Furniture and upholstery design & inspiration for your home – including upholstery fabrics, use of color, interior design and featured artists & art shows
Cabriole, saber, trumpet, flemish... It almost sounds like a prop list from a 40's Swashbuckler more than the names of chair leg styles. I'm reminded of a New [...]
An Upholstery Apprentice Story June, 2014: Almira is a wonderful upholstery apprentice who is helping me in my upholstery studio. In exchange for her help [...]
Can’t find the perfect fabric for your project at the local fabric store? Looking for designer fabrics at discount prices? Here are four of my favorite [...]
I've been thinking 'outside the box' lately as I contemplate the word 'Bodacious'. Coincidentally, a client sent me these charming chair pictures: Sign up for the mailing [...]
bo*da*cious: bold, remarkable, audacious, voluptuous... What pops into your head when you think of bodacious fabrics? For me, it's color with curves, like this awesome [...]
How do you choose colors for your upholstery project? Whether it's an accent chair, a sofa or a simple cushion, a new color choice can [...]
Every year as the Holidays and Winter Solstice roll around, I think about the origins of all of our cultural celebrations at this time of [...]
You just can't go wrong with a low slung mid-century sectional sofa with kidney bean cushions and good solid 'bones'. Retro-weave turquoise wool with flame [...]
There’s something about the image of a waterfall that brings harmony to the moment, and to have that feeling associated with something from everyday life [...]
Ten artists' wildly divergent transformations of chairs wow'ed the crowd at the September 27th, 2013 opening of an Art Chair exhibit at The Frame Garden [...]
