Interior Design
WE AND COMPANY Design offers timeless design concepts that include: online images, furniture descriptions, color consultation and analysis; the full “Seven Layers of Design” treatment. Furniture and accessory choices will be presented via email photographic images, or, locally we will personally shop for clients and pass on any discounts and savings realized. You provide us with your budget and we will offer how you can create the rooms you want.
It is our approach that decoration is not a science. Decorating is an experiment. It is collaborative. And it is an adventure.
Whether or not a client has a big budget, every home interior can be stylish. Creativity, Style and knowledge of the marketplace and on-the-job experience are the qualities WE bring to the stylists table. Together with our mission: a steadfast commitment to the well-being of others, WE only want to make our client’s vision come to life in a way that makes sense, both in form and function. The book Home for the Soul (Clarkson Potter, 1997), identifies considerations that are necessary to make the home a “comfort zone.” You should think about the way that you and members of you family, go through the motions of the day—how you eat, cook bathe, and sleep, for example---and then arrange your environment in a way that upholds your own way of living.
Part of making a home a more satisfying place is to be, is always edit. Everything in your home should be either useful or beautiful. Ask yourself the following questions: “is it serving a purpose?” And “does it make me happy?” Using these standards, we can remove the clutter from our living spaces.
Comfort and style are the yin and yang of home design. Form follows function, but they must go hand in hand. Though anything you own should be either useful or beautiful, but in the well appointed and executed space, both are essential.
Our senses provide information that can influence feelings of ease with our surroundings. Like form and composition, color is an attribute perceived with the eye, and it has a definite impact on the mood and ambience.
The home is a refuge where we go retreat for cocooning. Color in the home is a way of expressing individuals’ feelings. A softer palette, with neutral, ecological shades that are nonpolluting to our emotional being, will calm the senses and sooth the soul. Look for calming, water-inspired blues, light washes of color, and soft-tinted neutrals like silvery gray. The author of a home for the soul also suggests, “we need to think about our home environment in a total way, so that everything we put in our home not only looks good and serves us well, but somehow nourishes our senses and our spirit.”