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Design Tips

Does your home feel like YOU live there? I’m sharing my go-to personality-add secrets via my freebie guide, 3 Simple Steps to Create a Home You Love!

3 Simple Steps To Create The Home You Love

Design Tips

Do you love the idea of a well-designed home, but don’t know how to achieve it for yourself? We’ve created the ultimate checklist for you!

Top 20 Steps to Create A Well-Designed Home

Design Tips

Get inside the mind of an interior designer and learn the rules of thumb for furniture selection and placement.

An Interior Designer’s Rules of Thumb

Must Haves

With the holidays just around the corner, we figured it was high time to share some of our favorite holiday must-haves.

MMDH Holiday Prep Must Haves – November

Design Tips

What is the Rule of Threes in home styling and why is it important? Let’s explore why The Rule of Threes should be practiced in your home!

How To Decorate Using The Rule Of Threes

Design Tips

There are three easy ways to maximize any room’s potential. These trade tricks are reachable for any homeowner to accomplish. So without further ado, let’s get to those 3 ways to maximize your room’s potential!

3 Ways To Maximize Your Room’s Potential

Must Haves

We are dedicating this MMDH Monthly Must Haves to Fall! It’s that tricky transition of the season that is touch and go for what feels like months on end… never sure what layers you’ll need, so best to pile them all on! Let’s dive in.

MMDH Monthly Must Haves – October

Design Tips

At MMDH we are determined to help you bring your home design goals to life. Before we dive further into the present, let’s take it back to how a design business came to be.

How A Design Business Came To Be

Design Tips

There is a definite art to getting your house feeling like a cohesive and cozy home that speaks YOU, although It is not something that needs to be daunting, or that all needs to happen at once. The thoughtful layers of a home make it feel lived in, cozy, personal, loved, and ultimately cohesive.

How To Design A Cohesive Home

Must Haves

We are dedicating this month’s must-haves to a living space full of furniture. Check out a quick furnishing scheme of our current favorites?

MMDH Monthly Must Haves – September

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After over a decade in the commercial interiors industry, I started MMDH to help homeowners curate a well-designed space you can’t wait to get home to and spend time in. 




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Melissa Mahoney Design House


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