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When receiving a daughter's request to help her recently widowed mother, Dee Frazier and the designers she mentors quickly discovered some mom’s passion for scuba diving. The curved stairwell wall had once been blank and considered a challenge until presented an idea inspired by the client’s art collection. Incorporating the homeowner’s love of blue hues and scuba diving, the team came up with a design that is a hit with DKOR's online followers and favorite of the client. Check out other interior designer blogs. “Inspiration comes from doing a deep dive into our customer’s lifestyles.”– Dee...

Replicating & Relocating from California to Texas Whether it’s a move across town or across the country, relocating can be stressful. Austin interior designer, Dee Frazier of Dee Frazier Interiors helps alleviate that stress by communicating with clients via live video conferences, giving detailed presentations, and expediting the mailing of samples to ensure the cherished lifestyle a family is leaving is replicated or even improved upon in their current dream rooms. While the phrase “man’s best friend” is often applied to dogs, it’s safe to say that furnishings, fabrics, and rugs don’t...

His Way or Hers. To further balance the homeowner’s opposite tastes in color, Calm Serenity Dee Frazier and her design team omitted the honeysuckle hues used in the family room in other areas of the home, replacing them with deep, neutral grays and of pale blue hues. The water theme continues, however, in a glass sculpture on the round foyer table flanked by two slate gray chairs. The stairwell wall that once begged for art now makes a strong visual statement. Panel moulding and lily pad sculptures continue the discrete nature theme loved by the homeowners. <<Foyer Multiple lily pad...

Opposite may attract, but sometimes they clash. It’s not uncommon for Dee Frazier Interiors (DFI) designers to be asked to provide “design therapy”. In a room with a built-in 150-gallon aquarium, complete with alternating teal and blue lights, as a focal point, a husband and wife had very different preferences in terms of color palette.Before consulting with Dee and her team, they purchased a couple of neutral and yellow upholstered chairs and furniture that was under-scaled for the room. To solve their color differences, DFI designers added a splash of golden honeysuckle paint inside the...