Friday Favorites-Fabulous Furniture Finds

This week is the Highpoint Furniture Market in North Carolina and although I'm not attending this year I will be keeping up on all the latest furniture and design trends this season.

While researching and sourcing furniture for a project I'm working on this week, I came across a few fabulous furniture pieces I want to share with you!

One of my favorite furniture and accessory companies, Uttermost is launching a new line called Revelation, a fine collection of exclusive designs in furniture, lighting and accessories that I am very excited about!

Here's a peek at a couple of my favorites.

Rasa Bookcase

Baines Coffee Table

Odell Sofa

There are so many more favorite pieces, but this is a quick post so I'll share more another time!

Another of my favorites is Design Seeds.  Designer Jessica Colaluca creates beautiful color palettes from our natural surroundings. She recently added a new palette to the "a door tones" group that I love and decided to create a room design using this color scheme and some of the fabulous furniture pieces  I discovered recently.

DesignSeeds (A Door Tones)

And here is my rendition of the color scheme featuring pieces from Uttermost Revelation.

I call the design Urban Sophistication!

So, what do you think? With some careful planing a complete room design can be created from what is seen around us!

Until next time!

Tina

Refinish, Repurpose, Rejoice! - Fabulous Furniture Transformations

Transformation Tuesday!

One of my favorite transformations is taking old and outdated furniture and giving it an updated look and new purpose.  Paint is an easy fix to refresh and give new life to an otherwise drab piece.  Really, it is ok to paint wood!  Now, I'm not talking about painting over a beautiful antique piece that has a value, but the old worn out, chipped looking ones.  These pieces just need a little TLC and possibly some modifications to make them work for a new purpose.

If it has a good structure and interesting details are the key elements to consider when repurposing or refreshing furniture.  We all have those furniture pieces that have been handed down to us from family, usually something no one else wants!  Often, when buying a first home, the daunting, and not to mention, expensive task of furnishing the place can be overwhelming, so utilizing any gifted furniture pieces is a good idea. 

For instance…I think every ones parents or grandparents had this china cabinet in their formal dining room.  Well, just look at the possibilities here!  This piece can be used in a kitchen, bathroom, hallway or even a playroom to store books and toys.  Re-think the purpose that these pieces in the rooms that need storage.

Wall paper or fabric make a great accent on the back of these furniture pieces!

A wall paper was used here also to give the plain drawer fronts some interest and texture.

From drab to fab in just a frew brush strokes!

Two classic chairs become one great bench!

Old dining room chairs get a new look!  We removed the arms and completely upholstered the host and hostess chairs for a softer look.  The frames of the remaining four chairs were painted in an oil base paint for durability.

Extra seating is always needed! I love how this transformation has a dual purpose!

I've repurposed and reworked many pieces over the years, some more than once!  The trick to using hand-me-down furniture is to not use them in all in the same rooms.  If you do, you end up with a mish-mosh of a room design.  Think of how each piece will function in different rooms, then make a choice of what pieces work best in what rooms.  Then you can decide on a color scheme and design for the finished piece acording to the rooms design.

I hope you enjoyed my furniture transformation favorites, and are inpired to think outside the box for your next furniture project.

Until next time!

Tina

You can see more, as well as links to the projects shown in this post, on my Refinish/Repurpose Pintrest board here!

FRIDAY FAVES

Here's My Friday Favorites! 

December 4, 2015

Simply, eye candy of all styles!

Interior decoration comes in many styles.  Traditional, contemporary, cottage, shabby chic, modern, farmhouse.  These are all style terms that evolved over the years.  My favorites are the ones that have the "collected over time" look. Showcasing all of your favorite furniture, collections and accessories expresses your unique personality and design style.  Mixing old and new pieces, along with use of color and pattern in a room brings then to life! It can be tricky to blend all those elements without making a room seem cluttered and confusing to the eye.  I think the following rooms designs are perfect examples of good design.

I hope you enjoyed the eye candy!  For information and photo credits please visit my Pintrest board:

Friday Faves

Thanks for stopping by!

Designer Showhouse 2015-Fairfield, CT

Sharing My Favorites From This Fabulous Show-Part Two!

