Tuesday

Bedroom Design Interior by Bliss Design Firm


A bedroom is secondarily important to your main living areas as it should reflect you solely and cater to your individual needs. This room should serve as your sanctuary and “escape” from your everyday hectic stresses and obstacles. The comfort level should be at its utmost luxury for complete relaxation and color should be well selected to portray calmness and tranquility. There is no place more intimate to a client than the bedroom. Comfort and personal expression are the only things that matter, in the end, says the owner Ohara Davies-Gaetano (blissdesignfirm.com)


Thursday

Art in Interior Design

Paintings, glass works, sculpture, ceramics - art can take many forms as well as convey diverse mood. Artwork in interior design can establish a focal point and define a palette for an entire home.


Modern, sleek interiors leave room for a nice art collection benefiting from eye-catching contemporary art pieces from abstract compositions to pop art creations. Modern art can be also featured in transitional rooms as the streamlined design connects traditional and contemporary elements. Especially framed art prints are a very affordable way to bring contemporary art in interior design. There's another abundant source of contemporary art - local artists who create one-of-a-kind pieces.


Sometimes it can be quite a challenge to develop a portfolio of art prints for house-staging, an office or restautrant as it is very important to match the artwork to the architecture and age of the building and to ensure that art pieces provide some continuity for the space. The old architecture would require antique or classic art rather than contemporary or abstract work. An acceptable alternatives to original art can be high quality print reproductions as focal pieces on the main walls in a house as well as in the lobby of a hotel or behind the reception desk in an office.

[via architecturaldigest.com and charlesfaudree.com}


Friday

Interior Design - Beautiful and Trendy Boutique Hotel the French Pays Basque


This exquisite boutique hotel is actually a villa on the Basque coast between Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz. Residing on the heights, Villa Arguibel overlooks the ocean on one side. On the other side you'll enjoy a terrific view with a drink from the bar on the terrace.
The typical spacious Basque house with neo-Basque architecture presents the local architecture in its best. The interior design combines the antique furniture with contemporary designer works, fabrics and tiles overlapping with exquisite taste.


The owners Mariannick and Francis Blasselle, a young couple, are passionate about contemporary art and fanciful decor. They have realized their dream by building this gem on a family plot to offer another version of the charming hotels.

Wednesday

Flawless White Interior of Queen of Clean of New York, NY

via NY Times
This is a tiny appartment of Barbara Roche Fierman, the owner of New York’s Little Elves - a cleaning service.


Her East Village apartment, designed by Oskar Torres, looks micro-stain-free and tiny - the living room is 10 feet wide, yet cozy, and it's how it's supposed to be for the Lady of Cleanliness of Manhattan.


Mary McDonald Commercial Interior Design


Ranked one of the “Top 100 Designers” by House Beautiful, LA-based interior designer Mary McDonald started her career as a milliner. Now she is one of the most sought after designers. Her signature style is accentuated with her ability to combine Indian influences and Chinoiserie with keen fashion sense and contemporary lines in both commercial and residential interiors. Her ravishing interiors with careful choice of fabrics and accessories pulled together with an impeccable sense of color show her love of old-world elegance with modern glamour and sophistication.

(Photo: Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, LA)

Now the award-winning designer's first book came out MARY MCDONALD: INTERIORS which is a must-have for those who love sophisticated interiors as it is lushly photographed and written with wit and charm, covering the wide array of McDonald's decorating philosophy.