How Designing a Vacation Home is Different from Your Primary Residence
Designing a vacation home should be a breeze, right? White furnishings. A fully stocked kitchen. Outdoor spaces where you can relax. Isn’t that all you need? Eeerch! — let’s stop right there. Yes, …
Indoor and Outdoor Rugs That Are Worth Their Salt
An area rug is the design glue that holds a room together. Whether selecting a rug for the family room or your outdoor entertaining area, a rug can bring color and texture into your space. However…
Why Designers Choose Custom Window Treatments… Every Time
One-size-fits-all. Did you just cringe a little? Yup, me too. You don’t even have to try on those pants/shirts/dresses to know they will never fit quite right. Too tight, too baggy, accentuating th…
Project Preview: Cheeky Modern San Francisco Home
Have you ever walked into a design showroom? Feels like a museum, doesn’t it? Perfect coiffed pillows. Shelves styled with NASA-like precision. (Watch those elbows.) Strange lighting that doesn’t s…
How to Create a Design Concept for Your Home
Ever made a late-night impulse purchase after a couple glasses of wine? That alarm clock rings and hellooo, buyer’s remorse. Sure, $100 worth of premium matcha won’t break the bank… but the wrong $…
How to Furnish a New Home from Scratch…the Coddington Way!
You’ve just purchased a bigger, better home in your dream neighborhood, and you’re ready to move in and start living large. But…your house is empty, and bringing in your old, less-than-lovable furn…
The Best Outdoor Furniture for Your Investment
What characteristics make for the best outdoor furniture for your investment? Answer: the materials. Our number one consideration is that you invest in materials that match the function of your out…
Residential Interior Design Preview: Eclectic Classic Home in Piedmont
This Bay Area family of four thought they knew their style, but when we started working with them on their Piedmont home, they were surprised to discover that their tastes went well beyond the “tim…
5 Trendy Ideas to Spruce up Your Wall Decor
Imagine walking into a home with no wall decor and blank, white surfaces from top to bottom. Inspiring? Not so much. Full of opportunity? Oh yeah. Sprucing up your walls alone can turn a ho-hum ro…
What Happens During Our Online Interior Design Service?
The last couple of years have pushed us to find innovative ways to help our clients create homes they love, despite the limitations. (I think we all know what those have been.) The result was our O…