Design-A-Room (Day #4)

Hello...welcome back to our Day #4 about building our room design. We've been slammed with work for clients (a good thing though!) so we've missed a few days...when that happens, just know we are working on "real" design plans and projects (we do alot of full-service design) and we'll be back asap.  With that in mind, let's get started...


We have decided that in order to ground the room a little more we are in need of a large piece of furniture...to add some balance to the overall design ... and ... some storage and bookcase areas.  So, we've come up with this...

A lovely bookcase with some storage behind the doors (available here).  This will be a great addition to the room as we can accessorize the shelves and pop some color in there as well...sounds like a plan, right?

Now, we will definitely need some more seating in this room...and I want this room to be bright and bold...so with that in mind...take a look...

How about using a pair of these Hickory Chair Paris Club Chairs in this fabulous, bright and bold orange!  Hickory Chair has a great website that allows you to customize pieces of furniture with most any fabric and you can see how it will look finished.  That's what we did...picked our chair style then selected our fabric...and voila! Can you see these in our room along with that new fabric we used on the sofa pillows?  I say...yes, yes, yes!  Let's do it!

This is how our room now looks on Day #4...what do YOU think?

With it being Friday and also Mother's Day weekend it was all I could do to stop myself from presenting this room with a few accessories (you know, the pretty things that truly "make" the room!)...but I did...so no surprises yet.  Let's finish the other aspects first and then we'll move on to that...so stay tuned!

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day ... and...

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms out there!!

Children are a blessing
    and a gift from the Lord.

Psalm 127:3 CEV

Image Credits:  Hickory Chair, Layla Grayce

*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!

Design-A-Room (Day#3)

Ok, I must admit...there is a weird thing happening to our posts in this series!  Once a post is published and we work on the next post (or even ideas for several ahead)...the design board gets updated on the previously posted blog...and WE aren't posting it!  Yikes...this is crazy! Anyone out there had this happen or better yet, know HOW this happens?  If you do, please let us know.  This is our newest post, but be warned...it may update the previous two days to "this" design board at the end!


So, on the last post you were supposed to just have the sofa, pillows, end tables, and lamps...but, you got way more than that, right?  Well, today (Day 3) you were going to get the ottoman...(a West Elm Walton ottoman)

I loved the idea of staying with the peacock blue family...just darker for this piece...what do you think...like?  The idea of using a large ottoman for the coffee table is really nice because it serves two purposes (you know, even a "comfy" place to prop your feet) and also because it actually "softens" the room even more.

Now, for the rug reveal (that you've already laid eyes on mistakenly!)...here it is...(Blue Wilshire Rug by Shopten25)

Again, we are keeping lots going on in the SAME color family so as not to cause "the eye" to jump all around our room.  Our other color will come in "pops" as we build our room!  Now, let's take a look at where we should be on Day #3...

Just forget, for now, all the other items that "mystically" appeared on the other post...assuming yours DID do this too...this is all we have in the room as of today.  Let's see...what do you think we should add next?  What items would YOU be most ready to add to your room at this point?  Be sure to come back by to see what new creations we find for this room design.

Be sure to make it a "Simply Irresistible" Monday!

Image Credits:  West Elm, ShopTen25, plus other mentions from previous postings.