Things to Consider When Building a House That Are Easy to Overlook A beautiful floor plan is only the beginning. The way a home feels to live in often comes down to decisions that are easy to overlook on paper: where the holiday lights plug in, where laundry baskets land, and whether you can step […]
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How to Know When High Quality Furniture Is Worth the Investment This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Lavish Interiors and More. When shopping for high quality furniture, there is a point when the numbers
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When we think about luxury interior design, it’s easy to picture beautiful materials, custom furnishings, extraordinary architecture, and rooms that look effortlessly pulled together. And those things matter. Beauty matters. In fact, research suggests that experiencing beauty in our everyday surroundings can positively affect how we feel. A 2024 study published in Scientific Reports found
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Your custom home design priorities can become a filter for every decision that follows. See how what matters most to you can shape a home around the way you actually want to live.
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Why Build a Custom Home? The custom home design process rarely starts where people expect it to. If all you wanted was another beautiful house, there are thousands of them already built. Move-in ready, professionally photographed, sitting on the market right now. So why spend the time, the money, and the emotional energy building one
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Custom home design decisions establish the foundation every finish selection builds upon. Your builder has a schedule for your selections. But do you have a strategy for making them? After twenty years at the intersection of architecture, luxury construction, and interior design, I’ve learned that the hardest part of a custom home isn’t finding beautiful
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What to think about and how the right pieces build on each other. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Lavish Interiors and More. There is a version of your living room that you have
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The process, the value, and what to expect when you’re ready to do this right. Somewhere along the way, people got the idea that interior designers spend their days picking out pretty things. That always makes me smile. Because if that’s what you think this is, I’m about to give you a much better picture
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A mid-year home reset for the season you’re living in now. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Lavish Interiors and More. Most of us are living in a home that’s one or two seasons
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A Designer’s Intentional Edit for Summer 2026 This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Lavish Interiors and More. There is a moment — if you have ever cleared a surface, emptied a shelf, or stripped
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