More than a Man Cave or media room, this Bellevue interior designer worked with her clients on a ‘female-friendly’ two story sports and entertainment space. An equestrian theme tells the story of competitive horse riding plus a serious bar area for all tastes. And the large flat-screen is the focus for sporting events like Super Bowl 2012.

It all comes together for the Super Bowl

According to Fox News, “The fairer sex make up more than 40 percent of the fan base of the NFL, MLB and Nascar. In fact, female viewership of most sports has been growing greatly over the last decade.” Need some pointers before the big game? Feel unprepared? Read this post from Jen Mueller, Talk Sporty to Me, and you’ll be ready on game day.

In this all season entertainment and sports pavilion, luxury interior designer, Faith Sheridan says you can swim, smoke cigars while playing poker, shoot pool and sample your favorite drink and BBQ too. If you want to see all of the space you can click here for more photos. Here are some favorites.

2 Story All Season Sports and Entertainment

Pull up your seat for the big game

Pick your favorite beverage and watch the Super Bowl at the bar

Take a half time break for poker and pool on the second floor

Contact Faith Sheridan Design Group for your ManCave media room design and more, 206.973.3743.

In my interior designs, I frequently use furniture with edges other than 90 degrees. I like the feeling of softness that comes from circles and ovals. Seems this is the hot trend in 2012 interior designs. Yes, circles are the hot design for the web (as in Google circles) and now interior design too. Softened corners invite rather than stiffen. Be it circular pillows, mirrors, chairs or tables, circles and ovals are friendly and approachable.

Soleil Mirror from Hickory Chair

Consider such an easy transformation in your decorating and dramatically change the look and feeling of your space.  When selecting new furniture or accessories for your home, avoid the 90 degree angles of yesterday.  Play with round and oval shapes instead. How many circles can you find in fabrics, furniture and accessories in the photo below?

Ron Fiore of Hickory Chair in Traditional Home October 2011

Interested in how you can soften and warm your interior spaces? Schedule a 30 minute complimentary Skype call. Space is limited.

So, you’ve sorted decorations and stored them for 2012. What about donations? Most important, what decorating dreams make up your Wish-List for 2012? A beautiful  interior requires motivation and discipline says this Seattle interior designer. You need 3 actions: cleanse, donate and target your decorating.

Entertain in Well Decorated Style

The cleanse and donate actions require an design audit with a critical eye. Just how long has that accent pillow, throw, lamp and so on been hanging around? Accessories are the jewelry in your rooms. Next, target the key decorative items you crave… a chair, lamps, vases, art. What is needed to add some dazzle to your room design?

Faith Sheridan Design Group has discovered SKYPE.

 Faith is having such a great time with Skype that her team is now offering Complimentary 30-Minute Design Sessions on Skype!*

Spend time with Faith discussing your design project and get great answers, solutions and professional guidance. We’ve gotten a great response and people really enjoy these Skype calls.

 Space is limited, so book your call now! Contact us to set up your Complimentary Skype Design Session and we’ll send you a link to download Skype.

*Please note, offer is for first time clients only.  See you soon!

It’s that time of year again..  This Seattle interior designer, Faith Sheridan,  shares a link so you can see all the results. Thousands of designers participated with some surprising and not so surprising results.

See the surprising survey results

The Design Success University 2011 Interior Design Fee & Salary Survey results are available for immediate download. Here are a few highlights:

• 53.3% said total revenue for 2011 was below $100,000
• 62% said total revenue for 2011 increased or remained the same
• 56.4% of firm owners earned less than $45,000
• 87.3% of survey participants are 36+
• 89.7% of survey participants are female

Download your copy of the 2012 Interior Design Fee & Salary Survey now! 
http://www.designsuccessu.com/aff.php?p=fshe&w=vbfebk 

Happy New Year!

Did your kitchen finesse the big Thanksgiving dinner? Was it a 5 Star event?  This Seattle interior designer suggests 5 basic improvements that make holiday entertaining memorable events for your family and friends.  Christmas, New Year’s and the Super Bowl are right around the corner.  Gather your family, friends and neighbors and start cooking in your beautiful interior and put some of these improvements to use this season.

Faith’s 5 Favorite Improvements for Holiday Occasions

• A standard 30″ range can be limiting with a larger menu and crowd.  A portable induction burner supplements your standard range and is readily available. I like this one from Fagor.

A portable induction to add another burner

• Pull out your Crock Pot or slow cooker. From casseroles to roasts, these versatile appliances are work horses. I used this one from All-Clad for T-Day.

All Clad Crock Pot

• Large crowds = lots of ice.  Consider a portable ice maker and save space in your freezer. Major box stores have them readily available.

• Small, portable wine and beverage fridges or installed dual-zone models will serve the home entertainer in good stead. I love Sub Zero for the selection.

Small Sub Zero Wine Chiller

• Ultimate cool new thing for your island and kitchen, the Cool Drawer from Fisher Paykel. A refrigerator, freezer and wine cooling drawer all in one.

Fisher Paykel Cool Drawer

 

Please enjoy a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season with your family and friends. 

This holiday season, gather family and friends in your kitchen and surround them with aromas of your marinara sauce simmering in your kitchen on your range. Imagine the stories, laughter and toasts as folks savor your tasty appetizers.

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, we applaud and congratulate lovers of cooking and food this season.

