Inspiration for a modern home design remodel in Orange County

Shaped cornice with fabric that was pre-quilted to outline the pattern before applying to the cornice board. The top and bottom edges are trimmed with brown cording to compliment the brown vines in the fabric.

Photo: Rachel Loewen © 2019 Houzz
Inspiration for an eclectic staircase remodel in Chicago

This chic home was a complete gut rehab job. After taking the home down to the studs and removing several walls, we updated the kitchen and bath. Lots of warm wood tones, mixed with luxurious marble and black accents, provide the perfect backdrop for the colorful accents brought in through furniture, art, and wallpaper. Designed by Joy Street Design serving Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and the whole of the East Bay. For more about Joy Street Design, click here: https://www.joystreetdesign.com/

Danish bedroom photo in London

Closeup of the military inspired window treatment and Lincrusta ceiling treatment in this award-winning guest bedroom, the Pennsylvania Room, at Anderson House, the headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati, a Revolutionary War historical organization. The Lincrusta wallcovering is embossed, and was custom painted in two colors after installation. The fleur-de-lis finials represent the French contribution to our independence. A custom embroidered seal of the Society of the Cincinnati is at the center of the lifted swags on a flat pelmet. Custom banding on the draperies and valance, and the creation of epaulets for the "shoulders": of this window treatment were inspired by the portrait over the fireplace (not shown here). Bob Narod, Photographer, LLC

Ann Kenkel Interiors Russell Hirshon Photography Gwin Hunt Photography Complete gut of Watergate Penthouse and renovation. Ann Kenkel gutted a very contemporary Penthouse which had no molding and concrete floors. Installed Walnut flooring redesigned space designed all built ins and decorated PH. Space was for a middle aged bachelor who wanted the spaces to have multi function. He wanted the Living Room to function as a library as well as a formal living room. I designed very elegant walnut bookcases with built in sound speakers. The furniture is comfortable yet upholstered in elegant fabrics. The coffee table was a high end custom Minton Spidell coffee table which elevates the space to a more formal look. The entry hall showcases a very fine antique mirror over a console with fine inlaid banding. The living room has rich chenille fabrics,ultra suede pillows with trim, and a tapestry chenille on the chairs. Kenkel designed a white wood mantle deep enough that weighty accessories. There needed to be greater division between the living room and dining. AK designed an open etagere to contain large crystal pieces with beautiful lighting. It created enough of a screen to provide some privacy between the rooms in addition to making both rooms appear longer. The dining room needed to serve as a home office with a computer station and two comfortable chairs for the client to hold a business meeting. I also needed to function as a dining room. AK designed a built in unit which housed glass shelf cabinets on either side of an open space. The open space had a counter which was appropriate height for a computer as well as a a serving service at dinner time. Office equipment, printer, fax router was all housed in a lower cabinet. The pendant chandelier is a very fine antique french piece. AK designed a built in unit for clothes a flat screen tv and speakers. There was a large roof top patio which had beautiful views of the Washington Monument. AK created a thorough design for extensive entertaining xin her 3d drafting program. The client moved before the patio could be built out. Draperies are made out of Jim Thompson raw silk. Antique bronze dore candelsticks, bronze urn on fireplace,telescope to see city in etagere. home office,dining room,table settings,home staging, hydrangeas and roses, built in, silver candlesticks, beautiful placemats, crystal wine glasses,

Campion Platt, Bedroom Holiday: Suite Dreams Photo: Rikki Snyder © 2013 Houzz
Example of an eclectic living room design in New York

