knick-knacks completely stresses my brain out …
Lighting your walls to highlight artwork or other features may seem easy at first, but there is a right and wrong way to do it. People ask me: “Craig, what is the most important feature upgrades you can make in your home to result in the maximum impact? It’s lighting, hands-down. Somehow we become easily accustomed to […]
Think it might be time to freshen things up a bit? Put less delicately, if you haven’t managed to toss to the curb your console television from 1977 or still clinging to your spider plant jungle, it could be time. I know, we all get stuck in a rut. If you’re even mildly a design enthusiast, you likely spend […]
This picture has become one of our most popular photos to date. It’s often featured in many blog entries and added to over 24,000 ideabooks on Houzz. It’s also one of the simplest, which is probably why it attracts so much attention. Before its renovation, the room stood alone and adjacent to the decades-old kitchen. It had […]
Yes, you read that correctly. I love making the bed. It brings a certain calmness and order to the impending randomness we face each day. For me, the benefit is two-fold (ha!): Transform a quotidian task into a styling exercise and reaping the night-time reward of diving into a cloud of warm, fluffy bedding. Well you might ask […]
Clients can’t visualize the way I can. There it is, that’s the gist of what I offer to the world. That and eliminating the burden of choice (but that’s another topic I’ll cover). I myself have a difficult time reading my own (necessary) two dimensional floor plans and elevations! The design process is lengthy and involves pulling […]
We get this question a lot. It’s a long (but compelling) story. Rewind back to 1999; the internet of things was new, fresh and somewhat like the Wild West of e-commerce. An earnest architect named Richard Baiano decided, after years of studying architecture, that he would reflect heavily upon his younger years at Syracuse University. In particular when […]