Project Sneak Peek

Here's a peek at another project that's under way...still more design choices to make as this is just in the beginning stages.  It's fun to mix styles for a more eclectic look.  I'm loving the serenity in the soft color scheme and I think our client will too! 

Next we'll decide on window treatment styles (I already have an idea in mind!) and a beautiful rug.  Our client has some furniture that we've decided to keep and work into this design also.  In the end, it will all come together beautifully!

Side note:  I just noticed that the loop fringe for the throw pillows looks 'silver' on here but it's actually blue mingled in! So pretty with the fabrics! The solid fabric shown even has a hint of a blue shimmer - quite stunning in person!

Keeping it "Simply Irresistible"!

Fall Is In The Air - with Cut Velvet

Hi dear readers! Are you ready for cooler weather? You know, Fall is just around the corner!  These new fabrics actually made me think of Fall in that I don't get to often use velvets on design projects here in Florida as much as I did when we were back in North Carolina...do ya think the HOT weather may have a bit to do with it?  I'm thinking so! These gorgeous new cut velvet fabrics we carry were just too scrumptious to not show today. Would YOU like a little velvet in your home? Velvet used to represent 'formal'...but not any more! See these new designs...love, love, love.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

Image Credit: Duralee

*I TRY TO CREDIT ALL IMAGES, IF THERE ARE ANY PHOTOS OR IMAGES HERE THAT ARE NOT CREDITED CORRECTLY OR YOU WISH THEM TO BE REMOVED, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL GLADLY OBLIGE. THEY ARE BEING USED HERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING INTERIOR DESIGN. THANK YOU!

End of The Year Happenings

It's nice to know that many of our valued clients will get to enjoy their new designs...all in time for the Christmas holiday. Here's a little peek of some most recent ones.

 A little Viz Glass in a wall niche will surely add in some sparkle!

How about a renovated kitchen including custom painted cabinets (of which I should show you a 'before' photo), new tile backsplash installed vertically, and a painted chandelier which totally changed the look of it (yes, painted the existing one!).

Top-tacked draperies and stunning hardware in this great room.  Kitchen bay, to left, wasn't up yet when I snapped this photo.  Client happy because these drapes are simple yet gorgeous!

 A stunning master bedroom with inverted pleat drapery panels mounted on boards. Really need better photos but wanted to show this one anyway.

Another view...

 This new sitting room also got some new sheer draperies to 'soften' the entire room.

Stunning in person!

So very glad to get these jobs, and many others, completed just before the holidays.  Now they can be enjoyed to the fullest!

Wishing you and your family a very...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

Image Credits:  EA Coll.

*I TRY TO CREDIT ALL IMAGES, IF THERE ARE ANY PHOTOS OR IMAGES HERE THAT ARE NOT CREDITED CORRECTLY OR YOU WISH THEM TO BE REMOVED, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL GLADLY OBLIGE. THEY ARE BEING USED HERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING INTERIOR DESIGN. THANK YOU!

Fabric of the Week

Happy Monday!  I am just popping in to share with you one of our to-the-trade vendor's 'happy' Fabric of the Week.  

Isn't is scrumptious?  I LOVE the pattern but especially these colors!  There are lots more new fabrics now out so if YOU are thinking of making any changes in your home...and want to work with us...local or long distance...just email us or leave a comment and we will gladly get back to you with the details.

In the meantime...

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

Image Credits: Alpha & Omega Interiors GH Fabric Vendor

Client Before and After...Custom Draperies

Hi!  I hope each of you are enjoying your week and hopefully, in most locations, are now enjoying a little bit of spring-like weather.

Remember the client project I shared with you here and then here? Well, we finally installed phase #1 of these custom draperies last week! I thought I'd just share some of them with you today so you could see the finished product....the bedroom will hopefully be finished up and installed by the end of next week.

 KITCHEN 

Before

 After

Notice...we changed the blinds out too in a few rooms.  They now have Kirsch Top-Down-Bottom-Up Honeycomb Shades in colors of her preference!

