A living room lives or dies by its sofa. Everything else, the rug, the coffee table, the art on the walls, all of it arranges itself around this one piece of furniture. Get the sofa wrong, whether that is the wrong size, the wrong shape, or the wrong style, and…
There is a specific kind of client I get every single year, usually right around the start of a new season, who sits on my sofa sample cart, runs a hand across a swatch of soft ivory fabric, and says something like, is this too plain. I always give the…
There is something about walking into a room and feeling instantly calm. I felt that for the first time a few years ago when I visited a friend’s house and she had done her living room in warm clay tones paired with deep botanical greens. I did not know the…
There is a moment that happens the first time you walk into a truly great dark blue living room. You do not immediately notice the sofa or the rug or the artwork. You just feel it. The room wraps around you. It feels warmer somehow, even though blue is technically…
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from standing in the middle of your own living room, staring at your sofa, and having absolutely no idea where anything actually belongs. You push the couch against one wall. It feels wrong. You pull it toward the center. It feels…
I used to be one of those people who thought pink belonged in a little girl’s bedroom and absolutely nowhere else. Then a client of mine, a woman in her fifties who had just finished raising three kids and finally had a house to herself, told me she wanted her…