Interior Design Tips & Tricks

Zen Bathroom Design These clients purchased a new-to-them 90’s built home on a wooded lot. They knew it would be the perfect home to make their own because it...

Is Banquette Seating Perfect for My Family? Are you someone who has always preferred sitting at a booth when dining at a restaurant to sitting at a table? There’s...

A Cozy Family Retreat For one of our clients, we did a whole home remodel in the Twin Cities. But anyone who lives in a major city knows that...

Color of the Year – October Mist The color of the year for 2022 has been announced – and we’re in love with this shade. October mist is a...

Furniture For Me, Not Just For Anyone Our studio includes a custom touch in every personality-driven design we do. Sometimes it might be a pillow or a custom finish,...

Avoid Remodel Headaches For over 30 years, our principal designer has designed both new construction and remodel projects. Over Lisa’s career, she has learned that carefully documenting design decisions before...

Primary Bath Remodel Design Recently, we have been designing quite a few primary bath remodel design projects. Updating your bathroom is second only to a kitchen remodel for return...

The Most Flattering Light If you’re anything like me, you know how important bathroom lighting is. And people have always felt this way – there’s a reason all the...

An Every Day Living Room For this week’s peek at a project, we’re featuring an every day living room in a new, architecturally designed construction project, in which our...

Tim Harding – Meet the Maker It’s time for our September edition of meet the maker, and this month, we’re featuring artist Tim Harding. Harding works in fiber art, ...

Sophisticated Dining Room: Before This week’s peek at a project features a dining room transformation. To start with, our client’s space had many great assets. There was nice wainscoting,...

Why Compost? Most people know that composting is a great way to reduce waste and be more environmentally friendly in their daily lives, but composting in your kitchen can...

A Gem of a Library: Before This week’s peek at a project turned out to be a gorgeous library, but it didn’t necessarily start that way. The initial room...

Using Metals in Your Interior Palette Curious about how to incorporate more metals into your interior palette? So is everyone! Mixed metals were a huge trend in 2020, and...

Mid-Century Entry In any home, the entry introduces the rest of the home. It’s like the first chapter of a book. If it doesn’t really interest you, you won’t...

Live Artfully To kick off this week’s blog about living artfully, a quote I find inspiring and consistently relevant. Among our clients here at Lilu, there seems to be...

Midcentury Powder Room Design This week, we’re giving you another look at a major upgrade to one of our client’s mid-century home. We are designing updates to the family...

MEET THE MAKERS – URBAN SKETCHERS MOVEMENT –  ACCORDING TO LILU Meet the Makers – Urban Sketchers This month, we’d like to introduce you to a whole movement of...

Sustainability and Quality Sustainability: What’s Quality Got to Do With It? Here’s a little story to get us started. This fall, my husband Andy and I will celebrate our...

Floor Plans – California Casual Living Room This week, we are updating you on our California casual living room design. It’s time for the big reveal! We first wrote...