How Do You Choose the Right Interior Designer?
Training Your Eye: Five Ways to Become More Confident in Your Design Decisions
Like any skill, the ability to recognize proportion, quality, beauty, and craftsmanship develops over time. The more closely you pay attention to the spaces, objects, and materials around you, the more instinctive those decisions become.
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.
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.
meet the artist
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.