Cabinetry is both functional and beautiful as well as an essential part of your home. While you can purchase vanities online, it is expensive and doesn’t always come in the right dimensions, finishes nor function the way that you need it to. Therefore, I typically sell my clients their cabinetry for the most perfect cabinetry… Continue reading Cabinetry Designs That Make Your Space Fabulous!
Category: Interiors
How the Traditional Farmhouse Interior and Exterior Relate
Do you wonder how the design process works between interior and exterior? Well, it’s a bit of the Chicken & the Egg story. Typically, there is a lot of back and forth within the relationship throughout the design process. With a farmhouse, we establish the footprint of the rectangle for the main house and determine… Continue reading How the Traditional Farmhouse Interior and Exterior Relate
How to Calculate Your Countertops
Are you wondering how to calculate your countertops? Believe it or not, it’s a little trickier than it appears but the process is consistent so I thought I would share with you how we do it and you can take it from there. STONE SELECTION. We use a lot of quartz (fabricated stone) and we… Continue reading How to Calculate Your Countertops
Color Selections Tips & Tricks
Are you getting ready to paint? If so, the first thing you are considering is the color, and I have some color selection tips & tricks for you, so here we go… QUALITY PAINT. Always, always use a quality paint brand. I know that there is less expensive paint out there, but when you actually… Continue reading Color Selections Tips & Tricks
North Mill Pond View
CLIENT PROFILE The homeowner is an engineer and worked in framing during college, so he is more than capable and very thoughtful about the construction process acting as the GC. He and his wife bought the 1900 2.5 stories, New Englander, with 1,534sf in 2012 mostly for the large, beautiful lot located right on North… Continue reading North Mill Pond View
A Cape Expansion to Meet Every Need
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are from Andover, MA, and own a large family-run business that they are getting ready to retire from. They bought their York Harbor, Maine home in 2007 as a summer home and with full expectations to renovate at some point and they also have a home in Naples, FL. The goal… Continue reading A Cape Expansion to Meet Every Need
How to Make a 90’s Home into a Modern Farmhouse
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are part of “Urban Flights 2020”. For this young couple with two small children, Covid entered their home in Southie as Daycare shut down and both working in Corporate America were suddenly working from home. She grew up in Vermont and he grew up in Maine and his brother was a… Continue reading How to Make a 90’s Home into a Modern Farmhouse
Tiny New Englander Grows Two-Fold
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are both working professionals, he is an electrical engineer and extremely capable to build just about anything. He bought the 1860’s 1-3/4 high New Englander in 2016 as a “fixer-upper” and he has renovated this 956 sqft home on his entirely on his own. We started working together in May 2020.… Continue reading Tiny New Englander Grows Two-Fold
How Pattern and Materials connect Interiors to Exteriors
Are you looking to create a home that is connected and cohesive from the exterior to the interior? In the Steel Farmhouse, we used very specific items to pull everything together intentionally. Steel – structural steel makes for an efficiently built home and provides the color black to use as a focal and clean… Continue reading How Pattern and Materials connect Interiors to Exteriors
Are you Prepared to Think Outside of the Box?
Every custom home brings with it the possibility of thinking outside of the box and the Steel Farmhouse is no exception. As a matter of fact, it’s a nice blend of typical elements that make a home functional with a custom twist. Here are some of the features that are creative, functional, and outside of… Continue reading Are you Prepared to Think Outside of the Box?