Every now and then, a client will tell me how they want their home to look, and I cringe, because they're describing a pristine museum-like set piece scenario. You and I both know the house. Visually perfect in every way,but ultimately inhospitable. No oxygen left in the composition for laughter...

I can't believe we are halfway through the season! I love watching my fellow cast members at work and play. They are all talented, wonderful, hilarious people who I now I consider family.

Life is all about chemistry. Watching Martyn and Mary with their clients makes me...

As an interior designer, I live and work in the world of decorative objects and therefore understand the appeal of collecting objects of beauty. I've worked with very wealthy clients who've gone on manic sprees of indiscriminate acquisition, accumulating a stockpile of furniture and furnishings that filled several off-site storage...

So finally the show is here!!! Million Dollar Decorators......

If only I had taken Margaret Russell's (Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest) advice and insisted on hair and makeup, not to mention losing 15 pounds before the show...

I have been stranded in France, due to the unpronounceable and un-spellable (unless you are Icelandic) volcano that erupted on my way back from the 2010 Design Leadership Summit in Venice Italy. Conceived by Peter Sellick, the Harvard educated entrepreneur, Read Post

In addition to residential work in my design life, I've explored every iteration of bedroom, from to the recreation of a honeymoon suite at the Daniele Hotel in Venice, Italy, to a necklace of hotels in Sanibel Island in Florida with LXR (The Blackstone Group), to the renovation of the...

No sooner had I finally managed to clear my desk of the odds and ends of Christmas bills and general frenzy, than I lifted my head to find a new frenzy surging towards me. I see red people. Valentine's Day, once a sweet, optional celebration for people who had romantic...

If you're reading this blog at all, you're probably going to be involved in a decorating project or two at some point in the coming year. And before you begin any project you'll want things as clean and as white and as blank as possible. The first step is not...

"...She's an energetic multi-tasker who runs an interior decorator and fabric design business in L.A., renovates houses in France, and raises my brothers and me..."

That's how my eldest son, Oscar, described me in the college applications he was writing all last year. His father, on the other hand,...

I left my idyllic life in the French countryside a few days ago. Having been there a month, tending to the place, playing in my kitchen garden etc. I decided to take a quick trip to Paris and London to do some work. My kids arrive next week -- then...

Did you know that under a little known provision of No Child Left Behind, public high schools must hand over personal information about students - including minors - to local military recruiters? It's an invasion of family privacy. The good news is parents can get their children off this list...

Can anyone tell me, are they going to bring back the draft? I have three sons -- all nearly teenagers -- and am terrified that they will. Why don't they make it that just Republican kids get called up?

You're right Richard Bradley, where are all those women! Do men have more time to blog or just less intimidated with words? I hate that word multi tasking and I'm no women's liber but if you have a family, a busnisses to run one or more homes, have animals ect...