Blog - Mackenzie Collier Interiors | Phoenix, Gilbert, Cave Creek

You do not need to reduce your home to studs to eliminate the dark, heavy aesthetic of late-1990s and early-2000s Mediterranean design. Across luxury estates in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, the vast majority of Tuscan-style homes can be dramatically elevated through three strategic design pivots: a curated, desert-inspired color story, an editing of ornat...

A high-end Arcadia ranch remodel does three critical things: it integrates high-functioning, custom storage solutions, uncovers and corrects hidden structural flaws from decades of past additions, and celebrates the authentic midcentury architectural character that made you fall in love with the property in the first place. Having lived in two 1960s Arcadia ...

A whole home remodel in the Phoenix area typically takes nine to sixteen months from the first meeting to the day you move back in, and this is the part that surprises everyone: roughly two thirds of that happens before a single wall comes down. A single kitchen usually runs five to seven months on the same basis. The construction is the visible part and the...

A furniture dealer's design work is free because the furniture pays for it. That is not a criticism, it is just the business model, and whether it is a good deal for you comes down to one question: are you buying furniture, or are you designing a workplace? If it is genuinely the first, a dealer is often the right call. If it is the second, free design turns out to be the mos...