New York designer Kati Curtis tucked LED-tape lighting under the edge of a marble wall to illuminate a Tribeca bathtub. LEDs are “small, cool in temperature and versatile, allowing us to add lighting in places we never could before,” she said.

An interior design trend can completely transform the energy and look of any place. It’s amazing how a basic décor element like a mirror can “magically” make a room feel bigger and brighter by adding depth to even the smallest of spaces.

If you’ve caught any of our recent Seminar Series, you’ve likely spotted interior designer Kati Curtis in the crowd. A self-professed devotee of the arts, Curtis is always eager to soak in something new.

MAXIMALIST INTERIORS – ARTISTIC ESCAPE An art studio in a New York City penthouse by Kati Curtis Design overflows with color and pattern.

When two 20-something sisters needed New York Apartment Interior Design, they enlisted designer Kati Curtis to help them find the perfect apartment. “They had first come to us to help them find something that was in a healthy building,” says Kati—one of the sisters has a chemical…

WHEN QUIZZED on the mistakes they see most in home office decorating, designers and architects list both aesthetic and practical flubs. For New York designer Mikel Welch, who often sees lapses in taste in the workspaces of otherwise stylish homeowners, what comes to mind is “those…

This NYC Victorian townhouse is actually the second home of a “very hip couple from Palm Springs,” as interior designer Kati Curtis describes her clients.

“The color is deep, but not too overwhelming—as we needed a great base to work from in a creative office! One might think that too much color in an office space might be distracting, but it’s actually more inspiring and motivating, while the deep blue…

Interior design risks are relative. All ‘rules’ of design aside — it’s more important that you love everything in your home, so don’t be afraid of the mix as long as the patterns speak to you personally!” —Kati Curtis, Kati Curtis Design

“It’s a risk,” said Kati Curtis, a wallpaper interior designer with offices in New York and Los Angeles. “But, boy, can it pay off.”

Kati Curtis, principal of Kati Curtis Design LA Interior Designers has been involved in many different groups throughout her 25 year career. She is a member of both Leaders of Design and the Design Leadership Network, and is now part of Design Share – a small,…

A kid’s bedroom is a great place for bold and playful design choices, from whimsical colors and fabrics to unique furniture. Check out these inventive ideas from Dering Hall designers that will have you wanting to deck out your children’s bedrooms with an imaginative design. Kati…

On Wednesday, June 20, AD Editor in Chief Amy Astley and AD VP of Revenue Jeff Barish hosted the annual AD Loves event at the New York Design Center

Designer Kati Curtis has noticed an uptick in clients’ receptiveness to the type of color choices that make a space unique. “In New York every kitchen has white or gray cabinets, a white or gray backsplash, white or gray floor tile and stainless appliances,” she…

Everyone needs a bit of advice at the beginning of their career—even the most high-profile top designers and architects. Kati Curtis says, “Nothing should be totally perfect. Persian rug weavers actually weave an imperfection into every carpet, giving it a unique and one-of-a-kind quality. This is…

Dwell’s Top 50 Interior designers play an important rule when making a home. We believe that modern interior designers who work well with their clients, can add beauty, texture, and love into projects from big to small.

pp. 116 The penthouse design would reflect Kati’s classic, but globally influenced design aesthetic, but most importantly would reveal her clients’ unique style in a fun and exciting way, with an overall emphasis on healthy living and sustainability.

Dering Hall Executive Editor Dennis Sarlo will lead another discussion on technology and design, this one focusing on new tools for the industry. Top Interior Designers Kati Curtis, Paloma Contreras, Patrick Dragonette, and Joe Human will weigh in on the ones they use most.

As Americans tire of the forced togetherness of great rooms and open-plan homes, they’re sneaking off to renovated attics or basements to save their sanity

Top NYC Interior Designer Kati Curtis offers tips on how to master the gallery wall and proves that it doesn’t have to be intimidating even for the least interior-design-savvy among us: It has more to do with breaking rules, mixing media than precise measurements and proportions….

