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Traditional Home Junior League of High Point Showhouse Journal

Well, the Traditional Home Junior League of High Point Showhouse has one last weekend and I've finally recovered from High Point Market and it's almost time to go and take it all down.  But before that happens I wanted to share with you some of my favorite design moments throughout the…

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Seven of My Favorite Things

An Interior Decorator’s Must Haves As a Nashville interior decorator (I prefer the term decorator to designer—decorating is my true passion), many of my clients ask advice or referrals on where to go and what to do, not just for draperies, furniture and objects d’art, but where I buy my…

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What does it cost to hire an interior designer?

Hiring an Interior Designer in Nashville Every day our Nashville interior design firm gets requests online and by phone from prospective interior design clients wanting to describe their various projects. And, of course, as an interior design junkie myself, I want to hear about all the disastrous homes that need my…

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For the LOVE

There are some strange sayings that include “LOVE”               For the LOVE!... of Pete?!…Nah, Who’s Pete anyway? For the LOVE!.... of God?!….NO, Certainly not gonna take his name in vain. For the LOVE!...of Money?!...I think not; sometimes it just ain’t worth it. For the…

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Interiors, Personal Thoughts

January 23, 2015

A Place of NO….

“I come from a place of NO…” OK, true confessions: I’m also a self-professed “control freak.” I work best with clients who let me drive the design train. Of course, I’ll listen to you--who you are, how you want your home to function and feel, and then you get out…

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Darby Does Design: Mirror, Mirror on the wall…

As our tour of my gorgeous home continues, I thought I’d take the opportunity to educate my followers with a HISTORY lesson.  You know, we royal types love to revisit days gone by. But first, a Back to School Quiz: A Trumeau Mirror is: A)   A mirror that speaks the…

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