REASON #4 WHY I HATE ARIZONA INTERIOR DESIGN Granite If I had a dollar for every home in Arizona that has a granite countertop, I’d be a millionaire. Not only that… but if I had another dollar for every home that has St. Cecelia or one of the other five Series 1 and 2, “everyone […]
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REASON #5 THAT I HATE ARIZONA INTERIOR DESIGN: Overuse of Travertine…. I’ve lived in the beautiful Valley of the Sun for ten years now and although New York will always be home to me, Arizona is my sanctuary. I just wish that sanctuary had floors covered in something other than boring, blah, tan Travertine!
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REASON # 6 WHY I HATE ARIZONA INTERIOR DESIGN The “Spa” Bathroom Hello everyone! Sorry for the break, but I’ve spent the last week and a half moving. That sounds like a long time to move an apartment’s worth of stuff into a house, but, in my defense- I am a designer and we move
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If there is one thing I miss about East Coast interior design, it’s the variety of wall treatments I could incorporate into a space. I had oodles of options, from panels to wainscoting to my favorite, wallpaper.
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#8 REASON I HATE ARIZONA INTERIOR DESIGN Arizona is totally devoid of color Dunn Edwards Swiss Coffee is my nemesis! Why is Arizona’s landscape so full of color and yet our interiors are so blah? I lived most of my life on the East Coast. Sure, in NY most houses are dirty brick, but in
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REASON #9 WHY I HATE ARIZONA INTERIOR DESIGN Our furniture stores just don’t get It!!! I HATE ARIZONA FURNITURE STORES… They perpetuate the worst problem that designers and homeowners in AZ face, being stuck in a time warp! I mentioned it in #10, but Arizona is an unfortunate seven years behind on current and future
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It’s a known fact that people love lists… I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because it’s an organized way of getting a point across. So, when I was asked if there were ten things about interior design in Arizona that pissed me off, my answer was…. “Just ten?” Coming from NY, the mecca of all
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You’re having a heart attack in the middle of a busy city street. You’re laying on the ground, chest pounding and look up and see two men standing above you. One is wearing a nice business suit, Rolex watch, smells good, hair well groomed… the second man is dressed in baggy jeans, lower than his
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If you’re a fellow designer, you know this happens every few years. We wait on bated breath for the release of the Design gods, Pantone’s Color of the Year. And you have one of two reactions… “Yes” or “Are they serious, who am I going to use that on?” 2014 is one of those latter
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Paint, glorious paint…. Oh how I love to select spectacular colors for the walls of my clients. There’s nothing more exciting than going into a dull, tan, ecru or Dunn Edwards Baked Potato colored home and injecting some life into it… I always find it shocking that Arizona is a state full of transplants from
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