Kathy Banak

June 28, 2010

Seattle Interior Design – Decorators Who Understand

Interior designers have the uncanny ability to change the mood or feeling a room may have. They are gifted with the trait and love to bring positive changes to a home or business. They use textiles, paints, furniture, wall treatments, window applications, and accessories. They integrate all the factors and achieve balance, flow, and harmony. They understand how important each factor is and each part it plays. They know just how to brighten up your home to combat the rainy outdoors. Bold and bright hues can easily provide a pick up to any room in your home or office.

Maybe you would like to pick a historical theme from the area and decorate accordingly. The Yukon Gold Rush, the Boeing Aircraft Industry, or the Duwamish Indian heritage are a few examples. How about Mount Rainer for inspiration? The Olympic and Cascade Mountains? Hunting, fishing, or boating? Elliot Bay or Lake Washington? Maybe you’re a sports fan of one of the local professional teams. Incorporate the colors and logos when you spruce up your den. Seattle interior design is familiar with these and more ideas from the vibrant past and present of the locale.

Rainy, cool days seem to be romantic to some. Curling up with a book in front of the fireplace doesn’t seem right on a sunny, hot day. A room can be decorated with your love of rain in mind by Seattle interior design.  How about some cool blues or lavenders, combined with silky or light fabrics? And, curtains that are light and airy, perhaps. Every person has different tastes and desires. All of that and more can be reflected in the surroundings of their home. An interior designer can bring out the best in you and your environment to the benefit all who enter your home.

Look to Authentic Home for your next interior design project.

June 9, 2010

Interior Design Full Service – What an Interior Designer Can do for You

Seattle has approximately 74,000 households. At some point or other, most of these households will embark on an interior decorating project.  Seattle homeowners considering large-scale interior renovations can benefit from consulting with design firms offering interior design full service. Many think they can save themselves time and money by doing everything themselves rather than using an interior designer. However, using an interior design consultant more than pays off by preventing mistakes that require re-doing a large part of the work. When you work with an interior designer, you can ward off disastrous decisions related to paint and fabric choice that you would otherwise have to live with for years into the future.

A company that offers interior design full service can help you at every step as you proceed through your interior design project, from the planning stage to the final touches. Seattle full service design firms assist new home buyers, homeowners who wish to give their current residence a makeover, and those who wish to redecorate in preparation for putting a house up for sale. Interior design consultations regarding color choice and paint and fabric selection are only the beginning of the services that a design firm can provide.

Interior design full service firms in Seattle can provide on-site consultations in your home and offer advice on space-planning. They can help you select a color palette for each room according to a unified color plan for your home as a whole. Just as important as paint and fabric color choices is selection of furniture and accessories.  Interior designers can offer advice on styles, finishes, upholstery, size and placement of furniture and display of accent pieces that highlight and enhance the design aesthetic of each room. A full service interior design firm has access to vendors and merchandise marts that can provide high quality furnishings and accessories at bargain prices.  It can also put you in touch with artisans who make custom furniture. Whatever you want and need, an experienced interior design company will know how to get it for you.

Interior design firms that offer full service can also help you come up with a plan for lighting design, so that the type of lighting fixtures you use showcase your chosen color scheme and your furnishings and accessories in the best way possible. They can design creative window treatments. Interior design full service firms in Seattle can also provide advice on harmonizing the interior of your home with its exterior and with your property’s landscaping to create a unified, coherent impression on visitors.

Give Authentic Home a call for your interior design service.

May 25, 2010

President Painting!

Yes even the President of Authentic Home, Tom Alexander, is hard at work painting sample color sheets for our interior design team. “We want to remain “Authentic” in how we present our color palette to our interior designers and customers. It is important to us to have the best representation of the paint color as possible. That is why we will continue to hand paint both our mood palettes and sample color sheets, says Tom”.

Happy Painting!

May 14, 2010

Expansion Underway!

The Authentic Home expansion plans are underway as the Authentic Home COLOR Paint and Fabrics have a new home at Haley’s Cottage.

Here Cindy Sullivan, owner of Haley’s Cottage and I are posing in front of their new display.  Haley’s is now a true “one stop shop” with the addition of paint and fabrics.  Cindy has been trained by me to assist with your color and fabric selections.  So the next time you are in the Kirkland area, please visit Haley’s contemporary version of shabby chic.

Cindy & Kathy @ Haley's

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