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Reducing Stress with Good Design – Board & Vellum
Ask a Designer, Custom Residential, Interior Design

Reducing Stress with Good Design

Reducing stress with good design is a thing, we promise. Even if you can’t put your finger on it, sloppy design causes stress. But well-designed spaces make you feel good, often without you realizing. Our goal as architects and designers, is to create those spaces that you love to be in, stress free.

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Our Current Favorite Lighting Fixtures: B&V Designer Spotlight – Board & Vellum
Interior Design

Our Current Favorite Lighting Fixtures

Are you daydreaming about new light fixtures? You will be soon! We asked our team of interior designers what light fixtures they are currently swooning over. Check out each their responses in this post for some great designers, studios, and manufacturers out there who are making some beautiful fixtures you’ll love to see.

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How To Create a Residential Feel in a Commercial Space – Board & Vellum
Commercial, Interior Design

How To Create a Residential Feel in a Commercial Space

Are you hoping for a residential feel — that "homey" comfort — in your commercial space? You aren’t alone! Spaces that capture that homey feeling draw people in, and can help people feel more comfortable and relaxed in your establishment. How do you pull it off? Here are our top ten design elements to make it happen.

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Seven Reasons You Should Add House Plants to Your Interior Design – Board & Vellum
Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Seven Reasons You Should Add House Plants to Your Interior Design

House plants can be a great improvement to an interior space — here are seven reasons why you'll benefit from including them as part of the interior design of your space, and it's not just for aesthetics.

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Selecting Sustainable Materials: Your Go-To Guide – Board & Vellum
Interior Design, Sustainable Practice

Selecting Sustainable Materials: Your Go-To Guide

Of course, materials play a large role in interior design, and their impact on the sustainability of a project cannot be ignored. So, how do you select sustainable materials that live up to your requirements? Here is a quick guide for what to look for, including material makeup, material source, manufacturing processes, and third-party certifications.

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Living Big in a Small Space – Crow's Nest Cottage – Board & Vellum
Interior Design

How To Live Big in a Small Space

Do you live in a small space? (Or, do you have small spaces in your larger home?) There are all sorts of things you can do to maximize small spaces, to help them “live larger” so-to-speak, so you don’t feel cramped. Here are seven tips to keep in mind.

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All The Feels with Marissa Lada of Honey Lune Hivery

In today’s data-driven society, it’s easy to forget that we don’t experience our lives in numbers. Instead, we experience our lives in impressions and feelings. Design at its core is meant not only to help us survive, but to make us feel something: perhaps safe, or comfortable, or relaxed, or joyful. Yet in western culture, we resist talking about design in terms of emotions, we prefer geometry and color, zoning, and square footages. How can we get back in touch with the emotions that are at the core of experiencing design?

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