Accessories: Making it all work
Decorators get all kinds of requests for services from furniture layout to full home designs. I like the variety of smaller jobs with the ones that go on forever. Two of my favourite tasks are rehanging art to best advantage and providing the last layer of accessories in a home. Sometimes I get to do both in the same house! Over the next several posts I want to provide a glimpse into the thought processes I use when accessorizing a client's space. Think about it as adding the icing to an already great cake. If you do it for your own home or as a professional service, the task is really the same. You have to juggle design principles with individual taste (both decorator& clients) and existing elements in the home. Sometimes homeowners have objects to incorporate in the design and other times you may start with a clean slate. As a decorator, I find a clean slate more difficult because I want to choose accessories that are "sensible" for the homeowner. By