Design Tips from our Premier Designers

Paul Stepp's Design Tip
You can establish the mood of a room by considering first the functional needs and then adding color and lighting elements. Cool blue for calming effects and chocolate for warmth and intimacy make for a serene bathroom or bedroom.

Winnie Cleavenger's Design Tips
Do avail yourself to as many museums, books, and lectures to begin to enlarge and BROADEN your horizon... Design is a process about LOOKING AND SEEING. Sometimes we look but we fail to SEE. Learn to SEE better……If designing is not your profession, entrust the design process to a professional whom you admire and trust. You will be far ahead in both your emotional state as well as your pocketbook. I want all of my clients to LOVE their environment and relish those phone calls, e-mails, and notes that shares their joy…..A good designer can do casual, classic, contemporary and traditional mediums. Seek a good designer who has a great set of ears and eyes………….. Proportions are so overlooked in the marketplace today. Measure more than once to obtain perfection.

Winnie Cleavenger's Design Tips

Do avail yourself to as many museums, books, and lectures to begin to enlarge and BROADEN your horizon... Design is a process about LOOKING AND SEEING. Sometimes we look but we fail to SEE. Learn to SEE better……If designing is not your profession, entrust the design process to a professional whom you admire and trust. You will be far ahead in both your emotional state as well as your pocketbook. I want all of my clients to LOVE their environment and relish those phone calls, e-mails, and notes that shares their joy…..A good designer can do casual, classic, contemporary and traditional mediums. Seek a good designer who has a great set of ears and eyes………….. Proportions are so overlooked in the marketplace today. Measure more than once to obtain perfection.

Ethan Allen's Design Tips
Create an island retreat with rich mahogany wood tones punctuated with black. Cool ocean blue and fiery orange make a modern marriage of tropical colors and traditional British inspired hand carvings mixed with rustics convey the island theme.

Ethan Allen's Design Tips

Create an island retreat with rich mahogany wood tones punctuated with black.

Cool ocean blue and fiery orange make a modern marriage of tropical colors and traditional British inspired hand carvings mixed with rustics convey the island theme.

Sueleal Kramer's Design Tips
"Rich dark tones can make a small space feel intimate when balanced with appropriately scaled furnishings"

Tom Rothfuss, Scarff's Landscaping Design Tips
Let’s face it. We’re all cutting back a little bit here and there. Saving pennies doesn’t have to be quite so painful. Suppose that you want to redo your landscaping, but financial constraints are holding you back. Get creative. A creative solution that’s extremely affordably may be a simple as putting in a gravel sitting are instead of an expensive patio. It may mean that you leave that overgrown honeysuckle as an effective screen for privacy and let the area be natural. Add a few flowering shrubs, perennials, a few annuals, and you’re there.

Tom Rothfuss, Scarff's Landscaping Design Tips

Let’s face it. We’re all cutting back a little bit here and there. Saving pennies doesn’t have to be quite so painful. Suppose that you want to redo your landscaping, but financial constraints are holding you back. Get creative. A creative solution that’s extremely affordably may be a simple as putting in a gravel sitting are instead of an expensive patio. It may mean that you leave that overgrown honeysuckle as an effective screen for privacy and let the area be natural. Add a few flowering shrubs, perennials, a few annuals, and you’re there.

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