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  • 20 Green Rooms and Why Your Home Needs More Green

    Green rooms seem to be everywhere in interior design—from painted finishes, upholstery, soft fabrics, and even house plants—and you know what? We absolutely love it!...
  • Our Best Answers to Your Most Common Interior Design Questions

    When furnishing your home, it’s normal to have so many interior design questions you become paralyzed with decision anxiety. Between the cost and the exhaustive...
  • How to Decorate with Mirrors and Why We Love Them

    If you’ve been wondering how to decorate with mirrors, we’re here to help. We love decorating with mirrors because they can make a room look...
  • Fall 2022 Paint Colors

    Fall is breezing in, and we can’t wait to add a dash of seasonal color into our homes. Instead of a moody fall color palette,...
  • 25 Blue Rooms & Why You Need this Classic Color

    If you’ve seen the pages of our catalogs or shopped our site, there is no denying that we love blue rooms. Whether we’re painting a...
  • Designer Décor: How to Decorate like Your Favorite Designer

    If you’ve ever flipped through your favorite design magazine or scrolled through your favorite designers’ social media page, you’ve probably wondered how to replicate those...

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  • 10 Outdoor Centerpiece Ideas

    This post about Outdoor Centerpiece Ideas was updated February 2024. An outdoor centerpiece can really make or break a table setting: The right centerpiece completes...
  • A Blue & White Table Setting for Any Occasion

    Red and green may reign supreme during Christmas, but we love to play with different color palettes. Following Bunny Williams’ advice, we added tons of...
  • A Foolproof, Flower Arranging Trick

    Every holiday needs a fantastic centerpiece, but don’t let your fear of flower arranging keep you from a show stopping table. We’re sharing our favorite...
  • 5 Last-Minute Tricks for Pulling Your Home Together

    Friends are stopping by and you’re in panic mode to pull your house together. It happens to all of us, but we’re big believers in...
  • 8 Dining Table Centerpiece Ideas For When You’re Not Entertaining

    This post about dining table centerpiece ideas was published September 2016 and updated June 2023. Dining rooms are an important part of the home when...
  • 4 Ways to Fold Your Napkin like Bunny Williams

    Leave it to Bunny to know just how to dress up a table in a really simple, yet elegant, way. Taking those extra few minutes...

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  • How to Start a Garden

    Gardening can seem like a daunting hobby. It’s a long term commitment, you don’t see results right away, and it requires daily attention. But with...
  • Living Room Lighting: How to Layer More Light into Your Space

    Talk to any designer, and they’ll tell you the biggest mistake people make when decorating their homes is layering their lighting. You most likely need...
  • How to Clean Stains on Performance Fabrics

    Life happens — food spills, crafting messes, and all sorts of accidents. But if upholstered in one of our performance fabrics, you can easily clean...
  • Home Office Ideas: How to Work from Home Enjoyably

     While there are a lot of upsides to working from home (convenient commute, quiet coworkers, lenient dress code), for many of us there are a...
  • How Do I Choose the Right Lamp Shade?

    Picking the perfect shade is a lot like choosing the right jewelry
  • How to Space Furniture in Your Room

    This How to Space Furniture in Your Room post was updated in July 2023. Have you ever been in a room that feels calm and...
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