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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

Design Tips

Creating a home that feels cohesive and personal doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In this blog, we walk you through the process of designing a cozy and functional space that reflects your personality, with tips on how to layer your favorite elements room by room.

How to Create a Cohesive and Personalized 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

Design Tips

There is a reason designers design great spaces. They follow a step-by-step process that, like most processes, doesn’t work as well when steps are missing. Read more about my process.

An Interior Designer’s Process to Furnish a Room

Books and accessories on a built-in bookshelf in a living room
Design Tips

Discover how to style surfaces throughout your home to add colorful, eclectic, and timeless vibes. From built-in bookshelves to coffee tables, learn easy tips to transform any space. Ready to make your house more cozy? Let’s get started!

How To Style Surfaces Throughout Your Home

Design Tips

Have you ever wondered how to make a high/low design mix work? Boy, do we get a lot of questions about this! Let’s talk through my strategies for getting that high/low mix in your own home.

Stretch Your Home Design Budget With a High/Low Mix

Design Tips

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

colorful living room
Design Tips

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

Design Tips

How To Make Every Room In Your Home Serve A Purpose And Function To It’s Fullest

3 Quick Tips To Make Your Home More Functional

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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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(around here, we go by MMDH for short)


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