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Design Dilemma: At Home With Hippie Chic
After all those rigorously modern interiors with stark white walls and chrome coffee tables, we’ve found ourselves admiring a decidedly more freewheeling take on interior design. Hippie chic is just the antidote to the Eames chair. With design increasingly locked into a tight mid-Century mold, hippie chic remains colorful, bold, relaxed, and not so easily [...]
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Design Dilemma: Shedding Light on Bedside Illumination
One of the best ways to eliminate bedside clutter is to eliminate what may seem indispensable to most of us — a bedside table lamp. Of course, some kind of bedside light is necessary, but who says it has to be a space-hogging table lamp that routinely gets knocked aside each morning as you grope [...]
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Design Dilemma: Preparing Your Home for the Holidays
Are you ready yet? We hope so, because the long holiday party season is just getting started. Most of us can expect to have at least one party in our home, and many of us may have several ranging from an intimate tete-a-tete of two to a gigantic blow-out holiday bash of hundreds. The problem [...]
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Design Dilemma: How to Choose Shutters
Let’s face it, curtains have always felt a bit fussy. All that cloth… well, think grandma’s front parlor. These days many of us are looking for more streamlined options. This could mean blinds or shades, but when we want something more substantial, shutters come to mind. Not only do shutters provide privacy, but they can [...]
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Design Dilemma: How to Start An Art Collection
There are a lot of people who have missed the point about art. So what’s the point? Aside from the ability to transform minds and hearts, art also has the power to totally transform interiors. Just an “okay” space can become spectacularly fabulous with just a few well-chosen pieces of art. If you’ve ever been [...]


