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Styling a Room Like a Pro

The last 20% is what gives the room the personality and the WOW!

Most people understand the first 80% :  the sofas, chairs, tables, area rugs, and drapery.  It seems, however, by the time they get to the last 20% they run out of money and steam!  So first rule of thumb, SAVE 20% of your room budget for the finishing touches and secondly if you can't do it yourself, get some help.  It's like buying an outfit and having the store help show you accessories that work with it.  It's all good!  Bring the shoes too!
 
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So here is our list of Styling Tips 

 

1.  Take a picture. Our best tip: Yes take a digital picture of the area you want to style.  This will give you an immediate, objective view of the space.  You will notice empty bare spots or busy cluttered ones.  When you are looking at the whole room your mind compensates one area for another.  But with a picture you focus only on the vignette you are trying to build. 

 

2.  Personalize it.  Get momentos when you travel.  Choose pieces that are unique and original to you.  Display what YOU love.  Start with pieces you have in your cupboards - repurpose pieces.  eg. a decanter you never use could be a gorgeous vase!

 

 

3.  Mix it up - hi/lo.  The best rooms have a mix of special/pricey objects and special/not so pricey items.  It makes the room more interesting.  Love an old garage sale find next to a beautiful new piece.

 

4.  Go large or go home.  Instead of displaying a bunch of itsy-bitsy stuff, buy fewer but more substantial pieces.  They feel more important, make greater impact and make the room feel less cluttered. 

 

 

Via Tobi Fairley Design

 

 

5.   Contain 'stuff'.  Have a few things on your dresser?  Put it on a beautiful tray.  Want to keep creams or perfumes on your ensuite vanity?  Again, use a beautiful tray or basket.  This creates unity and the objects visually become one item, thereby, creating less clutter.

 

6.  Mix textures and add colour.  Notice the greenery and the baskets in the bookshelves below.  This adds variety and interest.  

 

 

Styling - via Tobi Fairley
Via Tobi Fairley Design

 

  

7.  Don't make it all flat.  Choose something for the walls other than pictures.  Combine sconces and wall brackets with vases on walls. (They can be modern or traditional). Use mirrors and wall sculptures.  This will add interest.

 

8.  Add life!  Flowers and greenery add breath to a room.  (Yes, we even do fake! - good ones aren't cheap but last a long time) Books and magazines show someone lives there - yes, use them.  In more formal spaces use beautiful coffee table books for display  and in more casual spaces neatly stack your magazines.

 

 

9.  Give it some rhythm.  If everything is at one level - you have boring.  Vary heights of things.  Pictures on walls, lamps, tall plants - these all add rhythm and movement in a room. As your eye moves around the room, it moves from low chair to high lamp...etc...

 

10.  Don't overthink it. Start with things you love and then just fill in the blanks.  You can't always be looking for the PERFECT .....  you may never find it.  And considering you need quite a few things to finish a room, you would have an unfinished room for a very long time.  Start with one vignette at a time....

 

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Oh and don't forget the pooch.  Everyone loves one :)

  

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Luisa, Marisa and Susie


Cindy Grande

We'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Cindy Grande to our team as our full time Design Assistant. You might have talked to her before as she has worked for us part time and as our co-op student 3 years ago.  She just completed her Decorating program at Humber College. Cindy will be taking care of scheduling, following up on orders and helping us with project designs.

  
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