As designers, sometimes we will be asked to stage and style a home that is going on the market. Usually, however, we are styling for our portfolio and for Instagram. Although we are not photographers, we can help guide what the image feels like by...
By Divya Pathak FabBrick CEO Clarisse Merlet Image Courtesy of FabBrick Facebook Turning old clothes into bricks to create furniture and partitions is a great initiative started by France based Architect and entrepreneur, Clarisse Merlet. She researched and concluded that textile industry lacks recycling waste materials and...
Work: Image Courtesy of Danielle Clockel Very often as an interior designer, we are brought in to make a space work better, look beautiful, and evoke a special feeling of home. During this process and through these relationships, we learn how “comfort” feels to our clients, what...
As readers of Design Pulp, you have seen us challenge our designers to take on designing a specific space under a certain budget. Many times these budgets are based on designing for a larger space, or using slightly higher quality materials. Challenge: $3500Total: $3146 Today’s challenge is...
Image Courtesy of The Citizenry"By personally traveling to each country and using only local materials, we establish sustainable relationships with our artisans. From there, we sell directly to you online–there is no middleman. This is how we’re able to offer handmade goods, crafted with the...
One of the best compliments we can get as a design firm is when someone looks at our portfolio and says that each client feels unique and has their own style. This recent observation got me thinking about the process and the relationships that we develop...
After over a year of little to no travel, my friends and I were feeling free and bolder after our vaccinations. I am hoping to share more wanderlust blogs from our team, to let you know where to go, what to do, where to eat...
Spring flowers, new leaves, low humidity and no mosquitos (yet) make us want to spend all of our time outdoors! This past winter, we worked with a client to construct an outdoor screened space to enjoy just such weather. It was designed to be a...
At Balance Design, we have some close relationships with some very talented local artists. Adrienne Anbinder, currently a featured artist in our studio spoke with us about creating art during the Pandemic. She shared some of her meditations that she considered as she made her beauties. We find...