What's Your Style?

Often we talk to couples and one is traditional and one is contemporary. Some people say, they don't have a style but what they really mean is that they aren't sure how to articulate their style. And even if you did know your style, how would you communicate it?

How does it adapt to your interiors?

Why do people always feel like it might not be "right" so they don't express it? Style is not 'right' or 'wrong' but rather a personal expression. Style shouldn't rule you. You rule. So often working with people, we spend a great deal of time helping them express their likes and dislikes and before you know it they are telling us what we already knew; they have a direction, which a good designer knows how to interpret.

Take your grandmother's hat or something you really love. Look at your favorite object, there is a whole lot of information in there. First, the shape, there is scale, there is texture, era, colour just to start. The terminology of interior design is a language that exists in the fashion world as well. So let's start there. The different eras of the object tells you what eras you may like. For instance, the top hat or the fascinator. The world is now aware that our beautiful modern first princess of the monarchy has shown us with her style choices that a period piece like her iconic hat is new again. The very distant past styles still influence us today. She is today's style icon, the trend setter. What would Catherine's room look like? It would be simple.

The stage is set in a simple farmer's cottage possibly in the Lake District of England. Her drawing room is a timeless, piece of architectural finesse with large floor to ceiling windows, plaster cast walls, beautiful wide plank floors, and high lofted ceilings. The furniture is the epitome of tailored with a casual welcoming essence. There are touches around the room of personal momentos of her and her beloved husbands journeys abroad. There seems to be an appeal of deep affection for family. The colour is a wispy light sky blue effected by the soft gossamer billowing of cotton lawn on the windows. She took the simplest and oldest of furniture and slip covered each piece to create a brand new look. So you see some of the world's weathiest people still know style is about themselves not about what the world expects from them.

"Fashions fade. Style is eternal!" Yves Saint Laurent