Cy Winship Design

11/29/2025

Sorting through new French fabrics we bought home from our last visit... Guess we've got a bunch of new shirts to sew...

10/25/2025

Nothing like a French antique store...

10/25/2025

A moody but warm day in Basque country...

11/09/2021

After Brantome, Bourdeilles. Gorgeous town with some house built into the cliffs and 2 chareaux
A medieval keep and a Renaissance castle!

09/06/2020

Hello everyone! I am thrilled to announce that I will be retiring by the end of October 2020. It has been a wonderful career and I am forever grateful to have gotten to do this for so long. My husband, John, and I will be moving to France in the next year- or so- we'd be there already but-you know, the pandemic.
I may be posting cool stuff in the next couple months as projects wrap up, but will be exiting the FB scene by December.
Thank you to everyone who has liked and supported what I do- from the old TV days of Decorating Cents to more recent work in your homes and offices. I will miss getting to be creative with you all.
In case you are wondering how we could leave... here's a photo of where we will be...

06/18/2020

DOG' DAY OUT is open!
Loved working on this with Core Design Build and fantastic owner Ralph Bernstein!
Check it all out- spa tubs and drying and grooming rooms... Time to pamper your dogs!
821 2nd Ave South--near the Farmers Market!

06/04/2020

Getting things moving toward opening of Dogs' Day Out. It's so good to be moving forward...

03/29/2020

Trapped at home, I was interviewed by Kim Palmer from the Star Tribune about what we can do to refresh our homes. Even I was surprised I wasn't repainting rooms (I certainly have the paint) but rethinking how they actually work. Full life stop might be quieting the noise in my head a bit. Maybe all the quiet can get even me to simplify, be more thoughtful in the end.

From the article:

Rethink your home

“You’re trapped in your home, and you feel things aren’t working,” said Cy Winship, Cy Winship Design, Golden Valley. He and his husband decided to take a fresh look at their own house. “We started with the kitchen,” he said. “We were always bumping into each other, and we had too much in drawers we don’t use.” They pulled everything out, and then reorganized drawers and cupboards based on how items were used and by whom, so they weren’t constantly crisscrossing the kitchen and getting in each other’s way. “It was a revelation for us,” said Winship. “Why do we have 17 oven sheets? We can pare those down and have more room.” They also found things they forgot they had, including their Instant Pot. “We never used it,” he said. Now it’s on the stove — and getting a workout. “When it’s in front of you, you start using it,” he said. “Decluttering is a weird, joyful thing.”

Next, they rearranged all their furniture in the family room with an eye to creating better flow. “We’re not so constrained walking around things,” Winship said. “It makes our home feel kind of new.” If your baseboards are worn and scuffed, paint them, he said. “It looks clean and fresh when everything feels diseased and dangerous.”

Sprucing up your home also “gives you a moment of control,” he said. “We have no control other than to avoid our world. Like it or not, this is our environment now.”

Design and organizing pros share their strategies for making your home a place of order, comfort and joy.

11/08/2019

Here's the home I worked on with Mike Lueth and Sheri Fine! So great getting to do these projects to sell to the public.

11/07/2019

Very exciting to see the house on Regent St in Golden Valley get finished. Amazing contractor Mike Lueth made this all happen and I got to design it with him and the inimitable Sheri Fine!