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Interior Design Planning – Lights, Camera, Adjust!
Interior Design Planning Photo shoots are bittersweet. We love capturing the completed look of an interior design plan, but it also means a project is over. And the only thing we get more attached to than our interior designs is our clients! We've also learned that photo shoots themselves aren't all glamour and pizzazz. They're an intricately planned, constantly changing, all day affair. Our respect for photographers and preparation time for a shoot have both grown exponentially over the years! Before the day of the shoot even arrives, we must decide the interior design shots we want taken and share this information...
Style 180: Kitchen & Dining
We recently gave you all the details of a living room design transformation we created when our clients moved into a high-rise condominium. With its contemporary architecture, the condominium was the complete opposite of their traditional interior design past and a style 180 was in order! Today, we've got all the scoop on the streamlined kitchen and dining room design they also embraced with their new surroundings. They love their new home and we couldn't be more excited for them! We continued the soothing indigo and gray color scheme in the design plan and furniture design, making the open floor...
BGI Receives Best of Houzz 2014 Design Awards
The year 2014 just keeps getting better! We are thrilled to announce Barbara Gilbert Interiors (BGI) has been honored with the “Best Of Houzz” award in Customer Satisfaction and Design for 2014 by Houzz, the leading online platform for home remodeling and interior design. This is the third consecutive year our design firm has been recognized with the prestigious Houzz award, with achievements in Best Of Design and Customer Satisfaction in 2012 and Best of Design in 2013, and we couldn’t be prouder! Houzz is one of our favorite design sites and is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in...