Helen Sharritt Interiors

02/27/2024

Perfect beach day Mauna Kea 🌴🌈❤️💕

02/23/2024

My friend Anne and I at Merriman’s in Waimea. We have been friends for 52 years! ❤️

02/22/2024

My artist friend Michael Smith’s. Octopus bowl at the wood show at the Isaacs Center in Waimea. If it wasn’t ‘already sold.. i probably would have bought it!! Isn’t it beautiful? ❤️

06/02/2020

Everyone needs to read this! 🙏🏻

I walked over to the White House today to join the other protesters. A line of police were protecting the park. Nothing happened that was violent or chaotic. People chanted “Black lives matter” and “No justice, no peace;” the police remained silent standing in their positions.

I kept wondering what each of them was really thinking as they stood there. Probably a lot of things. We could see the White House in the background and we knew the president was tweeting about us. How surreal, how tragic, how painful and yet how hopeful this moment is. A sleeping giant has awakened. Lady Liberty cries out, “Enough is enough!”

This is a societal earthquake, and no one knows yet how the landscape will look when it’s all over. The people are crying out for justice, and the cries are real. A crisis triggers underlying issues and is a response to accumulated layers of trauma. It’s not just about Floyd, but about a string of similar deaths that went before his. It’s not just about race, but about economic and social injustice in general. About health care and food and education and college loans and criminal injustice and more. It’s not just about Trump, but about a political class that has acted for years as though it doesn’t really give a damn.

What is happening in America now was completely predictable to anyone who had the eyes to see. None of this came from out of the blue. For decades, our politicians created an endless string of pleasures for the few and miseries for the many that could not go on forever. And now, for better or for worse, this country will never be the same.

This rebellion cannot be suppressed, it must be accommodated. It cannot be squelched, it must be dealt with. It cannot just be “heard,” it must be responded to. Only fundamental change in a just direction will do. If anyone doesn’t understand, read Yertle the Turtle. You will.

It’s not up to us what we learn, but only whether we learn through joy or through pain. Such is the choice that American makes now.

03/30/2019

Often times I hear my clients tell me that there are added benefits to working with me, besides fantastic design and service. [ 234 more words ]

Often times I hear my clients tell me that there are added benefits to working with me, besides fantastic design and service. Common sense (to me anyway) and proven over time, I see the high costs of deferred maintenance. When you are trying to keep on a budget in maintaining your home, the least ex...

12/09/2018

Over the years, I have seen this happen time and time again, it's almost a universal problem over time, and I realize that I need to address it in a blog post. That is that good design and clutter cannot co-exist! In general a design project looks it’s very best, upon completion. Now I am sure most everyone is saying “duh”. [ 246 more words ]

Over the years, I have seen this happen time and time again, it’s almost a universal problem over time, and I realize that I need to address it in a blog post. That is that good design and clutter cannot co-exist! In general a design project looks it’s very best, upon completion. Now I am Conti...

01/02/2018

Just wanted to share this wonderful Christmas thank-you message from one of my clients: Hi Helen, I’m a lousy correspondent with a million excuses, but it in no way reflects my gratitude to all that you have done for me. You have no idea how big of an influence you have been on me and my life, my house, everything. You are one special gift to the world! [ 130 more words ]

Just wanted to share this wonderful Christmas thank-you message from one of my clients: Hi Helen, I’m a lousy correspondent with a million excuses, but it in no way reflects my gratitude to all that you have done for me. You have no idea how big of an influence you have been on me and Continue Re...

10/27/2017

Located in Santa Rosa, I am extending half-price design services to those affected by the recent fires in Sonoma County. Coming very close to losing my own home in the Tubbs fire that ripped through Sonoma County, and being evacuated for a week, I have been thinking how best I can serve my community in the long recovery that is before us.

Located in Santa Rosa, I am extending half-price design services to those affected by the recent fires in Sonoma County. Coming very close to losing my own home in the Tubbs fire that ripped through Sonoma County, and being evacuated for a week, I have been thinking how best I can serve my community...

06/29/2016

Let’s talk about TVs, or what I like to refer to as a designer’s nightmare. They keep getting bigger and bigger, and harder to incorporate into the design of the room. [ 237 more words. ]

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Let’s talk about TVs, or what I like to refer to as a designer’s nightmare. They keep getting bigger and bigger, and harder to incorporate into the design of the room. While I believe that designers have basically lost the battle on this one, I do ...

07/27/2013

Upcoming Seminar: Thursday, September 12

Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 12th at 5:30pm. We will be hosting a seminar on interior design at Humanity Home. More information to follow.

07/27/2013

Check out my new website, www.helensharrittinteriors.com!