Refreshing Color Palette

Purple, citrus, and gray...a great color-combo for this room. I love the citrus punch with these other calm colors!  Fabulous!

                      

                                              

What colors do YOU like with gray, which is now a 'go-to" neutral?  Why not try a pop of this citrus...or a lavendar for Spring!

Have a "Simply Irresistible" weekend!

Ta-Ta!

Image Credits:  Beacon Hill Fabrics

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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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FUN Client Challenge

Get ready...get set...GO!  Are you ever up for a good design challenge?  I surely hope so because we are always ready to take on a challenge!  So much so that I have decided to share more of our behind-the-scene design challenges with you this year.  By "challenge" I mean this...a home where the client has already bought and placed furnishings (some thrifted and some new) but is now ready for us to select fabrics and style for her CUSTOM WINDOW TREATMENTS throughout the house and for the Alpha & Omega Interiors design team to also...PULL IT ALL TOGETHER with these fabrics!  Whew!  Sometimes it really is a true challenge...to blend fabrics to what they already have and want to use while trying to make all the rooms flow together...Take a peak at one of our newest design projects we just started working on.

BEFORE

Master Bedroom in need of coordinating window treatments

Existing lamps to be used in here...aren't they gorgeous! (You'll just have to overlook the bedside table cough drops for now - Ha!)

Windows in this room (partial view - yes, with gorgeous palm trees all around!)

and windows also on each side of the bed too

BEFORE

Master Bath window in need of softening with fabric...and to blend in with the colors in the Master Bedroom (above)...Challenge!  Color wise and style wise!

BEFORE

A Dining Room with this rug...

also needing window treatments...but hold on...that's not all...

Challenge!

This picture is in the dining room with this rug....challenge!  The color challenge as well as the style challenge.  It's in need of a fabric not only to tie the rug and the artwork together, but it much also blend with the great room colors as well.  We can accomplish this though!

Oh, and these prints are in that same room too but on a different wall now.  We took them off the window wall to allow more space for draperies to be mounted...(not sure, but we may just re-frame and re-mat these down the road!)

BEFORE

Client's great room furnishings...she added in a little plum color in here.  Challenge - contemporary lighting and art with traditional furniture...adjoins the above dining room and master bedroom....therefore also a color challenge!  You know, it has to FLOW!

(Terrible dark picture - oops!)  

Here is the window needing TLC...with fabric! Ya know, to me anyway, an undressed window is as bad as putting on a shirt and pants and that's it...no shoes, no jewelry, no purse, etc. - "Plain Jane" as I tend to say.  Do you agree?

 BEFORE

Then there is the office...with this gorgeous rug

These bookcases...all in need of being pulled together and adding in my favorite element...

more custom window treatments!

BEFORE

A guest bedroom on the opposite end of the house...paired with...

These lamps and this artwork...

And yet another naked window needing our attention!

BEFORE

The next guest bedroom (just down from the other bedroom)...with this artwork already on the wall and ready for us to work with

Notice this window to be 'dressed' and the challenge of the headboard placement here...and the contemporary furnishings in a bedroom right next to the other guest bedroom which is much more traditional...and then there is the color challenge as the artwork in here is grey, blue and pink!

A closer look at the furniture and wood grain in this room.  See the mirror to match...it's staying in here too. (If you see the reflection of another piece of artwork in the mirror - it's been changed out to the one I showed you above!)

BEFORE

This is artwork in a laundry room that we will also be doing for this client...this room is right off from the other guest bedrooms.

And a runner in brown is in here too.

And yet another bare window screaming "dress me please!"

So, want to follow along with us for this project?  There are even two more rooms I didn't even show you today that we will be doing as well.  One is the breakfast nook and the other is one of the guest bathrooms.  Do you think this is a great design challenge?  We'll be working with blending old with the new, contemporary and traditional, coordinating fabrics to bedding and furnishings already there...all while pulling these rooms together by some common thread...WE are ready?  Are YOU?  Join us and we'll be updating you occasionally during the process.  Fun...Fun...Fun....and truly a CHALLENGE! That's what we do best!

We put our heart and soul into each and every design project to make it exactly what our client will love! 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog.

Have a "Simply Irresistible" Day!

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