Project Totteridge

Our clients needed to refresh their dining room. They had some existing furniture that they liked and some that they didn't. They needed a formal room to host dinners and entertain for hours on end. To us, that translated to comfortable seating and an accessible bar. We also fell in love with a Governors palace mirror that replaced a much smaller mirror and anchored the room. The rest were the details: art for the wall, a neutral rug that can handle spills, accessories like boxwoods and candles, decanters and table runners. The result is a formal and comfortable room with plenty of seating for family and friends. Here are the pics:

Pictures courtesy of Nicholas Theodorou

-Kate and Amanda

Project Kings Lynn

Project Kings Lynn is all wrapped up like a pretty package. The story goes like this. Our clients wanted a formal living room to host guests but also a tranquil space to read a book and relax. They requested a monochromatic, soft and neutral palette. So that was our goal.

The room was a good size so we immediately thought to fit two couches into the space, with the intent that positioned on either side of the fireplace the room would feel balanced and draw your attention to the coziest part of the room and facilitate good conversation and easy entertaining. We spent a sizeable part of the budget on the two couches and the coffee table leaving us to be creative about everything else: art, accents, console tables.

The carpet, the couches and the soft woods were all neutral so we chose to accent with black detailing on throw pillows, frames and rods. Then subtle lavender pieces that are easily interchangeable on the mantle, one of the pillows and vases on the shelves. Should our clients choose to switch up their accent colour down the road they can do so very easily.

When you walk in their front door you can only see the east side of the room so we needed to make that wall impactful. A window on one side meant that anything we did would be off centre. The two shelves with curated decorative items was what we decided on.

The art on either side of the doorway is from sarah swanson gallery wall art on etsy. It is simple and fresh.

Then the last piece was making the room personal. The frame on the mantle is a picture of our clients' kids and one of the pictures on the shelves is a photograph taken by our clients' close friend.

Oh, and no room is complete without a fiddle leaf fig tree.

Photographs courtesy of Nicholas Theodorou

-Kate and Amanda

We've been busy

So we are finishing up a project and we're so excited to share it with you. Pics should be up on the blog next week. But we thought we'd share some before pics. Here is Project Kings Lynn - it was a bare bones room, not a piece of furniture or a rug, just some nice grey paint on the walls and a fireplace in the centre of the room.

Our client's have been nothing short of wonderful and gave us a budget and let us pull together a formal living room for them that is warm and inviting.

Here is the design we came up with.

There have been lots of tweaks and changes along the way but it has all come together. Oh and did I mention that we might have bought one of these for the room:

Love those fiddle leaf figs!

-Kate and Amanda