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Home Organization with Tonia Tomlin
An organized home is a happy home. In my work as a Dallas interior designer, I often recommend a home organizer to make rooms more livable, functional, and beautiful. I've been working with Tonia Tomlin for ten years. She's a compassionate and passionate professional organizer and founder of Sorted Out. For more than 14 years, Tonia has been making life easier for her clients by creating calm, uncluttered business and home environments; improving productivity; and saving time and money. I use Sorted Out to help clients in many areas of their home, from closet design and functionality to lining and protecting new...
Color Crush: Christmas Pie
Are you ready for Christmas in just over a week? I'm planning my holiday menu and the dessert planning gave me inspiration for this week's Color Crush color palette: Christmas pie. This one is an apple-cranberry concoction and creates some rich, vibrant hues, as well as more neutral browns and taupe. Pinks are interesting in the psychology of color. Red is a powerful color that can raise blood pressure, respiration, heartbeat, and pulse rate — it definitely shouldn't be used in a room where you want to relax and take it easy! But its lighter cousin pink is a horse of another...
Design Crush: Luxe Four Poster Bed
At the end of a long day, what is better than walking into your bedroom and relaxing? Well, I think it would be relaxing with this incredibly luxe four-poster bed that is this week's Design Crush. The Prism bed from Nancy Corzine is the ultimate in luxury, mirrored and upholstered with leather in a tobacco color. Its clean lines and transitional feel mean it would be as stylish in a soft contemporary room as in a more traditional space. What a statement piece! What do you think? Got your own Design Crush? Share it with us on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram (don’t forget to tag @bgidesigner)! We've...