Plan Your Plants

Lifelike silk bamboo trees make the grade when summers call for travel.

They eliminate the worry of caring for live plants that never fill the space proportionately in this sunroom and the living room that adjoins it.

Light Your Way

When you don't want to part with beloved art and it seems a little too small for your space, add lighting!

In this case, we position matching buffet lamps on the dining room buffet to bring the art to the appropriate scale. Editing small accessories and replacing them with two large glass vases to reflect the new light gives the dining room even more panache. A silk lady slipper orchid design on the table finishes the room with much-needed softness.

Cutting Edge Corners

I love to create warm ambience with lamp light!  Ambience requires shade, corners, and shadows. Our homeowners had the perfect corner with art that needed to be grounded and illuminated. 

A functional narrow cabinet fills the space while providing a surface for a well-scaled lamp. The corner is now complete with ambient light, coziness, and storage.

Transforming Touches for the Living Room

Details make the difference in architecture, interiors, and life!

Sometimes, it is the little things that make the most in a room. We complete a conversation group with low profile teak benches; staying clear of the TV, cleverly concealed behind the art. An additional piece of art over the mantel speaks the same language as the TV art. 

Tall glass and iron vases of grasses bring softness to the space, while and iron boat dish with black orbs completes the mantel. Because the living room's can lighting is sufficient, we addressed the end tables later with vessels instead of lamps. The coffee table receives a pedestal bowl and books for a finishing detail. Books of your travels on the table add color and make great conversation pieces. 

Ask Your Neighbors Not to Water Your Plants While You're Away Part 4: Pretty Professional

Outdoor pots in storefronts and lobbies can be kept professional looking year round with innovative silk plants. Allow splendidly colorful stems and foliage to invite your clients in with warmth. Your business will stand out with distinction when your outdoor containers are looking live and lush.

Ask Your Neighbors Not to Water Your Plants While You're Away Part 3: Subtle Sophistication

Give your outdoor spaces an artistic twist with contemporary themed silk arrangements. A cement container of boxwood foliage creates a clean lined minimalist look. This is an excellent canvas for custom variations. We added birch branches and vine orbs to merge nature with still life to complete the modern composition. The arrangement can also be adapted with the seasons for any holiday. 

Ask Your Neighbors Not to Water Your Plants While You're Away Part 2: Beautifully Bold

The effortless upkeep of silk botanicals allows you to pursue the bold, artistic looks normally reserved for master gardeners. A bland design was darkening a driveway, making what should be the grand entrance beg for attention. We replaced it with a striking blue glazed outdoor pot that demands outstanding treatment with a wild collective of tall grasses. Bright cascades of succulents and vividly yellow million belled petunias make engaging accessories in the composition.  

Ask Your Neighbors Not to Water the Plants While You're Away...

It's summertime and living should be easy, especially when you are going away on vacation! But who is going to water the plants? Preserve your peace of mind and your outdoor pots by investing in high quality, botanically correct silk arrangements. Enjoy your travels knowing your porch is looking fresh.

Quirky Spaces Can Function

  

This little corner sits between the kitchen and living room and begged to be finished and functional. Our requirements were linen storage and light. 

A tall linen chest that supports a slick based lamp was placed to conceal vents and provide the necessary storage. When the space calls for larger gatherings, more comfortable pull-up seating is readily available.  

Coming in for a Soft Landing

Our homeowners wanted to turn the area near their kitchen door into a comfortable spot for day-to-day comings and goings.

The right bench was the perfect solution for style as well as function.

Scarcely Filled Wall Gets Function and Style

The homeowners knew something was needed in this space with under scaled art, but had functioning issues that needed to be addressed as well.  This was a "drop zone" coming in from the garage that shared space with the kitchen. We needed a surface on which to set mail, keys, etc. and it needed to be beautiful to look at.

"Contemporary and not an image" was the request for art. Our job was to coordinate finishes and scale it accordingly. This mixed metals composition did the trick.
The buffet was brought in to house a few drop zone essentials and a place for extra lighting. We framed the entire wall's composition by picking a lamp with a contemporary curve that speaks to the art but completes the whole frame.
A large scaled ceramic tray with silver fruits reveals the simple clean line message the clients wanted for their existing space.

Kitchen Collection Part 2

A wood tray was filled with pomegranates, artichokes and soft grasses to make a focal point in a kitchen/hearth room. All the finishes were considered; such as the wood table, iron chandelier and fabric covered chairs before picking the materials for this custom design.

                                                  

Coffee Table Talk 2

Coffee table accessories follow my general rule (not broken this time) of making the best of the rule of threes. I usually, but not always, like three different objects on a surface.

I try to vary the heights and bring color at the same time. In this case, the soft fern juxtaposes the hard slick surface of the glass bowl and knot sculpture, which relates to the glass top surface of the table. All of these elements compliment the wall behind the sofa, which was crying for one large piece of colorful art. Just a few new pieces made for a transitional and alive living room.

Coffee Table Talk

Simply stated, sometimes the perfect solution to a large coffee table is one large vase with monochromatic bright color (as in the red poppies) to make the room come alive.

It shouldn't have to compete for attention with other objects. The poppies make a year round statement, but can be easily lifted out of the vase to make room for fall and holiday stems later.

Powder Room Restyled

Bathrooms are generally utilitarian spaces, first and foremost they must function well. I think they must feel clean, organized, and (ideally) beautiful! 

We achieved the crowning touch in this powder room with a natural looking silk orchid nestled in a glass wall vase wrapped in iron. The three dimensional design brings a soft element to hard surfaces and compliments the flat art on the opposing wall.

Perfect Passageways Part 2

Niches are fun little alcoves to which we can bring the perfect design. Moving this homeowner's art to another location made room for our parallel design of over-scaled dandelions and kangaroo paws. Sometimes three dimensional designs work best in small pass through areas such as this. The requirement was to "make it fun and happy"; mission accomplished!

Perfect Passageways

The walls we pass by in our hallways deserve as much attention as other spaces we decorate. Our client's floating keepsake sconce was brought down to eye level and accented with grasses. The antique filled the visual space while making it feel comfortable. This hall now echos the inviting attitude in the house to create a sense of completeness.

Refined Home Office: Part 2

We brought in timeless landscape art subdued in color. The addition of a wall clock anchored a weaved motif chest, holding a printer, papers, and other objects that otherwise clutter a space. Nicely contained!

Make Your Glamorous Holiday Entrance

Nothing says grand like custom pieces made especially for your particular home or space. Customizing these garlands for over the door and down the side wall sconces makes a space feel tailored and elegant.  We love to enhance pieces you already have. The urn was an antique purchase by this client and we have designed seasonal pieces to insert into the center for a wow factor upon entering this home.

We love to make an entrance (with our decor, of course). Long artificial swags were chosen to accentuate this beautiful iron detailed door. Their front door cement urns were hollowed out and lined with fresh pine branches, cones, and berries. Lights were added for night time parties. If storage is not an issue, artificial greens can be designed and stored from year to year in place of fresh pine.

Holiday Chandelier

Chandeliers are always a part of any holiday celebration as they set the mood for this family room.  We took a plain greenery wreath of artificial pine and secured it to the underside of the fixture. This allowed us to nestle berries, magnolia leaves and artichokes into the pine and weave wired ribbon to soften the decor. An embellishment worthy of applause!