Client Project: Grown Up Glam!

Hi there!  Hope you're having a great week.  Things are really starting to pick up over here.  My calendar is filling up quickly and I'm starting to feel like the holidays are upon us ALREADY! 

I thought I'd pop in to share with you my plans for my latest project.  I'm SO excited about this one.  The clients are a young family that I actually met at church years ago.  The best part of this one is the fact that my style is extremely similar to theirs.  Surprisingly enough, that doesn't happen very often.  I'm usually more focused on creating a look that is in line with the style and preferences of the clients, but this time it's a lot like designing for myself.  I suppose that's why it's been a little difficult getting started. 

 

After my little creative block that I blogged about HERE, I was able to land on this beautiful gray and orange floral as a jumping off point for the design. 

I love that it has this beautiful celadon green and muted teal mixed in.  They'll be great colors to pull out for accents.  I'm always looking to mix it up and try things I haven't already done before. 

We're starting with the main living/family room and this is the direction we're heading.

They had me draw up a plan for the eat-in kitchen, not really sure if they were ready to tackle it.



I put together a mood board that completely cozied the space up and now looks like we're moving ahead with that project too.  Love it when that happens!  I'm so excited about the prospect of doing a custom banquette and potentially adding an electric fireplace.  I have one in my bedroom and LOVE it!

Lastly, I FINALLY get to do a formal dining space and we're going for grown-up glam. 

Someone is finally going to let me use wallpaper.  Can't wait!!! 

So, what do you think of the orange and gray color scheme?  I'd love to hear for you. 

"Overcoming Designer's Block"

Hey y'all!!  I'm back....

I have to say, while it was nice to not have to worry about blogging, I kind of missed you guys.  And of course, wouldn't you know the ideas for posts started to flow immediately after I announced that I was pulling back a little. 

Today, I thought I'd share with you what happens when I hit a creativity block.  Yep, it happens.  Sometimes, thankfully not often, I find myself at a complete loss for ideas.  Unfortunately, I experienced this past weekend I pulled together the final pieces of a living room design plan I've been working on for a client.  The more I worked on it, the less I liked it.  It's not that it was a bad plan, it just didn't excite me. And  I knew that if it didn't excite me, it would be a hard sale to the clients.

Needing to break away, I decided to go to a place that often provides me with the greatest inspiration for projects; the fabric store. 

 

Yes, I have sample books at home and of course there's the web, but I was in desperate need of a change of scenery.  I hit the road one afternoon and boy was I glad I did.  In a matter of moments the juices were flowing again. 



I don't know what it is about fabric that gets me, but I can just see rooms jumping off the vibrant prints and patterns.



Even walking through the notions section gets me day dreaming of ways to dress up standard pieces.

Within thirty minutes I had an entirely new direction for the project.  I totally scraped what I was working on and used a fabric swatch that I purchased to build a completely new plan. 

 

 

I'm putting on the final touches now, I'm loving it.  I can't wait to share it with you once it's approved.  I'm praying they like it as much as I do. 

It just goes to show you that sometimes you have to go back to the drawing board.  That's  hard for my left brain, more analytical side to understand, but I'm learning that creativity truly is a process.  Not to mention, one that often takes time.

Wish me luck!