Updating or adding a powder room is an ideal way to add value and function to most homes. Typically small, powder rooms are ideal spaces for homeowners to personalize and use high-end materials. I like using images and objects from…
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Mottled Color Powder Room
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Collecting Art Abroad
Artist – Eduardo Santana Navarro Bring art home is great way to keep your important travel experiences alive. Look for original works of art and know how you are going to get the piece home… with you or shipped.…
Cuban Tobacco Farm – Function Over Form?
Post and beam tobacco drying barns are dotted throughout the agricultural region of Vinales in Cuba. The tobacco market is quite lucrative but building materials are scare. Decades of Cuban resourcefulness has resulted in a landscape filled with these simple…
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Start With The Art
Inspiration: Salvador Dali, Venice (Blue) Fine drawings are too easily lost in rooms with furnishings in heavy patterns and prints. Cleaner quality pieces enhance the feel this drawing evokes. The organic curve in the sofa connects beautifully with the…
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Auction Art
I very often find unique paintings from unknown artists at auctions and flea markets. Although the pieces are not priceless, they can be amazing jumping-off points for your design. This painting features both vibrant cool tones and an amazing sun…
Doubled Inspiration
“The Traveler” by Irene Hendrick was inspired by an old wartime photograph. She plucked this boy out of a line of children queued up waiting to be evacuated by train to the English countryside. The original painting hangs in my…
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