Tag: modern living

A universal coating for delicious fish or fowl.
Pattern play is enjoying a moment, but it is nothing new. In the hands of a talented pro, this approach to design is always in style. Take interior designer Jason Wilde's interior of a spectacular Heber home (How Swede It Is) we featured in 2013. It is as compelling and as relevant now as it was four years ago. And there's much to learn from Wilde's work.
Jo Packham proves that out-of-the-box thinking, a can-do attitude and a willingness to fall and get back up as one moves from venture to venture all contribute to success and joy for one's work.

How Swede It Is

Once relegated to garden parties and summer soirees, wine spritzers are now a favorite.
Nothing looks more natural in open country than a cluster of farm buildings. There’s an honesty and direct practicality about farmhouses, barns, and rural out buildings and a tradition that makes them comfortable to our senses.
Once relegated to garden parties and summer soirees, wine spritzers are now a favorite.
We've loved decorating with blue for a number of years now, and Sherwin-Williams is predicting our passion for this color will continue in 2018. The Sherwin-Williams color pros just tagged Oceanside as the color of the year for 2018.
Instead of the usual nine-inch round pie, try these pecan tarts. Called “tassies” in the South—no one is sure why—each one is a perfect mouthful of crunch and sweetness. 
One of the challenges a designer can face is to start with a highly identifiable home, and to demonstrate the home’s potential beyond the style and furnishings most associate with it. The owner of the Utah Jazz is selling a home designed to entertain that has hosted people from throughout the Valley and around the world.
This week I have a captive audience. The American Society of interior Designers (ASID) holds its Western Conference at Deer Valley on Friday. I have the privilege of speaking to them an hour before dinner. To keep their minds off what’s on the menu, I am attempting make the work of architectural photography sound intriguing.