Jessica Otte

1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Jessica Otte

Svend Fruit has been fascinated by architecture ever since he was in the third grade, when he dressed as Frank Lloyd Wright for a class assignment. “I went to the public library and got a book he did called the Wasmuth Portfolio,” Fruit remembers. “It was just all beautiful perspective drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, and I just became enthralled with it.

1 month ago | dmagazine.com | Jessica Otte

Some people make it look easy. They create rooms that just work in a way that’s so effortless, it feels like happenstance.  But don’t be fooled: Behind every put-together finished product hides the million considerations, decisions, and detours it took to arrive at its destination. After all, good design without a purpose isn’t good design at all. It is intentionality,  not inevitability, that makes a space great.

1 month ago | dmagazine.com | Jessica Otte

Each spring for the last 21 years, D Home has unveiled our annual list of the Best Designers in Dallas. Consider it your cheat sheet for who to call on when you get the itch to renovate or redecorate. Nervous about taking the plunge? Don’t be: The 130 firms represented below have been nominated by their industry peers, and vetted by a panel of internal and external judges to ensure they’re not only talented but also names you can trust.

1 month ago | dweddings.com | Jessica Otte

Denise and Scott McGahaSeptember 5, 1998It was a sunny, sweltering 112-degree day when interior designer Denise McGaha married husband Scott in a backyard ceremony early in the fall of 1998. In keeping with the celebration’s “earthy and natural” aesthetic, the pair wed under a cedar arbor draped in muslin, then celebrated over brunch with their nearest and dearest. At the end of the festivities, “We drove off in a 1955 vintage Chevy truck, which we still own today,” Denise says.

1 month ago | dmagazine.com | Jessica Otte

Not many designers can boast a 50-year track record of stellar interiors. But not many designers are Joseph Minton. Now into his 90s, the Fort Worth native is still putting his sophisticated touch on everything from high-rise apartments and lavish estates to vacation properties.