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A Tropical Mood Board that will inspire your next Interior Design Project

Creating a Tropical mood board while designing vacation homes remotely, helps to visualize the final design. You love the purples and pinks of a Caribbean sunset. Seashells would look beautiful carved into a custom piece of furniture in your living room. Colors, textures, patterns, fabrics. What style furniture will suit, and how will it look[...]
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Sunset View Condo Interior Before & After: A project that was passion

Interior Design Before and After: We Transformed a 2-unit vacation rental into a beautiful permanent family home The Interior Design Challenge Take 2 separate condo units side by side, and turn them into 1 family’s residence. What we do matters beyond just ‘being pretty’. Design is really about people. It’s about how we can create[...]
Ocean view out of a chic guest bedroom
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What NOT to do when Designing and Decorating an Island Home

Designing and decorating an Island home is much different from one in a city or suburb in the North. Once you select your property, there is a lot to consider in the planning stages. From incorporating views, to choosing materials suitable for the climate, it’s easy to slip up during the process. Clients dream of[...]
A Handmade sink is made with sustainable materials
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Why Sustainable Interior Design is Important on an Island

All about Sustainable Interior Design – The Test of Time, and Island Life Sustainable interior design can mean so many things.  It’s creatively repurposing older items. It’s making beautiful things from materials that would otherwise be discarded.  It’s so many things. A few years ago, Baker Furniture was using an ad slogan, “Things chosen well[...]
Outdoor pool area with ample shade will keep tile flooring cool
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Planning a Beautiful Outdoor Living Space

Are you designing a vacation home, or dream of planning a beautiful outdoor living space to enjoy tropical weather year-round? Not everyone shares the same needs and desires when designing their vacation home. Design teams need to begin with a discussion with their clients to learn how they envision using the space. “We always start[...]
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Favorite Finds in an Outdoor Living Area

Clients love planning outdoor living areas for their vacation homes, especially in the late summer. After a season relaxing in the warm air, you can appreciate features needed to enjoy the outdoors. Soak up the sun, lounge under the stars, and embrace dining ‘al fresco’. Favorite finds’ in an outdoor living area. Outdoor Lighting Outdoor[...]
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Designing Your Dream Outdoor Living Area

Mid-late summer is the perfect time for clients enjoying the outdoors to start planning ideas for designing an outdoor living area in their seasonal vacation home. While enjoying summer, you embrace the relaxation of the air, and soaking up the sun. Now, you appreciate what features you’d like to incorporate outside when you travel to[...]
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5 Tips for Planning Your Outdoor Bathing Space

Properly Planning an outdoor bathing space will allow you to enjoy it even more! Modern luxury vacation homes, especially in the islands, now have both indoor and outdoor bathing space. Features such as a rainfall showers, incorporating landscaping, and decor mimic a spa experience. Outdoor bathing areas provides the ultimate relaxation, and connect people with[...]
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Effective Collaboration and Communication When Designing Your Dream Vacation Home

Team collaboration software is on the rise. For employees, there is the appeal of being a ‘digital nomad’ and enjoying the perks of working from anywhere in the world. For designers who work in a location where most of their clients are residents part-time, or frequently travel, they love using virtual tools to facilitate design[...]
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How to Design an Instagrammable Vacation Rental

Stunning vacation rentals with striking interiors capture the eyes of the those who enter them, and now, the hearts and imaginations of those who see images posted on social media. What makes a space ‘social media worthy’, and especially on the number one picture sharing app, Instagram, is the unique features, breathtaking surroundings, and remarkable[...]