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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...
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...