Chairish and DECASO kicked off summer in style with a dinner at Gemma in the Bowery Hotel in New York City last week for members of New York’s design community.

Kati Curtis channeled her love of mixing and matching fabrics from around the globe into a crafted, cultured and collected design story.

When an interior is in need of a dose of drama, mixing prints like florals, stripes and geometrics can do the trick. See these stunning spaces from Dering Hall designers who put bold patterns to the test on furniture, walls, curtains, and more.

From kitschy nautical themes to wall-to-wall beds, the blunders design pros see in weekend homes, plus the best ways to remedy the problems.

Bold curtains may not be for everyone, but if you have floor to ceiling windows like these — we beg for you to give it a shot. By choosing to solely have these shades as the main focal point, they don’t become overwhelming.

Designer Kati Curtis deployed removable wallpaper, low-effort kitchen updates and layout workarounds when renewing a 19th-century New York apartment

Interior designer Kati Curtis gives us a tour of her client’s Chelsea penthouse. Although a small space, Curtis managed to bring in big design. The home is filled with bold color and patterns with global influences.

Taking inspiration from the organization’s chalk-scribbled bright green apple logo, Kati Curtis Design decided to make the color green the element that threads their entire New York City office together. She sought out a mixture of different shades, from the forest green of Humanscale‘s Ballo ottomans to…

Wallpaper is ready for its next act. The polarizing paint alternative and longtime decorating taboo has returned to fashion. Offering more drama than paint, it’s a fun way to transform a room and reflect your personal style without breaking the bank. “People want their homes…

FOR CITY DWELLERS trying to make the most of small-scale rooms, love seats are appealing year-round, and may even take the place of larger sofas.

SCALED UP AND DOWN In the dining room of this New York townhouse, the wide color palette includes green, pink, gold and red. “But mixing different scales makes it harmonious,” said designer Kati Curtis.

New York-based interior design studio Kati Curtis Design, tapped into educational non-profit firm Educators4Excellence’s refreshing and motivated professional approach, to create a stimulating working environment with the Big Apple at its core.

“Ceilings are often underutilized,” said New York designer Phillip Thomas. “I turn to metallic paints to carry and reflect light through a space.” Like a pair of zebra Mary Janes with a staid gray suit, “contrast makes a space interesting,” added New York-based designer Kati…

Not all academic institutions are created equal, especially in creative fields, but we noticed that SCAD educated designers in particular harbored some serious talent who are currently embarking on an impressive professional journey (it helps that SCAD has a 98% job placement rate for graduates). We sat down…

Some interior designers disdain working with clients who have never hired a professional before. Others avoid being hired by friends — even casual ones. But Kati Curtis was open to both, so when Beth Rumore and Craig Stanley, a couple she knew socially, approached her about…

“I have recommended the Weber Summit series for most of our clients,” says Kati Curtis. The company’s top-of-the-line model comes in a slew of sizes—from a simple four-burner unit to one with six burners, a sear station, and 10,400 BTUs of bovine-burning power. Plus they…

Everyone needs a bit of advice at the beginning of their career—even the most high-profile designers and architects. With that in mind, we asked nine of the best in their fields to share the most impactful piece of advice they received as they got their…

A stool is one of the most versatile pieces of furniture you can get. It slides neatly under or up to a counter, takes up little real estate and can provide a handy perch in any room. New York interior designer Kati Curtis finds herself employing…

For this year’s event, 21 top interior designers were given six weeks to transform their allocated spaces in the house, which is on the market for $49.5 million. The designers had over 9,700 square feet of space to work with altogether, and this year’s crop…

Long gone are the days where voluminous frills, petticoat ruffles, and gigantic ruches reign supreme, but that doesn’t mean we have to get rid of bold and prominent wallpaper too. The patterned paper has made a most welcome comeback, and I plead for the trend…

Selecting the right wallpaper can be transporting, whether the room you are working with is narrow or vast. Kati Curtis’s landing is dressed to the nines in exquisite Degournay wall coverings that are peppered with birds, butterflies, and flowering branches, meant to evoke the path…

NYCxDesign celebrates outstanding talent across major areas of design such as architecture, interiors, furnishings, lighting, and technology, and unifies the more than 500 events taking place during New York City’s showcase of global design. Kati Curtis Design is an honoree for the non-profit category.

