Sleek Contemporary Kitchen by Danenberg Design

The Palo Alto interior designers at Danenberg Design have a talent for creating wonderfully unique kitchens, bathrooms, and more! Specializing in remodels, a passionate team of designers work closely with clients to make their visions into a reality. Founded by Dan and Lanny Danenberg, their design inspirations are fueled by their travels across the world. The team strives to design from a different perspective, using their talent, skills, and knowledge to ensure their clients will be more than satisfied with the end result.

Danenebergs’ love for melding unique materials and design elements is what gives their projects inventive and a one-of-a-kind feel. Their latest project, a contemporary kitchen design in Marin Country, is a modern masterpiece. The kitchen features open beam ceilings, stainless steel counter tops, wenge wood cabinets, frosted glass cabinet doors and a gorgeous custom glass counter top. Take a look at their amazing work below:

A prominent open beam ceiling and recessed lighting illuminate the glass elements and showcase the stainless steel counter tops.

The modern combination of stainless steel and frosted glass make this counter top striking and unique.

Large windows let in ample natural light, making the kitchen a warm and inviting space.

Another look, a raised frosted glass counter top is joined to a stainless steel counter while large cabinet doors are sleek and modern with a minimal design.

Beautiful black wenge wood cabinets blend well with sleek stainless steel counter tops, evoking a futuristic look.

Take a look at Danenberg Design’s portfolio for more inventive kitchen projects!

A Timeless Transitional Masterpiece by Marla Schrank Interiors

Creating timeless, artful designs comes naturally for San Francisco interior designer Marla Schrank. The key to Marla’s success is her strong emphasis on collaborating closely with her clients.  She creates highly functional spaces that reflect her clients’ individual tastes and lifestyle. Marla Schrank Interiors is home to designers that a fluent in a wide range of styles, from classic to contemporary. A native of Boston, Marla studied art, psychology, and communications at the University of New Hampshire and received an Interior Architecture degree at UC Berkeley. She has over 10 years of experience working at prominent design firms in the Bay Area.

One of Marla’s stand-out projects is the grand Presidio Heights Edwardian home. Built in the 1930′s, her client wanted to do an extensive remodel to reflect a contemporary style, while still preserving the integrity of original traditional details. The home has tremendous personality, while maintaining a level of poise and sophistication. A serene environment was created through combining the elements of light, space, and comfort. Marla has created a transitional masterpiece by combining the best of contemporary and traditional styles.

This transitional sitting area has a modern minimal design, opening up to a stylish outdoor sitting area in the center of the home.

This unqiue outdoor patio has a pleasant sitting area, with a stylish wood-paneled staircase leading to an upper deck.

This strikingly contemporary kitchen features a sleek geometric design, with functional wooden stools, and a gorgeous modern crystal light fixture.

This gorgeous living room has warm neutral tones, with dazzling golden lamp accents and fresh flowers. An intriguing painting adds an artistic element the space. Nevertheless, the room is comfortable yet sophisticated.

This stairwell evokes the senses, with an Art-Deco inspired theme. Playful leopard print carpet pairs well with an over sized red-bordered mirror.

Preserving traditional elements of the home, this reading room is a gracious nod to the past. Featuring classic rich wood-paneled walls, and a cozy fireplace. Traditional wall decor and salmon toned furniture adds subtle flair to the room.

This girl’s bedroom is fit for a princess. Featuring lovely pink walls and accents, with plush rugs. Open space allows room for children to play safely.

Trendy Colors in Interior Design - Kelly Green

In home decor, color trends come and go, sometimes faster than you can bat your eyes at. Fortunately, kelly green is a hue that comes and goes on a regular basis, making it a surprisingly safe choice for home accessories and furniture items, especially if you absolutely love the hue. Here are a few tips and tricks on kelly green home accessories and how to incorporate this hue into your space.

