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Gramercy Loft by David Howell Design.

Beautiful eclectic loft designed by David Howell Design situated in New York City. 

This is a beautiful, warm, contemporary interior design project by the talented residential and commercial designer, David Howell. I know you will enjoy being able to share in his work, by visually visiting this home.

Description by David Howell Design--
Located a stone’s throw from the opulent Gramercy Park Hotel and a quick cycle from the DHD office on Park Avenue, this is the first ground-up commercial project David Howell has undertaken in his twenty years in New York. Work on the building – five condos above street level, and commercial space, parking, and utilities basement below – began with two partners in 2007. The understated exterior, clad in mocha-coloured brick, blends in with its neighbors. It is distinguished by large, schoolroom-sized windows. The warm and striking interior design is a ideal example of DHD’s design philosophy. Photography by Emily Andrews Visit David Howell Design

This open floor plan is designed as a whole coordinated look, yet you have two separate eating areas.  Note the gorgeous light sculpture chandelier over the dining table. 

Rooms are smaller in New York City, yet this Master Bedroom has a comfy sofa for a great private reading and relaxing area.

  Visit David Howell Designs at his web site, for more information or more inspiration.

The Single Most Important Home Accessory

The correct lighting selection will greatly enhance your room--

     
     The "bones" of your room are selected.   You have placed the sofa, chairs, and tables.  You have a few pillows on the seating pieces for color, and you have hung a couple of pieces of art.  Something is still missing.  Your room will never come to life without the properly selected lighting.

     Here are some pictures of beautiful rooms that are complete with the selection of the single most important room accessory --the lighting.

 www.bourbonandpearls.com

 There is no doubt this is a beautiful room already.  Sometimes a room can be enhanced with beautiful lighting and sometimes the lighting is needed for function.

 

This is another beautifully designed and interesting room, however the living room can be the hardest room to properly light.  The addition of the extra lighting solves that problem, and gives an additional accessory to the room to and provides lighting function.

 frugalgirl.com

Here are some other well designed rooms, and the lighting is definitely one of the most enhancing room accessories.

 www.janshowers.com

 This popular designer, Jan Showers, knows every detail that creates a perfect room.  Her style is always fresh, yet timeless.  She definitely uses lighting as an important part of any room.

Shades of Light

 

 This room has personality plus, a large part of which is enjoyed due to the large drum light hanging from the ceiling, providing interest and function.

Picture courtesy of

 Restoration Hardware is showcasing two beautiful chandelier pole lamps.

picture courtesy of First Lady of the House blogspot

It All Begins With Art

Designing a Room Around Art

This is a lovely piece of art available from Mytwodesigners.com 

When you start the design process with an empty room, start with a piece of art that feels right for you.  Using the art to develop your color theme is a great way to begin to fill the room with furniture and accessories you love. I use a site called Olioboard, www.olioboard.com to prepare my mood boards then arrange them into a 2D or 3D looking room.  It really helps clients visualize their space.olioboard.com

Using this piece of art as the foundation for colors, this is how the Living Room would progress:

Gold club chair Zoe laylagrace.com, oblong metal table Piazza Bar interiordesign.net,  grey sofa Lee Jofa. Not available wire chair, white dresser, cocktail table

Sconce lumen.com $170.95, small art onekingslane.com, pair hombre vases moderndomicile.net $72.50, pair tall vases Ikea.com, small candle lamp onekingslane.com, oval silver lamp Sunny Isles, lumens.com, ginger jar shade only drum shadesoflight.com $129, pillows from left Monticita laylagrace.com $100, grey Greek Key shopgreife.com, stripe look Fench Frou Designersguild.com $121.95, oblong pillow Dwell Studio deconstructed Zincdoor.com $95, not available rug, drape, 6 light pendant

After the foundation pieces are selected, we would then move to select the finishing touches.  We add to the color scheme to bring in some of the lighter and darker shades of the yellows and greys.

This new Living Room now is completed and this is the final look, IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE ART.