2022 Design Trends
What are the upcoming design trends? Where is design leading us? What needs do we need fulfilled, physically and emotionally? Let’s see how the 2022 trends create a sharp contrast to [...]
Healing Colors for Hospitals and Healthcare
What would a world be without color? Today we can partner with the light spectrum and codes of our color spectrums to uplift our lives and environments. Marketing companies have [...]
Master your Master Bedroom
In Feng Shui, the master bedroom is the room that has the strongest influence on our "chi" - or life force. The master bedroom can set the stage for good [...]
Love is in the Air!
Getting ready for a romantic Valentine dinner? Did you ever think to apply the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui? This 6000-year-old Chinese art of arranging one’s environment to improve [...]
Getting Happy with HYGEE — The Art of Intimacy
My husband is Danish, and so I was delighted to delve into the “Danish” conscious living strategy that is simple, easy to obtain, and life enhancing on many levels. Hygge [...]
A Colorful World
A Post occupancy overview on Color, and its Intentional use in a Commercial Design project Mary Dennis, EDAC Evidenced Based Designs Accreditation and Certification Dean of Design, The Conscious Design [...]
Tech Meets Design. Neuroaesthetic Design
Google Offers Scientific Proof that Design Is Important with "A Space for Being" A neuroaesthetic design installation was on view in Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, as part of the [...]
Green Design in Commercial Environments
Graceful Lifestyles™ Goes Green for Corporate America Going Green is all the rage these days, but for Graceful Lifestyles Designers, it is a seamless marriage between two design perspectives. [...]
Keep Evil Away with a Hint (Haint) of Blue
In the South, there is a long standing tradition of painting porch ceilings blue. It is an old belief that a particular shade of blue called “haint blue” will repel evil [...]
Does Culture Influence Color?
For years I recommended a soft, ivory or beige coloring for the interior, “neutral feel”, of my client’s homes. I specifically chose an earth coloring for the natural, elemental [...]