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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

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

Design Tips

I love when I walk into a home with nearly empty built-ins or free & clear tabletop surfaces because there is no doubt that the space will feel fully transformed by the time I leave.

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

There’s lots to think about when ramping up your surroundings, Friends! That’s why there are experts! They are out there, running full fledges businesses to help you help yourself! Let’s talk thru how to make this happen.

How to Build The Right Team For Your Home Design Project

Design Tips

Have you ever referenced the words “scale” and “volume” while thinking through your home design? These two components of design may be the only critical items you are missing when processing how to design your space.

How to Elevate Your Home Design Using Scale and Volume

Design Tips

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!

Free Interior Design Guides For Your Home

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

Design Tips

When was the last time you added a layer to your home? If your answer involved a question mark or wide eyes, it’s time. Let’s talk about the 5 ways to make your house more cozy.

5 Ways To Make Your House More Cozy

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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