Webster’s Dictionary defines joy as “the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying.” The kind folk at Webster’s are, however, no help to us as we ponder the size or scale of a thing which might be considered “good or satisfying” and thus could stir in us the emotion of joy. So left to our own devices we must decide. What’s the tipping point in a things scale or size that allows us to celebrate the defined emotion? (more…)

DesignCoach: Help Me with My Wood Floors!

Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Beverly Hills interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.

This week on the DesignCoach: Help Me with My Wood Floors! (more…)

DesignFind: Global Design Events Calendar

Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths™, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of House Beautiful and Traditional Home and let us know your opinion. (more…)

Surviving the Times; Things to Edit from Your Home

Whether with the assistance of auction specialists; Craigs List or the nearest curb, it seems people everywhere are simplifying their lives by divesting themselves of “things” they no longer require. Its funny how moments ago the “need” to posses lured us all down a path of consumption that now feels slightly embarrassing. That’s all right. You are not alone. (more…)

Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.

This week on the DesignCoach: What’s wrong with white walls? (more…)

Design Find is your global guide to interior design events, designer show houses, antique & art fairs, and home & garden shows. (more…)

Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths™, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of Architectural Digest and Veranda and let us know your opinion. (more…)

How high is your IDQ (Interior Design Quotient)? This week’s IDQ quiz challenges your knowledge!

This 5-question test tells you what your IDQ score is. (more…)

Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.

This week on the DesignCoach: How to find contemporary interior designers to hire (more…)

Design Find is your global guide to interior design events, designer show houses, antique & art fairs, and home & garden shows. (more…)

Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of MediaMouths™, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers.

This week we look across the pond to the UK. Take a look at the current covers of House & Gardens and Homes & Gardens and give us your opinions. (more…)

Like a pond recently disrupted by a belligerent stone; the ripples of today’s world-wide economic ‘splash’ continue to tussle, if not capsize completely, every boat in the water. (more…)

This week’s IDQ test is moderately challenging. What’s your Interior Design Quotient?

This 5-question test tells you what your IDQ score is. (more…)

London’s Mayor, Boris Johnson on how fat this makes me look. (more…)

Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.

This week the DesignCoach discusses (breaking?) color rules to make small spaces look larger. (more…)

Design Find is your global guide to interior design events, designer show houses, antique & art fairs, and home & garden shows. (more…)