Tips and tricks for design-ready homeowners and articles full of inspiration goodness!

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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 Design Process To Create A Well-Designed Home

Must Haves

This could be one of the most self caring ways to make an aesthetic change in your home… and I have a feeling it is not something you think about when you go to treat yourself with a new purchase.

MMDH: An Easy Way To Ramp Up Your 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!

Unleashing Personality in Your Powder Room

Before & After

Even in the summer months, this place is layered up over here… granted, there are a few ways to layer the same space, and some are a touch more pleasing to the average eye.

MMDH: Add In All Of The Layers

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?

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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