Designer Challenge:Which Desk?

Today is a great day!  First, because I am off to Little Rock to see Tobi Fairley at Design Camp A-Z! I am beyond excited! Make sure to follow me on instagram and twitter for updates and tips!

Second, because I am part of the Designers Challenge at Satori for Design Living. Thanks Shauna for the opportunity!


Come check out which desk I chose to create a room around? Is it the one you would have chosen?

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Bright and fun entry for a young family

I have the opportunity to work with a great family. We are slowly making our way through their home bit by bit. They are a young family with 4 kids and a turtle! :)

First up is the entry

As I said before the entry is a sneek peek into the rest of your home. Make it a great one!

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Online design board sale!

Hi everyone! Did you enjoy my unplanned summer hiatus? Things were so busy around here with the kids that I decided just to take some time off from blogging to spend with them while they are little. We had a blast!

Now that school has been in session for a few weeks and things are back into a routine I plan to get back into one too for this blog. Thanks for sticking around...you shall be rewarded

How?

As I am sure you have noticed store are putting out the holiday decorations earlier and earlier every year (that is for another post, another time...)

Since you all are already thinking about the holidays anyway I thought I would let you know of the sale I am having!

If you book any online design board between September 23rd to October 23rd 2013 I will offer you $50 off! Get your home perfectly styled for your upcoming guests!

What will you get with my online designs?

1. A scaled floorplan of your space and where things will go.

2. The design board showing the items suggested for your design.

3. The details! A product source list and purchase information (all suggested items are available through online retailers)

I have done a lot of design boards this year and here are a couple you haven't seen yet!

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A tale of two kitchens....

I have been busy recently with some e-design clients and wanted to share with you two kitchens I have recently worked on. They are both very different in style and scope of work. It was so fun and exciting to help both of these families out!

The first one called for a chic and simple update

 

This client was keeping existing items (countertops, cabinets) but was open to painting both! So I gave her some options for that and updated the rest of the finishes where I could for her!



The second one was a bit more involved.

With the exception of the floors and appliances we were replacing the cabinets, counters and backsplash. So I gave them some options and added a little extra to coordinate with their eat in kitchen area as well.

There are budget friendly items in each kitchen and yet they both look fabulous.

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How to feel like you are on vacation all the time...

Spring break is coming up for a lot of people and it will be nice to get away for a few days, unplug and relax!  Wouldn't it be great to bring that feeling back home?

I recently finished a great e-living room board for a client who has some great memories as a child, and still loves taking vacations to the beach but didn't live anywhere near one.

How do you take inspiration like the beach but not go full blown theme? I like to do it through mood and color.

Now there are a couple literal translations here...the sunburst mirror and white sea urchin from Nate Berkus but when you look at this room it doesn't scream I have a beach themed living room. Yet, you still get the feeling of the beach and feel relaxed each time you walk into the room.

Thanks C.T. for the opportunity to bring your vacation, home!


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What risks are you taking?

I know, I owe you a recap of Maria Killam's True Color Expert workshop Trust me, it is coming this next week!

But I had to post about my newest adventure....

Taking a risk and putting yourself out there.....

My entry for the olioboard challenge

Olioboard is a great (free!) site that allows anyone to put together their own mood board. I use it for my own home and for clients. Sounds like fun? It is! Especially when you factor in the challenges.

I haven't entered challenges previously because, well I am a new designer and still learning, and  growing. I didn't think I had what it took to go up against the big dogs!

Despite all this I decided to enter the contest anyway. The biggest reason was this lady... 

Tobi Fairley Camp

Tobi Fairley, along with Benjamin Moore are hosting the challenge-Benjamin Moore Color Trends 2013. The prize is a trip to her one of a kind design camps! I have been following Tobi's blog for a while and when she came out with her Design Camp A-Z and Designer MBA, I knew I wanted to be apart of it!

Here is where I could use your help! If I can get into the top four boards I can win a FREE ticket to her camp!

