When Rachel and Mike Rosenblum moved into their San Francisco Edwardian earlier this year, they had an empty house and a serious case of decorator's block. "Even though I would flip through magazines ...

Nearly 15 years ago, Karen Bye was flying to Las Vegas every six weeks from Fargo, North Dakota, for a design project for one of her clients who was building one of the first homes in Siena, an ...

As an interior designer, Henrietta Heisler always keeps up with the latest trends, but not all of them have to do with paint colors, fabrics and furniture styles. She recently created a new position ...

Even if you religiously read design magazines and take on home improvement projects, you may not be entirely certain as to what exactly the role of a professional interior designer entails. And you're ...

As in any client-driven business, pleasing the customer is paramount in interior design. But sometimes designers must save clients from their own instincts (or from whatever unworkable thing they saw ...

Gioi Tran, 54, is an interior designer and cofounder of firm Applegate Tran with his partner Vernon. He's designed homes for execs at PayPal and Zappos and often gets repeat customers. Here's what his ...