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Interior décor trends follow the fashion world even more now than ever in history.  As clothing displays more beading, feather trim, this year’s hot decorative ruffles, and many other embellishments it is appearing in furniture and home decorating items, too. Light fixtures, accent furniture such as tables, upholstery and many accessories are displaying the latest fashion […]

Books and movies like Twilight and Harry Potter may indeed be inspiring a youthful but mainstream resurgence of Gothic or Renaissance Gothic designs not unlike those seen in castles. While designers all like to think that they have created the newest and most unique design more often than not their designs are simply a revival […]

 The United States as a culture was built less by indigenous peoples and more by foreign peoples. Each one came here from vastly different regions of the world and for vastly different reasons. As they arrived, with or without possessions, they brought with them traditions and styles that began to blend and homogenize into a […]

          
The eighteenth century cabinetmaker was a busy and much diversified craftsman. A Colonial cabinetmaker was engaged to make many household furnishings because they were specialists in furniture construction. When a cabinetmaker climbed off the boat in a port city they quite literally could change the styles of that port city. They were known to […]

 
No man is an island but life is a lot more functional when he has one in his kitchen. The smart Amish kitchen table owner knows that a compliment to your perfect kitchen is an island. The contemporary home is not complete without a central work area for either chopping or peeling, eating, studying. […]