The hottest trend in metal design now is gold; as seen here with the mirror, ice bucket and butler cart.
Q: What was your inspiration to change the basic floor design on the main level? (Removing a wall to open up the front bedroom to create a dining room and moving the kitchen upstairs to the main level.) A: Basically, it was just an awkward layout to begin with. Something had to change. I feel like the kitchen is the heart of the home and that big, beautiful fireplace room just screams kitchen to me and was the obvious placement for it. It turned out beautiful. Q: We noticed the amazing copper hanging light fixture in the dining room and other light fixtures throughout the house don’t match. similar color, finish and a common likeness. Why do you stray from that mainstream design with your lighting? A: I think that my personal style has evolved over the years in my own home and what makes a house feel like a home, is that it doesn’t match and that we didn’t buy an entire room out of a box. We make it feel like somebody has lived here for a really long time and that the house has evolved as the people living there evolve. Each room is like its own space. Most homes feature a maker’s collection of lights that all have
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