Muneeb Ahmed
/ August 19, 2026
A client of mine kept avoiding her own living room last winter. Good sofa, decent art on the walls, nothing obviously wrong with it. Turned out the light was the problem, one flat overhead fixture doing all the work, nothing warm about it anywhere. We
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ August 12, 2026
So my aunt passed down a set of cane-backed dining chairs last year and honestly I almost donated them without even sitting in one first. I had this idea in my head that 1970s decor just meant shag carpet and orange everything, the kind of
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ August 10, 2026
A client called me last spring, pretty upset, because her hallway had come back from the painter looking gray instead of the soft off-white she thought she’d picked. She’d grabbed Benjamin Moore Decorator’s White off a chip in the store and never once tested it
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ August 8, 2026
Say “pastel” to most people and they picture a nursery. Or a bathroom suite from 1987 nobody asked for. Fair reaction, honestly I used to have the same reaction until I started actually testing this stuff on real walls instead of Pinterest boards. Pastel colors
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ August 5, 2026
My dining room got repainted three times over the course of a month, and honestly by the second repaint I was starting to wonder if I just had bad taste. Turned out that wasn’t it. Spanish style interior design plays by different rules than the
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Muqaddas Hussain
/ August 1, 2026
One of my friends in the real estate development sector almost bypassed. The process of hiring an interior designer on a project in London. Thinking of saving costs on the project. But had to see the competing project selling its units three months ahead. Due
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Muqaddas Hussain
/ July 29, 2026
Anyone who has done any interior design coursework has likely encountered the name of Stanley Abercrombie somewhere along the way. The book itself has been a subtle influencer of the way designers view space and proportion, as well as their purpose in a given room.
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ July 22, 2026
Bought an 1890s townhouse three years back. Tall windows sold me, honestly, plus this plaster ceiling rose in the front room I couldn’t stop staring at during the walkthrough. Didn’t really have a plan past “make it feel right for the age of the place,”
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Muqaddas Hussain
/ July 18, 2026
Did you ever walk into a home decor store. And find yourself suddenly stopping in front of an array of golden-brown woven baskets? This is no accident. There are just so many people asking which interior design style uses water hyacinth woven baskets. After seeing
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Muneeb Ahmed
/ July 17, 2026
Opening my café took eleven months longer than planned. Most of that delay, if I’m honest, traces straight back to decisions I made before ever hiring a commercial interior designer. I figured I could handle layout and finishes myself. Pinterest boards, some graph paper, a
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