Swatches and Snippets from Our Studio

  THIS IS TRULY MY HAPPY COLOR!                       THANK YOU  COLOR GODS                               aka  Color Marketing Group Last year it was ULTRA VIOLET. Great for a sweater or a couple of throw pillows, but....Color of the Year? Coral adds a touch of warmth and compliments so many other neutrals. I helped a client with this bedroom 5 years ago. Warm and inviting with touches of vibrant coral. This eclectic living space is a compilation of a dozen colors and patterns . This lively coral hold it all together. This space was done about 3 years ago. It is about time  Coral got it's color award.

At Studio Designs we take our responsibility to our clients and their projects very seriously. We do everything in our power to exceed their expectations. We do however expect the process to be FUN. Our objective is to make the project as stress free as possible on our clients and to help them relax and enjoy the process while we handle we manage the project and their budget Swatches and Snippets is our way to let perspective clients get to know us and to keep in touch with ongoing clients and friends. We hope that you will enjoy our ideas and tidbits.

Trading Spaces, a TLC series that was popular about 10 years ago. will return to television this April. The premise is that friends or neighbors decorate each others spaces with a budget of $2000.00 and the help of Celebrity Decorators. (Notice I don't use the term Interior Designer.)  I consider Trading Spaces the Comedy Central of home decorating shows. Why would  someone glue hundreds of artificial flowers  on a bathroom wall if not for comedy relief? But I love to watch these train wrecks and the reactions of their friends when they see their $2000 redecoration reveal. Some are quite well done, others not so much, but for me, it is  good entertainment and I look forward to its return! This will be fun. It is like the Comedy Central of Interior Design with huge personalities and "let the rules (and sometimes taste) go" decorating. I few years ago ( well ,about 10) I had the good fortune to be called upon to assist Frank Bielec on an episode filmed o...

Our good friend and owner of Jenny Maids, Jennifer Larkin   http://www.hellojennymaids.com/468-2/our-services-2/  called this morning to ask if she could use our home to film a spot on KWCH about cleaning  for cold and flu season. Of course I said yes.  She said she would call me back with a date.  The date was today; in two hrs. Realizing I really needed to  get my Christmas down, we had a manic 2 hrs of cleaning before the cleaning. Look for her at 5 o'clock on channel 12