Jonathan Legate – Design Portfolio
Designer Notes: A seaside home for yachting enthusiasts. |
Designer Notes: Industrially inspired and architecturally designed. This room’s warmth comes from a curated art collection and intimate spaces created within a vast space. Classic Eames chairs swivel to take advantage of all areas and vistas. |
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Designer Notes: A chic family room and kitchen functions in high style for a mother and daughter. |
Designer Notes: Simplicity and light are the keys to this master bathroom’s success. |
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Designer Notes: A traditional bedroom is brought into the present with lighting and fabric details. |
Designer Notes: The piano, a family heirloom, fits right in to a modern home with the help of a classic lamp, painting by Ivan Murphy and whimsical disco ball. |
About Jonathan Legate
Jonathan Legate has been creating and recreating spaces since he could hold a building block.
A healthy obsession with houses, use of space and all the things that go inside has lead him to work on many exciting projects both nationally and abroad. His style and reputation have been built on the principles of quality and thoughtful restraint.
Jonathan explains that, "each project exemplifies the clients personality and taste as translated by me. Pretty rooms are nice but they must reflect the person or people who live in them. My favorite projects showcase client’s personal collections in homes tailored to their lifestyles".
Jonathan Legate is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and works internationally. Working only with a select number of clients at one time allows for more personalized service and a true bespoke experience.
Contact Information
- Website: Jonathan Legate
- Blog:Jonathan Legate Blog
- Twitter: @jonathanlegate
Jill Seidner Interior Design
INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO GALLERY {Jill Seidner Interior Design}
Photo: Los Feliz Residence living/dining/bar |
Photo: Los Feliz Residence Home Office. Benjamin Moore paint colors selected by designer. Area rug from West Elm. Desk and chair – client’s existing furniture. |
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Photo: West Hollywood Residence Master Bedroom. Benjamin Moore paint colors selected |
Photo: Long Beach Residence Master Bedroom. Headboard and bedding from West Elm. Night stands from Room & Board. |
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Photo: Hollywood Hills Dining Room. Benjamin Moore paint color selected by designer. Dining |
Photo: Encino Condo Dining Room. Full scale makeover of a condo including all new flooring, paint, and furniture. |
About Jill Seidner Interior Design
Los Angeles & Orange County,California based interior design firm Jill Seidner Interior Design specializes in commercial and residential interior design projects. In addition, Jill Seidner Interior Design, provides on site design consultations (for specialty needs such as color consultations and space planning), and virtual interior design services including an affordable complete room design package.
About Jill Seidner
Jill Seidner is a graduate of the Interior & Environmental Design Program at UCLA.She has over ten years of experience working freelance for top interior designers in Los Angeles (including past celebrity clients). In 2007, Jill started her own design firm, Jill Seidner Interior Design, and has since taken on a range of interior design projects. Jill is the Los Angeles contributor to the popular design blog, Material Girls.
Web: Jill Seidner Interior Design
Photos courtesy of Jill Seidner of Interior Design and Cecilia Gavia. All copyright of their respective owners.
Read More »Lulu DK for Matouk The Tiger Lily Bedding Collection
Can’t get enough of gorgeous Orange this year? Neither can we – we’re loving Orange with a passion at The Decorating Diva.com.
Brighten your bedroom with touches of vibrant Tiger Lily orange and milk whites. Lulu DK is a bedding collection collaboration between mega style designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski and premier luxury fine linens purveyor Matouk.
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Home Decor Buyer Resource: Lulu DK Matouk
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Modern Upholstered Bed from B & B Italia by Antonio Citterio
This modern bed with upholstered headboard by Antonio Citterio for B & B Italia 2009 Collection (Febo Apta Maxalto) has an elegant upholstered headboard and the added comfort of two backrest cushions. The modern styled bed is dressed in the 2009 hot color family: purple (deep rich plum and a full-bodied red wine ). This Antonio Citterio designed bed is elegantly modern, sexy, and very feminine. He has been able to skillfully interpret classic design styles with contemporary flair.
We like this bed in modern styled homes as well as homes or bedrooms looking for an updated Hollywood regency style.
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Home Decor Buyer Resource: B&B Italia
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Palladio Bedding Collection by Anichini
The Anichini Palladio bedding collection is a 200 Thread count percale fabric with a very, nice tailored, crisp white with black trim ensemble that coordinates perfectly with modern, minimalist interiors.
