Category: Interior Architecture

julie paulino Interior Design Mail Service

 

Interior Design Mail Service by Julie Paulino Design

I’m thrilled to announce that we at Julie Paulino Design are offering custom Interior Design Mail Service .  This virtual design service will allow savvy clients, who enjoy to be involved in the process of designing their homes the opportunity to work with a professional at their own speed and at an attainable flat fee. This web-based interior design mail service will focus on each room or rooms at a time and the process starts with you, the client:

 

–         filling out a questionnaire,

–         sending us photos of what you like as well as what you don’t like so we get a   sense of your lifestyle and taste,

–         you set your budget,

–         you can also send a list of your favorite places and travel destinations.

These steps will give us a broader understanding of your lifestyle and preferences.  After the first step of getting to know your style, then comes the second step which is when you send us measurements and pictures of the room from different angles, specifying the location of windows and doors.  We then get to work our magic and your virtual-design and planning of your room is then delivered to you by email or regular mail depending on what type of service you require, with the instructions you need to execute the final steps.  The final virtual-design guide sent to you will include floor plan, furniture selection, shopping list of accessories and everything else you need to make that room the room of your dreams, specifically designed for you based on your lifestyle.  A room not only should be aesthetically appealing but also functional.  Those who read my blog Belle Vivir are familiar with my motto of understanding that our surroundings influence our being and if we put in our homes only what we love based on comfort and functionality beauty will reveal itself. After all, having a warm, comfortably functional and beautiful home to come back to at the end of a long and hectic day, is what we all covet. A happy home which should render us with either a sense of comfort or reward at the end of our busy days.

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veined marble bathroom via belle vivir blog, heavily veined marble bathroom with painted tent half wall up

Veined marble bathrooms are as exquisite as it gets.  The exotic and exclusive material is the most coveted option when it comes to choosing stones for more refined bathrooms.  The myriad of Marble options can go from heavily veined and exotic ones to more simple ones, but the exotic ones capture still more attention and no wonder.  The more rare the marble the more expensive it is.  Usually this type stone needs to be imported from places such as Italy, France, Turkey and other countries where the rock is naturally produced.  Since heavily veined marble can be very pronounced and make such a statement, usually white marble is preferred so as to keep the effect more subtle and harmonious.  Bathroom is a room we use daily.    Of course nothing beats the the real deal, but not everybody can afford real marble and one way to accomplish an elegant result for your bathroom is mixing the high and low.  In our bathroom in New Jersey I did just that.  I used calacata gold marble in a mosaic patter for the floor and the shower I opted for porcelain that simulate marble.  In the top bathroom,  Thomas Jayne used statuary marble on floors and half wall.   Bathrooms with grey veined marble is a very popular option of more traditional home owners. The ceiling and upper wall is painted to simulate a tent.  via AD.

viened marble with marble carrara arasbescatto on walls, floor and vanity

Pierre Yovanovitch used a very popular type of marble in France.  Carrara Arasbescatto creates one of the most striking backdrops for any type of bathroom from traditional to modern.

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color black in Interiors, Jean Louis Deniot entryway the use of black in interiors via belle vivir blog

Jean Louis Deniot design

The color black in Interiors can elevate the most simple space to a more elegant and austere one.  There is probably no other color as classic as black and it never goes out of style especially when used in contrast with lighter colors.  The competence of the color black has been forever a favorite of many well-renowned designers and it has been a permanent and constant choice in interiors as well as in fashion.  No wonder black is well known as Cristobal Balenciaga’s preferred color as it’s demonstrated by the exhibition ‘Balenciaga, L’Ouvre ou Noir’ (All in Black) taking place at Palais Galliera in Paris now.  Its neutrality provides the flexibility of being paired with almost any other hue in the rainbow.  I love it in the first image below where the paneling is painted a light gray.  Either employed as a simple accent such as a decorative object or for covering all the walls in a room the effect of black in interiors is strictly elegant and timeless.

color black in Interiors, entryway with antique mirror and chandelier the use of black in interiors via belle vivir blog

Entryway via Architectural Digest.  Can you picture a colorful sideboard here instead? Neither can I.

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simone rocha living room

Simone Rocha‘s clothes are well known for their imaginative mixture of feminine, romantic and eclectic.  No wonder her home in London, which she shares with her partner and her toddler daughter, is a reflection of her clothing line.  The pink sofa is a nod to Simone’s love for flowers as well as the flower tapestry hanging in the bathroom.  I love the view to the garden out of her kitchen.

milimalist interior design, living room Joseph Dirand

If I was not an Interior Designer, Joseph Dirand would be the one designer who I would give complete authority to do my home.  But of course I don’t own an apartment in a 19th-century Haussmannian building on Avenue Montaigne, nor am I heiress to an Eastern European
fortune, so I could never afford such a talent.  Joseph Dirand’s latest project is a 6,500-square-foot abode with all the amazing details of French design such as perfectly restored moldings, parquet floors and 11-foot-high double doors.  Details that the talented Architect knows how to enhance without letting them take center stage to create the ultra-modernist/minimalist designs he is well known for.  Dirand was also in charge of assembling the art collection.  Everyone of Joseph Dirand’s projects display refinement and sophistication in a very restrain way, a style characteristic of French Designers.  As in this apartment can prove the attention to detail is in every space and furniture.

Joseph Dirand Latest Project living room design

A Francois-Xavier Lalanne sculpture in front of the marble fireplace.  The curves in the furniture harmonizes the square moldings and stone console and the soothing tones are elegant instead of chichi.

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This modern Parisian apartment was designed by Studio Razavi.  The clean lines throughout the apartment was an attempt to step away from the neo-classical features of the Haussmannian style, hence the use of geometric colorful murals on the entry walls and modern custom furniture.  The theatrical decor is a nod to the owners love for contemporary art and film.

colorful entryway in paris

The geometric murals in this entryway can be a great weekend project.

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