Accessories

In Seattle, interior designer Faith Sheridan feels a crispness in the air. Fall is here with crisp nights and golden sunlight days, and before too many more weeks, the weather will get cold, and you will be spending more time inside your home.

Now it’s time to think about any decorating updates that you’ve been ignoring since you haven’t been spending significant time inside. Accessories refresh your home quickly and easily.

For many people, gathering around the fireplace and drinking warm beverages is a family tradition, and since the fireplace may be your focal point in your room, is your mantel ready for a facelift?

Jonathan Berger July 2009 HB issue

House Beautiful with Fern Santini

What accessories make your home cozy and a beautiful interior too? What about colors to add warmth, comfort and pizazz? Some favorites and go-to resources in this post. Snuggle comfortably with a vibrant throw. And my absolute first choice are the ones from Williams Sonoma Home~ talk about cutting edge colors + cashmere for that luxurious touch.

Wrap yourself in luxury and warmth at WSHome

 

If you are ready for some help to quickly freshen your family room to make it cozy and inviting for your friends and family, give us a call soon because this is our busiest time of year before the holidays.

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Transform the look of the heart of the home by decorating it well. This Seattle interior designer has some tips to get you started.

1. Locate Accents in Strategic Places

• Above Cabinets - collect some favorite mementos and group them for impact. This is a place for bright colors and varied sizes
• Above your Sink

House Beautiful by Ruthie Sommers

• Shelves

Designer Amanda Kyser added clever details in this cottage. A wall painted Benjamin Moore‘s Merlot Red sets off white dishware that she salvaged.

• On an Island or Counter

Make a statement on your island. In this example, the colorful rooster welcomes everyone into the kitchen. (from House Beautiful)

2. Color adds Spice to your Kitchen

What’s your favorite accent color? The kitchen is a great place to add color accents.

Benjamin Moore HC-10 in this House Beautiful kitchen

3. Add Clever Containers for Storage

I love these apothecary containers from Williams Sonoma that add color and form to the kitchen.

Ready to add some spice to your kitchen? Contact us to discuss our complimentary Skype conversation about your project.

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For this Seattle interior designer, city living equals a condominium. Call it downsizing or urban living, it equates to less space. In a recent project the solution to condo clutter came with vertical solutions from California Closets. In this 1000 sf downtown Seattle view condo, the guest bedroom was also the office, a common situation. How to store files and still offer guests a place to land for a visit? What? no linen closet for extra towels, comforter, blankets?

For this project, the solution arrived in the form of maximizing vertical wall space within the condo. Let’s start with the guest/home office closet. First the client sorted out essential office requirements for space and files and then guest needs like bed size, a table and lamp and closet.

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Vintage decorating is alive and well from the vantage of Seattle interior designer Faith Sheridan. And the action and interior design ideas are abundant in the Georgetown, Airport Way neighborhood of the Seattle Design District. Walking the shops and seeing the well priced, authentic accessories countered the headline story from the NY Times this week, “All That Authenticity My Be Getting Old“.

With a group of friends this past Saturday, we thoroughly investigated a few stellar locations beginning with Kirk Albert and Susan Wheeler Home.

Not to confuse any tourists since there is only one Seattle Space Needle, a remnant from Seattle’s World Fair 1962 would have you believe otherwise.

As Stephen Drucker, former editor of House Beautiful, aptly stated in the NY Times article, “A 1930s pickling jar from Hungary, or anything Etsy,” he continued, “serves the same purpose as a 20-pound Swedish crystal ashtray did for my parents: It says, ‘We’re different, we’re daring, we’re not boring.’ ”

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, our home designs sparkle with finishing touch accessories. We know that Small gestures make a big impact - an exquisite tray, a family heirloom, a painting, vase or jewel box form a beautiful composition and add the personal touch that makes your home complete.

Call us and ask us about our savvy room design ideas ~ 206.973.3743.

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Oh such gorgeous mirrors this Seattle interior designer (Faith Sheridan) found at a ‘must-see’ boutique, Susan Wheeler Home. Always an advocate of using mirrors for glamor and style, I know an even more glamorous option is a mirror with age and patina. Beautiful interiors come alive with mirrors.

Susan Wheeler opened her Georgetown shop two years ago. Her vignettes inspire interior design ideas for rooms throughout your home ~ especially if you love mirrors and beautiful interiors as much as this Seattle interior designer.

Finishing Touches….

Small gestures make a big impact - an exquisite mirror, a family heirloom, a painting, vase or jewel box form a beautiful composition and add the personal touch that makes your home complete.

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, “It’s all about the client and understanding. I look around their home and see how I can express who they are in my designs. I take it beyond what they would expect it would be,” says Faith. “I don’t work within a fixed style. I watch, listen and observe. It becomes a Gestalt. It is more than they imagined it would be.”

Call us today and learn about our design process. 206.973.3743

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