Last week I went to the Designers Show house in Fairfield benefiting St Paul's Church and Project Hope.  The show house was in a gorgeous historic home on the green where many talented designers came together to transform this into a real showplace!  The show is now over and the rooms full of fabulous furniture and accessories has been dismantled, however you can still view the beautiful and creative rooms here!  I took so many photos and had so much to share that I decided to split the post into two parts.  Here's my favorites…part two!


The dining room definitely added the drama of the Art Deco period with a splash of Hollywood glamour!  The wallpaper, my favorite element in the room, is from Farrow and Ball.  It's dramatic and bold pattern may not be for the 'faint of heart, but together with all the other wonderful elements throughout the room is not overwhelming at all!

Grand Dining Room-Debar Designs

The bar is lucite and creates a dramatic display in the far corner of the room with out being to heavy and the Absolute granite top makes it functional as well.  The red baseboard really pops against the wall paper, the color taken from the Baccarat crystal used in the room.

Crystal Candlesicks

Wall Paper-Farrow and Ball

Attention to detail in a room is key to a great design!  The custom carpet by Stark is bound in a contrast color to accentuate the pattern and is custom fit to accomodate the floor vents.  This is a subtle detail that really adds a fabulous effect.

The sitting room, off the dining room, has the same dramatic feel with bold color selections of merlow and port, but is warm and comfortable.  The use of fabrics with soft textures and patterns like the warm plaid drapery, gives the room a cozy feel. The interesting mix of furniture styles and finishes completes this room by Lillian August, Inc.  I sat there a while, imagining sipping a glass of wine at the end of a long day as the stresses of the day rolled away!  If you like what you see, you can shop the look for this room here!

  

Inspiration for a room design can come from anywhere!  As designers, we use inspiration boards to convey the mood and feel of a room to our clients.  In this room the inspiration came from a boot seen in a Bazzar magazine, here is the board the designers, Angela Camarda and Thom Bellucci made for the show house, showing the various colors, fabrics and furniture for the room.

Design Board

Sitting Room Details

I love a home that has a back stairway! This feature was found in many older homes and was designed so that the servants of the home could have quicker access to the kitchen. This home was no exception!
After touring the upstairs for quite some time, I headed down the stairway and was greeted by the newlwy renovated kitchen by NuKitchens based in South Norwalk.  They did a spot on job in keeping the classic simplicity of the original architecture.

View of the Kitchen from the Back Stairs

The only elements that the original kitchen didn't have are these state of the art appliances like SubZero/Wolf! The soft color palette of slate white, moonstone gray and quartersawn oak are  reminiscent of a classic victorian motif. I love the classic black and white design of the backsplash!

Kitchen by NuKitchens

Back Stairway

Next on the tour is the second floor guest bath by Klaff's.  The soft grey color palette is repeated again here with polished natural stone, Euopran style faucets and wall color.  I especially love the double pedestal style sink by Devon and Devon. Simply stunning!

And last but most cerainly not least of my favorites in this tour is the master bedroom!  This room combines a soft peaceful color scheme along with some bling to create a reastful relaxing room that is not gender specific.  An adult, cozy but not boring, refuge suited to the tiltle of master bedroom.
Designer George Snead of Wakefield Design Center set the stage for this masterful retreat. The room is filled with light from windows on three sides of the space, which really makes the room glow with warmth. The mostly contemporary furnishings, that often seam cold are warmed up with velvety textures and warm colors. The organic window treatments are one of my favorite elements, fabricated from handmade paper, they create such interesting pattern and texture in the room.  The Wakefield Design Center located in Stamford is a showroom servicing designers from CT and NY and a fabulous place for getting inspiration for any room or project.

Photo from CTC&G

Well I hope you enjoyed my tour of the designer show house in Fairfield.  You can view a full spread of this show house in the CTC&G magazine. There are many designer show house projects around the country benefitting many worthy charities.  I encourage you to seek out on in your area, you will be insipred by the many talented designers and blessed by your contribution to a worthy cause!

Even though the show is over, you can still contact the designers that participated in the show house to purchase products that were part of the show. For more information, visit here.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Tina