Category Archives: Interior Design Tips

To Break the rules, it’s important to know them – here we do both!

How to find your style

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The best way to find your style is to identify what you like. Finding your style may be harder than you think! A reader wrote to me last week and asked me what a transitional Japanese style room might look … Continue reading →

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Inspiration

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Inspiration is the caveot of creation. Color and Home Trends serve as period-specific canons intended to inspire us to model after them to yes – make money – and aspire to a tasteful aesthetic….but Re-Do it Design is a blog … Continue reading →

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Color of The Year 2013

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The Color of The Year for 2013 has arrived as the New Year in Color has yet to even begin – which gives us a chance to put our heads together on incorporating the somber yet lush jewel tone of … Continue reading →

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Poinsettias! A Christmas Story

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Poinsettias first caught my eye in high school, under rather extraordinary circumstances. My parents made a decision completely out of character for them, casting off conservative, low-risk postures and packing my sister and I into a Volkswagen bug to drive … Continue reading →

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Life of Pi – Translating Inspiration to Design

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New ways to see to color always inspire and fill me with gratitude for the fact of living. Sometimes it’s important to take a few days off and hit the ground running with a fresh lens…and a fresh lens is … Continue reading →

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Color Trends 2013 – Pittsburgh Paint’s Ruth Ann Hanlon

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Color Trends 2013 are here and every trend-setting paint source has their exciting new interpretations of colors that will shape our view of the year  to come. A few weeks ago, Sarah at my favorite paint source invited me to … Continue reading →

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Velvet

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Velvet is the fabric of nobility. The origins of velvet may be traced to Baghdad during the rule of Harun al-Rashid introduced by merchants of  Kashmiri and to Al-Andalus by Ziryab. This is Wikapedia’s version, and my research has not … Continue reading →

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Hot Color – Cool Tones

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Hot Color and Cool tones are masters of confusion, leading us down slippery slopes of assumptions that leave our designs threads unconnected. We started a discussion of use of accent color yesterday. Today we use green (or yellow and white … Continue reading →

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Accent Color and Color Trends

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If Accent color is power – the greatest power lies in the use of the hottest colors. Accent color is the designer’s best and most persuasive weapon against color hesitation. Discretion with color can definitely the better part of design … Continue reading →

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The Color of Christmas

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The colors of Christmas abound – and yes – we just got done with Halloween! I have been working hard since All Hallow’s Eve on a less than stylish head cold. But prior to taking refuge in my fuzzy robe … Continue reading →

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