This week's Saturday Short edition comes from our chat on The True Cost of interior design. In this segment, which didn't make the final cut, we discussed the need for open communication between client and designer on the budget - and the misconceptions, wasted time and money that result from lack of communicating.
What would you guess this room, designed by Charles Faudree, cost?
The Skirted Roundtable tackles the true cost of using an interior designer. Join Linda, Megan, and Joni as they discuss what things really cost and why custom design can get a little pricey!
The Buckingham's original house, designed by veteran Madeline Stuart, shows two coffee tables - one of which ended up in their new house. The other coffee table, though, matches the root table in scale and seems to "make sense" in this picture. The mantelscape also shows excellent placement with regard to size and style.
Join the Skirted Roundtable this week as we discuss Blogging - Is it alright to criticize? When is criticism too much or too mean? Are the magazines off limit?
Kitchen of Donna Brown, owner of The Gray Door in Houston, Texas. When Donna moved into a new townhouse - she ripped out the perfectly fine brand new kitchen and instead brought in antique furniture from her store to finish out the room.
Welcome to Week #9 of the Skirted Roundtable! This week, we are going back to our original format of two topics at 15 minutes each. We don't have a guest host this week - it's just us - Linda, Megan, and Joni. The Design Topic is Kitchens!
Join us this week as Southern Accents' Editor in Chief Karen Carroll drops by to chat about what's behind creating one of the grand dames of interior design publications, sustaining a dedicated readership community and her recent foray into the blogging world.
This week on The Skirted Round Table, Patricia Shackelford, a.k.a. Mrs. Blandings, stops by to discuss blogging, the experience of blogging and what inspires the woman behind the character. Are they one in the same? Or merely a aspect of one.
Between 2009 and 2013, interior designers and design bloggers Megan Arquette from Beach Bungalow 8, Linda Merrill from ::Surroundings::, and Joni Webb from Cote de Texas discussed blogging and interior design on a weekly design podcast called The Skirted Roundtable (think the Algonquin Roundtable meets interior design). We had no idea what we were doing when we started - because we were the first doing a weekly podcast of this type! We started chatting amongst ourselves about our design and blogging experiences. Then we asked other bloggers whom we respected to join us and were thrilled when they did! Eventually, we had the opportunity to chat with some of the biggest names in the design industry - including many members of the AD100 and other "Top" lists. We also chatted with some up and comers who've since made their mark on their design world. All these podcasts, though a few years old, are evergreen. We chatted about their backgrounds, how they because designers and got their first clients and so much more. We thought of these freewheeling chats as "masterclasses" on interior design. All told, we recorded 101 podcasts which to date have been downloaded nearly 700,000 times! Enjoy!
DESIGN TRENDS FOR 2021
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In past Januarys, I would write a blog story about DESIGN TRENDS for the
new year: What’s In and What’s Out. For most of those years, many of the
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Robert Bingaman
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Newport Day
2014, 57 x 78 in. acrylic on linen
Happy Labor Day and here's some incredible art to just think about, freak
out over or just gaze upon.
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