BluLabel Bungalow | Interior Design Advice and Inspiration

Today’s Motherlode Monday Guest Editor is Erica Islas of California-based EMI Interior Design. It was through social media where I first learned about her work as a designer, then later (and offline) I grew to know her as a friend. We had the good fortune of meeting in person during Brizo Fashion Week last year [...]

Fabric Calc is one of those decorating/design apps that is so useful you wonder how you lived without it. Essentially it allows you to use your smartphone to determine the required yardage for your upholstery projects! Simply choose the item you want upholstered, enter the width, depth, and height measurements and allow Fabric Calc to [...]

Good Monday Morning Friends! As many of you already know, I’m a mother of 3 (soon to be 4), a wife, owner of a full-service interior design business, a co-founder of a non-profit, and a freelance writer.  I often get the same question every single week, “How do you do it?”  Unfortunately, my response is [...]

 think I can speak for the majority when I say that starting a new business venture can be both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. I can also assume the former emotion is greater than the latter or else you would never decide to take the final plunge. I dove head first when I [...]

  If knew then what I know now, where would I be? Just take a minute and only a minute to ponder this question. If you spend longer than that you will take for granted the wonderful things you’ve done up until this point.  Thirty more seconds into your wonder, you will then believe that [...]