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b'It\\u2019s Houston Week! We are kicking it off with Houston-based designer Marie Flanigan. Marie is an award-winning interior designer and the author of The Beauty of Home. Her work has also been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, ELLE d\\xe9cor, Vogue, Southern Living, Traditional Home, and she also recently had a role on HGTV\\u2019s internationally broadcast series\\xa0Property Brothers: Brother vs. Brother. We talk about Marie\\u2019s love of texture, fireplaces, breaking conventions, and the importance of how a space makes you feel.\\n\\nWhat You\\u2019ll Hear on This Episode:\\n\\n\\nHow Marie transitioned from her career in architecture to design.\\n\\nMolding or no molding?\\n\\nMarie\\u2019s love of using fireplaces as the focal point.\\n\\nHow to decide on a focal point in a room.\\n\\nHow lighting changes and affects design.\\n\\nMarie\\u2019s guidelines for mixing materials, particularly wood.\\n\\nCreating a flex space in the home using sliding doors.\\n\\nAll about a growing topic: home offices.\\n\\nHow Marie uses sconces.\\n\\nA bedroom in the Telluride project.\\n\\nHow Marie likes to use sculptures and \\u201cfound objects\\u201d as art.\\n\\nWhat is so thrilling about tension in design?\\n\\nDecorating Dilemma\\nHi Caryn,\\n\\nThe first thing I would do is come up with a way to make the dining room feel special. Add drapery, paneling throughout the room, and I definitely think it\\u2019s important to case the entry. One thing that casing does for rooms is it allows you to start and stop a wall finish. Then I would take a look at the architecture of the space to see if first I could recess the mud function into the wall and then be able to close it off with doors. That way when you are using the dining room, you could shut off the mess that accumulates in mudrooms. If that\\u2019s not possible, I would definitely go with the paneling idea and let the mudroom cabinets be an extension of that paneling so that it follows the same detail of molding on the cabinets. Just make sure you have doors in that area so you can \\u201chide the mess\\u201d. You could perhaps lacquer the room or choose a fun color to paint all of the woodwork so that way the garage door just disappears, or you could even have the paneling go across the doors to hide it. Another thought is if you don\\u2019t use the dining room often, you could restyle the dining room table so it\\u2019s more of a round entryway table and you relocate the chairs to somewhere else while they aren\\u2019t in use. If you really want to embrace this as a more casual room, you could even do a built-in banquette under the windows and change from a round table to a square or rectangular table that would allow it to be pushed towards the corner more. Then you could use that bar cabinet for storage. A large area rug could also help to feel the space larger.\\n\\nGood luck, Caryn!\\n\\nMentioned in This Episode:\\nMarie Flanigan Interiors\\nMarie Flanigan on Instagram\\nThe Beauty of Home\\nForbes & Lomax\\nLutron Switches\\nBocci Outlets\\nTelluride Project'