Addalee's Room

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Designer's Home Tour {Jenny's Bedroom}

This is turning into Jenny week and I love it. I have been sick the past few days and have not felt like blogging. But I keep getting more and more cute pictures of Jenny's house in my inbox so it's just too easy. Here is her master bedroom. I adore this robin's egg blue color. And isn't the headboard great.

Don't you want to sit here and read a book? I do. Look how cute those babies are in the top left.

 

This last one is a close up of her bathroom wallpaper. Don't you love it!? Thanks again Jenny.

Tomorrow... Addalee's room!

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Designer's Home Tour {Jenny in Knoxville}

Jenny and I go way back. We sat across from each other during studio, our first year in design school. During our second year in school I once referred to Jenny as my school BFF. She scolded me for the school suffix, so I dropped it and we became real BFFs. The following years we were Senior Thesis partners, #1 fans of Jessica Simpson during her Newlywed years, and Jenny stood in my wedding 9 months pregnant {literally, wedding was on Saturday, baby was born on Tuesday}

Jenny is a dear friend and fantastic designer. While I have worked mainly in the commercial world the past 6 years, Jenny has focused more on residential design. Every time I visit, her house gets cuter and cuter and this week I was lucky enough to get some pictures in my inbox.

 

 

 

 

 

She's promised kids room pictures next. She has the cutest kids and kids rooms I have ever seen. Jenny, we're holding you to it!

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Designer's Home Tour {Melissa's Condo}

Today I bring you Melissa's Midtown condo. Like Kendi, Melissa and her husband reside in Memphis, TN. She is an Interior Designer and her husband Austin is an Industrial Designer. Austin actually had a couple ceiling fan designs make it into Lowes retail stores this past spring. I always find dual designer homes the most interesting.

To start, their condo gets 10 cool points for being in this very trendy Cooper Young building.


I LOVE the stripe she did on this wall. It's the same color paint, but a mix of flat and satin finishes. The way the window light washes the wall makes it very dramatics when you are in the space. And the fan is one of Austin's designs.



The art below is framed wallcovering, which was probably a sample she ordered for a large hotel project. So the art was free, which is such a perk to being a designer (I'll show you my 100% free dining room rug one day)

Also note Melissa's great choices on where to terminate paint. Although it doesn't always work out this way, inside corners are always preferred. It makes for a much more clean, crisp transition. And see how it creates a large portal feel to her hallway walls. Very nice.

And these two sculpted panels in her art niche... also samples. They are from Modular Arts, a company who makes large scale plaster panels. They send us these tiny panels to show our clients. So instead of throwing them away...ta-da....free art. She's a genius for putting them on these little ledge shelves. I tried gorilla gluing hangers on the back of mine and came home to busted plaster on the floor.

And there is sweet Lola!

Here is one of my favorite parts to Melissa's condo. There is a stud wall right when you walk in that, instead of being clad in drywall, is clad in frosted acrylic panels. It's a inexpensive detail that gives the entire condo a much more modern look.

And finally the kitchen. I love her cabinets and hardware. My favorite part of this space is the fact that the stone counter on the island pours over onto the side and down to the floor. I've always been a big fan of this detail. It's very helpful in trying to avoid the ever dreaded metal bracket and is great for durability and clean up.

Thanks to Melissa and Austin for letting us into your super cool condo. Tell Lola thanks for being such a good scale figure.

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Designer's Home Tour {Kendi's Apartment}

I have decided to start a new series on my blog entitled Designer's Home Tour. As a designer, people are constantly commenting to you "oh, I bet your house is so cute." This makes myself and other designer friends of mine laugh because, while we are creative and know the parts and pieces of making a great space, young designers typically do not make that much money. We therefore cannot spend much money fitting out our own homes to what most people consider"designer" standards.

But after going to design school and working in the industry the past 5 years, it occurred to me that I have a lot of friends who have done some really fun things with their teeeeny designer budgets and I've asked a couple of them to share with us.

So first off I bring you Kendi's apartment. Kendi is a fabulous designer who worked with me in Memphis. There is a "paint the walls back the way you found them" rule for her apartment, so she very cleverly created a wide stripe that ribbons around her entire first floor space...which would be very easy to paint over when she's ready to leave. I love her eclectic style.




I think this same idea would be fun to try with wallpaper, or fabric, using the starch application tutorial I've been wanting to try forever.

Thanks Kendi for letting us peek around your apartment!

p.s. I have a little announcement/deal I'm going to post later this afternoon, so stop back by

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