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Landscape Designer to Sheryl Crow Shares How

Sheryl Crow sings about having fun in Los Angeles. Imagine the fun enjoying a yard and landscape like this? Jon Goldstein made it happen and explains how it came together over 10 years in the hills of Hollywood. The garden is featured in Architectural Digest.

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Organizing Your Home and Your Life

Regina Leeds truly is the Zen Organizer, exuding this peaceful attitude you instantly want to incorporate into your home and life.  But how you say?  Regina has been decluttering homes and lives for a couple of decades shares how whether it’s working on finally getting the garage organized, or preparing for your new baby and [...]

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Using Nature, Textiles and Paper to Say I Love You

Before you rush out and buy wrapping paper, look around you, in your home and your garden to see what you can use to say “I Love You” as you package up that gift. Wanda Wen, founder of Soolip in West Hollywood, studied Design and turned it into a business that is founded in passion [...]

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Psychology of Color

Whether it’s a new coat of paint, or a painting you want to bring into a room, think about how color makes you feel! Why is it you feel energized when you wear certain clothes, and tired in others? Deborah Zimmer has been studying and analyzing color with the Paint Quality Institute for years and [...]

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2011 International Design Show Toronto – Canadian Designer Talks

  Thien Tu Truan is a well-known designer in Canada making his mark on the home space both there and in the US as well.  Together with his sister the design team works to make the chic and trendy affordable and realistic.  I caught up with Thien in Toronto at that very fashionable International Design [...]

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Our Wish Lists for The Home in 2011

  Better Homes and Gardens Magazine is always at the pulse of what we want in this country.  They are a constant staple in the home design space and take pride in connecting with readers and web users on what we really want and expect to get to improve our home and our lives.   Editor [...]

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Book Collecting – A Reflection of Ourselves

We all have books around the house right? But how do you know if yours are a classic and a collection that may be worth something? Think “Gone With the Wind,” or “Harry Potter” and you may be sitting on a gold mine!  No matter what genre, books do tell a story about the person [...]

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Superbowl Party Prepping

Here are my tips to having a simple and simply fun SuperBowl party. My 4 basic “food groups” and my husband “Been There Bill” chimes in on what he loves to see and experience at a SuperBowl party. From décor to food, we’ve got you covered.

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