Topic Archives: Design Tips

Six ideas to create an outdoor living space you can use all summer long plus our favorite outdoor furniture and accessories.

Homeowners love open floor plans but the lack of walls delineating space usually makes furniture layout and decorating a bit more challenging – lucky for you, we love a good challenge. Second to the paint color on the walls, an area rug is going to take up the most visual real estate in a room. That’s a lot of pressure to get it right – we have created a list of our favorite tips and tricks to help you create visually interesting area rug combinations. The key to mixing area rugs is balance, a balance between textures, color, pattern and scale.

Here are the trends that we see becoming popular in 2020. Our list comes from a mix of research and observation. We took inventory of what we see on top social media posts, design magazine and popular blogs. A lot of the home magazines and design websites interview interior designers from around the country and ask them what they think the trends will be – we took notice when multiple designers had the same predictions. We also combed through several trend reports from various marketing, design and creative outlets.

Moving is a unique combination of exciting and stressful – there’s a lot to do, but at the end of it all, you’re in a new place to call your own. However, it’s easy to shift the balance toward more stress than necessary. Here are a few common moving day mistakes people make and how to avoid them.

Follow our step by step instructions to create a beautiful gallery wall in your home.

We know finding the right white paint color can be a daunting task, so we’re sharing five of our favorite white paint colors to make the selection process a little easier.