by Anna Jacoby Interiors | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
My husband and I recently returned from a long-awaited vacation to New Zealand to celebrate our 30-year wedding anniversary (yes—the scenery really is as spectacular as you imagine!) We stayed in four different hotels over the 12 days, and the designer in me couldn’t...
by Anna Jacoby Interiors | Nov 14, 2018 | Home Decorating, Interior Design, Redecorating, Redesign, Remodeling
Interior design is an art as well as a science, encompassing so much more than the visible, tangible items in the room, such as the sofa, the lamp and the drapes. Those items are important components to the finished room, of course, but there is so much more to it....
by Anna Jacoby Interiors | Sep 20, 2018 | Bathrooms, Home Decorating, Redecorating, Redesign, Remodeling
As regular readers of this column know, I design baths and kitchens for a living. By now, although it’s hard to come up with an exact figure, the number of baths and kitchens I’ve worked on is well into the triple digits. Over the years, the state of California has...
by Anna Jacoby Interiors | Aug 13, 2018 | Home Decorating, Interior Design
If you’ve been paying attention, you have probably noticed an immensely popular design trend called “Rustic Modern” all around us. It involves combining clean, modern lines with more rustic, earthy, organic elements. What do I mean by rustic elements? Examples are...
by Anna Jacoby Interiors | Jul 9, 2018 | Bathrooms
Recently, my husband and I traveled to Florida to visit our son. We splurged on a nice hotel, with a room overlooking the beautiful Atlantic ocean. The view was indeed beautiful, but the bathroom, however, while attractive to look at, was very poorly designed. I...