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Design Tips

You know what I mean?… Does your home put a smile on your face when you walk in the door? Do you feel cozy in your home as you close out your day? Does your home inspire you?

Bring Personality to Your Home Decor

Design Tips

Discover Effective Ways to Overcome Design Roadblocks in Your Home Projects. Hint: Mood boards are a powerful tool!

Do You Freeze When It Comes To Designing Your Home?

Design Tips

Bringing Personality Into Your Home Doesn’t Need To Be A Challenge. Learn My Quick Tips To Make Achieve It Yourself.

Bringing Personality Into Your Home

Design Tips

Well, I’m here to tell you that if you’re not on trend, you’re a step ahead with your home project mindset. Being on trend has never really suited me. I’ve literally, this week, figured out how to layer necklaces… I think I also just saw that skinny jeans are BACK… but I never stopped wearing them.

MMDH: Are You On Trend?

Must Haves

I’m making a conscious effort of being more present in 2021. I don’t know if that comes naturally to anyone these days. Our weeks fly by and it’s like we don’t even know what happened by Friday. So here goes my trip down this week’s memory lane… 

MMDH: Week In Review 01

Design Tips

The good news is that you’re not alone! There is not a designer out here who doesn’t need to regroup and refocus on design when we get caught up in the everyday.

Need Some Design Inspiration?

Design Tips

If you haven’t set goals for yourself, your life, your story, your views, your home… TODAY is your day!

MMDH: A Lot Can Happen In A Year

Design Tips

While every morning brings one, there is something different about the fresh start of the new year.

MMDH: A Fresh Start

Before & After

Do You Ever Feel Like Creating An Inviting And Personalized Space Feels Like a Daunting Process? Well… while this office suite is outside of my typical project realm these days, I had to take on the challenge for old time’s sake 😯 I knew there was serious potential hiding under the age-old plaid broadloom carpeting, […]

MMDH: Office Suite Redesign

Must Haves

I’m thinking I can’t be alone in the need for some retail therapy to get me through what is left of this endless feeling winter. We are in the midst of a sunny wind storm in Chicagoland today, and this Momma needs some ‘must have’ inspo! We’re going to make this round of must haves […]

MMDH: Must Have Get Me Through Winter Finds

Like cozy fuzzy slippers on your feet after a long day.


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


(around here, we go by MMDH for short)


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