Coffee with Me!

If you came over to discuss decorating, I would make coffee and scones.  I love to bake and really love to eat what I bake. I am my favorite cook.  But since I am supposed to be losing a few pounds I can't make scones or any other baked good.  But I can still give you some decorating tips when faced with a room you need to design or a room you want to change.

1, first decide how you will use the space.
2. next think about furniture you already own that might work to serve these needs.
3. think about the color of the room, the natural light, the other light sources.  Sometimes I close my eyes and try to imagine colors of one kind or another in a room.
4. Find an inspiration piece.  (and with that idea I will write a new entry about it!)



One quick story - I did a room over for the mother of a friend who hated the room she and her husband used in the evenings.  When I started to talk to her about what they did in the room it was very clear - they did two things.  They watched TV and her husband worked there at a computer at a desk.  So really they needed two spaces.  So all I did was rearrange the furniture into two spaces.  The work area in one corner and the backs of the two chairs created the "wall" for the other space used for tv watching.  I anchored the TV space with the small area rug and made sure there were places to put down drinks or in this case, knitting supplies.  Last I heard, they were much happier.  So analyzing how the room was being used really helped to design it in a way that made sense.

 I have always thought that what you do in a room should be clear - the rooms should almost tell you what you do there when you walk in - this makes us comfortable.  If we walk into a room in which furniture is randomly placed, then it will be more of a room for storage of furniture than a room in which we live. "Sit here and work at this desk"  "Have a conversation around this fireplace."  "Eat here at this table and look out at the view."  "Browse through this bookshelf and then sit here and read."  "Cuddle up on this sofa and watch a movie!"  These are the things we want our rooms to say to us,.