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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[...]
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Before and After: Family Condo with Great “Rentability”

Looking for an escape from their stateside jobs and school schedules, a lovely family with four children hired Lagnappe to renovate and design their island oasis condo.  When the family isn’t vacationing here, they will utilize it as a short-term rental property to share with other families looking for the perfect island getaway. Later on,[...]
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Yacht Interior Design Style: Small Spaces with Big Personality

Who hasn’t dreamed of living aboard a luxurious yacht? Floating on the ocean and visiting any island you want with all the comforts of home sounds pretty nice… While most of us can’t afford a mega-million dollar floating palace, you can steal some of these design ideas and make your home feel like a million[...]
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Caribbean Kitchen Design: Bright Backsplashes

The kitchen is a great place to add color into your home, and there probably isn’t an easier way than with a vibrant backsplash. Sometimes we get stuck thinking that the kitchen has to only be functional. A bright backsplash can take a kitchen from a place that is a place that holds your food[...]
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How to Choose Interior Lighting for Every Room in the Home

This comes as a surprise to many people (and clients!), but you don’t have to keep the lighting that was in your home when you bought it. It’s true! There are so. Many. Options. Gone are the days when a single light fixture in a room was sufficient or that all the fixtures need to[...]
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5 Ways to Make Your Patio Pop

Having a great patio space is an asset in the islands, as it is not only somewhere with a great view, but it’s usually cooler as well. Anyone can create a backyard with a place to eat and drink, maybe an umbrella and a barbecue, but a space that looks great and makes you want[...]