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Donna  

The Beauty of the Button

I'm a sucker for buttons. Do a detail on the arm of a jacket, pop them onto a pants pocket, do a flourish on a wool coat and you have caught my eye. But I am in beyond button heaven when they show up around the design drawing board, like...

This bench I designed and that is shown in a bedroom on our website or....

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Pattern - Love It or Hate It

As an interior designer, I believe my role first and foremost is to answer my clients' design cravings as I steward their projects to and across the fabulous finish line every one of my clients wants, which is, "Holy smokes - this is gorgeous AND I get to live here!" SO instead of just throwing my design weight around, I listen, I ask and I dig. It always fascinates me to see how non-designers relate to pattern.

They:

• Love it or hate it.

• Love it but only very specific pattern. Either generally linear, curvilinear or thematic.

• Love it but can tolerate it in only in very specific places or very specific combination of places: Either on the floor or at the window in drapery or perhaps just pillows (what I call the horizontal plane). Sometimes it's on a select piece of upholstery, possibly just accent upholstery. BUT, put a pattern on the floor for somebody who cannot tolerate pattern on the floor - even if it's a pattern they love - and it will make them outstandingly uncomfortable and unhappy in a room. It's fascinating.

Here's an interesting table from a study recently published by Home Textiles Today in their September 16th issue that tracks how pattern preferences fall across the US. They didn't show a regional breakdown, but just as color preferences track regionally, I expect pattern to as well.

Think about your own pattern "fingerprint" Where do you think you fall into all of this? Where do you fall in and where do you like pattern placed in your rooms? Let us know by clicking here.