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Things we are loving right now…
“Design is not what you see when you walk into a room.It’s what you feel before you’ve had time to look.” - Natalie Walton
I follow interior stylist and designer Natalie Walton, and her latest piece on The Invisible Decisions that Shape a Home is an absolutely fantastic read.
“Most people think good design is about what you see. It isn’t.
It lives beneath the surface. In the decisions that go unnoticed, and yet are felt deeply – the moment you enter a space.”
This truly speaks to our driving ethos that the homes we create are not just beautiful but more importantly feel good. It is often the decisions made behind the finished façade that hold the feelings of the space. How the floor plan flows, what functions the rooms support, and how they embrace us and create emotion.
She makes the point that the real work, the work that makes the difference between spaces that look right and ones that feel right, happens in the decisions that aren’t seen. They are the small ones. The early ones. The decisions that are made long before a room is actually furnished or photographed. It is so fundamentally true and one of the things that I love most about what we do.
Behind the Scenes: Design in Progress
We have a batch of projects that are in the construction phase with finishes just starting to go in. Our days are filled with lots of running around on last minute notice, reviewing paint and cabinetry, checking on tile layouts, templating stone slabs and making sure the grout color selections are just right.
Design News
Per the experts at Vogue, I am hearing that 2026 is going to be absolutely full of color. No more “sad beige” homes. Expect to see more in the way of chartreuse, desaturated sky blue, ochre, red and lemon vanilla per Vogue.
And, while we still like a layered, neutral, classic palette, we too are embracing quite a bit of color and some of those mentioned above in projects this year.
Ochre in action…and a version of desaturated sky blue.
I think my goal this year will be to add more touches of red into our palette in different tones. It adds so much drama to a space. I am looking forward to playing with interesting color palettes as we head into Quarter two…
Cheers!
- Tama