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We’re offering up designer insights for your home design journey… one FREE guide at a time. Yep, we have now dedicated a page of our website to FREE Interior Design Guides for Your Home!

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Welcome to the final stretch and quite possibly the most enlightening of our Top 20 List series.

The Key to Maintaining Your Thoughtfully Designed Home

Must Haves

This month’s MMDH Monthly Must Haves round-up from our Amazon storefront is enough to make us feel like we’re on vacation every day!

MMDH Monthly Must Haves – June

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Does your home design feel complete? I promise, if you set out to purge through the excess and follow steps #1 through #6 on my list, you will feel an immediate sense of peace. 

3 Tips for Designing A Home That You Can Be Proud Of

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I was recently asked by Redfin, how to lighten up a dark apartment or space. Per usual, my thoughts on the topic are extensive. But, I summed it up with this…

How To Brighten A Dark Space With Only Furnishings

Design Tips

Tips to Help You Take Control of Your Home and Create A Space You Love.

6 Easy Tips To Make Your Home Your Happy Place

Design Tips

Ready to live in a well-designed home but can’t seem to pull it all together? Check out my easy steps to make it happen.

My Simple Design Process To Create A Well-Designed Home

Design Tips

Talking about powder room personality today. Tell me you haven’t thought about how spectacular a bold paper would be on your powder room walls.. even if you are neutral home soul!

MMDH: A Powder Room With Stories To Tell Through Design

Design Tips

Sometimes you can see the potential of what a space can be, but it is incredibly daunting to think about the steps it will take to get there. That is where House to Home 101 – by MMDH comes in!

Do You Have An Underutilized Space?

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?

MMDH: Does Your Home Have Personality?

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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