This November, we went to the International Furniture & Accessories Market in North Carolina to scope out new trends and collect pieces for our clients. Walking from booth to booth, we chatted up furniture, accessory and rug designers to get a clearer picture of how the industry is doing, where it’s going and what is fading out, along with what’s coming down the pipeline. Think of us as interior designers and detectives. Sitting on our favorite vendors’ pieces and touching all of the new items tells us more about how something could work in a client’s home than any number of pictures could.
Every year, we learn a lot at market, but trust us, it’s completely earned. For five days, we spend our time scouring miles and miles of home furnishing offerings. In addition to some killer calves, we always come back with tips on what is hot in home interior design. We’re so excited to share our finds with you and won’t even make you walk a mile first. Here’s our top 16 trends:
1. Steampunk
2. Wallpaper is hot, hot, hot, and it is nothing like what you might find in your grandma’s home
3. Ikat fabric/patterns were everywhere. Houndstooth, zebras, chevron, fret, damasks, quatrefoils and burlaps are still in too.
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There is such joy in finding wonderful, beautiful and special little items while scouring antique shops and boutiques. I couldn’t resist sharing these little gems. To Spring!
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There is such joy in finding wonderful, beautiful and special little items while scouring antique shops and boutiques. I couldn’t resist sharing these little gems. To Spring!
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I have to say, after my visit to the High Point Furnishings and Accessory Market last week, my suspicions have been confirmed…imperfections are perfect.
Soft comfort on display
The draw of home fashion will continue to move toward reusing items in new ways. Natural fabrics (that are made using more sustainable methods) are dancing into the mix, manipulated into a tailored/organized look with a bold sense of nothingness in the color department. Rusty parts of exhausted items are next to newly spun silk. The once only traditional look of cut crystal is encompassed and surrounded by iron. The lines have been changed and redrawn.
Reuse....
It is exciting as always to see what product designers dream up. Out of necessity pops wonderfulness and I am loving it! Don’t get me wrong though, I could never move away from color and the richness of classic traditional design or the striking forms of contemporary design that leave me wanting more, but this is a fun and comfortable look. It brings peace to the mind and hope to the heart. Whether or not you like this new direction, the reason it is here though (reduce, reuse, recycle), is here to stay.
Old pots next to architectural features waiting for a new home
A well of comfortable colors.
Join the conversation on this trend and voice your opinion
-Jill
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Tags: 2011, consultant, design firm, High Point Market, home, Ideas, Interior design, Natural fabrics, photos, Reuse, Trends 2010
Accessories, Color, Fabrics, Ideas, Inspiration, Markets/Tradeshows | admin | October 26, 2010 9:24 pm | Comments (0)
It’s October 1st and time to think about the winter holidays!?! Well that is what we did when the lovely writer Gloria Gale and photographer Jason Dailey stepped into my home in JULY! That’s right…this is what my house looked like in July of 2010.
Speaking of, many of you always ask about my own personal home and want to see what it looks like. I wish I had more time to work on my own home but I just get too busy designing great spaces for my clients! Here it is ready for the holidays, in July.
I do love birds and wanted to be sure to bring them into the space. I adore the close-up Jason took of the roses and bird seed. It is so festive, warm and sweet.
Photo shoots are always so interesting and enjoyable. I took a quick snap here from behind the camera to let you in on the fun.
During the photo shoot. Lights, lights, lights!
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-Jill
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As an interior designer in Kansas City, it is so humbling to have our firm’s work recognized. Thank you, KC Magazine once again.
To follow is our bronze in the Living/Dining Room category.
These wonderful clients had a living room space with an awkward floor plan. It was a long room with great windows and a magnificent view, but the room itself left something to be desired. They wanted a sectional and great seating for entertaining. Lighting was an issue in the evening. She loved green so she and I decided to complement the outdoors and frame them with beautiful pieces with great lines. The silhouettes in front of the windows needed to be sleeker pieces were what would make her happy. All of the aging oak needed to be toned down a bit as well.
Mag cover
"Before"
"Before" See the great view?
Our design solutions?
This new area for entertaining needed some wonderful color, softness and beauty so we played up the greens, added drapes up to the crown molding and some beautiful furnishings and accents. The original oil was commissioned and is fun, unexpected and cuts the space perfectly. For handsome silhouettes in front of the grand windows, natural sticks, a darling lamp with a semi-opaque glass body and a “tree” table base over marble were perfect.
They are both so thrilled now with their main living space. It was great fun to help them take a room they had no feelings for and make it wonderful for them and their family to enjoy everyday.
"After"
"After"
"After"
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-Jill
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Back to sharing more lovely photos with you from the Market. I have been loving all of the gray distressed patinas and/or chalk finishes the wood has been treated with. It is a finish that creates such mood. I threw in some additional grays through silvers….glass and metal. Perfect for casual mood or sophisticated and complex designs alike. Which do you prefer?
Oh! Oh! ME first!
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A final look at the BIRD motifs of the High Point Furniture and Accessory Market for Spring 2010. It really was amazing to me how they were everywhere…on everything! Hurry, flock to them…. (oh, just one last pun!).
Chickens hiding in the archway and eggs on the shade!
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. -- Loire Hartwould
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. --Chinese Proverb
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Accessories, Ideas, Inspiration, Markets/Tradeshows | admin | May 6, 2010 12:40 pm | Comments (1)
After visiting the High Point Furniture and Accessory Market, I wanted to continue to share with you all of the trends and hot designer pieces you will be seeing. Here are more of the birds for you to see. Amazing how many different places they showed up.
Three on the wall is worth...a great room!
The base of a darling lamp.
Perched on the edge of a platter.
Perched on the edge of a table.
Just "plain" perched.
The front of a cabinet. So darling for a child's room, the perfect entry or a delicious garden room.
Hand-painted beautifully. Imagine the shade with the lamp on...
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First off, I have to apologize for not blogging in a month. I have been SWAMPED with work and am so thankful to all of you for so much great opportunities to make people’s homes amazing right now. During that time, too…was the High Point Furniture and Accessory Market. What fun!
A darling headboard.
What was hot at the High Point Market? Well the title pretty much sums it up….flocks and flocks of birds! I will show you all of the gorgeous goodies I found for the next several weeks so you are up to speed on what is the latest of the greatest.
Birds on lamps, birds on fabrics, chairs, tables, artwork. Is there anything I missed? Enjoy!
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Tags: Birds, Fabric, Furniture, High Point Market, Home Decor, Home decor ideas, Interior design, Kansas City Interior Design, Lamps, Leawood
Accessories, Art, Furniture, Ideas, Inspiration | admin | May 4, 2010 10:26 am | Comments (1)
