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Transform a room through color
From Interior Designer Vanessa Nunley

Benjamin Moore 1323 – Currant Red
A red kitchen is bold, daring and an instant classic! Red is also fantastic in a Dining Room, Living Room and Powder Room.

Benjamin Moore 2070-50 – Enchanted
Lavender is lovely paired with cream, taupe, tan and a smattering of chartreuse!
Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore 2078-30 – Royal Fuchsia

This Living Room is pretty in pink! The bold wall color is tempered by the white trim, decadent chocolate sofa and grounded by the tan textured area rug. The Chinoiserie pattern on the pair of chairs ties it all together.

Benjamin Moore 2081-60 – Pink Lace

One must be careful with light pink to ensure it’s not too saccharin. This pink Bedroom is romantic, beautiful and very grown up. The soft panels on the poster bed and the mirrored side table add an air of elegant sophistication.

While necessity is the mother of invention, imagination inspires creativity and self-expression. It would be my pleasure to assist you in creating a beautiful home.

Serving Chicago and surrounding suburbs, at Vanessa Nunley Designs, I embrace the Art of Making a Home; creating spaces that are gracious, elegant, beautifully appointed and comfortable. It is important to me to learn about your greatest dreams and desires for your home, allowing me to help you develop and interpret a personal style that reflects the way you live. Drawing on fifteen years of Interior Design experience, together we will transform a concept and vision into a stunning reality.

To learn more about my Interior Design services, please visit me at my website

www.vanessanunleydesigns.com

Beautiful Spaces Inspired by Valentine’s Day
From Interior Designer Vanessa Nunley

Welcome family and friends with a fantastic red door!

The foyer sets the tone for the rest of your home. It’s the perfect place to showcase gorgeous wallpaper. Here, the gold gilt console table and fabulous bamboo mirror are a lovely compliment to the gold and pink paper. The white wainscoting offers relief from the pink which otherwise may have overwhelmed the space.

The wall to wall red bookcases in this study are absolutely stunning. Why play it safe with stained built-ins when daring red can really pack a punch!?!

The Dining Room is a special place where we celebrate life’s beautiful and memorable moments. While the color palette is soft and subtle, the rich layers of fabrics and finishes are deeply nuanced, creating an inviting space.

This Powder Room is truly a Jewel-Box, with the exquisite red lacquered walls, gold gilt and black accents and the charming silver pieces.

While necessity is the mother of invention, imagination inspires creativity and self-expression. It would be my pleasure to assist you in creating a beautiful home.

Serving Chicago and surrounding suburbs, at Vanessa Nunley Designs, I embrace the Art of Making a Home; creating spaces that are gracious, elegant, beautifully appointed and comfortable. It is important to me to learn about your greatest dreams and desires for your home, allowing me to help you develop and interpret a personal style that reflects the way you live. Drawing on fifteen years of Interior Design experience, together we will transform a concept and vision into a stunning reality.
To learn more about my Interior Design services, please visit me at my website

www.vanessanunleydesigns.com

It’s that time of year again to make room for holiday decorations. Here are 5 helpful decorating tips to create the “Holiday Home” of your dreams.

1. First, you need to remove some of your current decor. Not only will this make room for all your holiday decorations but it will help afterward from having that empty room feeling once you are ready to take down those decorations and place back all your original decor. It may even help make your old decor items feel like new again.
2. Pick a style and color theme for the holidays. If you have not in the past or you’re tired of your old theme and don’t want to replace all your Holiday Decorations; it can be as simple as giving your past holiday decorations a makeover. You can simply change ribbons, add inexpensive round plastic ornaments to just about any holiday greenery and paint holiday decorations to fit your new color theme. You should also consider covering existing pillows with pillow covers in your Holiday color theme and add a throw blanket to a sofa or chair.
3. Make your Dining Room Table look like it is ready. Imagine having everyone over to your house tonight and making your Dining Room look ready for everyone to sit down for that great dinner.
4. Be ready for Holiday Houseguests.  If you have received nice soaps, lotions and candles as gifts during the year put them out for your guests to use. Put a nice wood hanger on the towel hook for guest to hang their wet towel (it will dry much faster). Lay extra mats down in your entryway for your guests’ cold- weather accoutrements. Create a charging station so guests can easily charge their electronics – and will always know where to find them.  Arrange a basket of snacks on your kitchen counter so guests can easily grab something to eat between meals.
5. Give yourself a holiday gift and take advantage of our decorating special offer.  Right now, if you schedule before December 23rd an in-home decorating consultation (SPECIAL ONLY $75.00 -Reg. $150.00), you’ll receive as a bonus- up to $500.00 off any new Custom Window Treatment.  I will visit your home and discuss the possibilities of a beautiful one-of-a-kind Window Treatment that will be installed for you after the holidays when you really need a post-holiday room pick me up. Consider maybe a bedroom makeover. I promise nothing will help you get through our cold Chicago winters then a luxurious spa like retreat in your very own home.

Note: If you do decide to purchase any window treatments, the initial in-home consultation is FREE. Call below for details.

For questions regarding these holiday decorating tips or decorating questions for your home or to schedule an in-home consultation, call 630-272-7671 ask for Dawn or email dawn@decoratingconcierge.com

Dawn Holthaus
Interior Designer
Decorating Concierge