Thursday, April 28, 2011

Beginning a Design or Decorating Project and Don't Know Where To Begin? It's Easy.......

Throughout my career I have seen clients, friends and people on the street get stumped by this dilemma of WHERE TO BEGIN.  It never fails that when I ask them if they know where to begin they give me answers like .......furniture? paint? flooring? lighting? floor plans........????  The list goes on and on and while each of those is a partly true or could be a true answer, the real answer is this.  BEGIN WITH THE THING THAT YOU LOVE THE MOST.  It could be anything .......a fabric, a color, a piece of furniture, an architectural feature .....anything at all.  I once designed an entire kitchen for myself using a picture of a plate that I never bought.  (It was quite delicious when it was all finished - pale, pale periwinkle lavendar walls, deep shiny hunter green backsplash tile, warm ivory white trim everywhere, rich simple honey oak stained cabinets ......)

Beginning with the thing that you love the most makes it all so very easy.  After that, it is like dominoes the way it will all fall into place.  So before you get all concerned about your project, spend some time thinking about things that you love and from them, find that one that is the most appropriate for your project and get started.  You can't imagine how much fun you will have after that ......choosing more things that you love until your dream space is complete.

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