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von Hemert Interiors Royal Wedding Celebration

Carrie and Leslie know how to celebrate! Enjoy the fun and selected furnishings I love from von Hemert Interiors

Joy to the Home: What can we learn from the royals?

With the world in financial distress, war, famine… we need a break. The royal wedding invites us to stop the struggle, look up in faith, and share the promise of a glorious life well-lived. When my friends Leslie and Carrie asked me to help design an imaginary home for Prince William and Kate as part […]

Joy to the Home and Gratitude

A friend came to visit me recently. She complained about her home instead of sharing my happiness in our move. After she left, I thought about how grateful I am for such a glorious home. My life wasn’t always like this. My friend’s jealousy and reading Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man: the adventures of a […]

Seven Ideas for Dining Joy

Celebrate everyday life by adding glamour, elegance, and excitement to a shared meal. These seven dining room ideas help you create a joy-filled memory. 1. Dining Table Shapes Less formal round dining tables enable full conversations, with everyone participating. Without a head to the table, guests feel important–treated more respectfully. If you have an oval […]

Joy to the Kitchen!

Tweet This My Twitter friend, Caroline Di Diego, AKA @CASUDI, started a great dialog on architectural kitchen design. She invites you to share your kitchen in ”show & tell” format. This is the current scene as I write this post early Saturday evening. My kitchen has two islands, an antique bar corner, a pool table, […]

Welcome to Joy to the Home!

Joy to the Home.com has been redesigned many times. This is the first time the entire site has been taken down. In the transition to a new server, we lost the blog contents. Since good design gives you a timeless feeling, I felt sad about losing all my writing. The blessing emerging from this minor […]