The San Diego Traveler

San Diego’s top interior designers and landscape architects will display their talents at the San Diego Home Design & Landscape Expo, being held at the San Diego Convention Center this weekend. This is really three shows in one – Home Design and Decor, Outdoor Living, and Home Remodeling and Renovation, with more than 350 exhibitors and experts on hand.
The International Interior Design Association (IiDa) will celebrate a century of fabulous design, showcasing six rooms newly designed for this year’s show. If you bring your plans, photos and sketches, you can sign up for a free consultation with a certified IiDa …read more

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Tiles shaped much of Southern California’s architecture and design through the early part of the 20th century. Along with the Panama-California Exposition’s design influence (1915-1917), home decorating magazines, real estate developers and furniture manufacturers made Spanish, Mexican and Moorish themes the most popular style for California homeowners at that time.According to the Save Our Heritage Organisation:
“Considered functional as well as aesthetically pleasing, tiles were used extensively to clad benches, form fountain spouts and basins, and as stair risers both indoors and out.”
On Saturday (March 15, San Diego’s Historic Tile Tour will visit private homes to view their tile features, as well …read more

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