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Nov 20, 2009

The Bathroom

James Duncan is a Decorati Partner and author of “A Well Traveled Aesthetic.” My grandfather, who was a boy in the early 20th century, told the story of how his family rented a farmhouse in the French countryside. As they planned to stay for a few years, his father asked if he could install indoor plumbing at his [...] (more...)

Nov 2, 2009

You Are Invited: Nov 4th in SF-Tools of the Trade + Sneak Peak

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You are invited to join CA Homes publisher Heidi Gerpheide, Dwell Magazine editor Sarah Rich, Decorati.com CEO and Founder Shane Reilly, and Public Relations Consultant Alisa Carroll to discuss the various elements of online presence for the modern designer. The lecture will include in depth explanation of social media, tips for web-based editorial, and the [...] (more...)

Oct 15, 2009

Tile Transitions

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 2 comments

By Saxon Henry of Design Commotion What’s hip is also classic at Cersaie, the world’s largest tile exposition held in Bologna, Italy. Given that Cersaie in Bologna, Italy, is where the world debuts its newest and grooviest ceramic tile designs each year, I was expecting the abundance of bling and ample edginess. But when the five-day fair [...] (more...)

Oct 6, 2009

Coming Nov 18-19 to SF: DIFFA’s Dining by Design

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DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, with its Dining by Design 2009 Tour, will make a stop at San Francisco’s Galleria at the SFDC on Wednesday Nov 18 and Thursday Nov 19. To celebrate the event, Decorati will have a special ticket giveaway for our readers. Check back in a couple of weeks for your chance to win one [...] (more...)

Oct 4, 2009

You Are Invited- October 5th-8th: Designer TeleSummit

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Calling all industry professions! Join the Interior Design Industry Business Building TeleSummit: October 5th-8th. Learn about: -Powerful and creative ways to get more clients by learning NEW ways to become the most valuable asset to your potential clients so they will HIRE YOU! -Dynamic methods to identify and reach existing clients who are HIRING designers. -The “secrets” of making Social [...] (more...)

Sep 30, 2009

Dakota Jackson hosts “Doing it Right: 21st Century Style”

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On October 7th at noon Dakota Jackson will present panel discussion, “Doing it Right: 21st Century Style” with top interior designers Thad Hayes and Celerie Kemble, architects Gisue Hariri and Alexander Gorlin, FAIA as moderator. To learn more about the Panelists, click on their names below. Dakota Jackson Thad Hayes Celerie Kemble Gisue Hariri Alexander Gorlin, FAIA (more...)

Sep 22, 2009

You are Invited: Sept 24 in LA - Traditional Home’s 20th Anniversary at the PDC

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You are invited to Traditional Home’s 20th Anniversary Keynote Panel Discussion “The Past, Present, and Future of Design” at the PDC Fall Market 2009 with: Senior Design Editor Candace Ord Manroe Decorati.com CEO and Founder Shane Reilly Peter Dunham Tobi Fairley Joe Lucas Windsor Smith For more information, click more. (more...)

Sep 20, 2009

White Kitchens - A Philosophy

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 8 comments

By Susan Serra, Decorati Contributing Guest Blogger and author of The Kitchen Designer blog. White Kitchens - who among us doesn’t love a white kitchen? White interiors are in our consciousness again. White kitchens are rapidly becoming even more popular than ever. There is seemingly no end to the love of the white kitchen! White kitchens present [...] (more...)

Aug 29, 2009

How Light Changes Our Perception of Color

Posted in Paint, Resources, Sponsored by Benjamin Moore • 1 comment

The type of light under which color is viewed impacts how we perceive a particular hue. SHOP THIS PHOTO Temperature Whether we perceive a color as warm or cool is relative to the particular color and its surrounding colors. Generally, reds, yellows, and oranges are warm colors, while blues, greens, and violets are considered cool. Warm [...] (more...)

Aug 25, 2009

Introducing…Get This Look

Posted in Discover Decorati, New on Decorati.com • 1 comment

Are you in the process of decorating your living room? Reupholstering your sofa and chairs? Not sure which fabrics go together? Get This Look! The resources in the image above have been specially selected to coordindate with each other to create the perfect look. For example, you can use an existing piece of furniture you already [...] (more...)

Aug 22, 2009

Making the Hearth of the Home Healthier for the Family

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 2 comments

Decorati is excited to introduce guest blogger Robin Wilson. Robin Wilson is a nationally recognized eco-friendly and healthy home interior designer focused on the four principles: sustainable, reusable, recyclable and non-toxic. She is currently designing the interiors for the private residence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and is the first woman to license her name for [...] (more...)

Aug 18, 2009

Cinderella Ellsley: Romancing the Range

Posted in Designer Profile, Kitchen and Bath, Profiles • 4 comments

By Karin Edwards .A Connecticut kitchen by Ellsley uses French flourish to soften the all-American dream of one roomy space that transitions easily from cooking to relaxing hangout, or formal entertaining. . Cinderella has nothing on Beverly Ellsley. Take one look at the centuries-old French parquet flooring that tops a kitchen island of her making and it’s obvious [...] (more...)

Aug 14, 2009

A Few of My Favorite Things for the Kitchen

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By Susan Serra Susan Serra is a Decorati Contributing Guest Blogger and author of The Kitchen Designer blog. The kitchen, to me, should be a room, an “environment”, with surroundings that make you feel not just good, but wonderful, every day. That’s easy to say, and few would disagree. But, let’s go a step beyond that simple [...] (more...)

