Posts belonging to Category 'Home Design'
January 6, 2012 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
For Christmas this year, I gave my husband this little footstool – complete with a ski scene. My husband happens to be the skier in our family, and an avid one at that, and so – I couldn’t resist. Does it fit our décor? Well, not exactly – although, I did intend this footstool for [...]
Categories: Designer Recommends, Home Design | 
Tags: decor, footstool, personal touches, ski-theme, skier, this place you call home | 
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December 30, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
Last week, I wrote about the giving of gifts, and my fascination with the Japanese scroll, which reveals itself just like a gift when removed from the custom box it has been stored in. A home can reveal itself in very much the same way. If you think about it, just the act of entering [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Home Design | Tags: East meets West, entry, first impressions, gifts of the season, surprise | No Comments »
November 4, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
Do you remember the TV commercial from the 70’s – the one with the little old lady at a fast food joint, demanding to know “Where’s the Beef?” Sometimes I ask “Where’s the Magic?” I do this instinctively with interior design, whether flipping through a magazine or seeing a vignette that feels less than exciting. [...]
Categories: Designer Recommends, Home Design | Tags: 7 Ways to Create Harmony in Your Home, Home Design, interior design, magic | No Comments »
September 30, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
Are you familiar with the history of the chair? Did you know that the chair, as we know it today, has only been around for a few hundred years? Back in the 16th century, you had to be somebody Very Important to sit in a chair, let alone own one. In fact, that is where [...]
Categories: Designer Recommends, Historical Tidbits, Home Design | Tags: Chairman, comfort, Ghost Chair, history of the chair, Louis V, Philippe Starck, the person with the Chair, Topiary Chair | No Comments »
September 9, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“How can you, without drying up, make things with the same pleasure, as a gift to others, for so long? The word playful is therefore an important part of our quality as a designer”. Eva Zeisel, designer Eva Zeisel, as you may know, is a world renowned ceramic designer who will soon be 105 [...]
Categories: Home Design | Tags: designer, Eva Zeisel, perfection, play, playful, playful search for beauty | No Comments »
September 2, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Did you know that Mood Lighting is now available on airplanes? I learned this just recently, while reading up on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner under production for All Nippon Airways. Wait a minute, you might [...]
Categories: Home Design, Lighting | Tags: airplanes, Boeing, design, Home Design, industrial design, Light, microcosm, mood lighting | No Comments »
July 29, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
This past weekend, we visited the Farmer’s Market. Walking among the stalls, I was thrilled to see the colorful rows of fresh produce –a sure sign that Summer has arrived. Later in the day, as I inspected my selection of fresh asparagus, baby beets, snow peas, and lettuces, I wasn’t sure how they’d be combined [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Color, Home Design | Tags: balance, Color, Design Principles, Elements of Design, Farmer's Market, harmony, proportion, recipe, shape | No Comments »
July 22, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
A Designer Show House is often part fantasy and part reality. Designers typically pull out all the stops for the homeowner – a person who exists only in our imaginations. That’s precisely why taking part in a Designer Show House is a wonderfully creative endeavor for an interior designer. It is also a marvelous way [...]
Categories: Art, General, Historical Tidbits, Home Design | Tags: Art Deco, ASID, Ballets Russe, Designer Showhouse, interior design, Nijinsky, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Serge Diaghilev | No Comments »
April 8, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
Are you familiar with the term ‘amuse-bouche’? Normally experienced in a restaurant setting, an amuse-bouche is a single, bite-sized hors d’oeuvre – complements of the chef . Its purpose is to tickle your taste buds and whet your appetite for what’s to come. If you think about it, the entryway to your home is a [...]
Categories: Home Design | Tags: amuse-bouche, entrance, entry, entryway, garage, guests, hint at what's to come, tickle the taste buds, visitors, welcoming | 2 Comments »
January 7, 2011 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“Symphony…is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize, rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields”. Daniel Pink, “A Whole New Mind” Our homes are a lot like a symphony, the way the various parts come together like the parts of an orchestra. Did you ever [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Home Design | Tags: A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink, harmony, instruments, orchestra, percussion, symphony, symphony in your home | 2 Comments »
