A JOURNEY OF EXPECTANCY
When my client’s purchased their new home in my mind I imagine their thoughts, hopes, and dreams of family memories and experiences created in this new space. I visualize as they walked through each room “seeing” their kids playing in this room, family gatherings in another, summer time bar-b-que’s outside by the pool.
This is my second go-round with these adorable clients who live with delightful expectancy...an excitement for what is to come. As they gave me a tour through their new home I could see all the possibilities and we dreamed together of what was to come.
Wanting to create the right backdrop before designing the furniture that would fill this home we set about to update the foundational elements. Softer wall colors, updating trim and moulding that didn’t quite work, adding or removing as needed. Darker floors, modernizing the fireplaces. A change of lighting throughout added a level of glimmer and shine. Embellishing the windows with understated draperies, dripping with luxurious tactile textiles.
After these changes were completed I just couldn’t figure out why the existing white doors with oil rubbed bronze hardware kept bugging me, there just seemed to be so many doors with no significance, nothing that contributed to the home. Do we change the hardware? Then it struck me, let’s paint them black! Counterintuitive to the mind the black doors enriched the architecture of the home in a way that the white doors did not, gave them a richness..
With the foundation complete we set-off to the San Francisco Design Center, my clients are fast decision makers and delightful to shop with, these clients make a day of shopping refreshing and fun. By the end of the day we were thrilled with the selections we had made for their new furniture, textiles, and rugs. These new additions would perfectly blend with the furniture from their first home that we had decorated together years ago.
Every step of our journey was met with delightful expectancy…
Expectancy gives us a sense of wonder and excitement to see what is to come When the final details were complete and we were ready to reveal their newly decorated home to our clients we were excited for the delight as they entered their home. An entry is such a wonderful metaphor for expectancy, guests arrive and the anticipation of what is to come...life, love, & friendship. They were thrilled as you will read in the following note to us from their heart.
Sherlene and I just wanted to write a note to share a BIG THANK YOU for all your help with our home - we absolutely love all the furnishings, rugs and decorations!! After having some more "soak" time around the new digs, we notice new, thoughtful touches every time we sit and take things in and I can speak for both of us when I say our house finally feels like "home"!!! We know lots of hard work and long hours went into the design process and we want to let you know that we very much appreciate all the things you have done to pull this together for us - we couldn't be happier with how things turned out!
Lawrence & Sherlene