All About Kelly Green

Kelly green is a unique color and it can actually vary slightly from manufacturer to manufacturer, though it’s origins are entirely the same. It is defined as a strong yellow green hue, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary. Though the name for this color originated in Ireland, it’s no surprise that Americans have embraced this color in their home decor on everything from walls to furniture to home accessories.

Tips and Tricks for Using Kelly Green in Your Home Decor

Kelly green is a color that is meant to stand out. Therefore, when you’re working with this hue you’ll want to allow focus to remain on it. This means creating a color palette in which the kelly green is the most vibrant and vocal of all the colors. In other words: try to pair your chosen shade of kelly green with neutrals such as cream or white. If you absolutely must pair it with other colors in your home decor, consider cobalt blue, turquoise, aqua or yellow, all of which will still allow the kelly green to shine and draw the eye in.

If you want to create a focal point in a room, kelly green is a great way to do it. For example, you may consider having your dining table lacquered in a kelly green hue. Pair the table with crisp white chairs and other white furniture, elegant wood floors and creamy walls to draw the eye to the gathering place of the home: the dining table. This same concept can be used in other rooms of the home, such as the bedroom or living room.

Depending on how bold you’re willing to go, you may want to consider using wallpaper that features a beautiful shade of kelly green. Wallpaper is all the rage in home decor, so it’s a great choice not only for updating your home, but also for adding visual interest to your space.

If you’re on a tight budget, then perhaps painting an existing piece of furniture is the way to go. Whether it’s an accent table, coffee table or your dining room chairs, painting furniture is a great way to bring a new color into your home decor.

Kelly green is a unique color and though it’s particularly trendy currently, it will continue to wax and wane in popularity in the home decor world. Therefore, it’s a surprisingly safe choice if you’re looking to create a space you can live in for several years before needing to update again. 

Decorating with Folding Screens

Folding screens may seem too traditional, but modern screens can create great finishing touches to the home.   There are many creative functions and designs for modern folding screens.  Although they are most commonly used as room divider, there are various ways that folding screens can be used with some creativity. Here are some unique and fun examples!

The Asian inspired folding screen functions as a background and secondary headboard for the bed.  The green  adds a great contrast to the overall pink and white design of the room.

This translucent folding screen creates a unique separation between the two spaces while providing texture to the white area.

This creative use of the wooden folding screen adds a slight country feel to the space while adding dimension and serving as decor.

Adding patterned wallpaper can be costly and time-consuming, but a floral patterned folding screen accomplishes nearly the same effect.

This amazing mirrored folding screens adds glamour and added function to the bedroom.

Another creative use of a folding screen, converting it into an art gallery dedicated to man’s best friend.

What is Texture in Interior Design?

Home decor involves a number of different elements including color, balance and of course, texture. With so many different elements, it can be difficult even picking out home accessories and decor for fear of making a mistake. Fortunately, it’s easy to incorporate texture into your space, especially with home accessories. Here is the low down on what texture is and how it is used in interior design.

What is Texture?

What is Texture in Interior Design

The key thing to remember is that texture applies not only to how an item feels in your hands, but also how an item looks. If you take silk and hold it against linen, you can clearly see that both of these fabrics have different textures. These textures will affect the look of the furniture you apply them to, so it’s important to take note of these minor differences, no matter how insignificant they may seem. After all, the linen texture may be more visually appealing, but it may cause the upholstered furniture to look overwhelming visually, especially when the linen features certain vivid colors.

Texture allows you to add visual depth to a space. While it’s great to find all of the right items for any given space in your home, you may find yourself feeling as though things look a bit ‘bland.’ This may be because you have not quite incorporated enough texture into the space. If you’ve got smooth lacquered furniture paired with glass vases for table decor, you can see the items, but they don’t draw your eye in as much as a lacquered table with hammered metal bowls for table decor might.

How Do I Incorporate Texture Into My Space?

Incorporating texture into your home decor is easy, not because it already exists, but because once you realize you need to pay attention to it and that it’s actually already there in your space, it becomes easier to mix in. For example, let’s look at the living room.

