Linda Holt Interiors

With a focus on color Linda Holt Interiors creates
Real homes for Real people


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5 Quick Tips For Building your Brand as an Interior Designer


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May 15th, 2013

Design royalty paid a visit to the Boston Design Center this week to share their stories of their rise to fame and tips for building your brand as an interior designer. Both Mary McDonald and Martyn Lawrence Bullard are stars of the popular Bravo TV reality show Million Dollar Decorators. They were both funny, gracious and very [...]


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The Hottest New Product on the Market


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May 13th, 2013

Over the past couple of years there has been an explosion in the popularity of outdoor rugs. One of the reasons is that outdoor rugs have evolved from being bland, scratchy and plastic looking to being stylish, fun and fashionable. In fact, the technology has so advanced that many times it is difficult to even [...]


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It’s Baaaack….Shocking Color Trend


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May 7th, 2013

Last week I attended Design Camp Seattle, put on by celebrity designers Lori Dennis and Kelly Ellis. The line up of speakers was amazing and I came away both inspired and informed. The opening speaker in Seattle was Bill Indursky, founder of the online shopping site V& M.  Bill spoke on trends and as a color consultant I [...]


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Ronda Rice Carmen’s New Book “Designers At Home”


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April 29th, 2013

This past Saturday I came home to the BEST surprise, a Fedex package containing a book I had won from Interior Designer Karen Davis’s blog giveaway. Karen doesn’t know this but her blog called The Adventures of Marker Girl was one of the very first blogs I started reading when I first got into reading Design [...]


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Self Healing After A Traumatic Week in Boston


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April 22nd, 2013

A week ago today, two brothers made the decision to intentionally kill, maim, injure and terrorized innocent individuals, the city of Boston, our Nation and the World. The bombings at the Boston Marathon hit me really hard. Maybe because it is my city, maybe because I used to live in Watertown and maybe it is because I have watched the Marathon from the [...]


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Coastal Inspired Family Room Make Over


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April 14th, 2013

I recently worked with a wonderful client who’s family room that was in some serious need of updating.  She had originality decorated it in the 1990′s and everything was right on trend back then; the sponge painted walls, the elaborate (and very expensive) custom window treatments, and the 90′s color pallet. Since her BEFORE and AFTER photos were so dramatic she [...]


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My Olioboard Guest Bedroom Comes to Life


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April 2nd, 2013

One of my favorite design tools that I use for both myself and for my clients is Olioboard. In case you haven’t heard of it, Olioboard is an online design program where you can create 2D or 3D  inspiration or design boards simply by clicking and dragging an almost endless library of real life products. It [...]


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Patiently Waiting For Spring


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March 19th, 2013

I am not one of those New Englander’s who is constantly complaining about the snow. I actually LIKE the snow. There comes a point though (late March) when one more storm is just enough to push me over the edge.  So today, rather than spending the day as planned with clients, I am snowed in [...]


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7 Tips to Create a More Soulful Home


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March 10th, 2013

I just read an interesting article about how Oprah is redecorating her Montecito California home. In the article (you can read it here) Oprah shares  how even though she has decorated many beautiful homes over the years not one of them ever really felt like her home nor did she ever feel completely comfortable in them.  Oprah says rather than decorating around [...]


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My new walking desk version 1.0


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February 25th, 2013

Have you heard about the newest trend in the work place? It’s called a walking desk.  Quite surprisingly, studies have shown that long periods of sitting is actually worse for our health than a steady diet of junk food. Well the idea of a walking desk was actually first presented to me by my husband. He [...]


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