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by admin 07/30/2020

Instructions for DIY Ornate Pilasters and Door Surrounds

Supplementing my post about our dining room pilasters, here is the break down and the instructions for the door surrounds. The material list below is what we used, but (of course!) adjust to your taste, architecture and level of complexity with which you are comfortable. Also, we have 8′ tall doors, which aren’t the norm, so please make sure to measure your doors prior to buying any materials or “ready-made” door ...

by admin 07/30/2020

Design , Design Dilemma , Home , Inspiration , Interior Design , Kitchens , Lifestyle

Small Kitchens, Big Style

In a previous post, Small Kitchens That Still Inspire, I traversed the world of small kitchens and showed examples of space-starved rooms that were full of beauty. Although space may first be perceived as an issue, creative solutions can be jaw-droppingly elegant and finishes, that would be cost prohibitive in a large kitchen but affordable in a small one, can make the diminutive dimensions quite exquisite. I love the dichotomy of the ...

by admin 07/30/2020

Art , Design , Home , Interior Design , Lifestyle , Product

Artist Kris Kuksi

Ragmag described Kris Kuksi’s art as “mind-blowing, macabre, and beautifully grotesque art…[that] will taunt you by the sheer complexity of detail, leaving you even more baffled as you stare for hours at all the figurines that were smacked into coexistence.” An American artist, who grew up in Kansas, Kuksi’s “Fantastic Realism” genre is intriguing, Baroque in influence, steampunk, hedonistic … and fascinating. How’s that for a door header?? So sweet..until you look ...

by admin 07/30/2020

Bedroom , Children's Rooms , Design , Home , Interior Design , Lifestyle

Interview: High-Tech Nurseries

Recently, I was contacted by a reporter to see if I would be willing to be interviewed for a piece on high-tech nurseries since my background is in technology. With the reporter’s deadline looming in a couple of days, I asked her to send me the questions and that I’d turn it around as fast as I could. Despite my children’s best efforts of distracting, bickering, rummaging (where they don’t belong) and flitting ...

by admin 07/30/2020

Children , Children's Rooms , Design , Home , Interior Design , Lifestyle , Product

Published High-Tech Nursery Article

With my background in technology, most assume that I advocate gadgets and technology wherever and whenever possible…but that’s actually not the case. Maybe because of my background, I know the extreme mark-ups in prices and bugs that invariably happen with the first few releases. I think the reporter that contacted me for this piece thought that I would be on the “pro” technology side, but if you read my post, Interview: High-Tech Nurseries, you ...