Laurie Mattson is a multi-award winning interior designer and professional home stager. Whether styling spaces around a homeowners’ specific taste or “decorating for the masses” to sell a home, she creates thoughtful and personalized rooms that focus on comfort, beauty and livability. With an extensive client list of real estate agents, developers and individual homeowners, Laurie focuses on the client’s particular style and needs and creates a unique interior setting. Plain or empty spaces transform into exquisite designs of stylish elegance without losing warmth and comfort. Laurie’s known for creating rooms that are fresh and inviting – areas that clients lovingly refer to as home. Laurie calls Minnesota’s Twin Cities area home but works …show more content…
With the belief that each home should reflect the owner’s personality, she invests the time needed to get to know design goals, the use of each room, and colors and textures that appeal to the client. She approaches each project as a unique puzzle that, once assembled, will tell a story. With over a decade in the design business, Laurie Mattson has refined her design firm to reflect the vision of who she is as an interior designer and real estate home stager. While her ideas are continually evolving, she never loses sight of architectural design and details. While taking into consideration scale, proportion, and inspiring hues and patterns, Laurie incorporates classical, contemporary, and eclectic furnishings, accessories, and artwork. Rooms are infused with rich and luxurious undercurrents that add depth and a sense of opulence. Laurie’s budget-conscious design projects garner sweeping testimonials for their creative layout and use of space, functional planning, and choice of room décor. From the planning stage to shopping, to home staging, Laurie takes a room from ordinary and random to sophisticated and
Russel Wright is an American industrial designer and architect that lived during the early to mid twentieth century. Many of Wright’s ideas and designs were considered to modern at time, drawing influences from not only ingenious designers like Frank Lloyd Wright but nature as well. Wright’s influences would lead him to create a design style unlike any at the time; a style that would eventually become almost standard in many homes in the United States. The designer Russel Wright and his wife, Mary Wright together published a guidebook known as Guide to Easier Living. In it contains numerous suggestions and thoughts on home architecture, interior design, as well as product design. Many of the thoughts and suggestions conveyed in the book can be seen in present-day design and architecture. Wright’s book also laid the groundwork for his home, Dragon Rock, which of itself possesses elements of design that are seen in today’s homes. Russel Wright’s Guide to Easier Living is clearly a response to interior design at the time; containing numerous design ideas, Wrights guide influences Wright’s own future works.
The most positive part of my shadowing at Exotic Home Designs was the fact that we started pretty much from scratch with an ugly bare house and turned it into something amazing. I never realized that you could take something so bland and dreary and turn it into a masterpiece. The color schemes matched the house exquisitely and made the overall feel amazing. In my shadowing experience, I am glad to report that there were no disappointments. I did find out though that even though I always knew it is a lot of work I didn't expect it would be as much work as it turned out to be. The thing is though nothing that is as beautiful as art gets done without some sort of hard work. If I had to give advice to future seniors about to experience the same
The following design was inspired by the subsequent excerpts from Elise de Wolfe’s book, A House in Good Taste. Elise de Wolfe was one of the first recognized interior decorators. In her book she discusses many decorating tips, successes, and mistrials she has discovered with experience. While the book was written in 1913 and design styles have changed drastically since then, I have taken many of her ideas and have adapted them to fit a more modern design style. I chose to adapt her ideas from the chapter A Light, Gay Dining Room due to the fact that a lot of de Wolfe’s hardest projects, yet biggest successes have been with dining rooms.
“The family was building a home that met the strict guidelines of GREEN design” explained interior designer Linda Ruderman. “So I worked closely with them to select items designed for sustainable living”
Julia Buckingham Edelman, the insured’s owner, describes herself as a “self-taught” designer having no formal education in interior design. She has been in the industry for twelve years and she provides professional design services to owners of luxury homes.
I like the lay out of her blog, is pretty neat and visible tabs. The color she use it relates with the designing blog post.
From period dwelling, heritage homes to contemporary dwellings like Victorian, Federation, Edwardian, and Art Deco Houses, Tom has renovated all kinds of heritage homes. Driven by innovation, he strives to transform the dream home from a mere concept to the stunning
Philip M Dingemanse is an acclaimed Tasmanian architect, he has won many awards and prizes, including the ‘2015 Emerging Architect Prize’ for his ‘Valley House’, and his ‘Southern Outlet House’ appeared on Channel Ten’s ‘The Living Room’. His designs focus on the incorporation of contemporary technologies and materials into one seamless, adventurous form that has a unique, modern style. This is seen in his works ‘Valley House’ and ‘Southern Outlet House’.
Besides being a prominent and qualified psychotherapist, Patty is passionate about home interior and exterior design. The Rocklages have done a home renovation that has been used as a case study in the website of the Sudbury Construction Companies. Patty and the husband had gone through the hassle of looking for a constructor that would change the kitchen’s design.
Natasha McCurley owns a 4 year old construction company and has spent the last several years renovating houses for investors to flip. Adding her expertise is over 20 years’ experience in the home improvement industry, combined with an established reputation and license for interior design, a current license as a realtor in the state of Ohio sets the foundation to start expanding business.
My interest in interior design commenced in middle school during a project on various careers. Since then, it has become an ever-developing passion. Interior design has manifested itself into my daily thoughts. I constantly look at my surroundings, wondering what I could do to change the room into a more practical space. This fuels my thirst for further knowledge. The only way to gain this knowledge is to get a degree and learn through practical application. My educational and professional career objectives are to obtain a bachelor of fine arts in interior design and to succeed as a commercial interior designer.
Using stucco walls as canvas and LED as paint, Turrell created the tranquil “Plain Dress 2006” in the lobby space, not far from the lights of Times
Therefore, when you start your search for a home stager, make sure that they can demonstrate a strong knowledge of both. For reference, and arrange to visit their home had been staged that are currently on the market. Which draws from the classic American-style design is how it looks elegant and timeless. The color used in the design of the interior is soft like a pastel color palette with several prominent colors such as black in some furniture magnitude example
Towards the beginning of the seventeenth century, interior designs were plain. The focus was on practical living—financial restrictions limited the attainability of a flashy household. When describing a 17th century household, Wayne Craven wrote, “the rooms had low ceilings with exposed beams, plastered or occasionally paneled walls, and floors laid with broad planks,” (Craven, 35). Living quarters were plain and primarily filled with only the essentials for living. Craven also wrote that “the usual complement of furnishings in the hall included a table, chairs, and stools, a chest, a carved wooden Bible box, and possibly even a small bed,” (Craven 35). Furniture often became functioning “art pieces” because decorative furniture consumed too
“The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for many people. We make this possible by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them”