MASTER BATHROOM

Before

 After

Another shade change here too.  The darker toffee brown reflects all the brown-tones in her bath.  We will also be addressing that wall space above the picture that you see here too.  The valance fabric had just enough blue in it to allow us to keep the art she already had here.

GUEST BATHROOM

Before

Not great photos...sorry!

 After

We used indoor/outdoor fabric on this one...just in case. 

LAUNDRY ROOM

Before

 After

A little close up of the detailing on this valance

Now her laundry room is a 'happy' place to work...the valance ties in with the runner and artwork in this room and makes it looked completed.

OFFICE

Before

Glaring light is bright....sorry!

Our installers hard at work in this room...

After

 Almost finished here...just a little 'hand-dressing' needed.  This fabric (it has the gold and the black running through it) looks SO good with his office rug...Remember it?

It's all really pretty....and reflects the look they wanted....but, in my opinion...I saved the best for last...take a look!

Our hard working installers prepping to install the double treatment in the Great Room.

GREAT ROOM

Before

 After

I love this corner view that peeks into the kitchen too!

This one was our 'tricky' one (not really, just very detailed!)...tight space at right side, but needing to soften and frame window...not to mention hide that stack of vertical blinds on the right side.  I also wanted to 'soften' the entire top of the vertical blind headrail...but couldn't come down into the doorway too low either.  It turned out just as I designed and imagined it...plus our clients were 'oh so happy' with it!

DINING ROOM

Before

After

 Hopefully you noticed her new BLACK honeycomb shade in here...it's really a dramatic look in here with this fabric...and the rug!

 The prints got moved so we could come out farther on each side of the window with the stationary drapery panels...it makes the room look larger.  They also got a fresh coat of BLACK on the frames...which now makes them really 'POP' in the room.

Just another angle of the room so you can see how the PINK lining in the valance pelmets goes with the art here....and the fresh tulips put on her table!

And...here is her rug that was already in this room...

Perfect together!

So, that is it for this Phase #1 of installations.  I hope you enjoyed seeing the results of this custom drapery project. It's been a real treat working with these clients...and we have become such good friends along the way!  That's always a BONUS...for me anyway!

I hope to be back to finish up and show you the results of the Master Bedroom and two Guest Bedroom installations soon.

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

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Beautiful Fabrics

I know many of you are enjoying a SNOW DAY today!  Hope you are staying in and staying warm. This is one snow storm I am happy to have missed.

Today I am working with a great bold large print fabric for a client project...this one here...

And I quickly realized that I REALLY liked the other colorways in this pattern.  The above one is perfect for my client, but I am just not a 'brown' person myself.  Take a look at same print in the other colors...

Isn't this lush and gorgeous?  I think so!

And this one here...such a tropical feel to me.  Now THIS one is really 'me'!  I just fell in love with this color way.

Which do YOU prefer?  

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

Image Credits: Duralee

FUN Client Challenge - Progress Update #2

Thanks for stopping by again today!  I thought I'd now share with you the design styles we are using for this entire house of custom window treatments that we decided to share with you.  Want to see?  We are excited that you can go through the process with us!

Great Room

Just ignore any additional 'notes' you may see on sketches for our workroom!

 Dining Room - except not using trim in here

 Master Bedroom - Bay Area

Shown here with Cascades UNDER swags (give my clients the choice!)

Again, ignore our 'ramblings' with the sketches please!

 How it will look on their window...with choice of Cascades OVER the swags...which, by the way, is the 'look' she likes best so this is what it will be.

 Single Window in Master Bedroom

 "His"  Home Office

 Laundry Room 

Colors in fabric really don't show up well here

Kitchen

 Guest Bathroom

This is Indoor-Outdoor Fabric because this is a window INSIDE of the shower.

 Guest Bedroom -1

We will decide this week IF using trim or not - she isn't sure yet if she wants it or not.

 Guest Bedroom - 2

These draperies will be shorter as they will hang down to the window ledge behind the leather headboard she has...see below (yes, greenery that's there will GO!).  We will have cream bedding and pop this fabric above again with a custom dust ruffle and a couple pillows on the bed...FUN pattern!

