Journal
Behind the Shine
AY Magazine | February 2024
AY Magazine names Arkansas’ top Interior Designers for 2024.
Forbes | January 2024
The American Society of Interior Designers, a leading professional association for this industry, just released its top trend predictions in 2024. While we’re waiting for the full report to publish at the end of the month, Jamie Gold reports for Forbes.com
Press Release | ASID Honors Winners of National Awards Program
Shine receives national recognition from the American Society of Interior Designers for their work on the Falstone House in the 2023 Focus Wellness awards. The National Focus awards recognize outstanding projects that advance design towards a regenerative built environment, and projects solving the challenges facing our world around climate, health, and equity.
Little Rock Soiree | July 2023
Little Rock’s Soiree Magazine asked us for a tour of one of our most swoon-worthy projects and the Falstone project definitely fit the profile.
At Home in Arkansas | June 2023
At Home in Arkansas shares the Gold Award winners of the South Central ASID 2022 Excellence in Design Awards.
At Home in Arkansas | November 2022
The Falstone Residence was featured in the November Issue of At Home in Arkansas. The article titled “Healthy, Happy Home” gives you a beautiful tour and insight into this custom designed new construction home.
Healthy Home: An Inviting Kitchen
The design for this kitchen is based on a clean traditional look with old-world touches.
Bringing the Outside In
Indoor air quality is about more than lots of windows! We knew in the Falstone New Construction project that we would have to avoid artificial plants. While we love a good faux floral arrangement, most are created by dipping the silk or fabric into latex, and in a latex-free home, this was a major red flag item.
Combined with talking to our local nurseries and researching, we set out to find the following plants to add greenery, bring nature indoors, and provide air purifying qualities.
Getting Started on Your Healthy Home
When getting started on your healthy home, there are a lot of things to consider. It takes careful research from reputable sources to help establish your goals for your healthy home (and patience to filter through the internet noise!) Whether you are trying to avoid allergens or chemicals or if you would like to incorporate other wellness features in your home, your design team can help you establish these goals.
What is a Shine Healthy Home?
What is a Shine Healthy Home? Introducing principles demonstrated in the #FalstoneNewBuild project. In this project, we set on a task to walk through their building process from foundation to finish as their interiors team. We built on many foundations learned in design school and through LEED and other design education regarding health and wellness in our home. It was a learning journey for each of us on the team and has inspired us to go deeper and fully develop the Shine Healthy Home concept.