“HELP!” cried the email, from a lovely divorced single parent rebuilding a nest in a high-rise condo, “Is there a Design Doctor in the house?” With a busy professional life, and enough resources to buy the basics – sofa, coffee table, dining table, desk and office console, and a killer view that she felt wasn't being maximized – our client was at a complete standstill in … [Read more...]
10 Tips for a Successful Renovation
Is there a fixer-upper in your future? We love 'em! And after tackling (and happily surviving) several of them in the past few years, we've come up with 10 tips for a successful (and hopefully, smooth) renovation process. We've done renovations in our back yards and across the ocean. Hands-on and via email. Inches and centimeters. Did we make mistakes? Oh yes, but we … [Read more...]
Place Dauphine Behind the Scenes
A client asked our design team recently, after reading our blog post, Place Dauphine: A before and after Renovation, “Wow, how do you get all these great gigs?” We’re the first to tell you that we pinch ourselves when these come through, because they are great gigs, and we love doing them. But how does it happen when we are an ocean away? And how can we pull off the final … [Read more...]
Small Space Renovation Paris
Welcome to our small space renovation in Paris ! We love the challenge of a really small space renovation in Paris! Remember the little engine that could? Or in our world, the Parisian studio that wanted to act big? Everyone thought we were crazy to buy it, and in the last chapter, we wondered if our small space renovation could be saved. After a few hectic last … [Read more...]
10 Tips for a Makeover
With "Before and After" pictures, our Huff Harrington design team offers 10 tips for a quick but dramatic NYC makeover, done in just 48-hours and a pre-Christmas deadline! One of our favorite clients, who saw the blog about our 48 hour redo in San Francisco, asked us to do the same for her – and get it done quickly, before Christmas. Because of our mutually busy … [Read more...]
Cabin Fever! Emily Followill at Huff Harrington Home
'Tis the season...and coffee table books are in hot demand these days to slip under the tree or wrestle into a stocking. We can't get enough of gorgeously photographed, beautifully written and totally dreamy coffee table books that cover all manner of subjects - from Paris architecture and noble horses to drool-worthy cookbooks and...chic, woodsy cabins. Speaking of, … [Read more...]
10-step redesign
We’re excited. Our favorite international client, whose has had us involved in the redesign of her London townhome and her Paris apartment, is now moving to New York and has asked us to redo her apartment. We love this client! She is smart, friendly, energetic, decisive and always optimistic, and her successes in life are a direct result of her hard work, entrepreneurial … [Read more...]
The Power of Photography
One thing I have really come to appreciate over the last few years is the power of good photography. We are lucky to work with some of the best photographers in the southeast, on location shoots we’ve done for ourselves and clients, so in the last few years, we’ve been a little spoiled. There’s Erica Dines, who makes everything look good even under the worst conditions, … [Read more...]
48-hour design makeover
How a 48 hour design makeover in San Francisco became a creative tour-de-force. It was a dream job, and we only had 48 hours to do it. The mission was to help our client pare down 20 years of accumulated stuff, and give her gorgeous San Francisco condo a rebirth to enhance its beautiful bones and maximize the prized setting. With the help of creative genius Sam Jones, one … [Read more...]
White Floors
"Please pretty please, will she let us paint her floors white?" That, as you can imagine, is the familiar whining sound coming from our ever-so-persistent and persuasive design diva, Sam Jones, referring to an exciting upcoming project for a client's condo in San Francisco. Sam's plea was accompanied by convincing images of gorgeous apartments, all of them with white floors, … [Read more...]