Aug 4, 2009

Classical Redux: Mick de Giulio

Posted in Designer Profile, Kitchen and Bath • 2 comments

By Karin Edwards . There’s a hole in the floor of the 14th Century fortress in Verona, Italy that mid-20th century designer Carlo Scarpa rescued from false, fantastical Victorian renovations into a museum of uncommon architectural integrity. Peer inside the hole, as Mick de Giulio did, and you’ll spy centuries of construction layers. Return to the art [...] (more...)

Aug 4, 2009

Win Tickets to the Exclusive Launch Party for Metropolitan Home’s Showtime House

Posted in Events, Special Offers • 4 comments

This week Decorati has a fabulous giveaway for you. Four lucky readers will each receive one ticket to the invitation-only Exclusive Launch Party for Metropolitan Home’s Showtime House on Sept 10th in NYC. The contest has ended. Check back soon for the winners! For those of you who didn’t attend last year, this is no typical Showcase [...] (more...)

Jul 29, 2009

Shop This Design Kit: Aspen Library

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SHOP THIS DESIGN KIT Get inspired! Decorati has pulled together coordinated fabrics, rugs and paints. (more...)

Jul 27, 2009

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French Country Kitchens - The Next Frontier?

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 11 comments

By Susan Serra Susan Serra is a Decorati Contributing Guest Blogger and author of The Kitchen Designer blog. . Bonjour mes amis! I’m thinking of all things French-inspired this month, first and foremost, French kitchens. It’s an annual ritual for me…total immersion in the 3-week long incredible Tour de France now just finished! An annual ritual of focusing [...] (more...)

Jul 24, 2009

Decorati Spotlight: Costantini Design

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The design team behind Decorati Partner Costantini Design is a husband and wife team, and their factory in Buenos Aires is also family-owned. The design studio is in West Hollywood, California, and their products are available in 5 showrooms nationwide. Recently, their newest collection was premiered at the Nhow Hotel in Zona Tortona for the [...] (more...)

Jul 11, 2009

Wood Flooring for Kitchens - Looking Forward AND Backward for Inspiration

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 5 comments

. By Susan Serra . If the kitchen is the heart of the home, wood flooring must be the soul! Flooring lays an important decorative foundation for every space in the home, speaking with a voice that may be soft or loud, directing the emotions of all who tread on it. Although many, um, tired and dirty shoes [...] (more...)

Jul 2, 2009

Pyrolave: Countertops on Fire!

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 4 comments

Today Decorati Guest Blogger Susan Serra, author of The Kitchen Designer blog, discusses one of the “hottest” new kitchen materials. Kitchen countertops are sort of the icing on the cake in a kitchen design! And, who doesn’t love shopping for countertops, with so many materials, textures, and colors in the marketplace? The countertop one selects, however, [...] (more...)

Jun 17, 2009

Less & Luxe in Miami

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 3 comments

A model condo in Canyon Ranch Living on South Beach by The Rockwell Group pairs warm walnut woods and sandy French limestone with a brilliant floor mosaic in blue bahía marble. Decorati guest blogger Karin Edwards takes our readers to the tropics, where the tides of contemporary couture lull design aficionados in Miami . . Design Aims for [...] (more...)

Jun 16, 2009

Win a Free Design Consultation from a Decorati Designer ($200 value)!

Posted in Discover Decorati, Special Offers • 1 comment

Would you like to refresh the look of your home, but want some professional recommendations? . Need to figure out how to re-upholster that old sofa or re-paint a room? . Decorati is giving away one Free Design Consultation package ($200 value), which includes: *1 hour phone consultation * Email Summary from a designer with answers for up to 5 custom [...] (more...)

Jun 15, 2009

Chippendale

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Named after British furniture designer and cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, this graceful and refined style emerged following the 1754 publication of his furniture designs in “The Gentleman and the Cabinetmaker’s Director” and prevailed until 1790. (more...)

Jun 12, 2009

Mid-Century Modern

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Describing a style that reigned from about 1933 to 1965, Mid-Century Modern built upon the foundation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of organic architecture and the simple forms that characterized the International Style and Bauhaus movements. (more...)

Jun 11, 2009

Hollywood Regency

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The Hollywood Regency style was characterized by high glamour and glitz and emerged through the work of interior designers, such as Dorothy Draper, Elsie de Wolfe, and William (Billy) Haines, who decorated the homes of film luminaries in Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s. (more...)

Jun 4, 2009

You Are Invited: June 9th in NYC- 1st Annual Outdoor Chic Affaire

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Decorati and Luxe invite you to the Keynote Panel Presentation at the 1st Annual Outdoor Chic Affaire at the D & D Building. For more information, click more. (more...)

Jun 4, 2009

Kitchen Understatement

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 4 comments

The Florence kitchen by Snaidero meets a contemporary desire for hiding the kitchen in a Neoclassical styled casepiece. By Karen Edwards From sleek lofts to suburban great rooms, walls are coming down and changing the way many of us think about kitchens. And, clearly, not all of us think alike. Like a good chair pulled close to [...] (more...)

Jun 1, 2009

Biedermeier

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Biedermeier style shed the grandiose flourishes and monumentality that had characterized the Empire style (more...)

May 21, 2009

Beyond the Bar: Inspiration for the Kitchen from ICFF

Posted in Guest Blogger, Kitchen and Bath • 1 comment

Today Decorati Guest Blogger Susan Serra, author of The Kitchen Designer blog, goes beyond the kitchen at ICFF to find inspiration in unlikely places. As a kitchen designer, I always go to KBIS. Each year I go to the ICFF too, among other interior design shows…not to search for kitchen products, per se. I go [...] (more...)

May 19, 2009

You are Invited: May 19 (Today) in NYC - Interior Design Online 101

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Decorati and Traditional Home invite you to an exciting presentation- Interior Design Online 101, with: Lauren Wiener, SVP of Meredith Interactive Shane Reilly, CEO Decorati.com For more information, click more. (more...)