In the world of interior design, console tables are on fire right now, finding their way into our homes’ spaces in new and surprising ways. It seems like every day someone comes into Nell Hill’s looking for one of these decorating gotta-have pieces, and as soon as we get a shipment in, they are out … [Read more...]
Natural Materials Make a Home Inviting
Interior spaces that are too fussy make me uncomfortable. I think when you really live in a home, there needs to be a bit or disorder. A messy stack of books next to your reading chair. A cat asleep on the duvet at the bottom of your bed. A piece of furniture with a story to tell, like a chest with … [Read more...]
Stunning Kitchen & Dining Room Makeover
It started as a whim. My cousin Anne, who is a designer at Nell Hill’s, has three daughters who would soon be out of the nest. Why not sell their larger family home and downsize into a fixer-upper she could renovate? “It sounded so fun,” Anne remembers with an eye roll. “Looking at pictures and … [Read more...]
Tips for Styling a Cabinet
Dan once joked to an acquaintance that on my days off, I could spend the whole day puttering around my house, tweaking each display, “rotating everything a quarter of an inch” until it was just so. I would have given him a dirty look for that, if it wasn’t a tiny bit true. I do love crafting … [Read more...]
Back to School Makeover at the Pi Beta Phi House
Kate Spade and Tory Burch may not be living at the Pi Beta Phi chapter house at the University of Missouri – Columbia, but I feel confident they would feel at home there, since these designers’ fun, fresh styles were the inspiration for the makeover just completed by the Nell Hill’s … [Read more...]
Abstract Thinking: Contemporary Art in Your Traditional Home
My 140-year-old Greek Revival home in Atchison was about as traditional as you can get. I filled it with antiques, when I could afford them, and to stretch my budget as far as I could, good reproduction cheater pieces. I covered the walls with classic artwork, like botanicals. As much as I loved it, … [Read more...]