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Renovation Obstacles II:  Keeping character in your home

Renovation & Interior Design Renovating a home can be thrilling both in the positive and the negative sense.  Positive in that it gives you the opportunity to finally add all the features you’ve always wanted in your home, but negative in that you could do some real design damage if…

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Antique Shopping in Parma

I cannot even begin to express in words the gamut of emotions I experienced during a most amazing week shopping at the largest Antiques fair in Italy, Mercanteinfiera. (Sigh.)   As you know, I love antiques, and my dear friend Toma Clark Haines of The Antiques Diva and Co. invited…

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Morrison Viola Guest House

This masculine guest living quarters features a traditional interior feel that compliments the main residence, and offers every comfort of home for visiting family and guests. This project began a couple of years after the clients completed their country residence.  Needing a place to welcome their adult children when they…

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Elements Newsletter, Trends

December 14, 2010

Accent Furniture

One small change can make a huge impact! If you haven’t been paying attention to current interior design trends (and if you haven’t, you should be), you may not have noticed a MAJOR trend.  It’s called Flamant design, after the famous Belgian furniture company.  They have pioneered a modern/vintage look…

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Morrison Viola Road

English country design paired with hand-selected antiques gives this new country farm house the warm feeling of rich tradition and history. This was a new construction of the client’s country residence in the husband’s hometown of Morrison, TN.  Both husband and wife wanted to embrace the pastoral setting and emphasize…

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