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I closed last week’s blog about pattern with my favorite mantra – good design repeats itself – and that’s where I’d like to start this one about shape.

In my years of experience working with clients, I have concluded that the thing that most strikes fear into their hearts is choosing and combining patterns.

I am often asked by clients how to begin the process of designing their homes. In my Eye for Beauty e-course coming this fall, I will answer that question with another question: Who are you? What [...]

Thanks for all your wonderful comments about the transformation of Casita Alegria and the ghost story that accompanied it. Your insights inspired me to close this allegory with an expression of [...]

Although Casita Alegria had been transformed into a lighter, happier little house, I had to face the fact that I was sleeping in a haunted adobe. While lying awake during my first night alone [...]

I loved the way Casita Alegria’s chunky chocolate brown lintels defined the adobe’s entryway, where a flamboyant spiral staircase literally floated up to the second floor. But the scrawny [...]

For much of my adult life I dreamt of buying an old adobe in Northern New Mexico. Finally, one crisp summer night in the tiny town of Galisteo, a few miles southeast of Santa Fe, I shared my [...]

Like all things in life, this painting has a story. Several years ago, I was staying at Doris Day’s famous dog friendly hotel in Carmel, The Cypress Inn, with my husband, Marshall, and Texas [...]

I love homes that are soulful, but I also adore rooms that make you smile. With the world as crazy as it is these days, who couldn't use a little sense of humor or playfulness to greet you when [...]

I looked up the meaning of soulful after a friend recently asked me, “How do you make a home feel soulful?” Webster’s definition of soulful: full of or expressing feeling or emotion. In thinking [...]