Andrea Schumacher's designs have been featured in House Beautiful, WSJ, and Interiors Magazine. Watch as we talk with Andrea about her colorful designs, classic pieces every home should have, and the do's and dont's of accent furniture. INSTAGRAM:
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Andrea Schumacher, Andrea Schumacher interiors, Denver, Colorado, is joining me to talk about color and interiors and design all things that she does fabulously in her design firm. So thank you so much for joining me. Let's first talk about color and your Instagram feed. There's all sorts of fabulous color. How do you suggest consumers bring color into their home in impactful ways? Um, well there's several different ways you could do it. You could start with a piece that you love. Say it's a vase from your grandmother or something and pull all the colors out of that and use that as a template for designing. And some rooms can be full of color by doing all the walls in a dark color or a deep color or a saturated color, and then keep everything else in the room more neutral. Or the other way around. Do you have, might have a neutral pallet and then add pops of color with pillows and rugs. Um, obviously you wouldn't do that with everything. You wouldn't have an entirely orange room or entirely yellow room, but you would add layers. How does a consumer continue to evolve with their color? Because we don't where you and I both are wearing black right now, but we don't want black all the time. We don't always have blues on. How do you keep adding color to change the look of a room like assessment with assessoising, right. You put your jewelry on, you put your bracelet on, you put your belt on, it might have a color or you might have an, you know, right shirt, but something more neutral on the bottom. Like your pants might be white or something. Um, so yeah, I would say by layering just like in the home, what do you think are some classic pieces every home should have? I think it depends on the client or like who, who you are, right? Some people feel like case goods or something you want to spend money on and there's other things that are throwaway pieces and mixing and matching kind of a high, low, um, can be, can work for people. I believe that like buying antiques and mixing that in with modern clean line goods is important. That's kind of my, I feel like it's like to create a travelled look or a curated look. You find pieces that you love and then you add in pieces that are more water to offset it. And then how do you take your look and not necessarily always have it in a client's home but make it their home. Absolutely. I think it's kind of uncovering their story a little bit. So talking to them a lot and understanding their, um, their story, their travels, who they are and trying to like make their home be their story. So what is your, um, thoughts about trends and how trends impact what people bring into their home or think about designing their homes so they don't feel like they can't do something cause that might not be trendy next year. I just try not to think about trends really. I try to um, bring classic pieces in and maybe it's maybe a fabric might be trendy, but um, if you really love it, it doesn't really matter. I feel like with, you know, if you, I feel like you just buy what you love, put it together and it becomes a beautiful piece. What do you think are the do's and don'ts of accent furniture? I don't know if there's any don'ts. You know, I do. I think, like I just said, I think if you buy what you love and you love it, it doesn't matter. Like it makes you happy, it brings a smile to your face. Um, I like quirky things. I like things. I have our conversation pieces. I like funny things that are odd and strange. I had a client who had a Asian statue and she put the orange mustache on my mustache on it. So, you know, stuff like that. I think it's, you know, you only live once, so we might as well go for it. And what do you think is the best advice we could give to a consumer who wants to think about redesigning their home but is overwhelmed by either the cost or the thought of redoing everything? How do you give them confidence to know that it's okay to move on and to do that? I would, I mean as a consumer I would keep a compilation of all the things I love when I see something and maybe jot down notes as to why you like it so you can start to uncover what it is that you like.
Some people don't understand. They might see a room that they see on Pinterest or something and they love it, but they don't know why. So write down five things you like about it and keep doing that until you finally know who you are as a consumer. And then it's easy to kind of identify what you love. So Denver, Colorado, people think Rockies, I think, you know, snow covered mountains perhaps there's not just that look.
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