In a living room space, you have a number of different furniture pieces: the sofa, perhaps some chairs, a coffee table, side tables and a media center. There may also be book shelves or other furniture used for storage. Each of these items have a different type of texture: the furniture is likely upholstered, your side tables or coffee tables are likely made from wood, but they could also be made from plastic or glass. Wood and upholstery are two different textures that add visual interest to the space.

Moving on to the other portions of the room, you’ll find that everything features texture: your table decor, your wall art and all of the other little home accessories that you use in your space. Once you realize what texture is and that it isn’t just about how an item feels, but how an item looks visually, you’ll find that it’s easy to incorporate into your space.

As a final tip, remember that with visual texture, items that are not clear with plenty of texture, such as a hammered metal bowl, have more visual weight than a bowl of equal size and shape made from glass or plastic. This is because the hammered metal features a different and more visual texture than the glass or plastic, which gives it more visual weight. Heavier textures tend to have more visual weight, so keep this in mind as you decorate. Too many heavy textures can make a space feel cluttered.

Texture is just one of the basic elements of interior design. Other elements include balance, harmony, rhythm, portion and scale, and all of these elements need to be combined together to create the right look for any given style of home decor.

Montauk Moroccan Style with Currey & Company

Moroccan style spaces have been a growing trend for quite a while, they can be seen everywhere  from swanky hotels to beautiful bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. This wonderful north African style is characterized by interesting shapes, great use of metals, lanterns, exotic materials and colors.  Currey and Company found a way to create beautiful Moroccan styles, with a  global appeal, by using everything from concrete to seashells.  Each piece of their Montauk Moroccan collection is timeless and reminds us of a rich culture.  While mostly traditional, these pieces are also modern enough to fit into our everyday living spaces, and we love that!

Come and check out some amazing Moroccan inspired rooms and Currey and Company’s stunning Montauk Moroccan collection.

Montauk Moroccan Style with Currey & Company

This stunning lobby used traditional Moroccan elements with a modern approach, a great way of mixing the old world with the new world.

This beautiful arabesque inspired pendant light is a great way of introducing a Moroccan flair to your living or dining room.

This calming and serene bedroom has many Moroccan elements such as: the beautiful arches, a large adorned mirror, white airy fabrics, and a concrete bed lift.

This gorgeous side table can instantly add an exotic and luxurious feel to any space.

Wonderful hanging lanterns of different shapes and colors are a staple in most Moroccan inspired spaces.

Intricate sea shell designs assembled by hand to create this gorgeous and extremely unique side table.

We hope you enjoyed these beautiful Moroccan inspired pieces and bedrooms! Which one inspired you the most? Comment below and make sure to check out the rest of Currey & Company’s stunning products.

Playful Colors in a Modern San Diego Loft By Mia Rao Design

Mia Rao Design was founded in 2001 as a Chicago-based, full-service interior design firm dedicated to transforming residential and commercial interiors. Interior designer, Mia Rao creates livable modern and classic interior designs by drawing from the personal history and lifestyle of her clients. The objective for every design project by Mia Rao Design is to achieve well-balanced interiors that are both functional and unique.

It is easy to see that this is exactly what was done in the project bellow. Take in this stunning collection of photographs of this San Diego Loft that is an excellent representation of her firm and her fabulous work!

The vivid colors of the rug and couch create an upscale atmosphere in this loft living room.

The rich, dark colors of the bar stools contrast nicely against the kitchen island.

The glass doors with embedded bear-grass opens up to reveal the bedroom.

The graphic artwork complements the patterns of the Maharam textiles on the bed.

The wall light art, arching blue ceiling, and graphic art in this loft entryway all come together to evoke an artistic and modern ambiance.

The colorful sleeper sofa adds a touch of softness to this modern home office.

The cobalt colored wall brings out the details in the paintings and color of the lacquered cabinets.

