The interior designer Alexa Hampton takes time off from her busy schedule to talk about design legacies and being mistaken for a Park Avenue Princess when in fact she would rather have the moniker Queen of the Flush Mount attached to her name.

Black and white is everywhere this season, from couture runways to sidewalk window displays. And since interiors always follow fashion, I predict we'll start to see black and white infiltrating homes and commercial spaces in upcoming seasons.

While most young professionals barely have time to be at home, let alone decorate their space, there is a value to creating a cozy and comfortable casa that is all your own even if you're renting yours.

We see a lot of small space problems... and come up with even more solutions.

"Revenge" is fun to watch just to admire perfectly decorated dream homes.

The seasons are changing. In the Northern Hemisphere, that means that the number of hours of sunlight each day and the temperatures are both going down. Simple modifications to your living spaces can keep these seasonal changes from delivering a devastating psychological wallop.

They say your home should be your personal sanctuary, right? Last time I checked, my sanctuary didn't contain skateboards, trains or a diaper genie.

In July 2011 my husband and I hired a general contractor and an interior designer to renovate our summer home in East Hampton, New York. Our plan was to get rid of all of our furniture and fixtures and completely redecorate every room from floors to windows to walls. We would also gut the outdated kitchen and bathrooms. After several weeks of discussing our design plans we handed the key to the contractor and left for our home in San Francisco. Nine months, 1000 emails and 50 phone calls later, we came back to our beautiful home which had undergone a major transformation.

Tucked away in a studio minutes from the world-class surf of Huntington Beach, California, artist Heather Roth of the Salvage Design Company is hard at work smashing china plates with a hammer.

Piero Fornasetti was a genius. The prolific Italian artist was a sculptor, an interior decorator and designer of dreams.

When I built this kitchen island, I wanted it to look old; a common request from many of my clients. Achieving the "old" look can be done in many ways, however I have created my own method that seems to work just perfect!

March in the Napa Valley is a sure sign to us all that spring is on its way. I'm inspired by March to attack that sorely needed spring-cleaning process.

While it's hard to achieve the warmth of home from having loved ones around, we as hotel design professionals are creating an alternate that is more personal and welcoming than before.

We all have an Achilles' heel when it comes to the design of our own home. For some it is the kitchen that still lives in the '80s, and for others it...

While a streamlined palette can be absolutely beautiful, I believe the 'Age of Beige' flew out the window with our last economy. Lately, life at home is about color.