**Spatial Composition & Architectural Volume** The room is organized around a single, decisive architectural gesture: a full-height sliding glazed wall that dissolves the boundary between the sleeping chamber and an enclosed garden court. The composition is fundamentally horizontal — a low-slung bed platform anchoring the right-hand foreground, a seating vignette calibrated to the left, and between them an uninterrupted sightline drawn through the aperture to the ivy-clad boundary wall beyond. This lateral emphasis is reinforced overhead by a recessed shadow-gap ceiling detail and a stepped perimeter cove that reads as a floating plane, subtly compressing the volume at its edges while lifting it at centre. The glazing itself is elegantly restrained: slim black-framed sliders set within a warm timber reveal, the sill deep enough to function as a threshold rather than a mere junction — an architectural pause between interior and exterior. Circulation is generous and diagonal, the ottoman and lounge chair angled to acknowledge both the bed and the view, establishing a soft triangulation of use. The tall marquetry armoire at the right terminates the composition vertically, providing the single strong axis of ascent in an otherwise recumbent plan, and its sculptural crown — a bronze group of standing figures — punctuates the ceiling zone with deliberate counterpoint. **Materiality, Color & Texture** The palette is an exercise in tonal modulation within a narrow chromatic band: greige, taupe, dove, mushroom, all carried on warm grey undertones with no true white and no true black save the slender window mullions. Textural variation, rather than colour contrast, performs the compositional work. The curtains — likely a slubbed silk or textured linen-viscose blend — hang in deep pinch-pleat falls whose vertical striation animates the flanking walls, while the grasscloth wallcovering behind the armoire introduces a fine, dry, horizontal weave. Against these soft-focus surfaces, the armoire delivers the room's most emphatic tactile statement: a hand-carved, faceted diamond-relief pattern in pale limed oak, bleached almost to bone, whose faceted geometry catches and fragments light. Upholstery in supple dove-grey leather on the chair and bench is offset by a crushed-velvet cushion and a finely pleated bolster at the bedhead, layering matte against lustre. Metallics are used sparingly and warmly — antiqued brass sabots on the furniture legs, a brushed bronze plinth-form side table — while the bed's pale coverlet, incised with a fine embroidered arabesque and studded buttoning, contributes a subtle graphic line. Underfoot, a hand-knotted rug in mottled silver-sage over honed stone completes a gradient from cool floor to warm wall. **Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile** Natural light is the primary luminous instrument here, admitted as a broad, diffuse northern wash through the glazed wall and rendered soft by the surrounding foliage, which filters and greens the light before it enters. The absence of visible decorative fixtures is intentional: illumination is concealed within the ceiling cove and shadow gaps, implying an evening register of low, indirect ambient light supplemented by discreet task sources. This restraint sustains an atmosphere of hushed, cloistered calm — a sanctuary sensibility in which the garden functions as a living tapestry, its verdant saturation supplying the room's only chromatic release. Stylistically, the scheme reads as Soft Minimalism inflected with Contemporary Continental luxury: a lineage traceable to mid-century French decorative tradition — Jean-Michel Frank's plinths, Royère's rounded silhouettes — reinterpreted through a modernist discipline of tonal reduction and planar clarity. The result is neither austere nor decorative but precisely balanced: a quiet, artisanal luxe in which craft (the carved oak, the cast bronze, the hand-finished textiles) supplies the ornament that colour deliberately withholds.

Marisa Grabowy
Hallway - southwestern hallway idea in Phoenix

Photo: Kayla Stark © 2017 Houzz
Inspiration for an eclectic hallway remodel in New Orleans

Old Mexico antiques with Navajo rug
Inspiration for a southwestern bedroom remodel in Austin

The family living in this shingled roofed home on the Peninsula loves color and pattern. At the heart of the two-story house, we created a library with high gloss lapis blue walls. The tête-à-tête provides an inviting place for the couple to read while their children play games at the antique card table. As a counterpoint, the open planned family, dining room, and kitchen have white walls. We selected a deep aubergine for the kitchen cabinetry. In the tranquil master suite, we layered celadon and sky blue while the daughters' room features pink, purple, and citrine.

Master bedroom in New Orleans uptown home White walls and high ceilings Pink tufted bench and pink and grey bed sits on large white area rug Pink and green accent pillows Wooden nightstands with gold accents Colorful wall art hangs above the bed

Dan Cutrona Photography
Inspiration for a mid-sized coastal enclosed medium tone wood floor living room remodel in Boston with beige walls and no tv

Living room - small traditional formal and enclosed living room idea in Cincinnati with no fireplace, no tv and red walls

Valance with tassel trim
Mid-sized ornate guest slate floor bedroom photo in San Francisco with white walls and no fireplace

Inspiration for a mid-sized victorian formal and enclosed light wood floor and beige floor living room remodel in Chicago with yellow walls, no fireplace and no tv