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09/08/2026

Sometimes two completely separate threads have a way of finding each other.

My team and I had already been working by email with my representative as we identified the right dealers and resources for one of my West Palm Beach projects. We hadn’t yet met in person.

Then last week, during the Slabs & Scents event at Opus Stone, there she was.
I love moments like this. We spend so much of our professional lives scheduling meetings, making introductions, coordinating details and deliberately building relationships. And then occasionally, something happens that couldn’t have been planned quite so perfectly.

An email becomes a face. A name becomes a conversation. And a working relationship suddenly becomes much more personal.

Perhaps synchronicity isn’t always about coincidence. Sometimes it’s what happens when you’ve put enough things in motion that they begin finding one another.

Honoring the hard work, dedication, and strength that builds a brighter tomorrow. Happy Labor Day from DCI Studio! 🇺🇸 ...
09/07/2026

Honoring the hard work, dedication, and strength that builds a brighter tomorrow. Happy Labor Day from DCI Studio! 🇺🇸

Perfect is out. Personal is in.After more than 30 years in interior design, I’ve watched trends come, go and eventually ...
09/03/2026

Perfect is out. Personal is in.

After more than 30 years in interior design, I’ve watched trends come, go and eventually come back again. What has always had staying power is a home that reflects the people who live there.

Your grandmother’s small table. The painting you found while traveling. A beautifully made new sofa chosen for the way your family lives. An antique chest beneath a contemporary piece of art.

These things may have very little in common except you; and that is enough.

A collected home isn’t about clutter or filling every room with antiques. It’s about knowing what belongs, being willing to wait for the right piece and understanding that everything doesn’t have to match to work beautifully together.

So my hope is that you buy the antique because you love it. Choose art because it does something to you. Let beautiful materials age. Keep the pieces that mean something.

The best rooms don’t need to look perfect. You simply walk into them and want to stay.

09/02/2026

Last night was one of those wonderfully creative evenings.

My Greater Palm Beaches Alumnae alumnae group partnered with the Lighthouse for the Blind and for a flower-arranging workshop.  It was a beautiful evening shared with my DG sisters, members of the Lighthouse community, my sister Shari, and the Florist team.

Before we began, the owner shared the story of his family-owned business and how closely they work with the farms that grow their flowers. I was fascinated by how much happens before a single stem ever reaches our hands.

Then we were given a recipe for our arrangements.  Of course, the designer in me had other ideas.

Same flowers. Same starting point. My own composition. And I loved how it turned out.

Perhaps that’s what I enjoy most about creativity. Give ten people the same materials and instructions, and ten different points of view will emerge.  

Sometimes the most interesting part of a recipe is deciding where to make it your own.

A gallery wall can look wonderfully effortless once it’s installed. Getting it there is anything but.Over the years, I’v...
08/31/2026

A gallery wall can look wonderfully effortless once it’s installed. Getting it there is anything but.

Over the years, I’ve created many gallery walls for clients, and I’ve learned that one of the most valuable parts of the process happens long before anything is hung.

It begins with sourcing the art, but then comes the composition. We often create the arrangement in AutoCAD first, working through scale, proportion, spacing, and the relationship between individual works. From there, we can layer the artwork—in color—into our renderings so the client can see the composition within the room before we ever make a hole in the wall.

That ability to visualize the finished installation has solidified decisions for clients more times than I can count. Because a gallery wall isn’t simply a collection of beautiful things. Each piece may have its own story, but together they need to create a composition. There is rhythm, balance, negative space, hierarchy, and inevitably a little trial and error before everything feels right.

Technology has given us many opportunities to test those decisions before installation day, but technology isn’t making the design decision for us. It’s helping us see the decision more clearly.

Perhaps that’s one of the things I appreciate most about the tools available to designers today. They allow us to take something that exists in our imagination and make it visible to our clients before it becomes permanent.

And when installation day finally arrives? The goal is for all that planning to disappear—and for the art to look as though it simply belongs.

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Today I am reflecting on a particularly fun project from the archives: designing a dog bed for a Charity competition in ...
08/28/2026

Today I am reflecting on a particularly fun project from the archives: designing a dog bed for a Charity competition in the Hamptons, with a playful, fashion forward approach.

