French-style single pattern rooms use one fabric to cover the walls, furniture and draperies. Back in the early days of domestic interior design the fashion was for everything to match. Single pattern rooms had a very intense look. Today, rooms decorated in this style are viewed as hyper traditional — even archival. Fabric-covered walls can be wildly expensive when the … [Read more...]
Mother-Daughter Rustic Kitchens
The “my mother myself” tendency proves out in a pair of rustic kitchens in Texas. t A kitchen is the sum of many parts so it’s intriguing to see how a mother and daughter – both designers – use the same elements of rustic kitchens with original, but very different, stylistic results. Houston designer Pam Pierce’s kitchen [top] was included in a piece on the much-admired … [Read more...]