Posts belonging to Category 'Home Design'
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 | 
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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 »
December 24, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“Beauty …is a doorway to the next dimension.” Sarah Susanka, architect & author of ‘The Not So Big House’ & ‘Not So Big Life’ Last week I fell in love. The object of my affection was a lovely little settee that I spotted in a designer showroom. As it happened, I was in need of [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Home Design | Tags: beautiful, beauty, celebrating, decision, Sarah Susanka, settee, sofa | No Comments »
December 17, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
For several years now, I’ve been observing the similarities between food and design. If that seems like too much of a stretch, I invite you to think again. This past summer, I wrote a post called “Do You Follow the Recipe?”, where I attempted to draw a parallel between doing things by the book, or [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Gaining Clarity, Home Design | Tags: Do You Follow the Recipe, fast food, furnishings, interior design, slow food, Slow Home, turtle | No Comments »
December 10, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“Do not keep anything in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris Do you ever feel like you’re a bit behind the times? I certainly do. Just by chance, I came across a Facebook posting from life coach Martha Beck, featuring IKEA’s “Life Improvement Project”. [...]
Categories: Designer Recommends, Gaining Clarity, Home Design | Tags: 7 Pennies, beauty, Betsy Rapoport, butterfly, butterfly effect, eco-system, environment, Ikea, Life Impro vement Project, Martha Beck, Not So Big House, Slow Home | No Comments »
November 19, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
When I was a child, perhaps 7 or 8 years old, I was given this lovely silk scarf as a gift. I realize this might not be the typical gift one gives to a child, but I can tell you that from the moment I set my eyes on it, I was transported to another [...]
Categories: Art, General, Home Design | Tags: antiques, art installation, silk scarf, treasures, turquoise | No Comments »
November 5, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
As you may know, I’ve been working with a vestibular therapist in recent weeks. Among other things, she’s been addressing my less-than-perfect posture. So as I’m standing there in her office, trying to wrap my brain around her instructions on how to stand properly, I feel myself getting tenser by the minute. Then she says, [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Home Design | Tags: effortless, going with the flow, Home Design, posture, stuff happens | No Comments »
October 29, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
I was lounging by the pool in Hawaii, thumbing through a magazine, when I came across an article that explored how we express ourselves through fashion. The basic premise was that our personalities clearly come through in the way we dress, which is very true. One could take this a step further and apply the [...]
Categories: Gaining Clarity, Home Design | Tags: closet, fashion, habits, likes and dislikes, personal expression, pieces, preferences, wardrobe, who you are | 6 Comments »
October 15, 2010 | Posted by Karen Trubner-Kent
“They are architects of furniture who designed comfortable, livable pieces that define space in a dynamic way….They built temples for your body.” David Jameson, Architect The above quote was in reference to Hans Wegner and Poul Kjaerholm, two (among many) remarkable furniture designers of the early twentieth century. Think about it. Imagine having a “temple [...]
Categories: Balance & Harmony, Health & Wellness, Home Design | Tags: body, comfort, furnishings, Hans Wegner, Home Design, sanctuary, stress, temple | No Comments »