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Home Decor Buyer Resource: Anichini
Read More »Yves Delorme Colibri Bedding Collection
Colibri by Yves Delorme (another name synonymous with luxury linens) skillfully marries the clean lines of modern design with the traditional art of embroidery, creating a unique and artful modern rendering of romantic style. Retail prices from $145 to $725.
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Home Decor Buyer Resource: For retail locations see yvesdelorme.com.
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Cuddledown Organic Bedding: Seashell Sheets & Estrella Comforter Cover
Cuddledown known for it’s eco friendly, organic bedding and healthy, hypoallergenic linens easily pleases those seeking a healthy home and a healthy planet.
The 300 thread count Seashell Organic Bedding Collection is an organic cotton percale created from low-impact dyes and 100% certified organic combed cotton.
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Home Decor Buyer Resource: Cuddledown
Read More »Maxwell House of Design – Portfolio
 DESIGNER NOTES: This is a home in the Palisades. The homeowner wanted to re-cover a formal sofa to create a whimsical, fun, and friendly family room. We did that with pink upholstery trimmed in brushed fringe for a fun twist on a traditional style. We added other fun fabrics and accessories to achieve the look the homeowner wanted. |
 DESIGNER NOTES: The female homeowner wanted her home to feel as though it were on the beach, the male homeowner wanted the room to reflect his world travels. Travel mementos, woven window treatments and blue and white upholstery from Pearson Company accomplished the goal of both homeowners. |
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 DESIGNER NOTES: This is my daughter’s room. She wanted a grown up style with her favorite colors, black and purple. Wooden cut-outs, backed with rope lighting, mimic the fabric pattern in the canopy and bed skirt. The cool factor is off the charts at night, when just the cut-outs are glowing. |
 DESIGNER NOTES: This over-the-top dining room is an answer to the client’s request for dramatic and beach-like. Client requested deep blue walls works with the Thibaut fabric, and the custom fabric designed by Jane Ann Maxwell is featured on the chairs, since we couldn’t find exactly what we wanted. This is a completely personalized room for a very happy client. |
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 TDESIGNER NOTES: This is the client that wanted her home to look like it sat beach-side. She wanted it to be elegant, but friendly, tranquil but interesting. Beautiful Pearson Company furniture, and unique display cabinets, that act as room dividers and display travel collections, bring in elegance and interest. |
 A cotton striped rug, casual ottoman and the homeowners own artwork over the mantle create the friendly and relaxed atmosphere the client wanted. |
Jane Ann Maxwell of Maxwell House of Design
Jane Ann Maxwell is the owner of Maxwell House of Design located in the charming southern town of Fort Mill, SC, just south of the Charlotte, NC metro area. Jane loves designing comfortable, luxurious interiors that reflect the owners personality and taste. She is a native of the Carolinas and is the quintessential "Southern Belle" who enjoys adding style and taste in everything she does.
She has 20 years of experience in the design world and has worked on interior projects ranging from executive mansions to cozy mountain getaways and beach houses. She is the President of the Charlotte Chapter of the Association of Interior Design Professionals (AIDP) and a member of the Window Coverings Association of America (WCAA). Ms Maxwell is involved in numerous community activities and was recently asked to spearhead the redesign of the recreation room of the Fort Mill, SC National Guard Armory. Jane Ann blogs regularly at Yours by Design and shares her unique and fresh insight into popular trends, that affect interiors and styles – from cinema to trade shows.
Jane Ann’s motto is "The design of an interior must reflect the owner not the designer!" The greatest compliment she can get is when visitors to a home say "This house looks just like you!" and not "this must be a Maxwell House of Design room."
About the Maxwell House of Design
Maxwell House of Design is a full service design consultancy based in the Charlotte, NC metro area that straddles North & South Carolina. They have clients throughout the Carolinas from the mountains to the beach. Maxwell House of Design provides Construction Selection Services and Interior Design Services of every description. Another aspect of the company is its Staging Services, which have been particularly sought after in the recent real estate lull, where sellers have made successful use of their staging talents to sell their homes. Maxwell House of Design is equally proficient in the ultra modern or the timelessly classic – each interior is a work of art.
