The family room is the heart of the home, a place to spend time with loved ones, relax and casually entertain. So when our clients in Wallingford, PA decided it was time to transform their family room into a space they could truly enjoy, the team at Lisa Quale Interiors, a Delaware County PA interior…
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Tips For Keeping Your Home Renovation On Budget After careful consideration, you’ve decided to remodel part of your home to create a more inviting and functional space that better suits both your lifestyle and your personal style. But, before you start demolition, you need make some decisions regarding your budget. Deciding how much you’d like…
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Remodeling can be an exciting time for many homeowners; but if not properly managed, a remodeling project can lead to a lot of frustration and stress. At Lisa Quale Interiors, a West Chester Interior Design firm, we coordinate with contractors, develop a detailed design plan and keep an open line of communication so our clients…
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Home buyers get overwhelmed when they move into a new home trying to figure out where to start. The bedroom may need painting, the wallpaper in the kitchen really doesn’t fit your style, or the bathrooms may have that 1980’s look. For a while, it can feel like you are living in someone else’s house. …
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Do I have lead paint in my home? If your home was built before 1978, when it’s use was banned, chances are you have lead-based paint throughout your home. You can purchase a simple test at any hardware store to chemically check the layers of paint in your home. Will lead paint hurt me?…
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Lisa Quale Interiors is proud to announce the selection of this recent Bathroom Remodeling project as the winner in the “Best Custom Bathroom” category at the 2017 Synergy awards. The Synergy Awards honor excellence in construction, sales, and design among members of the Home Builders Association of Chester and Delaware Counties and the Home Builders…
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How do you use the most popular finishes in your kitchen remodel without ending up with a kitchen that looks like everyone else’s?? I recently wrote about the most popular kitchen finishes for 2016. Hardwood floors, simple white cabinetry, granite countertops and glass blacksplash tiles are the ingredients for the quintessential 2016 kitchen remodel. Here…
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The 2016 Kitchen of the Year Because I spend a lot of time perusing real estate listing photos for fun, I look at A LOT of dated kitchen designs. It is very easy to tell roughly the time period in which a kitchen was installed. There are always things that date a kitchen design– be…
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I was just quoted in this article about Designing Your Ideal Home: A Room-By-Room Guide. It goes through each room in the house and different designers discuss the technologies and trends transforming the way we live. My particular contribution was about the rising popularity of multi-generational living. “Multi-generational living is a big trend in new…
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I was recently hired to do an interior design of a home office in Garnet Valley, PA. My client is going to start working from home so she knew she would be spending a lot of time in her office and she wanted a professional to pull it all together. At our initial meeting, I…
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