Let us know which of these designs or home accessories was your favorite in the comments section. To see more of Mia Rao Design’s gorgeous work, visit their portfolio here.

Stunningly Sleek and Modern New Jersey Home by Vanessa DeLeon Associates

Twelve years ago, Vanessa DeLeon founded Vanessa DeLeon Associates, a design service for high-end residential and commercial interiors. Based out of New Jersey and New York City, Vanessa DeLeon Associates has a strong commitment to serving their clients with high quality work from design concept to completion.

Vanessa DeLeon Associates has been featured in countless notable publications, such as The Nest Magazine, New York Spaces, DesignNJ, Luxury Home Quarterly, SOMA, and many others. Interior designer Vanessa DeLeon has also been on hit shows like “Restaurant Impossible”, “Design Star”, and the host of “Your Place is a Deal Breaker”.

Take a look at this gorgeous sleek and modern Edgewater, New Jersey home. The mix of color with grays and neutrals along with creative use of patterns makes this home one to remember. Enjoy!

Stunningly Sleek and Modern New Jersey Home by Vanessa DeLeon Associates

The vibrant blue of the living room wall makes the wall decor more prominent and adds a touch of color to the neutral colors of the room’s furnishings.

No modern home is complete without a sleek chrome and wood-finished kitchen, with a kitchen island that also serves as a small bar counter.

The whimsical pendant lights and cream chairs evoke a sense of elegance to this marvelous hardwood dining room.

The simplicity of the patio furnishing contrast nicely against the taupe and gray brick of this backyard oasis.

The patterned ceiling and detailed floor rug creates the illusion of a more elongated closet space.

The texture of the rug and patterned tile wall helps to add depth to this neutral and modern master bedroom.

Vanessa DeLeon Associates exceeded their client’s expectations, and it was no wonder they were ecstatic with the outcome of their home. Let us know which of these designs were you favorite in the comments section below. To see more of Vanessa DeLeon Associates’ exquisite interior designs, have a look at their portfolio here.

Lemon Yellow Home Decor

Retro inspired looks, including retro colors, are coming back into play in home decor this year. Don’t be surprised to see lemon yellow home accessories and decor items popping up just about everywhere. Fortunately, lemon yellow is one of those hues that is easy to incorporate into just about any space. Here are a few tips and tricks on lemony yellow home accessories and how to incorporate them into your space.

Tips and Tricks for Yellow Home Decor

One of the easiest ways to make lemon yellow truly stand out in a room is to pair it with a neutral color. Gray is all the rage currently in home decor and it pairs perfectly with a crisp lemon yellow. Of course, gray isn’t for everyone. Other neutrals to consider include cream, white or black.

Lemon yellow is a bolder choice when it comes to the color yellow in general. For this reason, you can’t necessarily use it as a neutral in the same way that you might use a light buttery yellow. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it in a beautiful or unique way in your home. Try to think outside the box. For example, lemon yellow cabinetry in your kitchen or a bold lemon yellow lacquered table (or other piece of furniture) in your dining room. A little yellow can go a long way!

Lemon Yellow Home Decor

Blend your yellow tones with a complimentary wood tone, which can help tone down the look and allow you to use more yellow in a particular space. For example, lemon yellow can go well with a medium oak wood or even a light bamboo color.

Finally, consider decorating your home a bit more neutral and then using lemon yellow as your accent color for your home accessories and decor. This is a great way to create various focal points throughout your home. For example, you could line your fireplace mantel with lemon yellow vases in a variety of shapes and sizes. This adds visual interest and adds the lemon yellow hue but prevents it from being too visually overwhelming. This is especially true if the space is neutral, such as cream colored walls and a beautiful white marble fireplace surround.

Lemon yellow is a bold color and therefore it’s certainly not for everyone. Don’t be afraid to use lemon yellow in your home decor, but be prepared for some less-than-colorful comments from some of your guests. Just remember, this is your home, not theirs! Lemon yellow is a great choice and it can be a great way to bring a touch of sunshine into your space.  

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