Celerie Kemble’s childhood was in many ways a design tutorial spent in construction sites, antique stores, and in the unique houses designed by her mother, Mimi McMakin of Palm Beach’s Kemble Interiors. After graduating from Harvard, Celerie worked briefly in film production trying unsuccessfully to resist what she calls a compulsion for design and home improvement. As she puts it, “I dove in 1997 and haven’t come up for air yet.” Since then, Celerie has been working primarily in Florida and New York helping her clients to, in the words of Michael Boodro of House Beautiful, “incorporate the serendipitous and the sentimental without losing clarity or strength.” Celerie finds much inspiration in the ever changing world of New York fashion by ultimately believing design is an expression of individuality, whim, and imagination — not a product of trends or rules. “My style is uniquely suited to each client and, due to the younger age of much of my clientele, that’s all over the map. I think what remains cohesive across our body of work is an infusion of colorful vitality and design irreverence. I enjoy a mix of vintage, traditional, and contemporary that’s unencumbered by a fixed formula. Whether I am designing a modern space or a more traditional one, there is always a focus on warmth so the place looks like home, a delightful, exciting place, but home nonetheless.”

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Grey Crawford, photographer who has worked with many high profile magazines and has produced 14 books such as Modern Glamour : The Art of Unexpected Style, Creating the Not So Big House, Home by Design : Insipration for Transforming House Into Home. This is some his portfolio.

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TREND Designs was established in the year 2000 and has some 12 years experience within the interior design and home restoration market. To date TREND’s clients have included the UK’s leading Property Developers, Residential investors and many private home owners and as a result offers packages from as simple as one bathroom or kitchen to the complete house refurbishment. House packs for Residential Investors planning on letting their properties are also available.

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Barry Rice Design creates modern, comfortable interiors with clean lines, natural woods and an emphasis on vintage furnishings. The Brooklyn-based firm provides clients with a high level of professional service and projects with an impeccable attention to detail. The results are expressive, individual, functional and beautiful.

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Christopher Coleman Interior Design based in Brooklyn’s historic waterfront district, DUMBO, combines substantial practical experience with abundant imagination and energy. Coleman guides clients carefully throughout the design process to create and execute a space that is unmistakably their own. This is some his project.

Children’s bathroom 1

Children’s bathroom 2

Living room lounge

Los Angeles home gym

Sitting room

Penthouse dressing room

Kid’s guest room

Country cottage

House beautiful

House beautiful

Redondo residence kitchen

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SIA was created by Sonja Ingegerd Andersson in the south of Sweden in 1963. SIA reflects her passion for decoration, her love for nature and her desire to share the pleasure of feeling good at home. She started by making paper flowers and designing printed fabrics that she displayed in her garden for her friends…”The Garden of Temptations”

Sonja Ingegerd Andersson, SIA’s founder. I love her car

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This is “Nomad Attitude”, collections from SIA.

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Napanee Design is featured in several top design publications, including Canadian House and Home, Coastal Living, Style at Home, Woman’s Day Design Times, Western Living, Home Magazine, Century Home and Log Home Design Ideas. This is some portfolio from Napanee Design.

Style at Home

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Is your apartment up to date? Or would a designer scoff, “How passé!”? You’ll need more than throw pillows to keep up with Manhattan’s hottest design trends. Below are expert designers’ top ten trends for apartment living in the city.

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1. The Living/“Screening” Room
An unassuming living room transforms into a private movie theatre with large flat-screen monitors that disappear when not in use. Stephen Miller Siegel of Stephen Miller Siegel Architects has recently seen clients requesting this kind of double-duty. “As technology gets more compact, it’s easier to camouflage and become discreet,” said Siegel.

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2. The New Wood Floor
A hardwood floor is still par for the course (sorry, carpet salesmen), but their continued popularity has spurned the refinement of the ready-made floor. “Pre-finished, engineered wood floors have really grown in quality and popularity,” said Keith Steier, President of Knockout Renovation, an all-in-one design and remodeling service. They are significantly less expensive and much faster and easier to install. The boards snap in to place and don’t require the laborious process of staining and re-staining. Your guests will never know they are walking on laminate instead of solid oak.

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3. Living With “The Valuables”
Designers suggest that you don’t separate the objects you love from the rest of your living space. “There seems to be a return to the great design of the early seventies when one mixed great antiques with contemporary elements,” said New York interior designer and architect, Robert Couturier. “The newest trend I’m seeing is using furniture, even functional pieces like sofas, as art or sculptural elements.”