Inspired by a vintage carousel, we explored a triadic palette of primary colors, layering bold pattern from Etro , with texture, and fabulous trims from Samuel & Sons to create a puppy-ready cocoon that is both whimsical and sophisticated.

A little reminder that when it comes to great design you should always make it fun. 🐾

I’ve spent a great deal of time recently thinking about the next season of my own business. Interestingly, much of that ...
08/27/2026

I’ve spent a great deal of time recently thinking about the next season of my own business. Interestingly, much of that work has required me to become a beginner again.

I’ve been experimenting with new ways of communicating, becoming more comfortable with video, rethinking how I use social media, and asking how I want my business to evolve rather than simply continuing to do what has worked in the past.

After decades in business, it would be very easy to rely on experience and stay with what I know. But I’ve never believed longevity and relevance are the same thing.

Experience has taught me what is worth protecting: relationships, standards, discernment, quality, and the values that have shaped my work. Curiosity asks me to look at everything else and decide whether it still belongs.

I think that tension is healthy for any established business. We don’t need to abandon what brought us here in order to evolve. But we do need to remain willing to learn, experiment, and occasionally be uncomfortable enough to discover what might take us somewhere new.

Experience tells us what is worth preserving. Curiosity tells us what is ready to evolve.

This week, we officially launch our courses at Palm Beach State College, and I have found myself deeply immersed in rewo...
08/25/2026

This week, we officially launch our courses at Palm Beach State College, and I have found myself deeply immersed in reworking my Residential Design I course for NYSID. After decades in practice and many years of teaching, you might think preparing to teach becomes easier.

In some ways, it becomes harder.

Experience gives us an enormous amount of knowledge, but teaching requires us to decide what is truly essential. What does a student entering our profession today need to understand? What is foundational and enduring, and what needs to evolve because the profession itself has changed?

Those questions have been very much on my mind as we prepare for the fall semester.

I believe we owe the next generation more than teaching them how things have always been done. We owe them the fundamentals that have stood the test of time, along with the curiosity and confidence to question what may need to be done differently.

Perhaps that’s one of the things I enjoy most about teaching. Every time I reconsider what my students need to learn, I inevitably reconsider something I thought I already knew.

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I’ve always thought of passementerie as the jewelry of an interior. A beautiful trim, fringe, braid, or tassel can trans...
08/21/2026

I’ve always thought of passementerie as the jewelry of an interior. A beautiful trim, fringe, braid, or tassel can transform a piece of furniture, define the edge of a drapery panel, or give a pillow that final layer of personality that makes it feel completely considered.

But why should our interiors have all the fun?

I’ve been noticing passementerie appearing beyond the home, used as embellishment on jackets, dresses, handbags, and other fashion pieces. I love the crossover because fashion and interiors have always shared a language of color, texture, craftsmanship, and detail.

Recently my sister had a skort (shorts/skirt) shrunk by her dry cleaners.  She had a perfect outfit, with a coordinating sweater that she loved.   We decided to add a trim at the bottom to bring the length of the skort back to that comfortable place for her.  Once applied by the tailor, I will reveal what we selected in a photo opp!

Perhaps that’s what draws me to passementerie in the first place. It doesn’t have to shout to make something distinctive. Sometimes one beautifully chosen detail is all it takes to turn the familiar into something memorable.

Jewelry for the home. Jewelry for ourselves. I think there should always be room for a little adornment.
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One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that experience doesn’t necessarily give us more answers. It gives us b...
08/20/2026

One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that experience doesn’t necessarily give us more answers. It gives us better questions.

I ask very different questions today than I did when I first began my career. Certainly our profession has changed, but experience has also changed what I notice, what I listen for, and what I know deserves a second look.

I’ve discovered that the quality of a project is often determined long before the first drawing is completed. It begins with curiosity, listening carefully, and sometimes asking the question no one else thought to ask.

Perhaps that’s one of the quiet gifts of experience. Not having all the answers, but knowing which questions are worth asking.

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