Kati Curtis Design designed two of the main staircases in the house with the theme “The Path to Enlightenment.”

A chinoisserie wall paper by de Gournay enlivens a staircase and landing, whose decor was devised by Kati Curtis.

Like Mr. Vandiver, Kati Curtis was  thinking of the afterlife when she covered her landing’s walls with hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper made from silk and tea paper. The Italian glass light fixture is by Venfield.

A chinoiserie-inspired wall panel by de Gournay snakes up the staircase devised by Kati Curtis.

Top interior designers are shaking rooms up with rounded couches instead of predictable L-shaped sectionals. But are swoopy sofas a headache when it comes time to watch TV? “A curved sofa allows us to maximize seating in a much lighter and softer way than a weighty,…

Introducing Luxe Magazine’s 2016 Gold List, a select guide to the Architects, Interior Designers, Home Builders and Landscape Architects whose projects were featured in the magazine. See who made the list.

Best in Interior Design Year in Review: 47 Unconventional Perspectives on Architecture, Interiors, Fashion, and Art including Educators for Excellence by Kati Curtis Design

Interior Design in New Jersey – Home to a young family of four – who left behind the fast-paced hustle and bustle of New York City to embrace a more relaxed, family-orientated lifestyle – this expansive 6,000 sq ft abode overlooks New Jersey’s picturesque Navesink…

New Jersey Interior Designer Kati Curtis was called in by a young family to renovate the house they had just bought on New Jersey’s Navesink River. They wanted to respect its Arts and Crafts-style architecture but transform its dark interiors into light and airy contemporary…

This year’s roster of top interior designers includes veteran Style Spotter and team leader Michelle Jennings Wiebe, along with Arianne Bellizaire, Kati Curtis, Beth Dotolo, Lori Gilder, Patti Johnson, Jonathan Legate and Leslie Hendrix Wood. Among the trends noted: fashion- and jewelry-inspired home furnishings, such as…

As far as Holiday decor goes, “If I never saw tinsel again I’d be happy,” says designer Kati Curtis. There are other ways of approaching the traditional tree. For instance, designer Gideon Mendelson suggests wrapping a ribbon loosely around you fir. “It’s always really beautiful,” he…

Each of the The New Traditionalists Syndicate collections demonstrates the unique designers behind them. Sara Gilbane’s collection features vintage influences, an area of great influence for her. Kati Curtis’ collection bears her signature contemporary and global style. Cullman and Kravis bring to ELLIEHOME their hallmark…

Traditional Home pick of the week: The New Traditionalists have just debuted a capsule collection with designer Kati Curtis. Drawing influence from her worldly travels, Kati wanted to “create contemporary takes on classic pieces, while still capturing the feel of the New Traditionalists’ style of…

Back in New York, as Educators 4 Excellence prepared its move to a much bigger office, 13,500 square feet in the financial district, Curtis evaluated the current office design  for more clues. “This is what we are always trying to do, figuring out how we…

It was a phone call from Turks and Caicos Islands that led Rumson interior designer Kati Curtis to the home, located on New Jersey’s upscale coast, that would change the lives of a city-dwelling family. Curtis had previously worked with the homeowners on an apartment…

“As interior designers, we see so many natural influences in McGuire’s collections—the genius way they combine materials and the simple, natural forms that make up their beautiful contemporary pieces. I wanted our room to be a collection of tribally influenced items—as if I had just…

For Dering Hall’s first-ever Wired & Inspired Virtual Showhouse, nine top NYC interior designers created mood boards for a room inspired by their favorite movie set in New York.

