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Decorating: Color, Art, Collections, Dreams     Margaret J. was searching for the perfect colors for the house she inherited from her aunt. The wall colors hadn’t been changed in years. Margaret, who loves color, was boggled by the choices of blue/violet, rose/pink, and how to choose the defining accent colors for the woodwork. Sample cards were strewn over every surface. Margaret's  inability to make color decisions was frustrating her. She wanted to be sure she would love the colors that would renew her home and make it feel like her own. Margaret recently told me, "I am still pleased to be living in the colorful atmosphere I dreamed of! We made terrific color selections for my entire home. You helped me take into consideration each room's function, lighting, and how its colors would flow to the adjoining rooms. Thank you."  S. Bryan has traveled to the orient and she was smitten by the designs she saw there. But, her home is rather conventional in its architecture; definitely not modern, minimal, or in any way oriental. Using her collections from the Orient, and accenting them with oriental patterned fabrics for her window & bedding fashions, gave her the living and bedroom interiors that remind her of those Chinese & Japanese styles she so admired. Ms Bryan said, "You undertand what I want but cannot really 'see' and then you make it happen for me. What you designed for me is even better than I thought it could be." Susan F. loves butterflies, especially the electric blue Morphos. She said she "wanted to walk into her home and feel as free as a butterfly, and to be surrounded by that great blue color." We created a new floor plan using her two electric blue sofas and adding yellow slipper chairs in an arrangement that was designed to encourage conversation. Then we decided to use both blue & gold silk in a custom “butterfly design” for her windows and at the archways that opened into her Florida room. Wrought iron hardware was used to define the window treatments and we accented the room with brilliant red accessories. " I love the Florida room! Its faux finish and pretty trompe l'oeil scene, a garden path leading to the sea, together with the redesigned living room are my glorious butterfly garden. I feel so comfortable and at home when I walk in the door!" M. Gruppioni said, "I love beautiful, colorful interiors and I want my new Florida home to be a showplace." For the dining room, which already had a beautiful table and cabinetry, we added drama with a bold color for the walls, embroidered silk draperies with gorgeous trimming on dramatic wood hardware with crystal finials. The great room took its cue from those colors, though with a more relaxed formality and a subdued manner. The bedrooms are also filled with color and pattern, while the home office and den were finished in subtler patterns and colors. "Thank you for making my home both livable and elegant." For two years Debbie G. and her husband collected over twenty samples of tiles and pavers to use in their patio and pool area, but they just couldn't choose right one. Guiding them to the right choice, by determining the correct scale and appropriate color for the pavers gave them their base to build on. The we pulled out of storage some dramatic and beautiful artwork they had bought on their Hawaiian honeymoon and hung them on the patio walls. Debbie said I “marvelously transformed and made livable an area that had languished for years in mediocrity.”