Vacation Rental Design Breckenridge Colorado : A Phased Approach to Increasing ROI
Vacation Rental Design, Breckenridge Colorado. A case study for a phased approach in increasing your profit margins and guest satisfaction in the vacation rental market in Summit County, CO.   In the picturesque town of Breckenridge, Colorado, my clients...
Why Hire an Interior Designer For Your Vacation Rental
I'm currently sitting here in an 1897 historic apartment building in what must be my 53rd Airbnb stay!! As a designer who loves historic properties, it's so lovely to see the beautiful and original heart pine floors, original millwork, and the care put towards keeping...
How To Create A Healthy House
Recently I asked my Facebook Audience how healthy they rated their homes.  Today I'll talk about four ways you can increase the health of your home. ** I'm a little more technical in this post, if the science is not your thing, skip on over the sections where I detail...
Victorian Style Bathroom Renovation: French Hotel Inspired
This is by far my favourite bathroom, I always design for my clients, but I personally would love this bathroom in my own home! While we decided not to move the placement of the tub, toilet and sink, this tiny bathroom was a full gut, due to the mold and plaster...

Designing Spaces Your Mind And Body Adore

Adding a Kitchen in a Light Filled Folk Victorian – Part 1
"How about you just put the kitchen where the old kitchen was?" Every contractor that walked through the old Folk Victorian house asked me this question. My internal gut reaction every time was "No, no, no, no, no -- Just no". The old kitchen was in smallest room at...
What Makes Design Meaningful? Episode 1: Meaningful Design
Interior Designer Lora Frost of Dahlias & Granite Interior Design shares several stories about why design is meaningful to her and her trajectory from being hit by a car as a pedestrian to becoming a landscaper and then transitioning into an interior designer who...
How to Feel At Home In Your Home – Part 2
In the part one I talk about the importance of considering how you want to feel in each area of your home, how our memories contribute to how we feel about colour, along with lighting and the colour temperature of light. Check out Part One here. Today let's dive into...
Historic Church Hill Richmond Build – Part 1
Here is the Before! This is a typical Church Hill, Richmond,VA, Back Yard. Twenty Eight feet wide by 150 feet long, which includes the footprint of the home!! Right after you walk out the back door, you couldn't walk directly out the back door, you had to walk down...
Introducing The Meaningful Design Show

Introducing The Meaningful Design Show

Welcome the the Meaningful Design Podcast! Design is far more nuanced than picking the perfect pillows for your living room. Great design is curated for your lifestyle, eliminating stress, creating more ease, and allowing you to live your best life. Lora Frost, a...

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How To Create A Healthy House

How To Create A Healthy House

Recently I asked my Facebook Audience how healthy they rated their homes.  Today I'll talk about four ways you can increase the health of your home. ** I'm a little more technical in this post, if the science is not your thing, skip on over the sections where I detail...

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Choosing Colors for your home? Read this first.

Choosing Colors for your home? Read this first.

Does choosing colors for your walls make you feel like this? Have you grabbed colour sample after colour sample but none of them work, or don’t look how you imagined? Every colour of paint has unique undertones. If you remember back to art class, you’ll likely...

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