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Interior Design Project in Orange Hills, Orange County, CA
I’ve recently started a new interior design project in a beautiful gated community of Orange Hills in Orange County, California. My client has asked that I begin the design for the family room, dining nook and kitchen so that they can move in as soon as possible. I’ll continue designing the rest of this 7,000 square foot home once the main areas are designed. I wanted to share the interior design project and some before photos, conceptual design ideas and the floor plan to journal my progress from beginning to end. The family room is approximately 18′ x 29′ and the ceilings are 14′ high. Decorating a large room can be a bit challenging and I need to make sure the scale of the furniture is not over powered by the oversized space.
The Design Concept
Family Room Mood Board
I’ve decided to go with an elegant and sophisticated design. The furnishings are transitional in style with very clean lines. The furniture pieces have an arched leg and the fabrics, rug and accessories have a circular theme. My clients taste is very neutral…tone on tone. So I’m keeping things neutral on the walls and introducing a pale blue to bring in some color. The finishes on the furniture will be a medium brown and very clean with no distressing.
The Canvas of the Interior Design Project
Side Window Wall
Family Room – Bar Area
Family Room – Fireplace Wall
The walls are a ginger yellow and the floors are a polished cream marble. I would like to add a grass wallcovering in the recessed squares on the ceiling and also on the fireplace wall. I think this will help this large room with contrast, texture and giving it a more intimate and cozy feel. The window treatments on the far wall are going to be tricky because of the size. I’m thinking a very large motorized woven shade flanked by non-functioning drapery panels and a soft, box pleated valance in the same fabric as the side panels…a striped silk. The blue rug will set the furniture off of the light colored marble floors and bring some color and softness to the space.
The Floor Plan
Family Room – Floor Plan
The Furniture Details and Budget
Sofas – Custom – $6,628 each – 33 yds fabric required for both
Sofa Fabric – Stroheim & Romann – $160/yd
Chair – Custom – $3,906 – 9 yds fabric needed
Chair Fabric – Beacon Hill – $168/yd
Coffee Table – Fremarc Design – $4,037
36″ Lamp Table – Fremarc Design – $3,987.50
Benches – Baker Furniture – $2,535 each
Lamp – Arteriors Home – $540
Barstools – Century Furniture – $2,490 each (w/ leather)
Rug – Surya (Custom 12′ x 15′) – $5,040
Window Treatments – $9,670
Total Family Room Cost – $62,258.50
I’ll keep you updated on the progress of this interior design project. I’m estimating 6-8 weeks to completion since most of the furniture is customized with sizes, fabrics and finishes. What do you think of the interior design concept? Do you have any special tips for decorating large rooms? What interior design projects are you working on? I’d love to hear from you!
Interior Design Project in Orange Hills, Orange County, CA
Some Inspiration for using Turquoise and Orange in Your Interiors
There’s nothing like the combination of turquoise and orange to make a room come alive. Although not a color combination you see every day in the interior design world, if you want that pop of color, this just may be the color scheme for you. These two colors tend to take me to the beach. They also remind me of a Caribbean trip I took a few years back to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico with the vibrant exteriors of the homes there. So whatever it is, I’m drawn to it and when I find my perfect dream beach bungalow (pictured below…I wish!)…these two colors are going to get a room all to their own.
Turquoise and Orange on the Beach
Beach Bungalow
What a life! Can you imagine waking up here and having your morning coffee!? Here are a few beach inspired interiors using turquoise and orange…
I love the pale blue walls in this room with the black and white artwork. These two colors work great as just an accent against the bright white wainscoting and sofa. Gives it such a crisp and clean look.
Colors Pulled from the Sea
This is a color palette from design-seeds.com. This is a great website to come up with some beautiful color palettes. This butterfly fish has all the colors in it to inspire and create a colorful beachfront retreat.
This is so beautiful! I’m liking the color of these walls too…with the embroidered sea fan on a piece of burlap in a shadow box as artwork. The driftwood gives it a natural and organic feel.
Another color palette inspired by a grouping of seashells.
