Where do you live?

Embrace the contrast of your taste with the style of your home.  What is the style of your home?  Do you know?

This again, depends on where you live.  North Eastern States have a totally different style than those of Southern States, the same with Northern and Western States.  Look in your library if you don't know, or go online to types of architecture.  This will help you find the style.  Now your taste.  Does it fit in with the style?  Do you think it should?  The answer is you do what you want, you have to live there.  You choose what you like, you have to live with it.

I love the "American Glamour" that is luxurious yet relaxed.  I call it casual elegance.  It is a formal atmosphere with a sense of comfort. To me it goes anywhere in the world.  Bring out the things stored away.  Mix crystal, pottery, silks, leather, vertical blinds with sheers and whatever else seems to go.  Wood tables with glass top tables or faux tops or even marble will look wonderful with leather.  Dress it up or dress it down.  Some people think leather is to hot for the South.  On the contrary, it is not hot and it is easier to care for.  It is a lot easier to clean a leather chair than an upholstered one.  They always look good.  In the west, paired with cowboy boots, rope around tables, barrels of all kinds for tables, baskets with things sitting in them create a perfect Western atmosphere.  Paintings of desert, cacti, horses, wagons etc., that remind us of the old west.  I have even gotten round to painting horses lately, not really a Florida subject, but neat.

 

 The title of this is " Run "

Size:  15 " ht. x  11" w.

Original Watercolor

Price: unframed $300.00
 

Imagine your home re-invented by switching things around.  This again is where visual help, helps you.  Magazines are your best source of different styles.  It is there in front of you.  Go back to an earlier blog that tells you to select just a piece of a room you like and circle it and save it.

As far as texture, old terms are showing up in trade magazines as well as some design ones.  Watch for these terms and see how they are use.

Hexagon
Trapezoid
Polyhedron
Chevron -  zigzag pattrn

I have seen them lately in wall coverings, fabrics, and shapes of furniture,  the backs of chairs, the shape of tables and ottomans.  Watch and see what you can see.  some are really great.

One quick going back a bit, No lighting is as flattering, as eye level lighting. (Table Lamps)

It has been 51 days of design tips, are you ready????????????????