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Celebrity designer and host of Netflix’s Dream Home Makeover Shea McGee recently renovated a room above her new home’s garage to serve as a creative studio.  As discussed on her popular blog, she details the process and thinking behind designing a space where the magic happens. “I really wanted to lean into the studio’s “old […] The post Celebrity designer leans into shiplap in home studio appeared first on NELMA.

A Fall 2022 article in Audubon Magazine reminded us of a video we produced in 2014.  The northeast lumber industry has always been a leader, and our celebration of women in the industry is no exception. The article, Who Runs the Forest? Increasingly, in the Southeast, It’s Women touts several great examples of new communities […] The post Women in the lumber industry. appeared first on NELMA.

LivingEtc, recently posed this question to some interior design influencers: Is “Shiplap” out of style?  While many trends that become popular do start to fade due to their very own popularity (recall the Yogi Berra line – “No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.”), some argue that shiplap still maintains a timelessness to it […]

More and more corporations are realizing the importance that the physical environment of their workspace plays in keeping employees happy.  And one tool in their arsenal turns out to be wood.  Using biophilia (defined as the innate human instinct to connect with nature and other living beings) as a design strategy, corporations are able to create […]

Architects in Finland have completed a project designed to respect the Finnish tradition of Sauna, as well as create a new a space where people would talk, seek experiences, and create a sense of social togetherness. To do this, they leaned heavily on the classic combination of two natural materials: wood and stone. In a […]