The Sewing Room

This room is anchored by a 10 foot long oak gate leg table on loan from a client. The room will be painted two shades of green with painted details to emphasize woodwork. The floor is a great vintage checkerboard that we are in the process of restoring. The rooms color scheme was inspired by the vintage french floral chintz that we will be using at the windows. We'll be having lots of surprises in this room too, like a new way to use taffeta! >:) hehehehe

The Ladies Maid Bedroom


This bedroom is painted in a great color called Grasshopper, not too yellow, not too blue. The perfect green for a bedroom. The main focus of the room is a canopy lined in pink silk Dupioni while the exterior is a candy stripe silk. The windows are an Asian floral on a linen cotton. The chair is a green and ivory faille. The floor is Click by Forbo (not my first choice but it was free and we all know beggars can't be choosers) and over that will be a most excellent rug. You will have to come to the house to see the surprises! :)

Dah Bordzzzz

So I just got a call from my wonderful friend Alice and she said she hadn't seen the presentation baords yet. Well, of couse that means I have to post them to the Blog! We had our presentations last Monday and we kicked ass.
So We begin with the Servant Corridors, 2 hallways connected by a staircase tower.

the window treatments are done in a William Morris inspired cotton screen print from Trend and the woven wood shades are from Jessitt-Gold. The French Country Chest is from Baker's Milling Road Collection. We plan to merchandise the hall with ecclectic antique pieces (Majolica plates, sliver trays, etc) and period wall sconces. We will be having a decorative painter and faux finisher detail our stair tower. It's truly a magnificent space in the 'plain' part of the house.

Ed Doheny Sr. House in West Adams

This was Mr. & Mrs. Ed Doheny senior's 'modest' home in the West Adams Districts of Los Angeles, not too far from the St. Vincent Church that Mr Doheny funded. The neighborhood the home is in is called Chester Place, a gated community of palatial estates built by the founding families of modern Los Angeles. I am absoloutely lost as far as the architecture of the home goes. We can definitely put it under the 'Victorian' umbrella. And it has heavy Tudor & Gothic influences, so it could be considered Gothic Revival in some aspects. But the tile roof is throwing me off.
The home, and the rest of the neighborhood, is now occupied by Mount St. Mary's College.