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A Contemporary, Colorful Frisco Home
This month, Barbara Gilbert Interiors is featured in a ten-page spread in Dallas Style & Design Magazine. This is thrilling for all of us, a real dream come true! I want to share the photos here, as well, so you can see my most recent work in a contemporary, colorful Frisco home. This project was so much fun — this family loved color and was recently transplanted to Frisco, Texas, from Tokyo, Japan. Of course, homes in Tokyo are quite small. So when this family landed in Frisco, they bought a big, beautiful house and wanted something decidedly not cookie-cutter. That's where my team and...
6 Timeless Design Trends
It can be easy to get confused by interior design trends — what's hot and what's not? What will look great in five years, and what will seem dated? This is a real question for people looking to update their home. Interior design is an investment, especially bigger pieces like furniture and art. You don't want to have to be replacing these every few years because they've gone out of fashion. Luckily, there are timeless design trends you can adopt in your home that will never go out of fashion. Here's a roundup of my favorite six. 1. Clean lines...
Best of Houzz 2017
Barbara Gilbert Interiors has been a part of the Houzz design community since the website launched in 2012, winning "Best of Houzz" awards for design and customer service every year since then. We just received the wonderful news that we've been awarded both honors again for 2017! The prestigious award highlights the top-rated home improvement professionals and the most popular home designs. Barbara Gilbert Interiors won “Best Of Design” and “Best of Customer Service” awards for 2017. The design award means our work was among of the most popular with the 40 million monthly unique users of Houzz last year. Only a small percentage of the one million active homebuilding,...