This vignette has such an eclectic feel with the combination of unique pieces. The orange elephant legged console table stands out beautifully in front of the aqua blue and white striped walls. The seashell lamps give just a touch of a coastal feel.
A modern take on coastal interior design with the streamlined white lacquered console table and frames showcasing sea fans. Walls in a dark brown faux linen finish makes these lighter pieces really stand out.
Asian Fusion Interiors using Turquoise and Orange
This bedroom design uses the color combination in a bold and vibrant way. Compared to some of the other interiors that go on the lighter more subdued end of the spectrum. I like both, and this room has a zen-like Asian flare with the use of the figurines and the pagoda style lamp base.
Here’s an Asian inspired living room design, but this palette is much softer and serene looking. The Chinoiserie throw pillows are set atop a classic french style sofa covered in a casual burlap style fabric. The gold bamboo coffee table adds another element to the interior design.
Bedroom Interiors using Turquoise and Orange
This bedroom design uses the blue on the walls and accents with orange pillows and drapery. Just enough without overdoing it.
This bedroom has a lot going on but I love the dark brown walls and the striped ceiling. It has a tropical feel with the palm linen print headboard and drapery, white caned bench at the end of the bed and the zebra rug.
A complete contrast to the previous bedroom design, this bedroom sets off the colors using the bright white walls and floors. Very clean, crisp and fresh!
This vignette brings the ocean inside with the use of shells on the table. The zebra ottoman introduces an African flare. Kind of a juxtaposition of styles but it works. Where’s the turquoise you ask…I know…so we’ll just say there’s a drop of blue in the wall color! 😉
I absolutely love the color of this door! This is the type of vibrant color you see in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Again, I used the “Chip It” button to create the palette for this photo.
Another vibrant combination of these colors. Most of the rooms using this color palette do the turquoise on the wall but if you want to get bold try reversing it. This room looks like it wood be on the other side of the door above.
What a great painting to backdrop this white sofa. This is inspiring me to get out my canvases and paint! Just in case you’re not inspired yet, here are a few mood boards to get you going…
Turquoise and Orange Inspiration
Love the drapery in this room with the coral border design. Pillows with a great pattern and some gerber daisies to complete the look.
Turquoise and Orange Fabrics
These fabrics are from the Indoor/Outdoor Taza Collection…a lot of great designs for your outdoor furniture.
So with all of this turquoise and orange inspiration, I know I’m ready to start a project using this color palette. Have you used these two colors in one of your projects? I’d love to see what you’ve done using these two beautiful colors.
Image Sources: Pinterest, Houzz, House of Turquoise, Morgan Harrison Home, Lonny, EJ Interiors, Emily Followill, House Beautiful, Design Seeds, Elle Decor
Do you know what Search Engine Optimization is?
Well don’t feel bad, we didn’t either until a few months ago. So let me give you a brief introduction. Basically, SEO means that a website or pages on a website are created and optimized so that search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo can find them when someone is doing a search for a specific keyword. Proper search engine optimization of your website over time will generate more potential clients and leads to your business by reaching a higher placement in the search engines when a keyword is searched. For example, since I am an interior designer in Orange County California, we had our site optimized using specific keywords like “Orange County interior designer” and incorporated these words into the content and tags of the pages on our website. Not only did this help the search engines find our pages easier, but the pages were “optimized” so that our page lists at the top of Google for a particular “keyword”.
It is important that you focus on a list of keywords that are relevant to your business and to the market you wish to attract. There is a science to this that continues to change and evolve based on the search engines algorithms and formulas. There is a lot to learn about all the different strategies used to get you listed on page one of the search engines for a specific keyword. That is why our design firm turned to SEO for Interior Designers for some help. After doing a bit of research, what we realized is how important it is to keep a website constantly changing and evolving with new content. This will keep our customers coming back to our site to find fresh and new things. We selected SEO for Interior Designers over many other companies simply because they tailor and customize websites and SEO campaigns especially for the interior designers and architects. Click on their logo below to learn more about the company we can’t stop raving about.
They research relevant keywords for our design firm and create “Search Engine Optimized” pages using those keywords. These keyword optimized pages have driven more traffic to our website and business as they are designed to rank in the top 10 spots on Google searches.
