Design & Travel Tips
Interior Design
You will find lots of inspiration and helpful tips throughout this site. Learn how we successfully designed and built two home additions and a new kitchen in the Coastal Cottage. We sold that home and are grateful for the price we received.
We are currently turning an Ocean Dunes Fixer into a Coastal Modern retreat. Allison’s Interior Design experience and training from Online Design Courses | New York Institute of Art & Design (nyiad.edu) allows her to design functional and beautiful spaces. Jim provides research based tips for smart design, construction, and plumbing. Here’s what you will find on my site:
- Learn how to identify your style and successfully implement it into your home.
- Learn design fundamentals, including mood, scale, color, finishing touches, and much more.
- Learn basic construction techniques, including how to hire a contractor, as well as plumbing, tiling, flooring, lighting, and more.
- Learn how to design a successful kitchen using NKAB guidelines in the Dream Kitchen and Food and Fun blog posts.
Food & Fun at http://www.majesticmeadows.blog/2021/09/28/delicious-kitchen-design
Retro Retreat – Rules are made to be Broken – Majestic Meadows
Garden Design
Learn how to create your own garden paradise, whether it’s in the tropics or Rocky Mountains. Find plant options and design ideas for hands-on or off gardeners in zones 4 to 10. As experienced gardeners, we recommend hardy, native plants, which also brings pollinators and beauty to the garden.
A Garden Should Welcome a Soul – Majestic Meadows
Travel Tips
I fell in love with the sea as a child and we are lucky to enjoy seaside walks, sunrises, and ocean dips to cool off as often as we wish. We live in paradise, so when we travel we head to the mountains. Check my site to learn about the time spent in our national, state, and local parks. Learn how to exchange your home in my post about our home exchange with a family from Switzerland.
Home Exchange to Switzerland – Majestic Meadows
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Make Yourself at Home
To make your spaces more interesting and inviting, follow these tips to add a designer’s touch to your home. In this post, Allison shares tried and true strategies that will help you pull together your space, create beautiful still-life groupings, properly hang artwork and tricks for small or large spaces. Finishing Touches To help you… Continue reading Make Yourself at Home
Food & Fun
In today’s post, Allison shares tasty tips for creating a dream kitchen. Take inspiration from the existing interior spaces. Also consider functional details, such as lighting, appliances, and proven kitchen guidelines from NKAB, the National Kitchen & Bath experts. Mood The Coastal Modern design continues in the kitchen, with sleek flat panel doors and a… Continue reading Food & Fun
Out, Damn’d Dust! Out, I say!
When you have never done remodeling or it has been a while, you might forget just how messy and unorganized your space can get. In today’s post, I share essential tips to ensure your renovation goes as smoothly as possible. As you can see, painting the walls downstairs was a big improvement, but things are… Continue reading Out, Damn’d Dust! Out, I say!
Ready, Set and Action!
To successfully stage you must show off the home in an appealing but non-personal way. Visitors and online viewers should be able to envision themselves in the home. In this post, I share how to prepare a property for sale at the highest amount, while getting it done in the shortest amount of time. Curb… Continue reading Ready, Set and Action!
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About Me
Hi, I’m Allison. I spent 3o years in banking, investment, and wealth planning before retiring. I now spend time with my husband Jim, who also likes to travel to wild places. This blog shares some of those places, as well as tips for designing spaces inside and outside of your home! The last link below is for my Houzz Idea Book.
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