The woman who helped usher the interior design industry into full flower in the United States was prolific in putting out ideas that will help freshen up today's interior design business. Look at our latest Designer Monthly, Interior Design: Look Forward by Looking Back to Dorothy Draper.
Did you ever have a problem designing small spaces? Take a look at how top interior designers solved this common problem in our latest Designer Monthly, How to Design Small Spaces at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
Sarah Van Arsdale Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 10:26AM I’m sick of my front hall. And I know better than to have a lousy front hall. The little I know about Feng Shui includes the idea that the entrance to a home is of utmost importance---another lesson from Feng Shui that also squares with basic design sense and basic good sense.
Sarah Van Arsdale Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 1:27PM In thinking recently about how important good design is to good health (don't ask for the details) we came across this about the Hospital for Special Surgery, NYC's premier hospital that only does orthopedic surgeries. It's so fabulous that, literally, princesses and other royalty from around the world, not to mention major league sports stars, go there for their knee replacements
Sarah Van Arsdale Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 5:29AM 
(This chair brought to you by Lane Industries)
This just up at Patricia Gray's blog: an entry on leather slipcovers. When we first saw this, we thought, Huh? it just seems weird---aren't slipcovers supposed to be either your grandmother's chintz or a tidy white cotton duck? And in either case, isn't the point of slipcovers to protect the furniture from Kitty's claws and Junior's muddy sneakers? How could leather slipcovers possibly work?
Sarah Van Arsdale Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 6:51PM Tomorrow, February 12, is the birthday of Charles Darwin, and it's also the sesquicentennial of the publication of his book, The Origin of Species.Evolution: the idea that species evolve from previous species. Kind of like design.Let's hear some examples of this.How about how the Wegner wishbone dining chair, as evolved from the Windsor chair? (photo from http://www.danishdesignstore.com)
(photo from windsorchairs.biz)
Sarah Van Arsdale Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:15AM In case you think decorating a nursery for a new baby is a matter of pink, blue, and kitchsy-looking duckies, think again. You can do just as much with decorating a nursery as you can with any other room in the house---provided you have the basic furniture that’s tiny-sized.
In our on-going search for interesting new takes on baby design, we were delighted to see “Kara’s Nursery,” at
http://sweetiepiepumpkinnoodle.blogspot.com/2008/05/karas-finished-nursery-aka-worlds.html
Here's baby's little bed:
