Francini Inc. Designer Spotlight

When Function is Fashionable

Today’s design trends aren’t just fluff. Designers are getting more creative than ever to give homeowners functional spaces that work for them. Homeowners can look at online resources, magazines, and Instagram all day and find countless design options, but they still need to have help narrowing do...

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The Impact of Light, Light Temperature, and Paint Selection on our Moods and Emotions

Tawnee Palmer has been in the interior design industry for over 24 years. If you count the years as a child, constantly rearranging the furniture in her house, driving her mother crazy, you could say she has been in the industry for her whole life.

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Cruel to be Kind: Being Open and Rigid in the Design Process

When I was a young designer I imagined myself an “impresario of inspiration,” or like a sorcerer pulling together all sorts of design inspirations, fabrics, eras, references, materials. I did not, however, imagine myself as a rigid Miss Trunchbull-type, slapping wrists and insisting that we stick ...

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Creating Spaces that Speak to Who You Are

Casual Elegance Designs is a full-service luxury design studio passionate about creating homes that clients love to live in. Through an intimate and collaborative process, we enhance our clients lives by designing highly customized spaces that marry their essence with our expertise in inspiring and...

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Designer Spotlight: Interior Design is a science that becomes a feeling

Co-founders Jobi Vannini and Laura Kunze have over twenty-five years of combined interior design and leadership experience. Their solid foundation of second generation family history in homebuilding and construction management has inspired their high level of integrity and core values,

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