Zen Home: Designing Peaceful Interiors
Feeling the drain? If you’re like me, you love the hustle! But, we can easily burn out if we don’t have a refuge for serious downtime. We all look forward to relaxing at home after a long day of work. However, your house can be just as chaotic as the office if your interiors aren’t…
Upcoming Rizzoli Book: Designers Entertain
All good things take time- the best are worth waiting for. I am thrilled to be a part of a new BOOK, just green-lighted by the premier publishing house Rizzoli, featuring topnotch interior designers entertaining at their own homes. It will be the perfect how-to, full of luscious photographs, by Michael Hunter, and insider secrets!…
Design Picks for Lake Austin Magazine
Creative collaboration is gift to all involved. So, I treasured the opportunity to share the spotlight, in Lake Austin Lifestyle Magazine, with the woman who was my very first inspiration, my mother, Donna Stockton Hicks. Interior designer and co-owner of Stockton Hicks Laffey trade showroom in Austin, Texas, this woman has everything to do with…
Revisit 1960s French Design: Jonathan Adler
Everything about embellishing interiors turns me on, but lighting has to be one of my favorite aspects of the creative process. Sourcing vintage lamps and fixtures could be considered a full time hobby (ahem…an addiction) at this point in my career. I adore the thrill of the typical hunt, but with three kiddos, my junking marathons…
Design Your New Container Store Closet II
Hustle seems to be the name of the game these days. There is so much to juggle that life can feel pretty chaotic at times, right? So, how does it feel to come home to an environment not much different than the outside world? It makes me feel less like I’ve entered a sanctuary and…
DESIGN YOUR NEW CONTAINER STORE CLOSET
No more boring closets! The Container Store’s new luxury closet system, TCS Closets, leaves our beloved mainstay, wire-bound elfa, in the dust. The quality here is impressive- who wants to invest in closet components that will chip, stick or sag over time? TCS Closets builds from the ground up with a thicker 1″ Thermofused Laminate…