Aug 01, 2011 | Posted in Starr Spotlight |
Kimball Starr has recently been featured on the design article 10 Places to Go Bold with Pattern.
Below is an excerpt from the article:
“Lampshades. A big trend is to bring color and pattern into a room through lampshades, and this is a gorgeous example. Such an approach to bringing in bold pattern requires very little commitment, and is therefore a great place to start if not accustomed to living with bold pattern.”
Thanks Janell! We love you too!
Kimball Starr Interior Design is now on Houzz representing the San Francisco Bay Area. A great website full of ideas for everything related to designing your home interior.
The daily blog is written by a multitude of designers covering anything interior design related, and is rich in imagery for everything from kitchen and bathroom design ideas, paint colors, to designing outdoor spaces and gorgeous vacation homes.
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: bedroom, color, Houzz, pattern
Sep 19, 2009 | Posted in Inspirations |
These symbols for man and woman restrooms on a door caught my eye and gave me a laugh for the obvious reasons, which started me thinking about the power of symbols.
Symbols encapsulate so much meaning without the use of any words and they aren’t hindered by language barriers. Ever notice when traveling in a foreign country where you can’t speak the language how important those simple symbols become to you?
Symbols of a train or luggage, a martini glass, or a bed can make the difference between a great vacation travel day and a not so great one.
Symbols make great personalized art in your home. If you used playful symbols that speak to your interest, what would you hang in your home interior? Food and drink symbols are a relaxed way to give personality to a kitchen design.
Personally I love being outdoors, so a trio of adventure sports symbols hung in a rec room or at a vacation home are a perfect match for me. I especially adore the surfer girl crossing symbol shown below.
If you can’t find the symbol that you’re looking for, they are simple and uncomplicated to create. Draw the outline, create a stencil, and lay it over any surface and spray paint, stipple, or fill in with a metallic leaf. So just think of what you like and then create a symbol for it…the possibilities are endless!
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: art, signage, signs, stencils, symbols
Sep 03, 2009 | Posted in Inspirations |
Often times great art can come about by accident. For instance, I was driving along and wanted to capture the sky at twilight, but with my limited knowledge of camera apertures and the use of one unsteady hand to take the photo while driving resulted in… accidental art.
How many of you have taken a photo at night and didn’t have the camera on the correct setting, or couldn’t keep your hand steady? Your photo probably looked a lot like this image below.
Photo from BestFamilyPhotographyTips.com
A photo out of focus can be a beautiful accident. The energetic motion of the streaks of light will command attention in any urban living room design. For a visually powerful piece, dramatically enlarge the photo to cover an entire wall.
To accomplish the enlargement , transfer the image onto painter’s canvas for a more textured and abstract effect. Not only does this provide a more artististic feel, it allows some wiggle room for loss of image resolution from the enlargement. Split the image up onto multiple canvases, allowing for an interesting geometric configuration and ease of installation. Wrap canvases over 2″ deep frames for visual weight and then hang.
You now have a unique piece of photo art to decorate your home interior created by you! So go out and make a mistake, and create art from your own happy accident!
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: art, photography, wall accents
Aug 05, 2009 | Posted in How To & Decorating Tips |
When I think of palm trees, images of sand beaches, tropical water, and lazy days pop into my head. Needless to say, I’ve always had a penchant for these trees. So when I came across a tree-lined driveway of these tropical weather trees, I just had to show this early morning image.
A tree often associated with tropical destinations and informality can have the opposite effect of importance, formality, and create a sense of arrival and anticipation when used in repetition.
What’s especially wonderful about using these towering palm trees is the sense of grandeur they impart when driving between them and their versatility that makes them look right at home leading up to a Beverly Hills resort, a seaside home in Hawaii, or in the California countryside as seen here.
The key here is the immense height which gives the sense of importance, the repetition of the same size and shape to create a rhythm and formality, and of course the fact that they’re well maintained.
Duplicating this effect doesn’t have to be limited to palm trees! Any tree or hedge, such as junipers, that are trimmed or shaped in a strong geometric shape and repeated along an entrance will give you this sense of anticipation of arrival, and the taller the tree, the grander the sense of arrival. So go ahead and create your own exclamation point and make a grand entrance!
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: driveway, entrance, outdoor