Please go to this link (Bold and Happy Entryway) and click on the heart under the picture. You can vote every day (Please do!!) until December 18th. It only takes a few minutes each day and it would really help me out to making me one happy camper...har har har....


If you aren't already a member of olioboard it just takes a minute to sign up and vote for me. Plus, I will personally love you forever! :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend...can you believe it will finally be December!! YAY!

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e-design client-living room

I am so excited to show you this recent living room I did for an e-design client. She has a beautiful home that needed to be freshened up. She had some existing pieces (wall color, linen colored drapes and linen colored sofas) that she wanted to keep. She loves a global look but still traditional. She wanted calming colors but also loved blue. The room gets great light and connects to the entry way and her dining room.

Here is the floorplan I came up with to optimize seating for entertaining and for the flow with the entry and dining room.

Here is the inspiration board!

I love it!! I wish I could transport it to my home right now!!!

Here is what she had to say:

ANNIE!!  You must be psychic! It's like you read my mind and brought in things I had been thinking of but never expressed... I love the blues and all the additional lighting you brought into the space... We have already moved things around and love the new floor plan! Thank you so very much from all of us.

I am glad the family loves the design as much as I did. Hope you enjoyed it too! :)

The holidays are coming and I want to help you have your home looking its best!

Check out my services and portfolio, you will be glad you did.

**Out of respect to my clients, I decline to share any sources for the designs. Thank you for your understanding**

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Equestrian Chic

Here is an inspiration board I just made for a local client. She is a teenage girl who loves horses wanted a room that reflected her hobby.

Hopefully we will have a before and after I can show you soon. This room is going to be filled with a lot of DIY so stay tuned!

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Tweaking it till it's just right....

I had a client ask for some help with her master bedroom. I worked on their room keeping what they already had (bed, nightstand, dresser, paint color). The room is beautiful with tall ceilings and crown molding they just needed help pulling it all together.

Here was the first board.

She loved it but wasn't crazy about the brown in the pillow or the linen-like drapes. So I made a few changes and we got ...

Option #2

 This one was the winner....till the client found a champagne mirror she loved at Home Goods (love that store) So a few more tweaks...

Option #3

Success! 

Although the board shows gold and champagne metals I sent her a link to champgane spray paint if she wanted to make all of her metals the same.

The beauty of having a design board is really whatever you want it to be. You can take the suggestions I have done and go and get each item, or use at a starting point to go out and make it your own!

Interested in a design board? Please see my services page.

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Client master bedroom design board

You all remember the client with la fiorentina drapes? She needed some help with some finishing touches to her room and having it all make sense. There were a lot of items in the room that needed to stay and we needed to find a way to link these items together.

Here is the board I put together to address these issues.

The color palette was already there in the room, coral drapes, blue bedding and her furniture a very light gray.  Now to make it all work together.

Her existing bedding was an beautiful blue with a traditional damask pattern on it. We needed to somehow link this to the existing drapes and roman shade behind her bed. I found this graphic pillow from zgallerie that referenced the curves found in the damask but the extra large scale made it more modern and graphic, like the pattern in the drapes.

The paint color I suggested is Tundra by Benjamin Moore. It is a soft light gray with a hint of blue.

Trimming the drapes and roman shade in a ribbon that coordinated with the color in the bedding would help connect these items. I also suggested trimming some of her pillows in the ribbon as well.

The etched decal on the side is to cover some existing mirrored closet doors. It repeats the molding pattern she has on two closets in the space. This was an inexpensive alternative to completely replacing the door.

Finally, since everything else in in the room is rather light and airy, we have a rug in the same olive brown shade as the graphic pattern in the drapes to ground the room.

It seems like she loved the ideas because look at this sweet email I got from her!

Annie, you have some fabulous ideas for this room. I am so happy to be working with you. I realize this is a challenging project because of all the existing constraints. It's a lesson learned for me--how finding just the perfect piece of whatever can be the turning point in a complicated job--in this case, the graphic pillow that brought it all together.

J. if you are reading THANK YOU for allowing me to help you with your room, it was a pleasure! Pin It