Our clients asked us to design their Kiawah Island marsh view vacation home with the natural beauty of the outdoors in mind. Taking inspiration from the colors of the marsh, ocean, and sky, we used a soft color palette of blues, spring greens of the marsh and oyster shell white. The palette is accentuated by warm woods, natural texture and metal.
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Recently we’ve been introducing you to some of the most important members of our team: our designing dogs. The MDI design studio is dog-friendly, so we bring our furry family members to work whenever we can. Not only do we enjoy having them around, they help us test the latest pet-friendly fabrics and rugs.
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Please meet Jeanne Clement, MDI’s Quality Control Specialist. Jeanne was born and raised in Charleston. She went to Ashley Hall and then to Hollins University in Virginia where she received a BA in Art History. Later she attended the New York School of Interior Design for a year and earned their Certificate.
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For the last 20 years Pantone, a cornerstone of design across industries, has announced a Color of the Year. To choose the color the company hosts representatives from various nations’ color standards groups for a two-day summit at a secret location in a European city.
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Bunk rooms are big news right now! There’s nothing better than the weeks or weekends that extended family and far-flung friends make time to get together at the beach house. Lazy days full of kids, grandkids, dogs, friends, and friends’ dogs make some of life’s best memories.
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At MDI, our dogs are part of the family. We have a dog-friendly design studio and on any given day there will be at least a couple of our furry friends hanging out with us. Today we’d like to introduce you to Benji, a six-year-old Morkie Poo who belongs to Abigail, our office and design assistant.
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For the fifth year in a row, MDI has won a Best of Houzz award for Design. 2020 is our fourth year in a row of winning a Best of Houzz award for Service. Best of Houzz awards recognize the top-rated designers on Houzz across the country and around the world.
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We’d like to introduce you to Abigail Carr Botero, MDI’s Design Assistant, Design Librarian, and Office Assistant. Abigail was born in Locust, North Carolina, a small town east of Charlotte. When Abigail says “small town” she means it. There were “a whopping 4 stop lights in the whole city,” she says.
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Today we have a wonderful home tour of one of our recent projects on Fripp Island. This oceanfront property has a sophisticated, island elegance. With four adult children, a posse of grandchildren, and an open-door policy for their large extended family, this Fripp Island home had to be user-friendly, low maintenance, durable, welcoming and beautiful.
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Today we’re taking you along on our recent Kiawah Island home Sip & See tour. When we finish a design project, we host a small gathering at the client’s home. We bring in wine and cheese and invite the rest of the MDI team so they can see the results of their colleague’s innovation and hard work. This gives everyone a chance to celebrate the completion of the project and allows us to relax with the clients, who by now are friends.
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