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Dwell with Dignity Thrift Studio, Part 1
[caption id="attachment_15363" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Our completed vignette for the Dwell with Dignity Thrift Studio 2017.[/caption] One of my favorite nonprofits in North Texas is Dwell with Dignity. I am honored to be one of the Dallas interior designers chosen this year to help with Thrift Studio 2017, a design extravaganza and major fundraiser. Thrift Studio is a 30-day pop-up shop created to raise monty for Dwell with Dignity. Dallas interior designers apply to help create one of nine 20-by-20 vignettes. Everything in these vignettes is generously donated and will be for sale: furniture, housewares, accessories, and high-end designer finds to the public. This is its...
Sideboards with Serious Style
Sideboards are an often-overlooked interior design element. These stylish furniture pieces have a fairly small footprint, but offer high-impact storage for your extra dinnerware, flatware, and table linens. I love to include a sideboard in the dining room as a perfect complement to the overall decor. They're available in a range of modern and traditional designs in lots of styles, sizes, and colors. Here are four of my favorite sideboards with serious style. Scandinavian-Inspired Honeycomb Style Add a touch of glamour to your dining room with the Honeycomb Sideboard from Studio A. It sits upon a reimagined Scandinavian-inspired walnut base reminiscent of the 1960s....
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...