Client Family Room Project Feature

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all off to a wonderful weekend. I wanted to let all of you know that my client's family room makeover is being featured on Abby Manchesky's blog A Delightful Design today. One of the reasons I am so excited about this feature is because up until a couple of weeks ago I'm pretty sure that Abby had never even heard of me. I have been a fan of Abby's work and her blog for quite sometime. When I finally opened my Instagram account for mu design business, she is one of the first people I started to follow (if you are on Instagram and don't follow @abbyminteriors, you must...so much inspiration there). After some exchanges on Instagram, I can now call Abby one of my blogging friends and that just makes me smile! Thanks again, to Abby for the feature! I'm so happy Instagram introduced us.

Hop on over to A Delightful Design to see the feature and if you are visiting from Abby's blog, I am so happy to have you here. I hope you stay awhile to look around. Happy weekend!

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Local Client Family Room Reveal

Hello Everyone! It is Spring Break in our part of Utah, so my family and I are headed South to bask in the sunlight of some warmer weather and have some fun. Before we head out, I wanted to take a minute to share a local client project with you that I have been working on for the past few months. You may remember the makeover I gave my client's entry last year. After that was complete, she wanted to move onto her family room and give it an update. Our goal was to lighten and brighten the room, while still keeping many of the existing furnishings and maintaing my client's traditional style. Here is what the family room looked like the first time I saw it. As you can see, I had a great foundation to work with. :)

We accomplished bringing the freshness into this room in a variety of ways. We replaced the bronze sconces with some beautiful chrome fixtures. We also brought in an airy art piece to rest on the fireplace mantle. We then added a pair of urns with a lovely iridescent finish to the mantle. The biggest impact was made by reupholstering the round ottoman in a pretty new fabric and replacing the dark, traditional rug with something more transitional like this gray number from Pottery Barn.

We added new pillows to the leather chairs and sofas. The heavy wood accent table were replaced by two tables with a polished nickel finish. A pair of new table lamps helps create more symmetry in the space.  

Here's another "before" shot from a different angle...

Paint and woodwork played a major role in this makeover as well. We had the media unit painted a light gray and we added a floor to ceiling wood treatment to the wall behind the media center, which was then painted a soft white.

 I chose an ivory linen embroidered with a gray trellis pattern for new drapes which were fabricated for the family room. Finally, the kitchen table, which was black, was painted an off white and given two gray upholstered captains chairs.

The console behind the sofa will soon be replaced with a sleeker option that has a chrome finish and we are still waiting on one more set of pillows for the sofas from the fabricator. I think this room is a great example of how you don't have to replace everything in a room to update it and make it fresh. My clients loves it and so do I. I hope you like it too. ;)

Christa, if your are reading this, you know I adore you and your family. We may have met because you hired me as your designer, but in the end I gained a great friend! Thank you for inviting me into your home and trusting me with it!

Furniture For Sale

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start! I have a full week of working on local client projects and performing my daily mom and wife duties. One of the projects I am working on is a family room makeover for a fabulous client. My client has great taste, and while her family room was completely "done" and beautiful, she wants to update it to make it feel a bit more light and fresh. As a result, we are replacing a couple of the quality pieces she owns, only because they aren't cohesive with the new vision for her space. I thought I would post the items she is selling, here on the blog, in case any of my local readers are interested in them. Like I said, these are high quality items that my client paid a pretty penny for when originally purchased.

This desk is from Thomasville, wood inlay, solid wood. Perfect condition, no scratches. Used as console table. Purchased for $2200 and asking $700

 A closer look at the gold pattern inlaid on the top and drawer fronts.

End Table is from Stanley furniture, glass inset top. Purchased for $325 and asking $150.

If you are interested in either of these pieces or have any questions about them, you can contact my client directly at creidny@yahoo.com 

Along with my many client projects, I am also making some changes to my own home. I will be switching things up in my family room and dining area. I know, I've only lived in our new home for 9 months, but I am an interior designer and that comes with one major occupational hazard...the inability to leave our own homes alone! It's a sickness. I take full ownership of it. Lucky for me I have a husband that understands it and is willing to indulge me when finances permit. :) So anyway, I am also selling some of the items in my home. 

I'm selling my Pottery Barn Montego Dining table. It has two leaves that extend it to 108" long. It was originally purchased for $1800.00. I'm asking $400. ***SOLD***

I'm also selling this 6x9 rug originally purchased from Ballard Designs for $650.00. I am asking $200.00

Also for sale are these two pillow covers from Villa Home. I am selling the covers only, not the inserts. I am asking $55.00 for the pair. ***SOLD***

I will also be selling this sofa and loveseat. It's not available immediately, because we wont be receiving our new furniture for about 6 weeks, but if you are interested, let me know and we can work something out. We are hoping to sell it as a set. Asking $550.00 for the set. ***SOLD***

Obviously, all items are for local pick up only. If you are interested in any of my items for sale. You can email me at thefamilyroomdesign@gmail.com

iVillage Ikea Hack Round-Up

I wanted to take a moment to say "Thank You" to the wonderful folks at iVillage for featuring my Ikea Rast Hack as part of their of "19 IKEA Hacks We're Obsessed With" feature. IKEA has definitely left its mark on the design world. Designers, Bloggers and DIYers all over the world are turning IKEA's low cost furniture into high style statement pieces for their spaces. Head on over to the feature and check out the hacks of some of the super talented bloggers and designers out there in Blogland! Happy Wednesday!

