MBD is Winner in “Best of Remodeling” at Houzz.com!
Yay! The interior-design loving community at Houzz.com picked Megan Blake Design as one of their winners in the first ever “2012 Best of Remodeling” contest and we could not be more pleased!
We love what we do here at Megan Blake Design. Everyday is a blessing to work with amazing clients who invite us into their homes and works space and in tandem, achieve beautiful, functional and lasting indoor and outdoor living spaces. Our portfolio on Houzz.com has attracted many readers and viewers in their web community and we hope we can continue to inspire homeowners looking for great ideas for their own living spaces.
Contact us at MBD for your indoor and outdoor design needs today! 202-688-1311 or email us at info@meganblakedesign.com.
It’s 65 Degrees! Let’s Design for the Outdoors!
We have seen unseasonably warm temperatures in and around Washington DC. There are daffodils smiling in the sunshine and tulips starting to show their heads. You know what that means? Get outside and enjoy the view! If your outdoor living situation has been a bit lackluster or even non-existent, now is the time to start planning a stylish and durable outdoor design for living, dining and entertaining. Expanding your livable space outdoors make sense for our moderate climate and adds value to your home. Plus, you get a “bigger” house! Megan Blake Design offers outdoor design for living spaces – we will hand-pick and customize comfortable seating arrangements, set up inviting dining areas, cast beautiful glows with perfect lighting, add patterns and personality with seat cushions and durable accessories. The sky is the limit. We’d like to take your landscape there.
Contact us at MBD for your outdoor design needs today! 202-688-1311 or email us at info@meganblakedesign.com.
Ways to Warm Up Rooms.
It’s the dead of Winter here in Washington, DC, and recent bone-chilling temperatures have keep many of us bundled up in our own homes. If you want to bring some warmth into your nest, choose a few of these tips for warming up your rooms:
- Put velvet accent pillows on your chairs and sofas
- Drop in a fluffy bath mat.
- Light scented candles in your entry hall.
- Burn real logs in your fireplace.
- Spray your dressing room with a spicy scent.
- Throw a rich camel blanket over your sofa.
- Lower your dining room chandelier a few inches.
- Pull a reading light up to a chair.
- Reupholster a piece of furniture in a leopard or zebra print.
- Install a few wall sconces in the hallways.
- Banish any fluorescents from your kitchen.
- Repaint your front door a chinese red.
- Cover up a carpet with a few colorful flat pile area rugs.
- Cover your walls with textured wallpaper.
- Install dimmers everywhere.
- Place a huge bowl with pinecones on your coffee table.
- Serve red wine.
We’re Featured Today On Houzz!
Woohoo! Megan Blake Design was featured in the daily article on Houzz.com titled “How to Choose the Right Dining Table“. We are excited to be able to share our interior ideas and designs with readers and our website visitors! When clients need to seek out inspiration for new projects with our firm, we sometimes send them to Houzz.com (and other inspiration websites and webzines). This is a great starting point for pulling together a style file of favorite rooms and ideas. Thank you Houzz for using one of dining rooms for today’s post!
Switch to This.
I’m not the only homeowner who’s afraid to install those garish wiry looking lightbulbs in place of the incandescent bulbs that we’ve grown accustomed to. I like a room to feel warm, cozy, livable, comfortable without the look of an ugly bulb or eye-blinding glow from a socket. I wish I had stocked up on the Philips Pink 60W bulbs before they started to disappear {pssst… there has to be some boxes still laying around the smaller hardware shops somewhere}. But with my design business and my evolving desire to go green, I’m now realizing I need to embrace the energy-efficient bulb. And I found a winner.
Welcome to the dimmable 60W A-19 LED. This rounded beauty comes in daylight white or warm white {finally}, and replaces energy gobbling incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs which consume only 8 watts. They may be a bit on the pricy side of $28 each {yikes, I know!} but they should save some bucks on your energy bill and outlast the typical base bulb that seems to burn out monthly. The A-19 dimmable LED light bulb can be used with a standard household dimmer and is available through The LED Light online store.
This just might light up my life and living spaces beautifully and efficiently.
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