Many of you asked about my Gold Leaf DIY I completed for our living room design; I'm delighted to be sharing it over on The EveryGirl today! I've long been a fan of their site so I'm very excited to be collaborating with them to share this DIY with all of you!
If you complete this DIY, I would love to see your 'after' photos! Tag me on IG @janabekdesign or email them to me!
If this is your first time visiting my site, welcome! For the next 5 weeks I’m participating in the One Room Challenge & I highly recommend you get caught up to speed, see my hideous before photos, & learn more about the ORC challenge by checking out last week’s post here.
Wow has it been a week already?!
This past week has been about getting super organized, ordering all pieces for the space (rug, mirrors, art, etc), picking up the paint (Benjamin Moore's Revere Pewter) & mocking up my design on a storyboard. I’m pretty excited for my dreamy office space! You can see it’s definitely coastal inspired – a lot of blue & white, natural wood, & all easy on the eyes.
Here is my storyboard (this is what I do for my E-Design clients too). I find it’s always helpful for me to see everything together; to make sure the materials, textures, & colors all play well together. I know this Slim Aarons print is pretty popular; well I’ve loved it forever so I’m so excited to use it in this design!
The rattan chairs you see in the photo are these bad boys:
I scored them on Craigslist and have been waiting to recover them. I decided to go with white linen because I’ve searched for a pair forever & I want them to be versatile when I want to mix things up. I was going to have them professionally reupholstered but I’m going to try to tackle the reupholstery. I DIY'd my headboard so I’m pretending the chair cushions are like baby headboards, right?!
Also on my (husband’s) to-do list is installing Ikea cabinets behind my desk like Jen from MadebyGirl did in her dining room:
Then the bamboo mirrors will go above it like in my storyboard design. This was my inspiration for the mirrors (via Better Homes & Gardens)
So to recap, here’s what’s on my to-do list:
Paint room (that’s happening this weekend!) & bring furniture downstairs
Install Ikea Cabinets
Hang Mirrors & Art
Reupholster Chairs (serenity now!)
Paint Brushstroke Lamps for Office
I will be creating a source guide for all of the items in my design & will post that soon.Thanks so much for cheering me on & hope to see you next Wednesday! If you want to see what I'm up to in the interim you can follow my @janabekdesign on instagram & twitter & on Facebook.
The group is up to some gorgeous scheming so be sure to check out their sites at links below!
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Hi All! I’m so excited (and honestly a bit nervous) to be a part of the One Room Challenge! Over the next six weeks, twenty Interior Design bloggers will completely transform a room from start to finish, blogging progress updates every Wednesday. The One Room Challenge (ORC) was started a few years ago by Linda of Calling it Home; I’ve always been so amazed and inspired by the spaces the designers have dreamed up! This is my first time participating & I’m delighted & humbled to be included in this roundup of crazy talented designers!
If you are new to Jana Bek Design, welcome & thank you so much for stopping in! I’m an interior designer in Ann Arbor, MI. Most of my designs are implemented through my E-Design Services, although I also do live interior designs as well. More recently I have launched my line of Hand Painted Brushstroke lamps (woo-hoo!) the first category of what I’m planning to be a full line of Home Décor products. I love color & pattern but built on neutral foundations so I have flexibility to mix things up as my taste change. I love layering vintage & modern pieces and as of late I’m entirely in love with light, airy, coastal aesthetics. Find me @janabekdesign on Twitter & Instagram to see additional photos of my style.
I have a lovely office (see below). It’s great but here’s why it’s not everything I need:
This room is upstairs & gets the absolute best morning light, which I need for painting my Brushstroke Lamps. So whenever I want to paint, I have to completely “paint proof” the room, proving quite inefficient.
I’ve also found I prefer doing interior design work on our main level. I like moving around when I work and it feels isolated being in the upstairs office for long periods of time. The space is perfect for painting – I turn on music and work for a few hours in a calm beautifully sunlit space, but for the many hours required for design, I get cagey.
This space is going to become a studio space for painting & wiring my lamps. I’m not designing this space for ORC – it will be lots of lovely Ikea I’m sure.
When I was gripping to my husband about the shortcomings of my existing office (cue the violins, I know) he generously offered up his office for my designing and business related work. Separated through large French Doors, the space is perfectly located off the kitchen & TV room (I’m obsessed with the Food Network & Bravo which often play in the background while I work).
Obviously this was a sweet gesture but let it be known that he’s always hated it & never uses it. Before he met me, he hired a designer who convinced him to paint it the saddest shade of burgundy. No wonder he never liked it, it is depressing!
Here are some photos of its sorry state. (It was even worse – overstuffed with a huge wood desk & barristers abound) but I failed to take photos because as soon as hubs offered it up I leapt at the chance before he could change his mind.
Whether designing for myself or my clients, I pride myself in being practical. Is there something that can be refurbished? What do we have that may still work in the space? Etc. So I’m definitely carrying pieces from my previous office into the new space (desk, chair, & coffee table).
Also, we plan on downsizing at some point in the not-so-distant future. I moved here from NY almost two years ago and lived in a petite 600sqft studio (tour it here) and love the efficiency of a more compact space: you have what you need & not much more. Our current house is 6500sqft, and while beautiful, it can be a bit overwhelming!
So for these reasons, I’m taking the mindset that anything I do to this space will be:
Relatively inexpensive
OR
If more costly, it will be something a) I absolutely love & b) will be versatile enough to use in smaller space
Vibe for the space…
I’m a huge fan of color & pattern but lately I’m loving everything lighter with a coastal lean - a little less tailored and more relaxed. I think designing this beachy abode for my NY client got me jazzed about everything being easy on the eyes, you can see more photos of that design here & here.
I want the space to feel like a big sigh of relaxation with pops of glamour. Here are some photos that are inspiring my design; you can view more on my Pinterest board here.
I MEAN this Palm Beach Bungalow by Anna Burke is the perfect balance of coastal & modern, cannot stop dreaming about it!
Claiborne Swanson Franks NY apartment is seriously swoonworthy
And I love the lived-in easy elegance of India Hicks Bahamas home
I’ll be sharing more in depth plans next week so be sure to stop back! Also you can keep up with any scheming in the interim on instagram & twitter @janabekdesign.
Thanks so much for stopping! Be sure to check out what rooms these talented ladies are transforming via links below!
Trademarked by Calling it Home
The lovely, amazingly talented Kristin Jackson of The Hunted Interior just revealed her complete living room redesign today. Home Depot & Home Decorators Collection sponsored the redesign in entirety (amazing) but she only had mere weeks (yipes!) to overhaul the space.
You would never imagine the design was sourced only from two retailers; it's so layered and lovely. She could only keep a few already owned items in the space & I'm so happy my fuchsia brushstroke lamp made the save list! Head on over to check out her jaw dropping space!
I know I've been neglecting my pledge to blog more but something so exciting is starting tomorrow that will get me in gear! So come back tomorrow & see what I'm scheming!
