Good design starts with good information. Here we share honest, process-driven advice on interior design, renovation planning, and furnishing your home well. All written from the perspective of a designer who has seen every phase of the process firsthand. Principal, Margaret Nubuor, over a decade of full-service residential design experience to every project and every post, having worked on historic brownstones, gut renovations, and full furnishing projects across Boston and beyond.
Our goal is simple: the more informed you are going into the process, the better you and your home will be coming out of it. Explore our series on navigating the contractor bidding process, dive into our The Considered Home series for deep dives on the features and decisions that set exceptional homes apart, or browse the full blog below.
Metal Finishes That Define a Room
The right metal finish does not call attention to itself. It simply makes the room feel coherent, considered, and exactly right. The wrong one creates a friction that is difficult to name and impossible to ignore.
What Is Full-Service Interior Design? (And Is It Right for You?)
Full-service interior design is a term used often and explained rarely. Most people have a general sense that it means more than picking paint colors, but the specifics, what's actually included, what it costs, and what the experience of working with a full-service designer actually looks like, are less well understood. If you're considering a renovation or a significant furnishing project and wondering whether full-service design is the right approach for your home, this is where to start.
Features That Make a Kitchen Worth the Investment
A kitchen that photographs well but runs out of counter space by Sunday morning is a kitchen that will frustrate you every day regardless of how good the tile looks. These are the features that prevent that, and the ones we recommend on nearly every high-end kitchen project.
