October 5, 2012

Happenins’ 10/5/12

Yo Yo!  Thanks for all the feedback on my floors.  Only now I’m more confused then ever!  I’m going to consult with my flooring guy next week and get more educated on the process and pricing of bleaching wood floors.  Then I will make a decision between bleached/stained and painted.

Let’s see what else has been going on this week?

I picked up this new Schumacher Fabric this week.  What do we think, is it the new Chiang Mai Dragon?  PS I’ve been really into chartreuse lately.

This is a material scheme for a bathroom we will be building later this year.  Wood-look porcelain floors, pebble floor in the shower and large 12×18 neutral porcelain tiles on the shower walls.  The cabinetry will be that gray sample you see in the middle.  It should be a really cool space.

I passed up on this settee this past weekend while antiquing.  They were asking $150!!  I forget the measurements but now I’m wishing I had them so I could see if it would fit in my dressing room.  I’m trying REALLY hard not to buy anything until I move into the house.  It’s tough to have patience in decorating!

These are the colors I’m considering for my bedroom.  Planning to get some samples and swatch-it-out this weekend.  Fun fun!

Some of you were probably hoping for an update on ProjectCrafstman.  Well here the deal with that.  Floors were installed and stained and coated with three coats of polyurethane.  (That’s our preferred method in a kitchen- much nicer than prefinished floors.)  They looked really beautiful and then we covered them up to prepare for cabinetry install.  And guess who forgot to take a picture before they were covered?  That would be me.  We’ll catch up again when our cabinets are delivered.

(Floors Pre-Stain when we made our custom stain selections.  We went with the top right.  

Our base cabinets are darker and we wanted a nice contrast.)

And with that I bid you adieu.  I have a design presentation in a couple of hours and I need to stare at my fabrics some more to make sure they are perfect.  Have a great weekend!  

September 11, 2012

Pattern Play- Jewel Tones and Off-white backgrounds

This Martin Lawrence Bullard embroidery is so fabulous.  For whatever reason, I don’t use green very often, but I love how it mixes with blues and pink and creams in this fabric.  One slightly challenging aspect to pairing it is the off-white background.  Nothing irks me more than pattern pairings where the backgrounds mix bright white and off-white.  All of the fabrics featured here are more off-white and really blend splendidly. 

I’m really having a jewel-tone love affair these days!  Oh, and I think I may need to incorporate more green into my work…

ps- do you guys like it when I list sources?  I’m feeling lazy.  If you like one, just ask me in the comments and I”ll give the deets.

September 4, 2012

Pattern Play- Just Because

Well hello again.  Raise your hand if you could have used one more day off?  I’m honestly so beat from all that relaxing.  It wasn’t all laziness- yesterday I went to task organizing my fabrics while cleaning out my DVR.  I realized that I have SO MANY fabrics, yet still want so many more.  I’m still missing key pieces for my next place (which is still not set in stone, but an announcement may be coming soon.)  Either which way, it feels good to be a bit more organized heading into a new month.  

These fabrics here are rejects from another design project.  I just adore them on their own and how they intermix together.  I actually just threw them on this chair while I was sorting and I like the result.  Just because.

Time to finally finish this cup of coffee and really get to work.  Happy Tuesday!

August 24, 2012

Pattern Play- Atypically Teal

One of my favorite fabrics is GP&J Baker’s Heron and Lotus.  I love the pattern, the scale, the color and the texture.  I recently worked with it in a dining room scheme.  My client fell for this pattern too, but didn’t want to work with the fabric’s blues, or pinks or greens- they felt too bold to her.  Instead, she was drawn to the smallest detail in the fabric- the teal wisteria.  We used that as our inspiration color and pulled coordinating fabrics to work in the room.  The result is a softer, atypical teal scheme.

I love the idea of pulling a minor color out of patterned fabric and running with it.  It’s unexpected and a nice subtle twist.  As a person who is not matchy-matchy, I like that it doesn’t feel “over-decorated.”

Bird/Floral- GP&J Baker “Heron and Lotus”

Squares- GP&J Baker

Greek Key- Jim Thompson “Apollon”

Spots- Osborne & Little “Charanga”

Paisley- Jim Thompson “Santosh”

Scales- Jim Thompson “Marsan”

Have a great weekend, everyone!  I’m planning to lay low and scheme big

August 15, 2012

Pattern Play- Pondichery in the bedroom

Here is another fabric scheme for the same family I shared about last week.  This pairing was for the bedroom and again we were working off a gorgeous rug.  The rug has pinks, reds and mints with just a hint of blue.  We wanted to pull colors out of the rug and avoid getting too red or too intense.  When working with a busy-patterned rug I only like to do one other big pattern in the room.  In this scenario it was this Pondicherry floral which matches the rugs colors perfectly while still holding its own in the room.  Small scale geometrics, textural solids and shimmery silks finish off the room by adding depth but not competing with the statement items.  This was option 1 and my client chose option 2.  It’s totally different and equally gorgeous.  You will just have to wait to see the finished space… 

Headboard- Floral- Scalamandre “Pondicherry”

Sofa- Cream Velvet- Brunschwig & Fils “Florent Silk Velvet”

Pillows- Pink Geometric- Brunschwig & Fils “Vanessa Woven Texture”

Pillows- Blue Solid- Kravet “Venetian- Royal”

Roman Shades- Ombre Silk – GP&J Baker “Perandor Stripe”