While I'm transcribing and editing my interview with Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore, you could be thinking up some interesting questions for a real-time online chat with Matt Locke, Season 3 Runner-Up! Matt will be fielding questions about [...]
My apologies to everyone who has been waiting oh so patiently for me to post my interviews with Dan and Antonio today. The truth is, I'm not ready for this little weekly phone soiree to be over, so I think [...]
I hope you faithful readers will indulge me slipping in a little plea in between my recap of the Design Star Season 4 finale and my interviews with Dan Vickery and Antonio Ballatore. Many fans of Design Star have been [...]
Here it is, the final episode of Design Star and it’s Antonio Ballatore vs. Dan Vickery for the title. The challenge? Making over a whole house, which, for the purposes of this episode, "whole house" = kitchen + living room [...]
Loving the patterns on this earthenware by Jill Rosenwald on Etsy:
It was reported this week that at least eleven paintings by Andy Warhol were stolen from businessman Richard Weisman's Los Angeles dining room, which makes me think: 1. This must be some honkin'-huge dining space to be able to accommodate [...]
Didn't see anything in Austin worth posting about, so I took a little virtual tour... CHICAGO DALLAS HOUSTON LOS ANGELES
A client, Kelly, tipped me off recently to funky fabrics at Tonic Living. They have some great prints that they offer by the yard, or made into pillows or futon covers. They will also do custom sewing jobs like roman [...]
If I've learned anything by conducting these interviews with Design Star finalists and judges, it's that a whole other side of their personalities are revealed when you have the privilege of speaking with the actual person and not viewing an [...]
Design Star finalist Jason Champion and hubby Jim DelRio have recently had a lot of public interest in their amazing mid-century house in Sarasota, Florida home--dubbed "Mayflower"--and have put it on the market. I've been drooling over pictures of it [...]