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  • 25 Blue Rooms & Why You Need this Classic Color

    If you’ve seen the pages of our catalogs or shopped our site, there is no denying that we love blue rooms. Whether we’re painting a...
  • How to Use Natural Elements

    When we think of fall, we imagine spaces layered in rich textures, sun-washed colors, and loads of comfort. One of the easiest ways to achieve...
  • Why You Need Wallpaper in Your Home

    Erase the thought of peeling old wallpaper from your memory. Our removable wallpaper is easy to hang, easy to remove, and seriously stylish. Not only...
  • Hutton Modular Office Collection: Working from Home in Designer Style

    With homeschooling on the horizon and working from home as the new normal, we all need our homes and our workspaces to function better and...
  • 15 Best Living Room Layout Tips

    Finding the right living room layout is difficult, especially when you factor in television placement, space restrictions, open floor plans, and natural pathways. There are...
  • 10 Ways to Fill the Blank Space Over Your Sofa

    This post was updated February 2021. One of the questions our Design Services team gets all the time is, “How do I fill the blank space...

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  • 10 Outdoor Centerpiece Ideas

    An outdoor centerpiece can really make or break a table setting. The right centerpiece completes the look of the table while giving your guests something...
  • A Blue & White Table Setting for Any Occasion

    Red and green may reign supreme during Christmas, but we love to play with different color palettes. Following Bunny Williams’ advice, we added tons of...
  • A Foolproof, Flower Arranging Trick

    Every holiday needs a fantastic centerpiece, but don’t let your fear of flower arranging keep you from a show stopping table. We’re sharing our favorite...
  • 5 Last-Minute Tricks for Pulling Your Home Together

    Friends are stopping by and you’re in panic mode to pull your house together. It happens to all of us, but we’re big believers in...
  • 8 Dining Table Centerpiece Ideas For When You’re Not Entertaining

    This post was published September 2016 and updated June 2022.   Dining rooms are an important part of the home when you’re gathering with family...
  • 4 Ways to Fold Your Napkin like Bunny Williams

    Leave it to Bunny to know just how to dress up a table in a really simple, yet elegant, way. Taking those extra few minutes...

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  • How to Start a Garden

    Gardening can seem like a daunting hobby. It’s a long term commitment, you don’t see results right away, and it requires daily attention. But with...
  • Living Room Lighting: How to Layer More Light into Your Space

    Talk to any designer, and they’ll tell you the biggest mistake people make when decorating their homes is lighting. You most likely need more living...
  • How to Clean Stains on Performance Fabrics

     Life happens — food spills, crafting messes, and all sorts of accidents. But if upholstered in one of our performance fabrics, you can easily clean...
  • Home Office Ideas: How to Work from Home Enjoyably

     While there are a lot of upsides to working from home (convenient commute, quiet coworkers, lenient dress code), for many of us there are a...
  • How Do I Choose the Right Lamp Shade?

    Picking the perfect shade is a lot like choosing the right jewelry
  • How to Space Furniture in Your Room

    Have you ever been in a room that feels calm and happy? That might have just as much, if not more, to do with the...
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