I love to keep my projects looking fresh and unique, so I am always looking for great new products – from furniture, to accessories, to textiles.  And there is no better place to find them than at High Point Market!  I was in High Point in April for a three-day whirlwind of shopping and schmoozing, [...]

I think I saw snowflakes over the weekend, and I am so done with winter!  But I am not letting a few flakes cloud my summery mood!  I am fully engaged in a few beach house projects right now and am loving the escape that this design process is giving me from what has been [...]

I am currently designing a beach-front house in an area that was fortunately and miraculously untouched by Hurricane Sandy.  But even so, the design of this house is now very much affected by the hurricane.  My client is wary of future natural disasters and she wants to decorate the house with this in mind. This [...]

I just spent the most fabulous week in Paris as the guest of Edward Ferrell-Lewis Mittman, one of my favorite furniture vendors. They are not one of my favorites just because they wined and dined me in Paris for the second year in a row!  Their top-notch customer service, continually expanding lines, and fast delivery [...]

I hate turkey, especially when it’s sitting all naked and exposed on the kitchen counter before it’s been cooked!  But my poultry-revulsion aside, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the entire year.  And I’m sad that I have to wait another 50 weeks for this holiday to come along again.  While my designs are rarely [...]

I came across the SWEETEST photo the other day when I was browsing through a friend’s Pinterest account. This cake is a delicious representation of a color palette I happen to be working with for two sisters’ bedrooms.  When I started putting color schemes together for these rooms, my client said that whatever colors we [...]

I was ecstatic when I discovered that my favorite tea store Teavana had finally opened on the Upper East Side in NYC.  After only being able to get their teas on trips to the Mall — which I swear I rarely make!!! –, it was like seeing a mirage when I noticed them on Lexington [...]