Decorating your new home or redecorating your old one should result in a look you love to live with.
Professional Personalized Planning makes it possible. There are always new interior design trends, this year"s "in" colors, new products and designs. This page is designed to keep you up to date and provide some
Tips to Consider as You Decorate By Design.
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USE COLOR It’s a way to personalize your environment.
Color trends and titles below as forecasted by Benjamin Moore |
THINK ENERGY CONSERVATION and rising fuel costs. Heat in the winter and cool air in the summer are lost through uncovered windows. Window treatments help to lower your energy bills. Also thermal linings in draperies lock out cold air in the winter. |
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PRIVACY TREATMENTS There are several new alternatives to vertical blinds.
A new color tape can be added as an accent color. |
IMPORTANT! WINDOW CORD SAFETY Be aware of window cord hazards, especially with young children who may be living with blinds or shades that were purchased prior to 2001 when manufacturers changed the window cords on all their products to prevent strangulation. The Window Covering Safety Council offers cord-safety information as well as free cord-repair kits and instructions to retro fit your shades. |
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CUSTOMIZE: Choose from collections of patterns and then customize to your window treatment with color, trimmings, fabrics, drapery jewelry, etc The age of technology offers motors and remotes for window treatments with and without timers. They let you control light, privacy, and are energy efficient. Also perfect for those hard-to-reach windows, e.g. skylights, 2nd story high ceiling windows and over bathtubs. Technology and digital printing also enable you to custom design your own prints for fabrics for windows, as well as china, wallpaper, and more. Decorative hardware: Create your own custom finial (the end piece on a rod) with jewels, metallics, baguette bands, iron bands. |
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Ready to start planning? Questions about design trends? Decorating ideas?
Call 609-799-6529 or contact Linda.
What’s new in the world of decorating?
STILL POPULAR DESIGN TRENDS
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VICTORIAN ROMANCE: soft colors & delicate floral patterns define this theme CIRCLES: seen in circular graphic patterns and circular furniture shapes METAL: offers a sense of luxury. If a product is not made of bronze, gold or silver, look for metal accents on pieces NEW ANTIQUES: think Ancient Italian & Old French design trends & look for an aged archaeological feel in special finishes and treatments NAILHEAD: trim on everything EAST MEETS WEST: Exotic charm of Asia mixes with high style European motifs CLOISONNE: Ancient techniques are reworked in a more modern sense e.g., geometric patterning |
FLORALS: Bold blossoms & sultry flowers, e.g. rambling roses, lush orchids, and cherry blossoms LACE: Add elegant femininity with touches of lace ENCHANTED FOREST: Contemporary patchwork of trees, birds, and branches
MONARCHAL MOTIFS: Inspired by French Neoclassic design trend with an emphasis on crests, fleur de lis, crowns, Napoleonic bees DUOS: Balance chic & contemporary design trends with white hot combinations of white/silver and white/gold colors YELLOW: accent shades of daffodil, canary, &/or marigold “pop up” black, brown and white or add to "warm" pale blue and aqua colors NAUTICAL & BEACH themes use corals branching out into shells |
The "IN" in color design trends
ACCENT ON NATURAL COLORSHUMAN SKIN TONES: among the 10 most popular color design trends; Bison Brown, Antique Copper, Powder Puff, Wild Aster NATURE: think tree bark, leaves, sand, fur, reptiles, rocks and pick your colors among El Sereno Gold, Grant Beige, Copper Kettle CULTURE: think fine silk, patchwork effects and handspun wools and consider these color themes - Pumpkin Spice, Exotic Bloom, Pre Dawn Sky INDUSTRY: think architecture and structure, metal and glass and choose from Stormy Sky, Jamestown Blue, Beach Glass, and Ashley Gray |
PROJECTIONS FOR 2009RAW: Back to basics; the simplest form. Textures - sand, dried wood, crystals; Colors - white, gray, beige. “Chantilly Lace” “Frappe” “Storm” URBAN SILENCE: Silent beauty. Grass, foliage, sand, metals & industrial finishes. Colors - copper in brown; oiled bronze; concrete grays. “Wasabi” “Old Gold” “Bronze Metallic” SIMPLEXITY: Combining simple & complex design trends. Interconnected design, kaleidoscopes, modular. Blue with grays; blackened hues “Thunder” “ Amsterdam” “Arroyo Red” PRIVATE IDENTITY: Simplistic beauty of the spirit. Personalization. Metals, wet surface looks, cultural inscriptions. Colors - slick black, denim, brass, warm & cool metallics. “Black Satin” “ Lucerne” Thunderbird” |
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The world is changing and so are colors, fabrics, products and design trends. I’m ready to help when you are ready to begin, whether it’s renovations, updating furniture or window treatments or just to get information and detail on trends and colors.
Linda
Phone:
609-799-6529
Email: Linda@LPInteriors.com