Decorating + Staging Ideas

Even formal living rooms can be warm inviting spaces
This is a typical living room layout but the use of fabrics united with fully accessorized spaces takes it the level of a room everyone would long to linger in. Note the Bachelor's chest in the recessed area, many homes would have built in bookcases for this area but the chest, gilded mirror and accessories provide richness and depth to the space. Every opportunity is used to beautify the space.

Modern meets Country
This living room uses classic furniture and antiques but combines them with soothing contemporary colors and minimalistic decor to create a very attractive living room. Get this look with my camel backs, tea tables, wrought iron floor lamps, and tilt top table. Paint the walls white and use Finnarhen & Haley's Independence Hall Quill for the Trim.

This is the layout of the living room in most houses. Could this look be yours?
The warm color, gilded mirrors, brass chandelier and rich looking oriental transform this room from typical to extraordinary. I like all the accessories and lamps. The circular table between the chairs in front of the window and the chests on either side of the fireplace give added dimension.

Get The Look for less - turn a bedroom into a cozy office
Cozy bedroom turned office with tall secretary & nice window treatments. Small oriental adds to the look.

Antique card table in the back of this room.
Again the use of yellow walls, gilded mirrors, nesting tables and rich mahogany flame chest adds elegance to this family friendly living room. The floating of the furniture a creates a conversation area instead of a museum look.

Antique Wicker painted brown

Get the Look for Less -Dramatic Foyer with Antique Gilded Mirrors going up the stairs.
I always carry gilded mirrors in various sizes, shapes and prices.

Large oriental unites this long Living Room
Notice how this room is warmed by the dark wall color and large oriental. I don't care for the tree but I like how the armoire adds vertical height. Again see how pretty the large gilded mirror is in this room.

Get the loook for less - Use an antique table for your desk
An office can be carved out of any space but by using an antique table as your desk- your computer station becomes beautiful not just a utilitarian eyesore.

Get the look for less - Chinese Vases on a round entry table
Wow - this is a glamorous foyer.

Enhance your Hallways, Landings and Foyers
Console tables, lamps mirrors, art, orientals. I have all of this at tremendous savings over designer prices.

Get the Look for Less with my Oval mirror over your bed.
Now this is a classy room - just make sure to hang it the mirror securely!! I have several oval mirrors you could use. Also note that this very modern room is softened with the brass chandelier and mirror.

Get the look for less with my farm table and my Botanicals
There is nothing as welcoming as an old farm table. Guests and family alike just want to pull up a chair. I try to always carry farm tables and botanicals as well.

Use one of my desks as a night table to get rid of the cookie cutter look of a bedroom

Table warms tile floors.
The drop leaf table warms up this dining room despite the cold tile floors. Keeping the table nicely set is a great staging trick.

Add furniture and color to a plain foyer.
Imagine this foyer without the paint, orientals and furniture. It would be dramatic but cold. I love yellow paint with white woodwork. Yellow is tricky though, try Benjamin Moore Straw or Philadelphia Cream. Adding furniture and orientals makes this foyer look more like a room.

Model House Bedroom
Again I love the night tables to be unusual. A round table on one side and a desk on the other side is in all the model homes. Here the antique desk adds unexpected warmth and charm. Again a mirror over the bed is used as well as a bench at the foot.

Dramatic Living Room
This two story living room was brought down to earth with the use of molding. The tall highboy is the prominent piece. I love a highboy in living rooms - I have one in mine. It is great to have vertical pieces in any space.

Get the look for less with my Hickory Chair Console table and Antique urns
They say the first room you should decorate is the foyer where guests enter. Many guests never get past the front door. A console table, mirror and Chinese urns give classic elegance to this entry.

The look of a classic Camel back and tall tea table can be used in a formal or informal home.
I usually have these available for sale.

A simple cottage bedroom is warmed by a colorful oriental.

I love this use of a mirror.
A typical bathroom mirror is now given an unexpected twist with a leaning gilded antique mirror propped up against the builder's mirror.

Another wall gets an elegant lift with a mirror and console table.
Get the same for your home with my botanicals, mirror and console table.

Romantic Cottage Bedroom
The gilded mirrors, brass chandelier and bench add charm, warmth and light. Again the use of different bedside tables adds to the room. To get this color use Martha Stewart "Rainwater" from Home Depot.

A bedroom to admire.
A desk under the window in your bedroom, a bench at the foot of the bed both add to change your bedroom from typical to inviting.

Another great dining room

Bench at the bottoms of the bed
This bedroom is not fancy but it is warm and pretty. Lamps, fabrics, settee and upholstered chair as well as the french bench give the room a voice which says sit and relax.

Windsor Chairs for a classic look

Eclectic Dining Room

Get the look for less with my leather books 2 /$5
Use a Kindel or put your paperbacks in bins in the closet. Nothing can beat the look of old books especially rows of a single color. Books can be stacked vertically or horizontally.

How many orientals and where to place them?
Here is a space that uses many different shapes and sizes of carpets in a cohesive way. The trick is to keep the rugs in the same color palette.

Elegant bedroom which is cozy at the same time.
This designer room looks designed but also lived in. I like to see the bed when you first enter a bedroom. Here the bed looks great under the windows. There are so many colors used in this room but they go well together, beginning with the bold salmon walls. The brass chandelier takes the finished look all the way to the ceiling.

Bold slamon color and white wood work add drama to this foyer.
If I could do it over I would have my Bannister, risers and floor a dark mahogany color like this stair case. The creative use of antique Botanicals add an unexpected charm.

Get the look for less with my farm table and brass chandelier
The black shades added to the antique brass chandelier makes this modern room say old, character, warmth and charm.