Dream Project Where I’d Include this Piece: I would use this interior design piece in the entryway of a new high-rise apartment (perhaps at 432 Park Avenue) with incredible city and Central Park views. The lines mimic the nuances of the City below and that exquisite…

New York Designer Kati Curtis shares this tip: “Make sure to balance boldness with quieter details. One of the reasons this room works is that even though there’s lots of color, pattern, and texture, it’s balanced with more refined accents, like the sculptured glass cocktail…

Designer Curtis named “The Feminine Edge” as one of the interior design trends-to-watch, citing such pieces as the Cisco Brothers Derian Settee and the Koket Camilla Armoire as exemplifying “the interplay of line and curve that keeps life interesting.”

Designer Kati Curtis talked about creating spaces that felt like refuge in houses and I learned from Philip Gorrivan that he completely disapproves of wallpaper being on one wall of a room only (“It always looks like a value proposition, not design when that happens.”…

When a young family decided to move out of New York City and into a home on Rumson, New Jersey’s Navesink River, they wanted to renovate the house in a way that would respect its original Arts and Crafts-style architecture while also transforming the dark…

I like everything to be really unique for the person it’s being given to,” says designer Kati Curtis. “As an interior designer I have lots of wallpaper samples around that I like to wrap gifts with. But if you’re not an interior designer, I would…

In case you missed the memo, wallpaper is making a comeback, resurging from a place where it had been banished for being too flowery, too hard to take down, and grossly overused alongside pouffy couches and other ’80s decor. With an emphasis on modern designs…

In the August issue of Residence, a coastal home at Bellevue Place is elegantly transformed by Kati Curtis Design and features a soft palette of blue and white.

Area Magazine – For Manhattan interior designer Kati Curtis, a beautiful handmade decorative rug is an authentic work of art that finds no equal among its machine-made counterparts. “Finding a one-of-the-kind handmade rug, as opposed one that is mass produced, brings incomparable value and authenticity…

This new townhouse is located in Boston’s prestigious Back Bay neighborhood. The existing home needed a complete overhaul, including adding an additional bathroom and completely redoing the kitchen, bathrooms, closet and built-ins. The client requested a reconfiguration of the existing kitchen to open it up,…

Everyone loves a bargain and, as we learned from interviewing a few of our favorites, interior designers are no exception. Sure, they might be used to spending more on a sofa than many of us do on rent, but these design pros also know when…

“Beautiful Children’s Rooms” – Children’s rooms have become exciting spaces for designers to explore furnishings, colors and textures. In the June issue of Residence, many of our children’s rooms have been selected to showcase this new trend.  

TOP TABLETOP | A vignette by New York interior designer Kati Curtis explored gender lines. She split the table right down the middle between masculine—with brown plaid fabric, reclaimed wood and pewter glasses—and feminine, which was ‘super-flowery,’ said Ms. Curtis, and featured gold accents, butterfly…

DIFFA’s Dining by Design raises and grants funds to organizations that fight HIV/AIDS. The annual benefit brings together internationally celebrated designers and local talents to bring to fruition conceptual, traditional, and modern dining installations that create a dialogue.

Kati expressed the interplay of the boy and girl in us all, and played with stereotypes that we can so easily fall prey to. Growing out of her own design balancing acts, she created a fantasy world utilizing the New York Design Center’s crafted materials…

TOP TABLETOP | A vignette by New York interior designer Kati Curtis explored gender lines. She split the table right down the middle between masculine—with brown plaid fabric, reclaimed wood and pewter glasses—and feminine, which was ‘super-flowery,’ said Ms. Curtis, and featured gold accents, butterfly…

Tour all of the magical displays created by top creative talents for this extraordinary annual event in support of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary New York Design Center, designed by Kati Curtis

The New York Design Center vignette, designed by Kati Curtis, riffed on male and female gender stereotypes—pairing masculine and feminine sensibilities side by side to highlight their difference but also simultaneously uniting them. Growing out of her own design balancing acts, Curtis’s fantasy world utilized…

Color and texture  are inherent to materiality and can also be applied as architectural surface or finish. Both make significant contributions toward achieving design goals. Listen as top NYC interior designers Brett Beldock, Kati Curtis, and Robert Passal show you how to reveal your personality…

Modern Decoration  – The clients have 2 small children so there was a challenge to create a space that was not only aesthetically beautiful but that could stand up to wear and tear. The textiles used on the furnishings are all washable or stain resistant….

