If you’re lucky enough to have a room with a view, you want the scenery to take center stage – not the furniture. Here’s some inspiration for highlighting an outside focal point:
Great Design
A Warm Coastal Color Palette
If you’ve lived on the coast for any length of time, you may be yearning for color palette that transcends traditional navy blue and white. A warm coastal color palette, inspired by natures hidden details, may be just what the designer ordered.
Adding a Sense of Place
You may have heard a designer say that a home should have a “sense of place.” That means homes just feel more comfortable when the materials, furniture, and decor elements relate to the home’s environment.
Two Tone Kitchen Cabinets
Two-tone kitchen cabinets are a lovely design trend that has classic staying power. The trick is getting the split balanced with enough contrast so that you notice, but not so much that it’s jarring. Some of our favorite kitchen interior design projects are on Kiawah Island, and many of them feature two-tone cabinets.
The Beautiful Home Office
Whether you work at home or just like to have a command post for running the household, your home office can, and should, blend with the rest of your home.
Keep Your Books
E-reader aficionados are often faced with a dilemma: Keep their pre-Kindle book collection or convert to digital and donate their stash. Margaret says – keep your books.
Decorating with Oriental Rugs
If you’ve got a couple of inherited oriental rugs stashed in the attic, it’s time to get them out. Persian and oriental rugs were once a staple of traditional interiors, but over the last couple of years they’ve been making an appearance in every type of design.
Decorating with Black Accents
No matter what your color scheme, using black accents can help define your space. Black helps anchor light or bright colors and gives the eye a place to rest – sort of like the period at the end of a sentence. Here are some ways we’ve used black accents in our interior design projects:
5 Tips for Creating a Gallery Wall
At MDI we encourage our clients to collect art with abandon. Buy what you love, whether from an antiques store, thrift store, local artist or gallery, and it will add to your home’s distinct personality.Â
Commercial Fabrics, Flooring and Furnishings
Using Commercial Fabrics (and More) at Home
Commercial fabrics, furnishings, flooring and art have to withstand a lot of wear and tear. If you’re looking for creative ways to make your home more durable and livable, take few notes from the MDI team about how they make commercial spaces beautiful and enduring.