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Interior Design A-Z: ‘L’ is for Living Rooms… and more

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Well here we are at the letter ‘L’.  I asked my creative Facebook friends for their suggestions and was flooded with good ideas!  As a result, I will use many of them in this post representing the letter ‘L’; to be exact, seven of the suggestions will find themselves discussed in this post.

Starting with the word LIVING ROOM.  What design elements comprise a living room?  In our fictional living room, we will have great lamps, accent chairs with fabulous legs upholstered in leopard chenille.  There is a sofa with a linen slip cover and an entertainment center with louvered doors and fabulous decorative latches.

In our living room sits our sofa, flanked by two chairs upholstered in leopard chenille.   Definitely need some great throw pillows for the sofa to pull the rich colors of the fabric and leg stain over. Perhaps introduce some red as an accent color…..  A faux mink throw for the back of the sofa would look good.

Formal living rooms are not too common now a days.  Our living room is quite casual in tone and is home to the second TV in the house so the parents can watch their favorite shows while their teenaged son plays X-Box on the TV in the family room.

A large scale entertainment unit with louvered doors, stained a darker tone to complement the legs on the accent chairs works great.   To one side of the linen sofa, an interesting chest with great latches is used as a table.  The height is balanced by a floor lamp on the other side of  the sofa.

Our room is not quite finished.  The walls will be painted in a soft gray blue tone.  An 8′ x 10′ sisal area rug with a leopard print border anchors the seating arrangement.  Artwork will grace the walls, window treatments, live plants and other accessories will find their home in our fictional living room.

WHAT WOULD YOU ADD TO OUR ROOM??

Picture sources include: Pottery Barn (sofa), One-Way Furniture (Leopard Chairs), Lamps Plus (floor lamp)

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Interior Design A-Z: ‘K’ is for Kilim

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Personally I have a love/hate relationship with Kilim.  Love it for rugs (don’t forget your rug pad, they will slip!),  Love it for footstool covers,  Love it for wall hangings.  Not so sure about for pillow covers.  Why?  Because while they look good, and are textural, often colorful  and interesting to look at, they are NOT face-friendly.

So please proceed to use Kilim pillow covers for the seating that you only sit on, or look at, but don’t use it for the sectional sofa you lie all over at night to watch your favorite TV shows.  For detailed information about Kilim please click on the Wikipedia definition.   I promise you will learn more than you thought possible about Kilims; I know I did.

Interior Design A-Z: ‘B’ is For Bedding

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So many options for ‘B’.  Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Bedding and more.  We chose bedding as the subject for ‘B’.
As you read the blog and have another design area associated with the letter of the day, please share!!

B is for:  Bedding

So many options when it comes to choosing bedding!  The rule of coordinating,  NOT matching applies here for the most interesting personalized result.  So folks, that means steer away from the ‘bed in the bag’ option.

As always, function comes first, design options second.   Decide on what level of warmth you like best.  Is a quilt okay? Do you need a down comforter to get the warmth you enjoy at night?  How many pillows do you like to sleep with?  What is your tolerance for making your bed in the morning?  By that we mean will the accent pillows actually ever find their way onto the bed or remain thrown on the floor in a corner.  Tip:  Get a large basket to hold your accent pillows at night.

Here is a recent example of a bedding ensemble S Interior Design put together for a client’s Hollywood Glam guest bedroom.  The duvet cover came from Macys as did the bed skirt.  We customized the accent pillow that came with the bedding by adding a floral fabric stripe.  We designed a ‘foot warmer’ at the end of the bed that uses that same fabric, and a 18″ x18″ pillow and finally we added a fun glittery pillow to the mix.

Some good options for finding interesting in-stock bedding include Macys, Dillards, The Great Indoors and if you are lucky, you might find some good treasures at Marshalls Home Goods.


Spring Fever and Your Decor

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The long wet, cold winter is finally winding down.  Regardless of where you live, certain things signal SPRING is here.  One of those icons of Spring is flowers.  You can see the sprouts of the perennials showing themselves, you can plant seeds for new annuals and cut tulips are available everywhere flowers are sold .

Your interior decor can begin to sing  IT’S SPRING !!!  too

These small decor changes that CAN HAVE A BIG IMPACT!


Here are some quick and inexpensive ideas to get you going:

  • Change out the heavy woolly throws on your sofa for brighter colored, lighter weight ones(From Cost Plus World Market)
  • Add some brightly colored throw pillows to your sofas, chairs and bed to add new life to your existing furniture.  These pillows are from Z Gallerie

  • Add some new plates to your dinner table in this season’s hottest accent color, turquoise.  You don’t need to replace all of your dishes, just purchase the small salad plates. (from Z Gallerie)

Interior Design Follows Fashion

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Where do the ‘trends’ for interior design come from?  In a word-FASHION

This year’s direction has an overall theme of modern elegance and casual luxury.  Shine, plush textures neutral color palettes with pops of bright color are in the fore front.

Gray is the basic neutral of the year.  Try gray velvet for a sofa or chair.  Take it to the next level by diamond tufting the back.   This bed by Bernhardt is a perfect visual example of the style that is becoming ‘in trend’.Take it up a notch by adding some extra bling in the form of  diamond/pave buttons in each of the tufts.

Yellow, navy, teal and cobalt are the pops of color to use on top of your neutrals.  Pillows and throws of these ‘happy’ colors on the top of your neutral linen sofa will bring life to any room.