The Decorologist | Paint Color Consultant | Home Staging
Home Staging and Paint Color Expert Kristie Barnett, draws on her background in psychology and education to provide design and color advice to residential projects.
What do you do when your dining room looks forlorn and empty, and it’s making you crazy -depressed?
No, I’m not suggesting that you pour yourself a stiff drink. Put down the bottle and pick up the hammer! I spent yesterday hanging art and plates in my client’s dining room, and it made such a difference. [Read more...]
Have you ever had this problem? You have a piece of furniture or headboard or something in your home that needs “something” over it, but you have no idea what to hang on the wall above it?
Beautiful View from the Front of My Client’s Home
This was the dilemma in my client’s home. Here is the dining room in it’s “before” state – it has lovely tall ceilings and a beautiful hutch to the right. The space above it looks a bit bare, but what to hang there????
Dining Room Before The Decorologist
Following the lines of the furniture always works for me. Creating a vignette with much-loved china on the wall that mimics the lines of the furniture made for an interesting and unique solution for this design dilemma. Oh, and we changed the wall color so that the wood tones would have a richer backdrop (if you have lots of wood in one room, most of the time yellow is not the best choice to paint your walls).
Dining Room After
Here’s another shot to show better show you the effect the plate grouping makes with this beautiful hutch.
Blue and White Plate Grouping
Unusually-shaped furniture often call for unique accessorizing solutions. Have you ever had to accessorize around an oddly-shaped piece of furniture?
Let me be clear – I am no camper. But I have had a pipe dream for years about restoring an Airstream trailer.
All images in this post are found here
Wouldn’t it be fun to decorate it out all retro-dreamy, like a giant dollhouse?
My girls could use it as a playhouse in the backyard. [Read more...]
As an interior decorator in the Nashville area, one of my favorite things that I get to do for clients is to create art groupings on their walls. They are usually amazed at how quickly I can come up with an arrangement and get them up on the wall. Here’s how I do it: first, I gather up like items with the colors I’m looking for to tie in with the room and start playing around with different arrangements.
I layed out these gorgeous plates on my client’s bed this week, working until we got an arrangement we both liked. This is what I came up with – it’s kind of like an inverted Christmas tree shape over her dresser: [Read more...]
Tomorrow afternoon I’m going to be arranging some family photographs in an open stairwell of a client’s home. That’s got me thinking about different ways to hang art on a staircase wall.
I have a passion for hanging art and creating art groupings (strange, I know). In my book, nothing is better than taking a family’s photographs and creating a gallery wall for them. I’m still in Atlanta furthering my design education, but I thought today I’d share a family photo gallery I created for a new client last week.
She had done her homework: all the photography was ready for me and in gorgeous frames, no less. Framing them in the same frame finish makes the grouping cohesive, but it’s great to vary the actual frame design like she did here. I worked on the design on the floor before I started swinging my hammer.
Here’s the hallway that was just waiting for a reason to be noticed . . .
The last time you saw my dining room walls, I had created a salon-style art grouping of landscapes on the long wall opposite my windows.
| Well, do they? I think the things you hang on your wall should make you happy. They should reflect your interests and your tastes. They should put a smile on your face when you walk in the room. |  |
This makeover began with a very nice dining room - great architectural details and furniture. Nice, but nothing special.
Most of you know you can use an arrangement of plates/dishes to add color and personality to a wall. But how about getting a little more creative about it? Try creating a plate collage. Take a look at some of these beautiful examples – this first one makes me think of water dribbling down the wall . . . .