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4. Bye-Bye Bathtub
Designers are opting to install a full-size walk-in shower these days, in lieu of cramming in a too-small tub to narrow bathroom spaces. “Bathtubs have definitely fallen out of favor,” said Jennifer Melis, chief designer for Knockout Renovation. “There’s been a focus on updating bathrooms and kitchens, because you tend to get the best return for your investment in those rooms,” Melis added.

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5. New Granite Counter
Every home design show on TV has the decorator drooling over a new granite countertop. “People like the look and they’re durable,” explained Steier. As with hardwood, popularity has spawned more options, like fake granite, that allow you to upgrade without blowing your design budget. “Man-made products give you the look and require zero maintenance,” said Steier. Another plus: while it’s not possible to control the color and pattern distribution in a slab of naturally occurring granite or marble, man-made delivers a completely consistent result.

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6. Apartments Go Green
Designing using environmentally-friendly materials and renewable energy sources is a current trend. “There is definitely a new direction as far as using environmentally correct materials that did not seem to exist a couple of years ago,” said Couturier. Knockout Renovation has experienced a lot of demand. “Energy efficient appliances are quite popular,” said Steier. They’re easy on the conscience and the utility bills.

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7. Recessed Lighting
Who really wants to look at a fluorescent dome in the middle of their ceiling? Modern apartments have the lights tucked away and dimmable. “It creates a softer, nicer mood,” said Melis. “It’s a really clean look since nothing is hanging down from the ceiling.”

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8. Space-Saving Innovations
Designers are coming up with creative solutions to get your clutter out of sight and out of mind: from floor-to-ceiling shelving in bedroom and living rooms, to extra tall pantry closets, to roll-out bins. “Any idea that will get things off the counters and off the floors,” said Melis. New appliances are helping in the fight against clutter (and small spaces). “More manufacturers are offering drawer dishwashers and counter-depth refrigerators,” Steier said. Drawer dishwashers are the only way to offer the amenity in many tiny galley kitchens, and the new models are of a higher quality than leaky, breakage-prone early models. Counter-depth refrigerators give a small kitchen a sleeker look, since they sit flush with the line of the counter instead of protruding out into the middle of the room.

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9. Closet Pros
If you’re sick and tired of the weekly sweater-avalanche from the top of your closet, you are not alone. “Custom closet interiors continue to be a huge trend,” said Melis, “And people don’t mind putting a significant amount of money into it.” Be careful before you attempt to nail up some boards on your own. “We often refer clients to someone who specializes in making custom closets,” said Melis. “It’s a whole trade in itself.”

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10. Open Floor Plans
To make your apartment truly modern, consider using a sledgehammer. Melis and Steier agree that taking out extra walls is a huge trend for remodeling apartments. “Many clients have had us take out the wall between the kitchen and the adjacent dining or living room,” said Steier. “It visually opens up the space.”

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Source : New York Resident, Interior Design

Näckros Villa designed by Staffan Strindberg architecture in Sweden. The 12×12 metre Villa has six rooms and a kitchen, 178 sq metres of living area, 125 square metres of terrace and 74 square metres of windows but is crammed with technologies to enhance your lifestyle and create an ambience of tranquillity and harmony with nature.

“The idea of living so close to the water and nature is really thrilling. The design is focused on bringing the surroundings inside, to get the feeling of the water into your living .” With water comes a special light and the reflections from the water that dance on the ceiling. Strindberg’s experience and fascination with water and light led him to explore far and wide, and he was particularly drawn to the “the beautiful treatment of the light that you can find in the old Turkish villas climbing the slope of the Bosporus around Istanbul where they mainly let the light in from below, reflected from the water.”

In building the site, Strindberg tried to foresee what could happen around the site, and then got more and more interested in the idea of not just one but several water houses and how to arrange the interior of the house for this imaginary pattern. “On one side you have the dock and on the other side you have the water, one official side and one private. How do you get the most out of the privacy and how do you make a welcoming entrance yet a distinct border for privacy?”

The entrance design takes into account various dock heights and those environments without a tide. The living room is as close to the water as possible and sleeping facilities are positioned so you go to sleep at the same level as the surrounding water. The layout is concentrated on opening the house to the water. The kitchen is close to the entrance and faces the quay but is also a part of the open area that includes the living room and the terrace.

Strindberg also had to address what the feeling and ambience should be based on, such as “what is a floating home, what does it stand for, does it have to look like other kinds of floating things that man uses, like boats?” “Should it even borrow details to associate to other floating vessels?” “What does it express in its design?”

These thoughts led to the decision that it should be a house, not a boat. “A house that takes care of the special qualities of the surroundings,” says Strindberg.

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