Improving Your Trend Game, Part I

Trends are useful. They help pull into focus new ideas that have been glittering around…

Cocktail Culture

Imagine getting together at the end of the day (or before the end of the…

Outdoor Decorating Illustrated

  Intoxicatingly boundless blue sky overhead. The sun’s rays giving life to playful shadows and gently warming the skin. The faintest whisper of a tantalizingly soft breeze… When the outdoor season beckons,…

How to Hang a Wall Gallery (Without Heartbreak)

As with all things in life, there’s the instinctive way to hang a collage of artworks as a stunning wall gallery (“Look, I’m pounding nails and throwing things on the wall! Hope…

Why Big Art is Big

There are times when the sheer impact capacity of a piece of art with broader dimensions gives you more range to reinvent your space, and completely update a room. The way big,…

Creating an expressive room

Creating an expressive room is important, because the idea of home should be about expressing yourself. The point of using indoor décor accents to find ways to represent who you are. That’s…

For Fun: Mirror Feng Shui

According to Greek mythology, a river with a very reflective surface got Narcissus, the handsome son of a god and a nymph, into a lot of trouble. He fell in love with…

The Secret Lives of Chairs

When we create a fabulous accent chair, we design it impeccably. We choose the perfect upholstering material and kiln-dried hardwood, and mix in some attitude. It is, after all, a Grandin Road…