Happy New Year from Design Wotcha! Hope you all had a smashing holiday and are looking forward to a fun, stylish 2012. I am excited about discovering and sharing what the design world has in store for us this year. To start off the New Year, I thought I would share some simple decorating ideas that I discovered when I finally had a chance to sit down with a cup of tea and my copy of Victoria Hagan’s “Interior Portraits.” It has been...

{Photos Courtesy of Jan Showers} Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Abrams (September 1, 2009) Foreword: Michael Kors List Price: $50.00. Texas-based designer Jan Shower’s has a design secret to share, “An extraordinary truth about design is that the same space can be made perfect in any number of ways, depending on who is using it and what they want” This simple philospophy is both liberating and slighty intimidating for those without...

DW!s Design Library Series {Images courtesy of Farrow & Ball} Hardcover: 192 pages Author: Ros Byam Shaw Photographer: Jan Baldwin Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small (August 2010) List Price: $40. Long since an English favorite, Farrow & Ball have been making paints using traditional ingredients and methods since 1946. Today, even though they are also a sort after designer brand on this side of the pond, not much has changed at...