It works. Its not for me, but the off center picture seems fine surrounded by the other art. I love the matching red lampshade!

Gallery wall with one BIG bird and many smaller birds : ) .

I hadn't heard of Betsy Shiverick before reading The Glam Pad post this morning and love her rooms. The rugs!

I like it!

My guess is the big bird is centered on the wall, with symmetric-ish arrangements of smaller pictures on either side. But that's just a guess.

Does this work for you, chijim?

A second red lampshade for more balance,

I like these comments from her website:

"If you don’t like 'brown' furniture, I’m not your girl!"

"Where many design firms have a team of people working on a given project, I work alone. Clients of Betsy Shiverick Interiors get Betsy Shiverick."

I like her style! Thanks for sharing, becky. I'll have to look up her work. (Actually prefer one red lamp in that room.)

ETA: On her site now, swooning. This woman has taste and gorgeous style. Your place, from the (too) few pics you've shared here, gives me a very similar vibe, becky.

Interesting. The Veranda article about her house, which she and her husband finished building in 2014, ran in the January issue, and here's a March article from Bloomberg noting that, after less than five years, she and her husband listed the house for sale for just under $21 million,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-11/investor-paul-shiverick-is-selling-his-21-million-palm-beach-mansion

From the article,

"(The furniture isn’t included in the price of the house, but if a buyer is interested in purchasing the decorations, the couple says it can be considered.)

"Building the house took 26 months, during which time, “I was going back and forth to New York every week,” Paul Shiverick says. “Betsy did everything. I was not even involved really—I mean, with some of the design features, but I wasn’t that involved in building the house.”

"At roughly the same time he retired last year, the couple purchased a landmarked house in downtown Palm Beach."

I'm assuming that landmarked house is this one, on her IG,

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4VoWAHdCG/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_qWMzl22I/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Btb2czFlYQc/

Completion expected Fall 2020 : ) .

Wow. Nice to have money. (I really need to start hunting features on fabulous style on an Ikea budget. These neo-traditonal homes that scream money are getting me down. :P)

artanmeup

Love it!! Btw, where have you been, chijim? Or have I been just unlucky enough to miss your recent posts?

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No, haven't posting a lot - and if I did it was under one of those assigned HU-555555 user names that I wasn't able to change.

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Does this work for you, chijim?

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Tks

I really didn't have an issue w/the balance in the OP - more just curious with why it was done.

In the past I've suggested to others here of doing the same--i.e., going against the expected to create balance.

Well, I'm happy to see one of your posts again, chijim. Your rooms often make me think and discover new-to-me design talent.

ETA: Does that table's blue have a name? Really like it.

Your place, from the (too) few pics you've shared here, gives me a very similar vibe, becky.

Thanks, tartanmeup : ) -- that's incredibly kind. Especially because I married a farmer/carpenter rather than the co-founder of a hedge fund management firm lol.

Aside from the Florida cypress on the wall, I think you could approximate the room with an Ikea Ektorp white sofa, a vintage brass lamp from Chairish, a decent red lampshade from a good lampshade store. Etsy for pillows. Reproductions of vintage/antique bird prints from calendars and secondhand art books, and reproduction of an antique for the scarlet ibis poster : ) , with Ikea or Walmart frames.

If you like her rooms, I'd also keep an eye open on Chairish for rattan furniture and a Ming coffee table.

I love off centered artwork. Most of the art in my home is off centered. It makes the art much more interesting imo. I think the arrangement above looks fabulous.

tartan, I would call that French blue.

Thanks, becky! Many rooms could benefit from a shot of this French blue, I think. It's so lovely with the white and red. And you're right, I could recreate (some) of this room's look. Requires legwork and patience. :)

There's also cornflower blue, and periwinkle blue; the latter is what you see often in Greece, and has a bit more purple in it.

You could find a Ming coffee table and paint it, which I suspect is what happened here.

If you ever need help looking for something online, let me know : ) .