Unveiling the Design Day Experience: Your Customized Design Plan

With the world at your fingertips, we know you’re always seeing beautiful things (more specifically, beautifully, perfectly designed homes) and you’re probably pining over expert-level design work in your own home, but don’t know where to start? Or perhaps you're not quite ready to dive into a full-scale interior design project just yet but would consider yourself the luckiest person in the world, if someone would just provide the roadmap for creating the perfect spaces for you. Look no further! Stauffer Design Co. is thrilled to introduce our latest service, The Design Day Experience..

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Behind the Scenes of a Laundry Room Remodel with Stauffer Design Co.

What goes on behind the desk and in the field at Stauffer Design Co. is more than just pretty Instagram pictures. I’ve shared the nitty gritty behind the scenes of an actual in progress design for a laundry room remodel. I, personally, have never been blessed with a spectacular laundry room. Through several homes that we have lived in, our spaces for laundry have been quite cramped. In fact…

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Dream a Little Dream Bath

Client Dream a Little Dream Bath had her dreams in proper detail when she called on Stauffer Design Co. She and her husband had already remodeled both their own kitchen and an entire Airbnb property, but they knew they wanted professional design help to ensure all of their dream bathroom requirements were met…

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Stauffer Design Co. wins 417 Design Awards for Best Kitchen

I knew by entering into the 417 Design Awards, I would be running against some pretty stiff competition; designers that have been around much longer than I have, designers that have won countless other awards, and who have projects under their belts that every designer would be ga-ga over…

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Design with soul

The time that I spent decluttering —aka throwing crap in the garbage, or the donation bin, did more than just get my house in tip top shape. Unexpectedly, it cleaned out the mental and emotional baggage that I had never made time for properly sorting and discarding. I’m so thankful for undergoing that process when I did. It truly was and is a life changing experience to get a grip on what the true meaning of home means to you…

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Design Selection Series- The Highland House Color Scheme

Now that we’re finally (almost) down to putting in the finishes at the Highland House (aka "#therecanbeonlyonehighlandhouseproject ) I thought it would be a fine time to show you what I have selected for the color scheme of the remodel. And how fun to do this in a series? If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook it’s likely that you’ve been VIP treated to sneak peeks of some of these selections already.

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5 Festive Christmas Photo Ideas

Last week I hosted the Jr. League of Springfield as the VIP house for the 2021 Fall Home Tour and then the day after the show was over I jumped right in to decorating for Christmas. Not because I love Christmas that much, don’t let me fool you, it’s because I am joining with local photographer Kimberly Ikenroth to stage a Christmas photoshoot right here in my very own living room. I wanted to share a few inspiring photos that might help with your own planning for your 2021 Christmas card…

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Project Highland House Remodel to-do List

In the days of Pinterest and Instagram, it’s easy to get completely carried away with your home renovation wishlist. We see beautiful images all day long that conveniently are not attached to a price tag so the dreaming stage of a home remodel can quickly bring a slap to the cheek when we realize what we want and what we can afford are two very different things.
Even as an interior designer my love for spectacularly spectacular custom designs had to be taken down a notch when planning the design for the…

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The Exploratory Phase- How We Set Your Project Budget

Wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing to know before you start buying things and tearing walls down what the whole project is going to cost you? This is what is so great about the Exploratory Phase. It’s all right in front of you on a spreadsheet. You see what your wants cost and you have the ability to make changes as needed before you’re in over your head.

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How to Safely and Confidently Follow Trends

“Trending” is there any word other you hear more often than you’d like? Maybe the word laundry? Or taxes? Trends are always changing, always in our faces; at our fingertips, and constantly changing the way we feel and act. Each year Top Trends are revealed, others replaced and dismissed. And no sooner than the grout on your white subway tile backsplash has dried, is someone else saying it’s no longer “in” (that’s me in the back…

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How to Style the Traditional Home in 2021

Though once upon a time I loathed the millwork in my (then) home, hated pretentious curved legs and even more the dark wood tones of the furniture they supported, and monogram….BLECH! Though, I’m not calling my pillow maker to embroider JSJ on my kilim pillows just yet, I think it’s important to take note that Traditional is coming back and…

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2020 Christmas Gift Guide

If you know me personally, you know that gift buying is not my forte. I admire the person that has the knack for a perfectly thought out gift. I just do not have that skill and therefore Christmas season always brings me anxiety because I simply. cannot. ever think of a good gift for anyone. So, if you’re like me and…

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Week of Thanksgiving Meal Plan

In case you hadn’t noticed, next week is Thanksgiving. I’m typically in the camp of grumps that get crabby when my beloved Thanksgiving gets overlooked, but I am also like most of you that think this year everyone deserves a free pass to just be. Even so, if the Christmas tree is already lit there’s still no harm in partaking in a little Thanksgiving dressing and spiked cider.

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