Santa Fe style and Provençal are where I started years ago.
I have carefully studied Santa Fe style—the truly signature elements that are historic and not trendy.
I learned a great deal from travel in Europe about color, lighting, and scale—the European aesthetic depends a lot on scale, ceiling height. There is a sense of “space relating to people”—a way to let the space flow above the area where you are sleeping, eating, working, relaxing with friends.
I learned there (and in Santa Fe too) of using color as architecture. And of adding in elements to meet the flow of the room. Sometimes that means adding something Modernist to the more European scene. Sometimes it is putting rough-hewn beams into a kitchen, or adding a kiva fireplace.
And I have had the opportunity to redesign the same house twice for the same clients. And what I learned is that there is not just one way to do something.
All in all, some part of interior design is visual, but some big part of any design project is about the energy and where things satisfy.
Enjoy looking at the many ways you may be invited into the more “personal space”—by color, textures, flow, rhythms, and scale—in the images from my clients’ homes and intimate spaces.