Make A Grand Entrance
Use these Five Secrets!

Remember the saying “You never get a second chance to make a great first impression”? Your entry is the very embodiment of that time-tested adage. With holiday entertaining right around the corner, discover how to create an entry that almost takes your breath away with dramatic beauty.

1. Color Me Beautiful
Your entry’s main color sets the mood for the rest of your home. If you love color, it’s the perfect place to use richer, more saturated hues for your walls. Take the dominant color from a room nearby and turn up the volume a notch or two. Or choose a lighter or darker shade of an accent color in an adjacent room as your main wall color.

2. Light Check, Please.
Need more light? The difference a new chandelier can make is amazing. Scale and proportion are really important here. If you have a two story foyer, choose a chandelier with two tiers of lights. Dress it up with beaded silk lampshades. Add a ceiling medallion. One of the best lighting tricks is to install a dimmer switch. You control the mood. And always have a secondary lighting source in your foyer such as one or two buffet lamps placed on a console table. Illuminate a dark corner with an uplight hidden behind a tall airy palm nestled in a jardinière.

3. Tickle Your Toes
Every great entry needs a fabulous area rug. It’s a key design element often overlooked. Whether you choose a simple or intricate design, bring in colors found in the rest of your home. Be sure to match the dimensions of your rug to the size of your entry. Still not sure? It’s smart to call on Interior Reflections’ talent to choose the perfect shape, pattern and color for your entry area rug just in time for holiday entertaining. And remember, we offer the full line of exceptional Karastan area rugs. Your investment is secure as every Karastan rug is covered by a 20 year warranty.

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For 24 years, you’ve trusted Interior Reflections to bring you only the finest quality furnishings, working in harmony to create a beautiful, comfortable and livable home. We constantly consider new product lines – choosing only those that meet our high standard for indelible quality and timeless value.

 

You’ll Be Sitting Pretty
Settee’s are back! We recommend settees for an entryway, at the foot of a four poster bed or arranged in a cozy sitting area. Settees offer classic styling and gracious appeal. It’ a great way to add a splash of color to an otherwise boring space. To protect your investment, every hand carved settee starts with a kiln-dried, double-doweled hardwood frame. Other quality features include meticulous tailoring and luxurious down cushions and pillows.


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Interior Reflections now offers lighting from one of the finest resources available. The unparalleled quality and attention to detail will impress you. Award winning sculptors and decorative artisans are continuously creating new and original work. Let us help you choose from over 100 exquisite lighting designs that are sure to be the perfect addition to your home.

 

Calling All Collectors
Show off your magnificent obsession with Butler Specialty’s beautifully designed Demilune Chest and Hutch combination. The refined imperial red hand painted finish makes a dramatic statement. Features include a hidden canister light to showcase your collection and three felt lined drawers and three doors with storage space inside. There’s a place for everything and everything’s in its place!

Personalize Your Home With Lightweight Faux Iron
Combining historical inspiration with modern technology, faux iron provides the look and feel of wrought iron beautifully interpreted in Tuscan swirls, Moorish stars, fleur de lis and geometric patterns. An innovative manufacturing process makes use of the latest in natural composite materials to create an endless selection of beautiful designs.

Take advantage of Interior Reflections’ creative talent to design signature pieces for your windows, walls, niches and ceilings. Palatial beauty is now available at a fraction of the cost and weight of heavy wrought iron.

You Saw It Here First!
This stylish solution by Habersham makes ordinary kitchen appliances extraordinary. It’s a refrigerator and bottom freezer on the right and a pantry on the left – all hidden inside a magnificent armoire. It can be a stand alone furniture piece or integrated into any of Habersham’s resplendent kitchen cabinetry. Choose from 36 hand-rubbed finishes ensuring a custom, one of a kind look.

The WOW Factor
Add sparkle and glamour to your home with mirrored occasional pieces. The great advantage of mirrored furniture is that it works in every color palette, reflecting the other colors in the room. Blending a mixed media of mirrors, wood in a crackled white finish and crystal drawer pulls make these pieces irresistible.
True or False?
1. The beautiful colors you see in butterfly wings and peacock feathers contain no actual color pigment.
2. Every paint color on the market is created by mixing varying amounts of 6 basic colors which are: red, yellow, black, white, blue and green.
3. Light from an incandescent light bulb often used in lamps
casts a cool, bluish tint on your furnishings and fluorescent
lighting casts a yellow or warmer glow in your room.
4. The official Olympic logo was created in 1913 and consists of 5 interlacing rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red.
5. An advanced digital photo printer can now print an array of 16.7 million different colors.

Answers:
1. True: Instead, they both have what is called structural color. Amazing complex multiple layers interact with light producing only the appearance of color. It’s actually four times brighter than pigment. Think iridescent.
2. False: Delete green and you have the 5 colors needed to make every other color.
3. False: Incandescent light casts a yellow glow and fluorescent light casts a blue tint.
4. True: At least one of these 5 colors is found in the flag of every nation.
5. True: Sanyo’s digital photo printer can indeed print all those colors even though the human eye can’t discern that many.



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