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Expert Nathan Orsman’s Best Lighting Tips When in doubt, what do we do? We leave it to the experts for advice. They’ve seen it all, done it all, and made all the mistakes, so we don’t have to repeat them. Fortunately, lighting expert Nathan Orsman has some phenomenal lighting tips for general interior and exterior design as well as advice for lighting up pictures and other forms of artwork. Let’s see what Orsman has to say about illuminating our space. Op …

Lighting Your Home: The 7 Most Common Mistakes Decorating your home seems easy. Right? All you have to do is put your furniture in the correct room, add some accessories, maybe give a paint touch up, light up the place with some lamps and you’re done. However, in order to achieve a well-designed, organized home, you need a design strategy and structure to go along with it. Anyone can just put things together and say they decorated but many forget or are unaware of the basic design pr …

5 Design Tips to Light Your Home  Do you consider yourself a design artist – someone who possesses those innate characteristics of visual design? If you do, then you are one of those people strong in visual-spatial intelligence meaning you have a natural born gift to visualize things, recognize patterns and interpret pictures. You are easily able to learn and understand every aspect of design. You use a design perspective to look at the world and comprehend it. You are able to ef …

Lighting Up Your Fourth of July Right Every American knows that the Fourth of July, aka Independence Day, is right around the corner. It seems surreal to think that as of this year, the United States will have been independent for 242 years! It doesn’t seem that long, right? Regardless, it is something to be thankful for. For this special American holiday, let’s discuss how we can make your Fourth of July light up right – both figuratively and literally. Deco …

 At the end of every month, we enjoy blogging about an amazing interior designer that we have found. This month we have chosen Tamara Avila from Tamara René Designs Inc.  Tamara says that the design style she is drawn to is a classic traditional space, with details in surprising places, this can be seen in the projects she has done. Even though she has her own style, Tamara, still takes into account what her clients want, but adds her own little spin on it as well. To help crea …