I'm So Pretty

I just have to say that I am one lucky designer. All of my clients are really great and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Recently I finished a project that just wants to scream for itself "I'm So PRETTY!" And it makes me happy to

visit my client and see how much she loves her house.

I am by no means taking all of the credit here. It was a complete collaboration of tastes and style. My client and I bounced a lot of ideas back and forth and spent a lot of time deliberating fabrics and colors and, in the end, came up with a look that is classic, comfy and elegant-something her husband really wanted to convey.

You might want to take a minute or two and click on these photos to enlarge them. Look around the room and notice the elements that give it the qualities I mentioned before: large comfy furniture and 'sink in and cuddle up' fabrics and fillings, dramatic windows and window treatments, large scaled lighting fixtures, antiqued moldings and beams, patterned carpeting and little 'pops' of that dreamy aqua here and there.

No doubt the room has a lot of built in drama with it's vaulted ceilings and arched openings, but sometimes those features can make a room feel sterile and cold. Many times I've found that when folks buy a home with those kind of details, they want to decorate around them-letting those details keep the focus of attention. In this room, I feel like we've done a good job of spreading the attention all around the room -end to end, top to bottom and everything in between-it's all fun to look at. I hope you think so too.