In this year's news, green buildings will proliferate, celebrity designers will gain a bigger spotlight, consumers will be printing their own patterns and music decorators may even become a new sub-section of interior design services. Newspapers and niche magazines are generally good places to find up-to-date design trends and news.
While it may sound incredulous, the latest interior design news is that music has been added to the interior design services repertoire. Music/architecture specialists from New York and London to Aspen and Belize are creating customized play lists that are synchronized with their clients' decor.
"Hearing the wrong music in the wrong space can be very disorienting," explains DJ Coleman Feltes, who has created mixes for Versace, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana fashion shows. Stylists charge between $50 and $250 an hour, he says, which is downloaded onto iPods or sent as CDs by mail. For the discerning, high-end clients, atmosphere is everything and the perfect music fits into that paradigm.
Also in design news, many home owners are looking for innovative designs and ways to update their older, more traditional styled homes. Jackie Terrell, a professional interior designer from West Hollywood, says that older homes are built for "the way we used to live." To make her client's homes appear less stuffy and formal, she adds "casual" their homes, without detracting from the historic beauty.
She transformed a dining room into an art project room with a heavy desk and Tolomeo lamps. In another client's kitchen, she added sociable features, like a bench, stool, warm hanging lamps, artwork and flowers. She uses neutral or white tones for open family spaces but splashes powder rooms and bedrooms with color, using consistent window decor to unify the home.
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