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Another year, another winning design

By M.L. Dehm For HBJ

Snohomish-based interior designer Tanna Barnecut won a national award last month for her work turning an empty basement in Selah in Eastern Washington into a cozy, cabin-like living space.

The homeowners made several requests for the basement of their home. The children wanted a place to play their games.

The husband wanted an attractive yet casual space for entertaining while the wife wanted room for working out. And they wanted it have to have a rustic feel.

"They wanted it to look like an old lodge," Barnecut said. "The most unique thing about it was the wall treatment. We did an entire wall of old reclaimed barn wood. We just left it in its natural state."

Barnecut personalized the decor for the owners by incorporating some of the husband's fruit box art work on the rough walls.

Dark brown furniture and layered rugs added to the feel. A custom shuffleboard table was built to fit the space with a one-time licensing fee contract to use the logo from their alma mater, Washington State University.

The makeover won Barnecut a 2013 Interior Design Society's designer of the year award in the category for specialty areas - media rooms, game rooms and home offices. Designers from Tennessee and Texas took second and third places in that category.

Barnecut's winning design was titled, "Lux Lodge." It's the second consecutive year that Barnecut, whose business is Tanna By Design, has placed first in a category of the competition that is open to 3,000 Interior Design Society members across the nation. Barnecut rounded out the first place win by placing third in the Living Spaces $30,000 and under category for 2013. Her 2012 first place win was in the kitchens category.

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The clients came to interior designer Laura Casey with a space dilemma: They did not want to give up the guest room in their suburban home, yet they needed a place for their child to play.

Casey came up with a solution often used in small urban apartments: a Murphy bed. It takes up less space than a sofa sleeper or futon and unlike many of those uses a standard mattress, so guests, including elderly grandparents, have a more comfortable stay.

"They did not want to compromise the quality of the mattress," said Casey, owner of Laura Casey Interiors in Charlotte, N.C.

The Murphy bed which tucks into cabinetry when not in use is enjoying new popularity as a stylish space-saver in many kinds of homes, not just studio apartments.

Laura Casey designed this Murphy bed for clients who wanted comfortable guest accommodations and a place for their child to play in the basement of their home in Charlotte, N.C. (Provided by Laura Casey Interiors)

"It's an interesting trend," said Chris Fahy, vice president of The Bedder Way Co. in Indianapolis, which makes Murphy beds and has seen sales rise in recent years. He says many customers are Baby Boomers, empty nesters, and other homeowners who want to turn a bedroom into a hobby room or exercise room, but still need a place for grown children, grandchildren or other guests to sleep.

Fahy's Murphy beds range in price from $1,300 to $3,100.

California Closets, which also makes custom wall beds, has seen the same upward trend, said Ginny Snook Scott, vice president for sales and marketing. Customers still buy Murphy beds for studio apartments and vacation homes, she said, but many others are looking to get more use out of an extra room.

The company designs vertical and horizontal Murphy beds, often incorporating them into cabinetry units for home offices or craft rooms. Prices range from $3,000 for a simple wall bed and desk to $20,000 for a custom project with extensive cabinetry.

Support pieces vary by manufacturer, but generally the mattress is encased in a frame that pulls out from a cabinet adhered to the wall. Today's improved mechanism for lowering and raising the bed makes the process an easy job for one person, Fahy said.

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When Meg Lonergan started house-hunting in Houston in 2009, the Louisiana native fell in love with the bungalows of the Heights.

"The charm of the old bungalows, it's not so polished, with a little bit of a messy element that reminded me of Louisiana," said Lonergan, the owner of LeSueur Interiors. "I like that kind of character."

Lonergan quickly settled on a century-old Acadian bungalow, with an offer accepted before her husband, Tim, even set foot inside the home. Arriving from Tim's homeland of New Zealand, the Lonergans moved in with a few suitcases of clothes and books and their wedding presents. In the four years since, they've filled their home with thoughtful art, bargain antique finds and a mix of Southern touches and global inspiration - not to mention two new major additions, 2-year-old Julian and 4-month-old Margot.

To accommodate her growing family, Lonergan transformed the second bedroom from a home office into a nursery. She used kid-friendly materials around the house, such as durable seagrass rugs and Louis Ghost chairs for the dining room table, rather than upholstered seats. Despite the changes, her commitment to maintaining a design-forward home is evident in the nursery. Dramatic navy walls are balanced by pops of gold (including on the cradle), an antique Khotan rug and an exotic bamboo armoire.

"I didn't really want to have a room only suitable for a baby for 12 months, and then need a more big boy or big girl room and have to change things around," said Lonergan. "I wanted a room they could grow into. My philosophy on kids' spaces is to make them not be specific to age. I like kids' rooms to feel sophisticated and not too saccharine."

The wall color, Farrow & Ball's Black Blue, was inspired by a display wall at Boxwood Interiors.

"It just took my breath away, the depth and the quality of color. I loved it, but I thought 'Is it going to be goth?' "

Overwhelmed by the dark intensity, Lonergan tried a more traditional navy for two days before reverting to her initial choice.

"It's really cozy and it looks good with gold. It wouldn't have worked without an element of contrast, though. The seagrass carpet, the light drapes and the huge mirror lightens it up."

Over the crib, on the wall is a sculpture by Houston artist Tara Conley that Lonergan found at Laura Rathe Fine Art when she was ten weeks pregnant with her son. In gold script, it reads "I love you more than I know how to."

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(PRWEB) February 27, 2014

SPRING 2014 Interior designer Perla Lichi (http://www.perlalichi.com) says that bright colors such as hot pink are wonderful accent colors for home dcor.

Confident people with bold tastes and outgoing personalities seem to enjoy surrounding themselves with vibrant colors, says the designer.

She proves her point by including The Happy Palace as a major chapter in her new coffee table book Palaces of the World. This featured home is awash with bright jewel tone hues in carpets, upholstery, art and accessories.

Believe it or not, I actually started my career doing contemporary design and used a lot of purple. In fact I used so much purple that I became known as Purple Perla. This season I may become known as Hot Pink Perla. Ms. Lichi is celebrating her incredible 30 years in the design business throughout 2014.

I do like to urge people to have fun with their interiors and adding punches of hot pink or purple is certainly a way to do that!

This may not be for everyone, cautions Ms. Lichi, who is most well-known for her classic, highly detailed luxury design. But vivid colors like hot pink create a happy ambiance that many people find cheerful and upbeat.

She adds, Interior design is always in sync with whats big in fashion, and pink is very popular with designers this season. Hot pink is a great color fun, fresh, bold, and with the right touch, it can brighten any home. I always encourage people to be adventurous with color and colorful accessories are a perfect way to do this.

For information, more photos or high resolution photos, please contact Janet Verdeguer at GAP Marketing 941-870-3422.

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