Interior Design News On 04/30/2008
Posted by Design Your Life on
April 29, 2008
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Interior Design Showcase in Historic Home
A formidable two-story brick house stands in Georgetown; its exterior gives no hints as to what awaits inside. Once a school for boys in the 1840s, the historic home located at 3014 P St. NW was completely renovated and given over to 15 area interior designers to create the 2008 DC Design House, benefiting the Children’s National Medical Center. The interior is a showcase of sophisticated design, style and luxury; perfect for the neighborhood.
Purchased by Skip and Debbie Singleton in 2007, the couple wanted to restore the home keeping the historic facade, but updating and completely gutting the interior to design a new modern floor plan. Interior designers from the D.C. area then set about decorating and designing the feel and layout of each room of the house, turning it into a showcase of modern interior design. The result is modern luxury that pays homage to its historic roots. Because of its past life as a boys school, the Singletons felt that a benefit for the Children’s National Medical Center would be appropriate for the show house, with admission to the house being donated to the Center.
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How To Create The Perfect Interior Design For Your Home
Whether you’re building a new home or renovating your present home, you’ll be giving a lot of consideration and thought to the type of style you want for the space and what the final design will look like. There are many different styles available today, with one appealing to you more than the other.
You may choose to use the services of an interior decorator or choose to do it yourself. Either way there are specific items in your home that will require the most details to get the renovating or design perfect. What are they? Let’s go through them right now.
1. Interior doors
Doors are a large part of your home. Although the architectural design of your home many seem like the most important detail, your interior doors will greatly influence the style of your home. Whatever style you decide you want to go with for your home, make sure the interior doors fit that style. For instance, if your home were designed in an elegant or classical decor, you would want elegant doors with character such as you’d see in French doors. You would not get the same elegant feel with plain doors without this detailing.
