5 fast fixes that add value to your home
By Olga Adler – an award-winning interior designer and creative director of Olga Adler Interiors - www.olgaadlerinteriors.com. With the real estate market warming up (according to all the sources), now may be the time to look at your home with a critical eye and see how you can take advantage of home improvement magic while...
New Canaan CARES Kitchen and Home Tour: 21st tour features intimate spaces with big personalities
Seven New Canaan homeowners will open their doors to celebrate the 21stNew Canaan CARES Kitchen and Home Tour on Thursday, May 9. From multi-phase renovations to focused kitchen remodels, these homes showcase the latest in kitchen, home and interior design. Each house varies in style and setting, providing a unique and interesting experience for all...
Holiday decorating
Holiday visitors to the Ridgefield home of Mary and Tom McInerney are greeted by some 50 red ornaments of varying sizes hanging from the ceiling of the deep porch across the front of the former carriage house, accented with white lights, green topiaries and assorted characters sitting on the child-size benches. “It’s kind of a...
Holiday decorating and entertaining ideas
The Ridgefield Guild of Artists has had a makeover. Its gallery barn at 34 Halpin Lane in Ridgefield is now a holiday marketplace for its eighth annual “Festive Home event,” a five-week holiday fund-raiser that is now open and features expanded shopping days and extended hours, through Sunday, December 23. It is open Tuesday through...
Fall for fresh color
I love fashion. I carefully follow fashion trends, even though I may not apply most of them to my own wardrobe. Fashion is one of my biggest inspirations (next to travel) when I design interiors, and for a good reason. Everything that happens in fashion eventually work its way to interiors and home design trends:...
Artwork is like icing on the cake
Home and your office are the two most important places in the world because they are your “cocoon” of life. In these two places it is where you start and end your day, so, there should be a good beginning and end. One of the elements in achieving an inviting and beautiful space is artwork...
Staging your home to sell
Your home should be at its best Potential buyers for a home are first searching the Internet to qualify a house to purchase. With that being said, your home should look its best as the competition is “tough” out there. The perfect investment for any seller and Realtor’s time is hiring an accredited staging professional...
What lights up your world?
Nothing has a greater impact on a home than lighting. There are four types: ambient, task, decorative and accent. As an interior designer the most important is ambient lighting, it makes a space feel warm and inviting and the room seems to glow with a soft touch. This type of lighting makes people feel the...
Impressive entryways with Barbara Pierson
Barb Pierson, White Flower Farm’s first class horticulturist, will give a talk at the Garden Education Center of Greenwich on Wednesday, March 7, at 10 a.m.. A graduate of Cornell’s School of Horticulture, Ms.Pierson is known for her charm, good humor, and encyclopedic knowledge of ornamentals and edibles. Her talks are both instructive and entertaining....
