Interior Design
For Dallas interior designer Sharon Flatley, a Barbie Dreamhouse began her passion. She got it as a present when she was eight years old and knew then she wanted to design. “I immediately set about redecorating the interior and adding cardboard porches to the exterior—I used scraps of fabric to make drapery treatments and made…
Read MoreAn unlikely path led Traci Connell to great success as a Dallas interior designer. Connell earned her degree in education and was an elementary school teacher. She enjoyed the job, but says she hadn’t found her passion. “What I really loved about teaching was the creativity and structure of the classroom,” she said. “The big…
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There’s a new design term percolating over from Europe called “broken concept.” I think of it as open concept 2.0. If the point of open concept is to remove all dividing walls to combine multiple rooms, Broken Concept is about achieving openness while retaining some separation. Think of it as a halfway point between individual…
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