Home Makeover Interior designing and decoration tips

The real beauty of this room, though, is the space- saving furniture. I created a series of IS-inch-by- IS-inch cubes as well as some IS-inch-by-36-inch rectangles, which can be used as needed: stacked up for storage when the room is not in use, pulled down to function as tables and stools when it is. For more seating, I also designed some low benches that, because they’re the same height, tuck in neatly next to the storage/seating units. Placing them against the wall maximized the open floor space, and they only need a few pillows placed on top to make them as comfy as a couch (well, almost).
When you’re working with a small space (this one was about 10 feet by 10 feet), it’s especially important to measure, measure, measure. Go into it knowing exactly how much space you have to work with and you’ll have a much easier time creating a space that’s neither too cluttered nor too stark-in other words, a space that’s just right. I’m not usually called quiet, but I’ve been known to design a mellow room or two. What these rooms generally have in common is that they are built around neutral tones, mostly neutral wood tones. (As you’ve undoubtedly figured out by now, I am a wood connoisseur.
I just love being able to see clearly the grains of wood, and I love a mix of complementary woods in one room.) There are a lot of ways to do neutral rooms-sticking to whites, creams, and off-whites, for example- but I personally like to focus on the neutral beauty of wood. That was the case when I designed a living room for a man named Eric Hebert, a bachelor who suddenly found himself the father of eight-year-old twins. The kids, a boy and girl, were the children of Eric’s sister, who died suddenly of heart disease at the age of thirty-seven. (Eric’s parents had also died of the disease when he was a teenager.