Even dedicated disciples of vastu may be daunted by the thought of a fountain inside their home, in which case a tamer alternative is an aquarium. “Placing a fish tank in a specific location can increase wealth, prosperity and success,” says Kati Curtis. A New…

The tally is in, and last week’s Design on a Dime by Housing Works raised 1.1 million dollars for the organization. The proceeds of the fundraiser will go towards the organization’s Jefferson Avenue Residence and the new Hull Street Residence in Brooklyn.

The pressure to slash prices can be hard to resist. But businesses should try. Too often, dramatic price cuts lead to lower profits — and dilute a company’s brand. Kati Curtis, founder of New York-based design firm Nirmada Interior Design, has noticed her upscale customers…

We were interested to see what other designers and architects thought about the name change, here’s what three in the New York City area said:”We work on many new construction projects here, and we have noticed that new marketing collateral identifies what used to be…

Go Global with Beautiful Blue Rooms Tiffany blue may be prim and proper, but it doesn’t have to be boring. Painted walls mixed with bold plum accents and modern art create a worldly sitting room. This audacious color scheme gives credence that more is sometimes,…

But the room, designed by interior designer Kati Curtis, was comfortable, with a selection of assorted dips and crackers, cookies, pastries, cold sandwiches and beverages. The complimentary WiFi used a password provided by the reception desk.

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As for the actual guests, they included NYDC CEO and president Jim Druckman, Elle Decor editor in chief Michael Boodro, Traditional Home publisher Beth Brenner, and more. Click through the gallery above to glimpse the place settings crafted by Drew McGukin, Laura Bohn, West Chin,…

There are other things you should also consider when you’re refinishing a wood floor, said Kati Curtis, an interior designer in New York. “First, you have to determine whether it’s an engineered floor or solid hardwood,” she said, because the former has only a thin…

When designing a country house don’t disparage decoupage, friends. It has a reputation as a lowbrow craft, but it’s actually an inexpensive way to reinvigorate a space, as you’ll see in the photos below.

We are always looking for things like this that are hand crafted, sustainably made and finished unexpectedly – as in the gold, platinum, and blue finishes available on these exquisitely created pieces. The stools can be used as additional seating, side tables, or simply beautiful…

“The green movement has made everyone aware of how important it is to make  responsible design decisions,” says Kati Curtis, ASID, CID, LEED AP ID&C, and the principal of Nirmada Interior Design, based in New York City. “Apartment owners are educated consumers, and they have…

With the help of eco-conscious Nirmada Interior Design, the couple chose a natural, neutral palate, using wholesome materials that would be rugged enough to stand up to life with a small child. The kitchen wall came down, replaced by a long open bar made from…

Layer the Artwork If you can’t decide on where to put a piece of art, or which one to put on the wall – just layer them on in the bathroom!

Kati Curtis, ASID, LEED AP, of Nirmada Interior Architecture and Design in New York City, also relies on the control custom shops provide. It requires hand-holding at first to help them find and become familiar with new materials, she says, but they learn quickly and…

She would know. Curtis’s architectural and interior design firm, Kati Curtis Design, specializes in helping an eco friendly house look not only aesthetically amazing but also achieve as much of a pro-environment nirvana as possible. And one can achieve plenty. If you want a plan…

Houzz, the leading online platform for residential remodeling and design has awarded Nirmada Interior Architectural Design of New York City the “Best New York Interior Designers” 2012. The boutique 7-year-old Manhattan design and planning firm was chosen by more than 1.2 million registered members of…

Another potential pitfall with open floor plans is the new acoustics that come with very open spaces. With fewer walls and sometimes higher ceilings, homeowners may experience issues like echoing or cross-room conversations that sound garbled and less crisp. “The easiest way to address this…