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Seattle Designer Wants to Catch the Interior Design Tour on Wheels

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As I browsed the internet I read about this tour. I wish this interior design inspiration was visiting Seattle but the map shows a Northeast tour. It’s a clever delivery of interior design applications for small spaces and how to create drama. Since it’s so small, it’s like a studio apartment or condo thus a great way to demonstate size, scale and proportion which helps to select furniture for small spaces.

HomeGoods is an off-price home fashions store, providing a tremendous selection of high quality, unique home fashions, including brand and designer name merchandise at prices that are 20 - 60% less than finer catalog, specialty and department store prices, every day. The parent company also owns T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.

To promote their company and mix of furnishings enter HomeGoods’ Mobile Design Home, an eco-friendly, 300-square-foot space. The house on wheels, which has been traveling along the East coast for several weeks, showcases a living room, kitchen, bedroom and sitting area that feature a mix of styles.

From Apartment Therapy

Living Room area from Apartment Therapy

Spokeswoman Robyn Arvedon explained the living room was designed around the deep purple, bright pink and lime green colors in the throw pillows arrayed on a neutral-hued sofa. The neutral shade of the sofa is further offset by a fuchsia carpet and green and pink chairs. Exotic touches add interest in the form of colorful perfume bottles from India displayed on a circular table, an Asian garden stool and tables. “You don’t have to pigeonhole yourself into a color palette,” Ms. Arvedon explained. “The core of the theme here is to have fun.”

The HomeGoods’ team’s message, “no fear.” Decorate with color and use different styles. Seek an inspiration to get started and build on it. It’s all about making a personal statement.

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Cracks and Crevices Deliver Beautiful Interiors

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Lately my interior design inspirations seek some Wabi Sabi. And what’s Wabi Sabi exactly? I like Architect Tadao Ando’s definition, “Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent. It reminds me of this rustic cabin I designed which honored the old.

Wabi-Sabi barbeque

Wabi-sabi is underplayed and modest, the kind of quiet, undeclared beauty that waits patiently to be discovered. It’s a fragmentary glimpse: the branch representing the entire tree, shoji screens filtering the sun, the moon 90 percent obscured behind a ribbon of cloud. It’s a richly mellow beauty that’s striking but not obvious, that you can imagine having around you for a long, long time-Katherine Hepburn versus Marilyn Monroe.

Image courtesy of “The Wabi-Sabi House”/Joe Coca

It’s the peace found in a moss garden, the musty smell of geraniums, the astringent taste of powdered green tea. My favorite Japanese phrase for describing wabi-sabi is “natsukashii furusato,” or an old memory of my hometown. (This is a prevalent mind-set in Japan these days, as people born in major urban areas such as Tokyo and Osaka wax nostalgic over grandparents’ country houses that perhaps never were. They can even “rent” grandparents who live in prototypical country houses and spend the weekend there.)”

Thanks to Tadao Ando for sharing this description. Would like to live with Wabi-Sabi?

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