That's it all except for the Master Bathroom sketch, which I have saved in a program that won't let me download to this and I just don't have the time to re-save this morning!  Sorry, but hopefully you'll get to see the finished window treatments in the end.  Now, we are pricing the job, selecting the hardware (depends on finishes and projections needed, etc.) and then we'll move on to...all the purchasing of the fabrics....work-orders for the workroom with all the gazillion details, etc.....!  There is NEVER a dull moment around here, that is for sure!  We LOVE what we do!

We hope you will be back for more on this design project.  I thought this would be a great time to show you this stage of the process since we've been talking about how window treatments 'soften' our rooms....no doubt!

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

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FUN Client Challenge - Progress Update #1

As you know I showed you the BEFORE photos of a design project we just recently started here.  We have been doing lots of work behind the scenes...want to see a little of it?

As you know...when working with fabric selections the entire studio and office can get to looking like THIS...floor and all...because there can be so many directions with fabric that you can take the project.  

This is one, of many, phases I put my heart and soul into...to have asked all the right questions (hopefully!) to determine the tastes and styles and pattern likes and dislikes, etc....of our client.  So, I pull out many choices that would work, but then I go through the process of elimination to fine-tune it to what I believe that client would like best.  I do give them a couple of choices usually and I ALWAYS let them know at time of presentation that I want THEM to be happy so to just let us know if we 'missed it' at all and we'll gladly go back and fine-tune it even more.  THIS is a key step in making and keeping HAPPY clients!!!

Once we feel we've got it together enough to make a presentation to the client we start by ordering memo samples of the fabric.  Then, we do our inspiration board, which happens to be only fabric right now for this client.

Can you tell how the rooms already have a 'flow'...just from the fabric selections?  That is important and we keep that in mind too.  However, all the choices weren't on the board and I was well-armed with several others (especially for the Master Bedroom and Office that I knew would work). 

Also, the other two Guest Bedrooms didn't fit on this board above ...so I had another partial inspiration board for those fabrics...as well as a few other choices in books to show (if necessary).

The pink in this bedroom in being pulled into the room to fit with the colors in the art in that room that she has...and she wanted to "make a bold statement" in this room too.  The far left fabrics were choices to go with the one room that she already had custom bedding in...which had to be a 'keeper' in that room of course.

Here is that Guest Bedroom....with her paisley bedding she has....can you guess which fabric she went with for the draperies (and we're adding a custom dust ruffle in the same fabric to also go with her bedding to repeat the fabric in the room again!)  Bottom right STRIPE - a small cutting of it only is on this board, but it is beautiful in her room.  We both liked the wider stripe better...and we felt we needed to go with a stripe in this room.

Here is what we are using in the other Guest Bedroom to go with this...

This picture also has the blue in it...and the blue in the fabric is just enough 'grey blue' to work with this.  She's happy...so I'm happy!

I don't know why I started you in the back guest bedrooms....oh well, too late now!  We'll just head on around to the great room now...come along!

Remember her furnishings?  (Just FYI...we will be tweaking some accessories in this room after we get all the work-orders for the draperies done!)

This is the gorgeous fabric that is going at that huge sliding glass door area (will be to left of this photo) and the style will be something like this...(yes, this is a photo of her window too and the fabric was downloaded so she could see the finished vision!)

So now that I've shown you that...I'll just show you the final inspiration board with all of the fabric selections for these other rooms....final fabric selections are...

Bottom left - Great Room as shown above

Top left - Dining Room

Top middle - Breakfast Nook

 (which looks like this and I had ordered her a 1/4 yard to see full repeat of this fun fabric....below)

Top right - Laundry Room

Middle/Center of Board - Hubby's Home Office

Bottom Middle - stripe - Master Bedroom

Bottom Right - Master Bathroom

(to tie in with MBR and also that picture that threw the blue into that room!)

There is no yellow in the fabric (nor the MBR) but I think it will be fine...she has other yellow accessories in this bath...and we will be adding 'things' and putting something up above this picture to 'raise the eye'.

And...it looked great with the Master Bedroom fabric...

So...how did YOU enjoy being a part of the process of this interior design project?  I hope you enjoyed it and will be back when we share the window treatment....STYLES we'll be using!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to...

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

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