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Valentine's Day Gift Idea: 90 Minute Design Consult
Looking for a last minute Valentine's Day gift for your sweetheart? Forget the chocolate and roses. Or, just treat yourself!! Either way,...
Annie Wise
Feb 8, 20201 min read
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Reveal: SW Modern Final Master Bathroom Design
Have you ever had that experience where you fix/replace/refresh one thing and suddenly there's a domino effect and now you want to...
Annie Wise
Feb 5, 20202 min read
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Reveal: Introducing NW Hillside House
Designers are problem solvers. A client comes to us with a question and we answer it as best as possible. But unlike math, design doesn't...
Annie Wise
Jan 22, 20203 min read
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2019 PDX Holiday Gift Guide
Annie is the owner and founder of Wise Design, an boutique interior design studio in Portland, and mama of three.

Ryan Harkrider
Dec 14, 20194 min read
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Wise Design Tips: Updating Your Dining Room On A Budget
Well, here we are in November again all of a sudden. (I don't know about you, but this year, it really snuck up on me!) Anyhow, soon it...
Tamara Wise
Nov 20, 20194 min read
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Reveal: SW Modern Final Kitchen Design
It's time to finally reveal the SW Modern kitchen! It's been awhile, (we've had a very busy start to the fall, hurray!) but we're so...
Tamara Wise
Oct 10, 20193 min read
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Wise Design Favorites: Our Go-To Greys
At Wise Design our next favorite neutral paint color after a clean & bright white wall, is a calming, soothing grey wall. Grey is a paint...
Tamara Wise
Aug 29, 20192 min read
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PDX Picks: Our Favorite Local Plant Shops
Here in Portland, Oregon we love our greenery in all forms! The Pacific Northwest is known for it's rainy, wet climate (in fact it's...
Tamara Wise
Aug 21, 20193 min read
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Reveal! Funshine Girls Room Install & Styling
If you've followed along on our journey of space planning & designing the Funshine Girl's Room, then you'll be excited to see the final...
Tamara Wise
Aug 14, 20193 min read
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Before: SW Modern Kitchen & Preliminary Design
As much as we LOVE historic homes and restoring/maintaining the original design, sometimes you do have to throw in the towel. Sometimes,...
Ryan Harkrider
Aug 7, 20192 min read
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Wise Design Picks: Outdoor Spaces + Our Roundup of Outdoor Furniture Favs
Here in Portland Oregon, we are very fortunate to have the most beautiful summers! After raining pretty much solidly for 9 months out of...
Tamara Wise
Aug 2, 20192 min read
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Reveal: Furnishing + Styling the SW Modern Living & Dining Room
Our first task when we started the SW Modern Home project was to help furnish the living room and dining room area. The family was...
Tamara Wise
Jul 25, 20194 min read
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Reveal: Cloverdilly Children's Boutique
So excited to show off the final reveal photos for our children's consignment boutique, Cloverdilly! And before you view the below...
Ryan Harkrider
Jul 11, 20192 min read
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Reveal: Introducing a Sleek Update for a SW Modern Home
This week we are excited to introduce you to an amazing project - updating this beautiful mid- century home for a lovely family in the SW...
Tamara Wise
Jul 3, 20192 min read
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Behind the Scenes: The (Schematic) Design for Our Children's Boutique
We've been talking about our work for a children's clothing boutique in NW Portland. Today we show the Schematic design! But what does...
Ryan Harkrider
Jun 27, 20194 min read
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Behind-the-Scenes: Designing the Funshine Girl's Room
Now comes the fun part! Just to recap on the design story for the Funshine Girl's room thus far: a few weeks ago, we introduced this...
Tamara Wise
Jun 20, 20193 min read
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Dwell Magazine Feature of SW Modern Home!
A huge announcement for Wise Design this week! Dwell, the holy grail of design publications, has featured our SW Modern Home and we are...
Ryan Harkrider
Jun 18, 20191 min read
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Behind the Scenes: Furniture for a Children's Boutique
We love love love designing for kids. Hands down children's spaces are the most creative, sweet, daring and just plain fun! For our...
Ryan Harkrider
Jun 12, 20192 min read
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Behind-the-Scenes: Funshine Girl's Room Before Photos & Space Planning
For those of you following along, a couple weeks ago, we introduced a super fun little girl's room we are designing for a long time...
Tamara Wise
Jun 6, 20192 min read
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Behind the Scenes: Space Planning a Children's Boutique
If you're just joining in, we've been talking about our design process for a new children's consignment boutique in NW Portland. We've...
Ryan Harkrider
May 30, 20193 min read
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