North Carolina interior designer, Leslie Moore, has 20 years of experience in residential and retail interior design. Ellen Gefen spoke with Leslie at the Aspire Design and Home Showhouse about incorporating color and artwork into the home , where to start when decorating your home, and more! INSTAGRAM:
ELLEN GEFEN:
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Leslie, as you're working with a client, looking at their home, where do you suggest a client start and where do you start with them? I think it's really important for them to, or for us to figure out how this space is going to be utilized, how they're going to live in it, how they want to live in it, and also what kind of style that they're comfortable with. Um, because everything's going to start from the furniture arrangement. No matter what the furnishings are going to be, whether it's seating or a dining space, it doesn't matter whether they're an going to have antiques or modern furniture, that doesn't really matter. It's really coming up with how that furnishings lay out. It's going to be where do you normally start? Some people say start in the closet and see what people wear. Some people say start with a piece of art or a rug. Where do you suggest consumers start? It can be anything like that with, you can look in their closet, you can look at the colors that they wear. That usually is a really good indicator of what they're comfortable with. Um, many people have certain likes and dislikes and sometimes they haven't even articulated it to themselves. So you're trying to pull those threads out and um, really get to what they do. Like, um, I always like to incorporate original artwork and there's some original artwork in this space. Um, so I think that's really important. I normally don't start there. Um, and sometimes the clients have great artwork and sometime they don't have any, but we can, you can always bring it in every year. Pantone Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore comes out with color of the year. How do you suggest a consumer not get caught up in that, especially if it's not their color, but that they embrace it in some way in a pillow or something even, or maybe they don't? I don't think that everyone has to embrace what the colors of the year are. I think it's just a really good indicator of where things are happening culturally. Societaly and if someone wants to use that as a jumping off point or if I want to suggest that we use it as a jumping off point, that's fine. But I think it's more important that the color palette works for the homeowners and the people that are going to be living in their space and not just tried to just buy into something, feeling like they have to buy into a trend. But you can always pull it in, in accessories or artwork and someone doesn't have to go just full on with the whole color scheme. But I think it's good to bring that awareness to the client of what colors are on trend because that you're going to see that in what's available out in the marketplace and at retailers. One last question. I know for me, I could say I'd like to redo my whole house. So it becomes overwhelming. How do you start? So that keeping your home, like your clothing and your closet alive and fresh, how do you start and suggest that a consumer start really going back to how you're going to live in each space and figuring out what the furnishings arrangement is going to be. And then you can also start evolving with the color palette or the style. Um, it, it is very overwhelming. Um, and if someone's doing a whole house, that's the greatest opportunity. Um, and sometimes just an entire room is very overwhelming for them. So I think breaking things down into those compartmentalized choices, um, is helpful.
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