​Tip:  The best room designs are the ones that are classic and timeless.  The style you select whether traditional, contemporary or eclectic (a mixture) should be one you can live with comfortably and happily for a long time.
              
​If you are madly in love with Art Deco, South Western, or minimalist contemporary, ask yourself if you are a rugged individualist or just feeding into a temporary romance.  In the first case, you may truly enjoy this style for your home for as long as you live there.  In the second, you may find it a “what was I thinking” moment, and as painful and perhaps more expensive than the removal of a tattoo of an old flame.

​​It never stops being fun for me to see a decorated room emerge from an empty space.  First the rugs go down and that color pattern draws you in.  Then the furniture arrives and people say, “How come the room looks bigger with things in it than without?”  But, when the window treatments go up, it’s always the “ah” factor.  “Ah, now the room looks warm, elegant, inviting – finished!”