Paint can change the look of a room from formal to casual, from serious to whimsical, from mature to youthful.  It is part of the magic that an interior designer manifests in creating a room’s appearance. Paint color can define spaces, designating distinct areas without having to build walls. It can also create interest in its [...]

                      
A friend of mine said, “You think a lot.” I didn’t ask what he meant; I just thought everyone did. Maybe they don’t. Could it be that most people don’t think? Spending time thinking is one of the great past times of life, isn’t it?
I had a therapist who once said, “You can’t get chocolate milk from [...]

                      
It is no secret that color can affect moods, feelings and emotions. Greens can create feelings of comfort, shades of orange may inspire enthusiasm and reds might ignite passion. On the other end of the spectrum, white generates a sense of peace, black denotes strength, while gray is the color of independence. A color [...]

Marketing and communications are often undervalued. It seems incredible given the activity can boost sales, enhance value and dramatically improve an organizations performance. Yet, so often, the real work falls on a small cadre of soldiers motivated more by the art than the commerce of their daily tasks.
This is as it should be. The moving-making [...]

How many emails do you get a day? 50? 100? 200 or more? Like you, I learn about several topics and sign up for all sorts of items to receive updates via email. Today, I am receiving almost 300-350 emails a day! It sounds overwhelming, right?
Well, it doesn’t have to be. Most people don’t know that you can set [...]

       
Not exactly as Shakespeare put it, but the point is made. And, while we are not at Hamlet’s juncture of whether “to be or not to be,” it may veritably seem that way. With so many people, especially adults, plagued by lack of sleep each night, insomnia may as well be the plague, for all [...]

Not unnoticed, but perhaps overshadowed during the keynote at Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) was the announcement of a new version of the MagSafe power connector. MagSafe is a proprietary connector that attaches magnetically, so that if pulled, it will pull away from the socket safely, without damaging the hardware or pulling the laptop [...]

Living in a downtown mixed usage area is a lot different than living in the “berbs.” You’re constantly being surrounded by people; some you know and others who are transient. One thing you are constantly aware of is “what makes the downtown work?” You notice  how the buildings look, which businesses get the most amount [...]

                      
This oppositional interplay between volume and void, continuing the discussion from Part 1, is expressed visually in the following various ways: the detail of the reveal, the window, the doorway, the expressed puncture in a wall. The reveal, the delicately carved groove poised on a piece of wood, creates a most interesting moulding. It’s small vacuum of [...]

                       
REFM was interviewed on Thursday at Realcomm2012 in Las Vegas about the most important resource in real estate companies, which is people. The Realcomm conference focuses on the interface of real estate and software. While software is an incredibly powerful tool, it doesn’t make decisions. It simply provides us with information in an organized framework. REFM [...]