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10/15/2026

Winter in Colorado means short days and dry indoor air, and biophilic design is how a home keeps the outdoors in the room.

Here's what we plan around:

1. Daylight. Drapery that stacks back off the glass keeps the window clear, so winter light reaches the room.
2. Views. Seating angled toward the window makes the landscape part of the room.
3. Plants, placed by light. The ones that want the most light go near south or west windows, and anything tropical stays away from cold glass and heat vents. Cacti and succulents handle our dry winter air best.
4. Natural materials. Linen, wool, stone, and wood with visible grain bring in the variation you see outdoors.
5. Patina. An antique wood piece or a terracotta pot adds the warmth of age.

Save this for the first snow.

Some of our favorite decisions in a Colorado home happen in the smallest rooms.A powder room gives us a few square feet ...
10/13/2026

Some of our favorite decisions in a Colorado home happen in the smallest rooms.

A powder room gives us a few square feet to get the materials just right, and these are the details we chose with that in mind. We hope it makes you want to give your own small spaces the same care.

Send this to someone who loves a small room with a lot of thought in it.

10/12/2026

Hard hat required, costume optional: spooky season on the job.

A build gets frightening because each moment looks so ordinary while it's happening. A choice gets made on site, nobody flinches, and the surprise shows up months later when the room comes together.

We walk the site with our clients and speak up while a change still costs a conversation.

If you're building or remodeling in the Vail Valley or Boulder, we'd love to be the second set of eyes on your project.

Send this to a friend who's mid-build and could use a laugh.

The fall foliage in October looks effortless. A Colorado home gets that effortless feel from decisions made in a specifi...
10/09/2026

The fall foliage in October looks effortless. A Colorado home gets that effortless feel from decisions made in a specific order.

Layout comes first, because how you move through the house on an ordinary day decides where doors swing and how much room a walkway needs.

Windows get planned right alongside it. Where you want privacy and how far the drapery stacks back to keep the glass clear both depend on the trim and ceiling height around them.
Lighting and electrical get mapped room by room while the walls are still open, since a fixture in the wrong spot is much harder to move once the drywall is up.

Custom drapery and millwork run on their own timelines, and antiques take as long as it takes to find the right piece. Those dates go on the schedule early.

Light at altitude is intense, so we look at finishes in the room itself and think through how each one will wear.

Once construction starts, we stay in the conversation with your contractor, so the decisions made early are the ones that get built.

Planning a project in the Vail Valley or Boulder? Visit katehartmaninteriors.com to get something on the calendar. :)

10/08/2026

A Colorado home loses daylight fast once November hits, and it stays that way clear through the holidays.

The shifts that make a room feel warmer for fall keep working once the tree goes up and family starts showing up for Christmas.

A room dressed for cozy in October carries straight through December.

Deep walls, and the room still fills with daylight.The windows are the reason.Dark surfaces absorb light, so the brightn...
10/06/2026

Deep walls, and the room still fills with daylight.

The windows are the reason.

Dark surfaces absorb light, so the brightness has to come from somewhere. Here it comes from the glass. Generous multi-pane windows let in plenty, and the drapery stacks off to the side of the frame so nothing sits in front of the view.

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10/05/2026

Colorado light doesn't behave like light anywhere else, and paint feels that shift first.

A north-facing wall gets steady, indirect light with a cool cast, so a warm swatch from the store can turn flat and gray once it's up. A south-facing wall pulls direct sun most of the day, so the same color shows warmer and more saturated than the chip ever suggested.

East-facing walls run warm in the morning and cool by afternoon, and west-facing walls flip that pattern.

At elevation, that sun hits harder too. Thinner air filters less of it, so a color can shift more within a single day here than it would at sea level.

This is something a paint sample can't show you, and it's changed how we choose color for a CO home.

We test color on the actual wall, in the actual room, at the times of day it'll actually live in.

Save this for the next time you're standing in the paint aisle.

At the Corston showroom, I had a moment comparing brass finishes under different light.Every plate gets a decision: togg...
10/02/2026

At the Corston showroom, I had a moment comparing brass finishes under different light.

Every plate gets a decision: toggle or dimmer, keyed switch or standard, brass or something with more patina.

We map it room by room, because manufacturers rarely match on the first try and a wall of slightly different brass tones gets noticed fast once it's installed.

Small category, real effect on how a room actually feels once everything's in.

Is this the kind of detail you obsess over put on the back burner?

10/01/2026

The design decisions that shape daily life in a house get made inside the walls, where no one sees them again.

Three worth raising with your contractor:

1. Outlets and lighting placed from your furniture plan. Positions get set when the wiring goes in, so the outlet is behind the chair you read in and the light sits where you need it.

2. Solid backing set inside the walls. Extra framing gives heavy drapery rods and sconces something to anchor to. Place them wherever the room calls for.

3. Wall space left beside each window. It decides where drapery panels rest when they're open, which keeps the view you love clear of fabric.

Save this while your walls are still open.

Wallpaper is where most people either go too bold or skip the room entirely.This paper stays small in scale and tonal in...
09/29/2026

Wallpaper is where most people either go too bold or skip the room entirely.

This paper stays small in scale and tonal in color, set back far enough from the table that up close it feels more like texture than pattern.

If a small-scale print like this is more your speed than a big, bold wallcovering moment, we'd love to talk through it for your dining room.

What's held you back from wallpaper so far, the commitment or the cost?

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