Mary Hoffman knows color ~”As a third generation employee with Benjamin Moore & Co, Mary Hoffman has experienced paint from a diverse perspective.” from Sunset Magazine. So when Mary says, “embrace color’ she means it.

My good friends Mary and Randy at the Kravet event

Photo courtesy Sara Coe

As a Seattle interior designer, I soaked in her message at a presentation at the Kravet showroom. We’re all still mostly neutral but we want some pops of color to punch up our furnishings and walls to set our room and home designs apart.

Enter purple with grays, beiges and a touch of yellow.  One stellar fabric on a pillow, headboard, small chair or ottoman adds the punch that sets an otherwise dull setting apart, thanks to Pollack Fabrics.

Stellar stripe adds a punch to home furnishings

Mary Hoffman noted that current fashion = current design and the Fall runway made shades of purple important this season.  Purple is the color for royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance and sensitivity.

Over the T-Day holiday, I spent time with my California family and I assisted sorting the holiday decorations and considered interior design ideas. My daughter and I  plotted the “where they could go” and where to place the Christmas tree.  The goal for us ~  be out of the reach of my 18 month old grandson and remain a beautiful room design. This definitely got my memory going for friends, family and clients in a similar predicament.

So like many other families, the day after T-Day involved a trip to the local site for  Christmas trees. The location to place the tree  was already determined which means out of the reach of ‘the destroyer’ (as he is affectionately called). We placed it on the Hickory Chair chest and added lights, a tree topper and sentimental keepsakes (many made by my daughter as a child) to complete the theme.

Just Out of Reach

This Hickory Chair chest is a perfect placement for the tree ~ just the right height for this years tree.

the perfect height 40"

I’m curious to hear what  readers did/do as toddlers roam the holiday areas in your homes?  Send me your excellent ideas and solutions to share so others can put them to use too. (please include photos)

 Seattle interior designer, Faith Sheridan, is here to help ~ call us today 206.973.3743

Dramatic advancements in outdoor furniture offer comfortable, stylish furnishings with extra benefits for busy families says this Seattle interior designer. The quality design and practical fabrics from outdoor furniture manufacturers create the opportunity to move outdoor furniture into home designs. Consumers love the practical benefits that accompany outdoor fabrics.  In the picture below (Brian Harken, photographer) from an article in the WSJ, the active toddler epitomizes the attraction and reason for the popularity for active families who desire beautiful interiors.

Outdoor Furniture Moves Indoors

My grandson loves to play using ottomans from Hickory Chair.

To protect them and also provide a colorful, practical solution, I had slipcovers made using a Trina Turk fabric from a F. Schumacher collection.

Trina Turk - Sunglasses

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, we design ‘beautiful interiors for busy people‘.  You tell us your preferences for color, shapes, light and how you like to live, entertain, and relax. With this information and an in-depth meeting, we help you achieve your personal style. Relax and let us guide you through the process of design.  Call us today for a telephone interview 206.973.3743 and get started.

Vintage decorating is alive and well from the vantage of Seattle interior designer Faith Sheridan. And the action and interior design ideas are abundant in the Georgetown, Airport Way neighborhood of the Seattle Design District. Walking the shops and seeing the well priced, authentic accessories countered the headline story from the NY Times this week, “All That Authenticity My Be Getting Old“.

With a group of friends this past Saturday, we thoroughly investigated a few stellar locations beginning with Kirk Albert and Susan Wheeler Home.

One of many finds in the shop

Someone in our group made a new home for this owl.

Not to confuse any tourists since there is only one  Seattle Space Needle, a remnant from  Seattle’s World Fair 1962 would have you believe otherwise.

Are there two Space Needles in Seattle?

As Stephen Drucker, former editor of House Beautiful, aptly stated in the NY Times article, “A 1930s pickling jar from Hungary, or anything Etsy,” he continued, “serves the same purpose as a 20-pound Swedish crystal ashtray did for my parents: It says, ‘We’re different, we’re daring, we’re not boring.’ ”

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, our home designs sparkle with finishing touch accessories. We know that Small gestures make a big impact - an exquisite tray, a family heirloom, a painting, vase or jewel box form a beautiful composition and add the personal touch that makes your home complete.

Call us and ask us about our savvy room design ideas ~ 206.973.3743.

Oh such gorgeous mirrors this Seattle interior designer (Faith Sheridan) found at a ‘must-see’ boutique, Susan Wheeler Home. Always an advocate of using mirrors for glamor and style, I know an even more glamorous option is a mirror with age and patina. Beautiful interiors come alive with mirrors.

Glamorous French Antique Mirrors

Susan Wheeler opened her Georgetown shop two years ago. Her vignettes inspire interior design ideas for rooms throughout your home ~ especially if you love mirrors and beautiful interiors as much as this Seattle interior designer.

Vignettes Inspire with Mirrors

Ideas to Display Accessories with Mirrors

Many sizes and styles with lots of patina

Finishing Touches….

Small gestures make a big impact - an exquisite mirror, a family heirloom, a painting, vase or jewel box form a beautiful composition and add the personal touch that makes your home complete.

At Faith Sheridan Design Group, “It’s all about the client and understanding. I look around their home and see how I can express who they are in my designs. I take it beyond what they would expect it would be,” says Faith.  “I don’t work within a fixed style. I watch, listen and observe. It becomes a Gestalt. It is more than they imagined it would be.”

Call us today and learn about our design process.  206.973.3743