Paint + Pattern Where design & creativity collide

Hacienda of Sculptor, Jorge Marín as photographed by Paul Costello Haciendas in Latin America have enthralled travelers for ages. These large estates and plantations have dwellings that welcome traveling guests as well as family while showcasing incredible Mexican and Spanish ...

The streets are ablaze with lilac-lavenders, lime greens, lemon yellows, pastel pinks and cobalt blues while the scent of rich spices is in the air. Although there are many destinations known for their color – Italy, Brazil and India may ...

I’d like to introduce you to designer Sandra Barron of Sandra Barron Interiors in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sandra is somewhat quiet about her design talent, but that does not mean the quality and uniqueness of her work does not leap ...

It’s Showcase season! That time of year when local houses of interest all over the country are transformed by teams of designers and talented artisans for a brief run of walkthroughs by local interior design enthusiasts. Showcase Houses are always ...

Peacock Painters, The Encore Trip This story begins in the fall of 2007. I had started my own blog, Designamour, and had become smitten with the words and images on a delightful little blog by Maryam Montague out of Morocco called My Marrakesh. You see, ...

In the last post, I shared a beautiful example of a building facade with a sgraffito pattern. If you are familiar with the dimensional or “embossed” stencil method, it appears as if a giant stencil was placed over the side ...

On my recent trip to Barcelona, I got up early one day (well, OK, 8am-which IS early when you’ve just flown intercontinental from the West Coast!) to take a nice, leisurely walk around our hotel neighborhood. We were staying in ...

Being the busy little bee that I am, I thought I would just point you in some inspiring directions around the web today to some fabulous home design blog posts that have special meanings to me. Debbie Hayes has a ...

For 28 years, from 1919 to 1947, William Randolph Hearst and architect Julia Morgan worked collaboratively to turn a former remote Hearst family camping site near San Simeon, CA  into one of the most lavish and famous private residences in the country. ...

I love going to Europe! My favorite European city so far HAS to be Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, Spain. Barcelona has it ALL you see: the sea, the mountains, cava (champagne!), tapas, shopping and people watching along La ...