They also trained us to manage our own website. We used to have to call our web designer to update everything. We couldn’t add or delete a product or even a photo to our portfolio. Because of the difficulty in making these changes, our website became stagnant and outdated. For many years our website was simply lost in cyberspace and really only visited if we handed out a business card with our web address on it. Now after a few training courses, we can blog, add and delete content and keep things new and exciting for our customers. In just a few months you can see the amount of traffic that we have generated. As a matter of fact our visitors have doubled every month since we began 3 months ago and leads and phone calls have followed. From nothing 3 months ago to now 3,039 Pageviews!
3 Month Traffic to our Website
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Do You Need Help With Your Bedroom Interior Design?
With the hectic and stressful lives that many of us lead today, the bedroom is a good place to escape, unwind and recharge. So many times a bedroom ends up being a place of clutter and disarray instead of a haven that it should be. If you dream of turning your bedroom in to a world of tranquility, then why not start today. As one of the top interior designers in Orange County we can assist you with the bedroom of your dreams.
Modern Bedroom Interior Design in Black and White
Very little is often put into making the bedroom as aesthetically pleasing as other areas of the house. For many, interior design stops in the main living areas of the home..
Whether you prefer a modern or more traditional style, luxury furnishings can be created to suit your taste so that you never have to compromise on what you really want. From wardrobes to dressing tables, a perfectly designed bedroom can be crafted to reflect your personality and lifestyle.
The importance of a child’s bedroom should never be underestimated either. It needs to be comfortable and practical with a little bit of magic to spark their imagination and create a safe and happy atmosphere for play and sleep. You may wish to update the bedroom of an older child for a more sophisticated environment or create an enchanted land for your little prince or princess. Using a colorful palette, interesting materials and finishes, bedroom interior designers can create a stunning room full of wonder for your child.
Girl’s Bedroom Design in Pink and Green
Our team of experienced interior designers will come to your home to discuss what you want for your bedroom interior design. With your ideas and guidance from our professional interior designers, you can turn your ideas into a reality.
Transtional Bedroom Design
Working together with a team of experts in bedroom design means you are involved at every step of the way so you can rest assured your ideas are being understood and brought to life.
Master Bedroom Interior Design
Whether it’s adding window treatments and drapery, new custom bedding or a complete bedroom redesign, our Orange County interior design staff can help you achieve the bedroom interior design you’ve been dreaming of. Contact us today to set up your free design consultation.
There are many advantages of working with a professional kitchen designer…
When you are looking for the perfect kitchen design, it should be well thought out and planned. Before you begin your project, spend some time looking through interior design magazines and books to gather all of the ideas you’d like to see incorporated into your kitchen design. Once you have a clear understanding of what it is you’re trying to accomplish, look into consulting with a kitchen designer. They will be able to help you work through the interior design process, bring ideas to the table that you hadn’t thought of and in the long run prevent you from making costly mistakes.
Hamptons Style Kitchen
When should you start home staging?
The process of staging a home should begin before the realtor is brought in. Too often home sellers wait until the last minute to seek advice about staging a home.
Show-ability = Profitability
You live in your home, but you are selling a house. The first step is to remove the personality of the current owner so that potential buyers do not feel they are just “visiting” someone’s house, but that they are looking at their new “Home”.
Before Home Staging
After Home Staging
Consider the following when staging a home
Home Staging is marketing in the same way that retailers use displays to showcase their products, gain attention and make them appealing to a larger market.
You are marketing your home to the realtor first. There is a perceived value to consider in addition to the comparable pricing in the area.
If the realtor feels the home will be a hard sell, they may suggest listing at a lower price. Why let that happen, when so much of home sale preparation can be done for no or very little money?
A little time invested can add a lot to the selling cost. How much do cleaning products cost? How inexpensive are boxes to start the packing, sorting and donating? You won’t feel that you’re under the gun if you start the process as soon as you decide to move.
Eliminate some of the stress by putting together a plan. Then call in the advice of a professional interior designer to help you further “market” your home by:
Staging the furnishings to create great traffic flow, and highlighting the best parts of the house.
