How To Make A Small Room Look Larger
Make walls taller1. Transform your walls. Magically make your walls grow taller by using vertical or horizontal stripes using paint or wallpaper. Horizontal stripes will visually widen a small narrow room.  Vertical stripes will make a low ceiling seem taller.  Mirror a wall that opposes a window and double your light.  Avoid tiny geometric prints; they will be too busy and chaotic in a small space.

2. Make friends with scale and proportion.  Like Goldie Locks looking for the right bed, one was too big, one too small, and finally one was just right, furniture needs to be just right in a small room.  A large couch in a small area can overtake the space, while a small couch will seem dwarfed.  Mix large pieces along with smaller pieces for balance.  Consider using a large bookcase or sideboard along a wall. Slipper chairs are great options as well as armless chairs  tucked into a corner.Beautiful Custom area rug

3. Keep your wall, ceiling and floor in the same color family.
Your eye naturally follows the floor up to the wall and then to the ceiling.  By keeping the three surfaces in the same color family the space will visually open up as they recede creating the illusion of more space. 

 

4. Consider  traffic patterns.  So now you have the right Mohair Chairscale furniture, but you want to move around the space easily.  A fabulous trick is to float your furniture in the space.  Move your couch and chairs away from the wall.  This will create depth in the space. You want to see a fair amount of the floor.  The more of the floor that can be seen the larger the room will appear.  Next, ground your furniture with an area rug in the same color tones as the flooring.        

The Perfect Holiday Gift For The Design Challenged
Have friends or family that could use fresh, creative decorating ideas all delivered in two hours or less?   Make your gift special and one of a kind this holiday season.
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And it's not too late to ask your hubby (or wife) for your own gift of design time.  Evening and weekend appointments available.

We also love to help decorate for your office holiday party or any other event where your home has to be picture-perfect for friends and family at this special time of year.
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Add Pizzazz To Your Home With These Easy Creative Ideas
  • Where would you welcome a new table?  Try under a wallCorbels into a table niche or along a bare  hallway.  Create a table literally anywhere with two oversized corbel brackets and a demilune (half moon) beveled glass top.  A distressed wood or granite top would be just as pretty...your choice.  Make sure to attach the corbels to wall studs for safety.
  • They are there in your kitchen and you may have cobalt wall plates.jpg totally forgotten.  It's a set of plates or a collection of trays and platters that can be  thoughtfully arranged in a number of places.  Mounted directly on walls, placed on easels above your cabinets or tucked in a glass front cupboard are just a few places to bring them to  life.  For less than a dollar, put a gold or silver charger behind a slightly smaller plate on an easel to give it a festive circular border year-round.       

  •  Interior Reflections recently added sparkle to a client's Add Crystals to your screenbronze fireplace screen.  We re-purposed  elegant crystal drops from her Grandmother's chandelier and mixed them with strands of amethyst beads. Think symmetrical chandelier earrings and you've got the look.  
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Quick Quiz
   
Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of "White Christmas" is the biggest selling single of all time. It has sold in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.

Which one of the following top selling holiday songs was not made famous by Crosby?

A. I'll Be Home For Christmas
B. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
C. Silent Night
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Has This Happened To You?
Along life's journey, there are transitional times when having a supportive and knowledgeable designer, coach, advocate and mediator (!) on your team would prove valuable.

Here's a sampling of the varied seasons in our client's lives when they have called on us to provide intelligent design solutions.

"My mother-in-law has a new home in an independent living facility and can't bear to part with 40 year old furnishings."

"I've  moved into a new home and my furniture isn't working out as planned."


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"My husband passed away and it's time to convert his study into my study while still keeping his memory alive."

"I'm considering remodeling our kitchen and master bath.  We have lots of ideas about the features we want but can't picture the overall result."

Keep baby safe

"There's a new little addition to our  family and it's hard to finish the well intentioned design projects we started pre-pregnancy."

"Our family's upstairs toilet sprang a leak and our daughter came home to a torrent of water running down the stairs." 

"I'm  thrilled to have inherited my favorite aunt's furniture and art.  What is the best way to edit her treasures so they blend seamlessly with mine?"

Interior Reflections is here for you when you need us. Get in touch soon. 
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Quick Quiz Answer: B. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer was recorded by Gene Autry