European Elegance Meets California Cool

By Donatella Mazzini and Simona Corradini Infusing Italian Flair into West Coast Interiors As the name of our company implies, we (Donatella and Simona) are both Italian, and our interior design style takes inspiration from the wonder that is Italy. Although we live in California, we return to our [...]

2026-02-10T13:43:09-05:00November 19, 2024|

Beautiful Books for Cozy Reading Nooks

A Holiday Gift GuideThere is something about a book; a real book that you hold in your hands: the texture of the edges of the pages, the way the words and the spaces between the words comprise a visual pattern as well as communicating ideas. And when included, the beautiful [...]

2024-04-23T10:23:00-04:00April 23, 2024|

Unique Holiday Gifts

The holidays are a great time to celebrate those around us. But let’s just say we here at Arana would not blink an eye if you took these suggestions and applied them, liberally, to amassing your own gift pile. Succulents as art, group craft, and decor Living succulent arrangements from [...]

2022-01-31T17:28:00-05:00January 31, 2022|

10 Things to Consider When Choosing Paint Colors for Your Interiors

By Judy Dinkle, Interior Designer and Color Consultant Interior Designer Judy Dinkle is one of Arana's go-to color consultants for our clients. As part of the service we provide, we include a free one-hour paint color consultation for whole-house interior or whole-house exterior contracts. We asked Judy to give us [...]

2021-04-22T13:12:00-04:00April 22, 2021|

Philanthropy Spotlight: Carolyn Rebuffel Flannery and Make It Home

Faithful readers of our blog may recognize the name of interior designer Carolyn Rebuffel Flannery. We have loved working with Carolyn to help realize her beautiful, pattern-driven design projects and have featured her twice in previous articles, once for her inventive self-created textiles and again when we wanted our designer [...]

2021-02-25T16:19:00-05:00February 25, 2021|

Designers on Design: A Compendium of Links

Over the years, in writing our newsletter (which is also posted on this blog) we have interviewed and hosted guest blogs by numerous brilliant and talented Bay Area interior designers and landscape architects, sharing their wisdom on how to make our homes beautiful, inside and out. This post is an [...]

2020-11-30T12:15:11-05:00November 30, 2020|