Staging and photos: a winning combination
It makes me very sad to think of all the homes for sale that have gone overlooked and unsold simply because the pictures and presentation are not good. When a house that is listed at a great price, is well located, has a well laid out floor plan, and has so much to...
Designing a Modern Mudroom
The kitchen is often considered the workhorse of a home. It’s an understandable description given the amount of time we spend there, eating, socializing, and living. But I think that modern mudrooms run a close second. Not so much for the amount of time spent there...
Home Resolutions 2022
Ah, the possibilities of a New Year! While you are sitting there with your cup of coffee thinking about what those possibilities could mean for you personally, allow me to recommend a few resolutions to apply to your home! I mean, why not? You spend a lot of time...
Cassee’s Christmas Gift-Giving Guide
Ahh, it’s that time of year when people across Charlotte are making a list of Christmas gift ideas and checking it twice… Well, everyone but me. I don’t want to be a Scrooge here, though it may sound like it at first. Just hear me out. I’m not a huge traditional gift...
Contrast: A designer’s secret sauce
Take a look at this home I recently staged. Moody exterior, right? Now the interior. Light and bright, wouldn’t you say? That is contrast at it’s finest. Sidenote: I have recently become a bit obsessed with the dark modern farmhouse look. (Anyone else?) It’s classic...
Tech help: Best apps for room design
We’ve all been there. We have an idea for a new room layout or want to see how a new color would look or maybe we need help visualizing how a new piece of furniture will fit. Now what? If you are talented enough you can sketch it out. Or if you are like most people,...
A color story: Finding the perfect palette
The idea of choosing the color palette for your home fills some people with angst. It’s not unusual to see social posts on mom groups from someone needing help picking the color of kitchen cabinets or finding the right shade for a living room. In fact, for some people...
A Furniture Shortage? Technically! Now What….
You aren’t imagining it. There is a furniture shortage right now… technically. Lucky for you I’m going to tell you how to get around it. Let’s start with the problem. My Dad mentioned to me the other day in the car that he heard on the news that there is a furniture...
Of Bugs and Bones
So I have a fascination with, well, let’s call them ‘natural elements.’ My family and, as I've learned recently, the cleaning crew find this fascination a little disturbing. See, I like things like giant great horned beetles and skulls of all sorts and sizes. This...
Saving original elements in your home remodel
If you have a house that you are considering a remodel for and your house has some original details, think twice before tearing them all out. These “time capsule” elements, as I call them, can add such cool design elements to a more modern space. There are several...