Your Contractor Builds What Your Designer Specifies — and That Relationship Makes or Breaks Your Project A $600,000 kitchen renovation went wrong in...
The Honest Conversation Every Client Needs Before They Commit A couple buys a Scottsdale home.
After a Decade of "Less," the Rooms That Stop You Cold Have Something in Them Walk through ten years of design award winners, shelter magazine covers, and...
Nothing Ruins a Beautiful Room Faster Than a Wall Covered in Buttons The lighting system alone cost $40,000. The motorized shades are Italian.
The Color of the Year Rarely Ages Well Every paint brand releases a "Color of the Year" in October. By February, it's in every shelter magazine.
Biophilic Design in Arizona Doesn't Look Like the Articles You've Read The standard biophilic design imagery — living walls draped in tropical ferns, streams...
The Best Scottsdale Homes Don't Fight the Desert There's a particular kind of Scottsdale house that gets built every year — and it always makes me a little...
Sustainable Interior Design in the Desert Southwest Sustainability in design is one of those topics that generates more posturing than practice.
Why Arizona Homes Need Different Lighting Than the Rest of the Country Walk into a Scottsdale home at 2pm on a July afternoon and the light flooding through...
Window Treatments for Arizona: Balancing Light, Heat, and Views The windows in an Arizona home present a design problem that clients moving here from other...
Powder Room Design: Small Space, Big Impact The powder room is the most underestimated room in the house — and the one place where almost every design rule...
Indoor-Outdoor Living in Arizona: Design Principles That Work Arizona's climate is genuinely exceptional for outdoor living — about nine months of the year,...