My New Home Tour: Great Room

Hello Friends! I am so excited to share with you some pictures of my home. My family and I moved into this home a little over a year ago. We purchased it from the builder a few weeks before completion. The floor plan and the design of this home really drew us in. There is so much natural light in this home and I love that more than anything! The builder did a great job choosing the finishes for the home, but I have spent the last year putting my own touches in it. There is still so much to be done, but I feel like the Great Room area of my home is, for now, just as I want it. ;)  This area of our home is a great place to entertain friends and family. We spend lots of time in the kitchen, which is one of my favorite spaces in my home. We are fortunate enough to have a large, open basement family room, so on a day to day basis, our family spends our time there. This area is definitely a bit more formal than the basement, but still comfortable enough for my hubs to take a Sunday nap on the sofa. I've moved on to working on the basement family room, so I will be sharing that soon. For now, here are some photos of my entry, family room and kitchen areas. All of these beautiful images of my home are courtesy of my dear friend and incredibly talented photographer, Paige Davis, of Paige Davis Photography. Ok...get ready for picture overload!!!

I hope you enjoyed the tour!

Back in Action!

Hello, Friends! Oh my, I have missed you! I can't believe that it has been nearly 2 months since my last post! I have been so busy being a wife, mom and a designer. All of my jobs are immensely gratifying, but the truth is, they don't allow much extra time in the day. I'm hoping to get back on top of blogging and start posting regularly again. Thank you for sticking with me during the silence on the blog! I appreciate each of my readers so much! You are the reason my business is thriving and I get to do what I love. Thank you! Thank you!

As I mentioned, my design business continues to keep me busy. There are so many projects I have been working on and hope to share with you, her on the blog, very soon. If you follow me on Instagram, you have caught glimpses of my current local client projects. I am pretty active on Instagram, so if you want to keep up on the current happenings in my design life, come follow me there @sitamontgomeryinteriors! If you already do follow me, you probably know that I've been making some changes to my home. Among the changes is a makeover of my family room. I'm happy to say that the makeover is now complete! Last week I had my photographer and good friend, Paige Davis, take some photos of my completed space. I'll be sharing a full tour of my family room and great room area later this week, but for now, here is a little sneak peek...

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 I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and a managing to stay cool! It was 105 degrees here today! Maybe my next home design project should include a pool! 

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!