Your home style should be as deliberate as your fashion style. It need not be singularly monotonous -- I mean, we all enjoy tinkering with different looks -- but it should reflect YOU. More than any specific style, I prefer unique and clever design. It can be minimalist, baroquely intricate, or artsy bohemian, but always with a twist.
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| Architecture and interior by Frank Lloyd Wright |
My preferred starting point is clean, modern, but not boxy lines. Then, add warmth with richly-hued wood and introduce texture with stone. It's beginning to sound like a Frank Lloyd Wright creation.
However, I get excited by eclectic furnishings, art and even flea market finds picked up from adventures around the world.
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| Moroccan interior design from interiordesigning-tips.blogspot.com |
It adds dimension, color and texture to the space. For this reason, I often introduce leather, furs, and exotic fabrics into my outfits.
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| Mexican interior design from homearts.us |
This brings me to the dearth of interior design firms in my neighborhood with that kind of portfolio. There is, however, a plethora of design firms that do traditional, overstuffed chintz or California Mediterranean. I'm depressed.
Clothing is so much easier to deal with. No need to outsource!
We haven't even gotten to exteriors yet.
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| Falling Water architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright |
Write to me if any of you have design firm ideas ...
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