Interior Details
Bringing Your Home’s Surfaces to the Forefront
Show Off Your Style With These Sinks, Veneers, Floors And Kitchen Islands The large surfaces of your home – such as sinks, floors, kitchen islands, fireplace surrounds and walls – play a major part in setting the tone of its style and beauty. Because of the size involved, the materials may be a big investment […]
NKBA Chooses Winning Bath Designs for 2018
Big style for the smallest room The National Kitchen + Bath Association (NKBA) has awarded 27 outstanding professional designers in its 2018 Design Competition. As the NKBA notes, the winning designs offer homeowners plenty of remodeling inspiration and are a way to see those design elements that never go out of style, along with the […]
NKBA Chooses Winning Kitchen Designs for 2018
Eye-Catching Aesthetics Combine With Functionality To Meet Clients’ Needs The National Kitchen + Bath Association (NKBA) has awarded 27 outstanding professional designers in its 2018 Design Competition. This year’s winners honor kitchens and bathrooms that “deftly combine eye-catching aesthetics with purposeful functionality to meet the needs of a diverse range of clients. They’re also proof […]
Achieving Enlightenment
Top Trends In Interior Lighting Design For 2018 Let Your Light Shine By Cheryl Alexander If any one feature in your home can make it look drab and outdated, it is the lighting. Old fixtures, out-of-style chandeliers and boring lamps can detract from the beauty of any space. The good news is that changing out […]
Latest Furniture Trends Bring Flair to Our Homes
Design And Composition Can Accentuate Your Style Those who are in the know about the latest furniture trends have predicted good news: a range of options are available to transform your home in these days of warmth and sunshine. Overall, designers tell us to focus on our personal style and flair for composition when arranging furniture […]
Royal Building Products Bring Beauty to Homes with Interior Trim and Moulding
Complement Your Décor With New Interior Trim Products If ceilings, walls and hallways could only talk. Well, now they can. In the lexicon of design – texture, color, dimension and scale – the interior of your home speaks volumes. How can you get them to speak your language in the most beautiful possible way? Start […]
Spring Furniture Trends Bring Color and Composition
Add New Pieces To Accentuate Your Style Across a spectrum of print, web and television media, trend spotters are bringing forth the best in spring furniture fashions to transform your home in the coming days of warmth and sunshine. These prognosticators have a range of options to brighten your home. One message is clear from […]
Reclaiming Homes, Reclaiming Lives
Sugar Land Home and Garden Show welcomes star of Texas Flip n’ Move, Catrina Kidd By Mara Soloway Catrina Kidd has an obvious flair for construction project planning and management. The Weatherford, Texas resident is a successful entrepreneur and construction business owner with a history of impressive projects. She is teamed up with Casey Hester […]
Home Furnishings Continue to Hit a High Point
Fabulous seating complements other great pieces We’re finding it quite amazing how the noble, utilitarian chair now has so many variations on its theme, including as an art piece with great shapes and fabrics that run the gamut of subdued to colorful big prints. To mix with all the innovative seating we’re featuring here, we’ve […]
Home Furnishings Hit a High Point
Textures, Illumination And Fabulous Seating Abound The Fall Trendsetter Report from High Point Market is a wonderful overview of what’s in vogue in the world of home furnishings and accessories. We were inspired by its creative compilations of predictions and so have combined some from the Report with ideas of others in the know about […]
Walls Gone Wild
High-Impact Wallpaper Trends By Cheryl Alexander From floral to fauna, from bold to demure, from tropical to traditional, this season wallpapers are wild with prints, textures and colors. Whether your home makeover involves an entire room or a tiny nook, we’ve compiled some cool new concepts for you to consider. NATURE-INSPIRED WALLPAPER Whether your […]
Walls That Talk
Tile Statements That Say Everything About Your Style By Cheryl Alexander Choosing the right wall tiles for your home just got easier and a lot more fun. Though the choices are plenty, don’t be overwhelmed. Quit wondering whether to play it safe or take a risk in your design. Let 2017 be the year that […]
Outstanding Bath Designers Show off Their Talents
Winning Baths And Powder Rooms Make A Splash At NKBA The winners of this year’s National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competition demonstrated a flow of imaginative design solutions. Seven individuals were honored across the powder room and bath categories in the 2017 NKBA Design Competitions. Entries were judged based on the core areas […]
Beauty and Function Meet in Winning Kitchen Designs
Annual NKBA Competition Honors Outstanding Professional Designers More than 20 individuals were honored across six main kitchen and bath categories and six specialty categories in the 2017 NKBA Design Competitions. Entries were judged based on the core areas of safety and ergonomics, elements and principles of design, design planning, creativity and presentation. “The NKBA Design […]
What’s Underfoot in Laminate Flooring
Laminate flooring is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together using a lamination process. This type of flooring can accurately simulate almost anything — wood, stone, even photographs or scans of anything imaginable — by covering a photographic applique layer with a clear protective layer. The interior layer is typically composed of melamine resin and […]
Walls Gone Wild
High-Impact Wallpaper Trends By Cheryl Alexander From floral to fauna, from bold to demure, from tropical to traditional, this season wallpapers are wild with prints, textures and colors. Whether your home makeover involves an entire room or a tiny nook, we’ve compiled some cool new concepts for you to consider. NATURE-INSPIRED WALLPAPER Whether your taste […]
The High Point of Your Home Decor
Show Off Your Decorating Flair With These Home Interior Trends By Mara Soloway The High Point Market is back with its home interiors prognostications for this Spring. This twice-yearly market held in North Carolina is full of design and furniture inspiration. If you can’t find something you love at this market, then it just hasn’t […]
Home Furnishings are Going “Green”
Pantone’s 2017 Color Of The Year Evokes The Renewal That Comes In Spring By Mara Soloway Have you noticed an abundance of home furnishings in showrooms and interior design studios in a fresh shade of yellow-green? Here’s why: color systems authority Pantone has chosen a revitalizing shade aptly named Greenery for its 2017 Color of the […]
Walls That Talk
Tile Statements That Say Everything About Your Style By Cheryl Alexander Choosing the right wall tiles for your home just got easier and a lot more fun. Though the choices are plenty, don’t be overwhelmed. Quit wondering whether to play it safe or take a risk in your design. Let 2017 be the year that […]
Color Me Happy
Using Paint To Create Your Home’s Mood By Cheryl Alexander More than simply a demonstration of your preferences in taste and style, home décor can have a psychological impact on your mood. Proponents of color psychology believe that the colors you use to decorate your home profoundly affect your emotional well-being. “Color is a universal, […]
A Celebration of Individuality
The Rise Of White And Off-White Shades In Home Interiors The first step many homeowners consider when designing a room is the color palette, and often times, they opt for hues that highlight their own distinct personality. Now that Gen-Y and Millennials have reached professional rank, we’re seeing a steady increase in changing the status […]
The Latest Furniture and Decorating Trends Part 2
What’s In Style For Your Home’s Interior – Part 2 By Mara Soloway Just like the fashions we wear, home furnishings have new styles and trends. They start gaining notice and ultimately build momentum as trade show organizers (such as those at High Point Furniture Market), furniture store buyers, interior designers and homeowners find beauty […]
The Latest Furniture and Decorating Trends Part 1
What’s In Style For Your Home’s Interior – Part I By Mara Soloway Just like the fashions we wear, certain furniture and decorative pieces emerge as trends that highlight what is in vogue for the home. Often they are announced by the manufacturers and start gaining buzz at industry trades shows. Held twice a year, […]
