Jen Davison has been named a winner of the 4th Annual Kitchen & Bath Design Award Contest. Jen won a Bronze award in the Best Master Bathroom $50,000-$100,000 category. Sponsored by Kitchen & Bath Design News magazine, the Kitchen & Bath Design Awards is a national contest recognizing outstanding achievement in project design and construction in 11 categories. For more information, visit www.kitchenbathdesign.com. Nominees …
Best Of Houzz 2019
Collins & DuPont has been awarded the Best of Houzz Design for the 5th consecutive year. Awarded by Community of Over 40 Million Monthly Users, Annual Best of Houzz Badge Highlights Home Remodeling and Design Professionals with Top Ratings and Most Popular Home Designs. We are truly honored to receive this award, however, the awards are not what makes us …
Collins & Dupont featured on Aqua at Pelican Isles Website
The AQUA is nothing if not versatile, as was proven recently when Portfolio, The Magazine of Lifestyles, Interests and Leisure, ran a feature on a trio of utterly different interior decoration approaches to units in the waterfront condominium. Speaking of versatility, the same firm, Collins & DuPont Design Group of Bonita Springs, undertook all three major projects.
Collins & DuPont’s Own Lana Knapp Featured in Florida Weekly!
Collins & DuPont has been featured in Florida Weekly with Another Mediterranean residence lightens up. IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY DESIGNER IN NAPLES has at one point or another been tasked with updating the typical Old World-style, heavy-Mediterranean residence… See full article here.
Naples Florida, Interior Design Trends: How To Distinguish Gorgeous Illumination From Over Lighting
Ever since Thomas Edison was able to discover the light bulb, it has been considered as a necessary element in interior design. Since lighting can either make the room more stylish or make it painful for the eyes, it is important to determine what type of lighting to instill in every part of your home space. Lighting has gone to …
Top Five List: Design Magazines
Top Five List: Design Magazines by Jessica Bradford With so many design magazines out there, how do you choose which ones to pick-up and which ones to pitch? Knowing what magazines your designer looks to for inspiration may help influence your decision. Here are my top five must read design magazines: Elle Décor: “Elle Décor is where style lives” …
Design Trends to Watch: A Q&A with the Collins & DuPont Design Team
Design Trends to Watch: A Q&A with the Collins & DuPont Design Team With peak season around the corner and many winter residents seeking to update their look, we at Collins & DuPont have received a number of questions about what’s in, what’s out, and what’s trending now in the home design industry. To answer those questions for our clients …
A Quick Guide to Design Terminology: Furniture
A Quick Guide to Design Terminology: Furniture By Christine Stewart Interior design is a world unto itself and just like other professions, it has its very own language. The industry has its own abbreviations, adjectives, and furniture terminology which we use frequently, forgetting that not everyone speaks this language. The following are a few definitions and clarifications to help you …
How We Find Inspiration
How We Find Inspiration By Joshua Colt Fisher On a recent family road trip I decided to pull off the highway and enjoy a scenic route. After a while of enjoying the open fields and large oak trees over hanging the road the skies opened up to a torrential downpour. I decided it would be best to pull off to …
How Design has Shaped Our Country
How Design has Shaped Our Country By Jeff Mills Design has influenced and shaped the United States in many ways, bringing worldwide ingenuity into our melting pot. Over the last hundreds of years our country has opened its arms to accept people from all over the world and those people bring with them inherited tastes in design. These different backgrounds …