After
Before
A Home Staging Professional is the expert in this part of the plan. Many times it begins with an assessment of what a buyer is looking for, eliminating all the negatives that may potentially keep them from putting an offer on your home.
A professionals assessment should begin with the street view of the house or curb appeal as it’s referred to in the industry. It will not matter how much you work on the inside if the buyer is turned off when they pull up in front of your home. If the buyer doesn’t like what they’re driving up to then what’s behind the front door won’t matter at all!
You and your team need to ready your home for some great photos. Take a look at some of the listing on the MLS or the newspaper. There is nothing worse or more detrimental to the sale of a property than BAD photos. 80% of buyers look on the internet before even calling a realtor to show them the property. What is your property saying? “A photo is worth a thousand words” or thousands of dollars could not be truer in this situation.
So when getting ready to sell a home, remember you are first marketing and showcasing your property to the realtor, and then making it easy for them to market it to potential buyers.
Make sure your house is photo ready and has great show-ability by calling in the professionals early.
If you are in Orange County, California and need help with staging, contact us and we’ll help you get top dollar for your home!
Get a Free Interior Design Consultation with Orange County Interior Designer Chris Givan
Christopher James Interiors is one of the leading interior designers in Orange County, California. The firm has been helping homeowners turn their dreams for a beautifully designed home into reality since 1994. Whether it’s new construction or a remodel, we will design your home to match your taste and lifestyle. Our team is devoted to understanding your individual needs and ideas to ensure that your vision is realized from the design conceptualization stage to the final installation and construction of the project.
Orange County Interior Designer, Christopher James Interiors, Provides the Following Services:
- Interior Design/Decorating (all rooms)
- Exterior Design
- Remodel Design
- Home Staging to help sell your home
- Custom Furniture Services (placement and selection)
- Custom window treatments/drapery
- Commercial Design
- Space planning (perfect for small business)
- Hospitality Design (hotel and restaurants)
- Paint Services (selection of colors, faux finishes, murals, venetian plasters)
- Flooring – wood and tile (selection and installation)
- Electrical/Lighting Services
- Art/Floral Arrangements (selection and placement)
- Wall units/Cabinetry/Built-ins
Our team is made up of licensed professionals who provide top-of-the line, reliable, and guaranteed services while offering competitive bidding. Please Visit our showroom or Contact us:
Take advantage of our complimentary interior design consultation and see how easy it can be to turn your design dreams into reality.
BEFORE AND AFTER:
Loft Interior Design – Before and After
“We love our home and could not have done it without you! You truly understood our lifestyle and taste and turned it into more than we could have imagined.” Kris J., Villa Park, CA
Chris Givan, Owner and Head Interior Designer of Christopher James Interiors. “Customer satisfaction is not only our priority, but what we thrive on. I will make sure that this is accomplished in your project by maintaining a high level of communication with you through every step of the Interior Design Process. I welcome you to visit our showroom or browse our website to to learn more about our firm and the services we offer. Our design styles include contemporary, transitional, Cape Cod, traditional, French country, Tuscan, California Ranch, Montecito and the currently popular Tommy Bahama look. But it’s always a style interpretation that’s unique to each homeowner. Please visit our Portfolio to view more examples of our work and our Products section for specific items for your home.”
Thanks for stopping by and we hope to be working with you very soon!
Additional services we offer: Interior design, interior decorating, new construction or remodels, room design, furniture selection and placement, custom furniture, wall units, built-ins, accessory and art selection and placement, floral arrangements, silk plants and florals, custom bedspreads, children’s rooms, home staging, kitchen design, offices, libraries, conference rooms, paint selection and color consulting, painting, faux painting, murals, wall paper, floor coverings, tile, marble, travertine, wood floors, carpet, custom area rugs, lighting, window coverings, window treatments, shades, blinds, shutters, custom draperies and valances, verticals, kitchen remodels, bath remodels, granite selection, stone and ceramic tile, exterior design, environmental design, landscape design, retail, restaurant design, commercial design and small business design, Venetian plaster, Venetian plasters, home staging to sell home, drapery, interior decoration
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Get a Free Interior Design Consultation with Orange County Interior Designer Chris Givan
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