Now On Instagram

Happy Monday all! I've been literally quarantined to my room for the last 4 days with the worst flu ever. It was so severe that my Dr. prescribed Tamiflu. I am happy to report that after a couple of days of feeling like I was on my death bed, I am finally on the upswing! I'm not 100% yet, but I hope to be up and around in the next day or so. My hubby has been a saint taking care of me and kids and pretty much holding down the fort. He is a gem, I tell ya! All this time in bed gave me tons of time to think. While I thought about numerous useless things, I did come to one useful conclusion.

 I've had a personal Instagram account for a while, but I finally decided to open an account for my interior design business. I've always struggled with how much of my personal life to share on the blog. I want you to know me for who I really am, but I still have the fear of making myself and my family too "accessible" to the outside world. It may be that I am overly paranoid. I mean, without exception, everyone I have "met" through my blog are the kind of people I would choose to associate with in my day to day life. Truly, I love my readers...all of you!! I've just heard one too many stories of scary things happening to bloggers who were "stalked" through their blogs. It's going to take time for me to feel comfortable enough to fully open up...I hope you can understand. Still, you may have noticed that I don't blog nearly as often as I would like to or should. My design business is booming. It is so much fun and such a blessing, but it doesn't allow me the time I need to blog on a regular basis. There is so much I want to share with you about my design life, but sometimes sitting down to put together a blog post about it is not an option. The solution was obvious...an Instagram account dedicated to my design life with a little bit of my personal life mixed in. :) This is where I will be sharing the day to day details of my business. You are sure to see everything from fabulous finds while on one of my many shopping trips to watching my local client projects take shape (there are so many that I haven't even had the time to mention here!).  I'm not shutting down the blog or anything, I'll still be posting here every so often, but if you want to see more you can follow me on Instagram @sitamontgomeryinteriors. I just opened my account this morning, so there's not much there yet, but I promise to deliver the goods! Oh, and if you want me to, I'd love to follow you back! :0) Hope to see you on Instagram!

Local Client Project: A Neutral Family Room

A few weeks ago I showed you a sneak peak of a local family room project I have been working on. I am happy to say that the room is almost complete. We just have a few more accessories to add, and then the space will be ready for professional photographers. I snapped a quick picture while I was at my client's home yesterday, and I wanted to share it with you.  Here is what the room looked like when I saw it for the first time...

BEFORE

and here is what it looks like now...

AFTER

The largest impact in this room was made by the floor to ceiling V-Board we had installed on two of the walls. Painting it a bright white helped create the perfect background for a calming neutral room. I used one of my favorite fabrics, Celerie Kemble's Hot House Flowers in Mineral, to bring in a subtle touch of blue. I also added a bit of soft color through artwork and accessories. I have long said that I will never tire of a beautiful neutral room. My clients are thrilled with the transformation and so am I. I adore the sweet family that resides here. They were a dream to work with. I am so blessed to have such amazing clients. I will share more pictures of this home, including the Dining area and Entry, which I also had the opportunity to design, as soon as I get images back from my photographer. 

I hope you are all having a fabulous week!

Las Vegas Market Round-Up

As promised here's a little round-up of some of the fabulous items I spotted while attending Las Vegas Market...

I kinda went ga-ga over these chairs from Mr. Brown. I happen to have client who loves all shades of purple and I am hoping she'll let me use them in her project! I pretty much fell in love with this whole showroom. Couldn't you die over the lighting?!

 Lazy Susan never disappoints with their incredible selection of accessories, like this little gold number below...

World's Away also had a fabulous showroom worth drooling over. I particularly loves this silver console table with the marble top...

 and this coffee table, too!

This new to me company, called Square Feathers, makes the most gorgeous pillows! My crappy iPhone picture doesn't do this beauty justice! I want!!

The upholstery and shape of this chair by Four Hands is super fun!

 Villa Home is another great resource for affordable stylish pillows.

 Good art can be so hard to find. I loved these watercolor prints from Wendover Art.

 This mirrored cabinet by Arteriors is a stunner, as are the tray and gold lamp that sit on top of it.

 Another fabulous lamp. This one by Worlds Away.

And lastly...Do you all remember my little DIY lamp makeover inspired by Mary McDonald's Annika Table lamp? Well, here is Mary' Lamp...

Here is my DIY version...

And here is what I spotted at the Port 68 showroom...

You know it put a little smile on my face. ;)

If you are interested in any of the items you saw, you can contact me for information.