How Do You Choose the Right Interior Designer?

Nicole Gardner Nicole Gardner

How Do You Choose the Right Interior Designer?

The most successful design relationships are not built solely on talent or style. They are built on compatibility. The right designer is often the one whose strengths complement your own and whose process aligns with the way you want to work.

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Nicole Gardner Nicole Gardner

Finding the Color of Your Calm

Color is deeply personal. What feels calming, energizing, comforting, or inspiring to one person may evoke an entirely different response in someone else. Yet when designing a home, many people begin by asking what colors are popular rather than considering which colors genuinely resonate with them.

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Dara Kay Barker working on art projects at a large table in a bright room with a window showing green trees outside. The table is covered with art supplies, including markers, paint, and papers.

meet the artist

Dara Kay Barker

After years practicing law, Dara Kay Barker returned to her longstanding interests in art, architecture, and interiors, a path that ultimately led her back to the creative disciplines that had always informed the way she moved through the world.

Today, her work reflects an enduring interest in craftsmanship, collected spaces, and the relationship between the environments we create and how they influence our daily experience.