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Designing a Dream Home for a Growing Family From the Ground Up
Building a dream home is a huge undertaking - we should know, we went through the process with our own home! When our client of several years reached out to us for help in designing their new home,...
Downsizing Story: Designing Elegant Retirement Condo
Not too long ago, a client of ours called to inform us she planned to downsize and move into a senior living community. Though she hated the thought of leaving the beautiful home we’d designed...
Nursery Design for Twins Featured in Local Magazine
I'm so pleased to be able to share some recent press! The first is a nursery design I completed last year, which was published in last month's issue of...
Turning a New House Into a Home
You know that moment right before move-in when you walk through your new but empty home? It's devoid of furniture or possessions, and maybe there's an odd color choice on the walls, but...
Summer of Growth and Change at Tamara Heather Interior Design
Summer 2016 was the busiest time ever for Tamara Heather Interior Design. Business grew, the office got bigger, and new talent joined our practice. The workload was such that a little vacation...
How to Shop for Furniture
I recently attended High Point Market, North Carolina’s bi-annual furnishings trade show. It’s a multi-million SF venue for those in the trade to see new products and test out the comfort factor of...
Don’t Learn to Decorate the Hard Way
Last week, while skiing in Colorado with my husband and son, I fell and broke my leg. I wish I could say I was attempting a particularly difficult trail, that it was my first black diamond run. But...
Our Blue Ridge Retreat Featured on Houzz
In 2008, with our then one-year-old in tow, we began searching for land in the mountains near Asheville, our first step towards realizing a long-term dream of a vacation home in the area. The house...
My Favorite Before & After Photos of 2015
I am excited to wrap up 2015 by sharing some of my favorite before & after images from projects completed and photographed over the past year. Each of these photos represents a...
Trendspotting
Both at the Maison & Objet show in Paris and more recently at High Point Market, I had the opportunity to attend several presentations on trends in home furnishings. Trend reports are...
My Design Tour Through Paris
In early September I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a "designers' tour" through Paris. Led by Parisian decor maven Deb Barrett, the tour granted access to specialty fabricators...
Design Destination: Denmark
One of my greatest influences as a designer was my semester spent studying architecture and design in Copenhagen in 1995. As a student I was won over by the warmth and simplicity of...