Contact Information
- Website: Maxwell House of Design
- Blog: Yours by Design
- Twitter: @JaneAnnDesigns
- Facebook: Fan Maxwell House of Design
Design Credits: Fabricator and provider of the window treatments shown in Maxwell house of Design portfolio – Marilyn Croteau of Croteau Window Coverings.
Photo Credits: Where noted on image – © G. Richard Anderson.
Read More »Ann Gish Bedding Collection Mariana
Ann Gish, known for her exquisite eye for detail ( and as the bedding designer (Ready-to-Bed line) for SATC’s Charlotte’s bed upholstery – a little, fun interior design trivia for "Sex and the City" fans), brings us exotic details in her poppy and ivory silk charmeuse bedding collection, the Mariana. Available at fine linen stores and Neiman Marcus. Retail prices from $200 to $810.
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How to Buy the Best Mattress: 5 Tips to Guide You to a Good Night’s Sleep
Studies show that we sleep approximately two-thirds of our life (eight hours out of 24 hours daily), so it makes perfect sense to approach the purchase of a mattress from a well-researched position. It’s also reasonable to understand the fear some of us have when shopping for a mattress. First, there’s the cost – buying a mattress is not cheap (at least not a good one; they carry hefty price tags). Then there’s the very real fear of buying the wrong mattress.
The wrong mattress can be the wrong size, too hard, too soft, too tall, or too short. Whatever may be wrong with the mattress usually results in a bad nights sleep. And study after study has shown that not getting enough of “good” sleep will affect other aspects of our lives negatively. So choosing the best mattress really is a major decision. We’ve prepared a quick guide to mattress buying that will help you make the best decision when you’re shopping for a mattress.
1. Get the Right Size: If you have an existing bed, then measure your current mattress (assuming you got the right size to fit your bed originally) and take those measurements along when shopping for your new mattress. For a new bed, also measure the bed for the box springs as well as the mattress, as you will most likely be buying a mattress set (mattress and box springs). Measure for depth as some mattresses are very deep (plush pillow tops) and may not fit your bed well. Another thing to keep in mind if you have an existing mattress set – is to consider whether you will be replacing the box springs in addition to the mattress.
2. Take the Mattress for a Test Sleep: Don’t bother wasting your time at bedding or mattress stores that do not offer generous “test” periods. There is absolutely no way, really no way, in which you can tell if a particular mattress is meant for you by testing it for five minutes or so. Just not going to happen. The store environment makes it impossible for you to relax enough to let your inhibitions rest as you contort your body into your natural sleep configurations (and in some case you may not even be aware that you flip or switch sides during the night).
Ask for a 30 to 90 day test period with full refund if you should decide the bed is not for you– if they don’t give it to you, leave and find another mattress store that will.
3. Not all Mattresses are the Same: Let me bust the myth that all mattresses are equal and buying the cheapest one is just as good. No. No. No. We get hundreds of email questions on mattress buying and one of the the running themes is “I read that you can buy a $200 mattress that feels like a $1000 mattress – is that true?”. The answer always is, “perhaps”. There’s mattress clearance sales in which old or discontinued mattress models need to be liquidated to make room for new mattresses. Then there’s the possibility that a mattress store is going out of business and needs to sell all products at clearance prices.
However, the above scenarios depict quality mattresses being sold below value for a variety of reasons . but it is extremely rare to pickup a truly cheap mattress, not a $1000 mattress on sale, (say in the $200 to $400 range) that in anyway, shape or form meets with the quality of a $1000 mattress.
Having said that, I also believe that you can be happy with a less expensive mattress because in the end it’s not simply about the price tag or prestige associated with the mattress that matters. Comfort is king, and if a $200 mattress fits your needs than why spend $1000?
4. State Your Mission: Don’t let a mattress salesperson pin you down to a price range – let them know that all you care about during the test period is comfort, warranty,and, of course, a store that offers a generous mattress testing period.
5. Focus on the Important: Keep in mind that the mattress will be part of your home and life for a substantial part of your life. Buying a cheaply made, uncomfortable mattress is bad for your health in the long run. As with any household product that will last for several years, buy the very best you can afford now – otherwise you may find yourself shopping for a new mattress sooner than the “new one’s” end of life.
As was mentioned earlier, you can buy high quality, high end, even luxury, mattresses on sale at various times of the year. Once you know what you are looking for in a mattress then it becomes easier to take advantage of seasonal bedding sales, where you can get incredible deals and savings.
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