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Top 10: Interior Designers to Know

1. Tom Egan
Evolve Residential
Lives in: Back Bay
Designing for: 15 years
Strength: “My ability to design both the architecture and the decoration.”
Palette preference: “My clients tell me theirs, and I make that beautiful.”
Architectural crush: The 1972 addition to the Boston Public Library by Philip Johnson
Favorite room in childhood home: “The front hall. It had a great staircase and proportions.”

2. Kristina Crestin
Studio KC
Lives in: Essex
Designing for: 9 years
Strength: Listening to and interpreting clients
Palette preference: Aqua, gray, taupe, chartreuse
Architectural crush: Boston Public Library
Favorite room in childhood home: “Wherever we were playing with Legos.”

3. John Pompeii
Pompeii Design Group
Lives in: The Residences at W Boston
Designing for: 8 years
Strength: “I have a photographic memory when it comes to color and a strong sense of design styles and possibilities.”
Palette preference: Soft, pale blues to warm grays
Architectural crush: MFA’s new Art of the Americas wing
Favorite room in childhood home: “My bedroom—it was fabulous even when I was eight years old.”

4. Sarah McGuire
Sarah McGuire Design
Lives in: South End
Designing for: 2 years
Strength: “I think it’s important to push my clients just a bit beyond their comfort zone.”
Palette preference: “I am currently hunting for the perfect cornflower blue.”
Architectural crush: “Anywhere with a courtyard—the Public Library, the Gardner Museum.”
Favorite room in childhood home: “The screened porch with swings hanging from an exposed beam.”

5. Stephanie Rossi
Spazio Rosso
Lives in: Boxborough
Designing for: 10 years
Strength: “I know my shit.”
Palette preference: “I don’t play favorites with colors. If it’s good, I like it; if it works, I use it.”
Architectural crush: The ICA and The Liberty Hotel
Favorite room in childhood home: “My bedroom. I rearranged the furniture and redecorated it too many times to count.”

6. Amanda Hark
Hark + Osborne Interior Design
Lives in: Needham
Designing for: 8 years
Strength: “Eclecticism! Mixing stately antiques with contemporary pieces.”
Palette preference: Neutral to cool gray tones
Architectural crush: Trinity Church in Copley Square
Favorite room in childhood home: “My bedroom. The walls were a soft pink hue, and my mother had hand-painted the ceiling a pale blue with puffy white clouds.”

7. Kate McCusker
Theodore & Company
Lives in: Fenway
Designing for: 6 years
Strength: “My attention to detail. I believe in hand-drawn floor plans and custom details.”
Palette preference: “I like bold colors. Right now I am obsessed with black, gold and magenta.”
Architectural crush: Liberty Wharf complex
Favorite room in childhood home: “My bedroom. Starting when I was 12, we moved often and I got to redesign my room each time.”

8. Kristen Rivoli
Kristen Rivoli Interior Design
Lives in: Winchester
Designing for: 25 years
Strength: “Connecting with my clients and being able to give them the home of their dreams.”
Palette preference: Rich, saturated colors that play off neutrals
Architectural crush: The new wing of the MFA
Favorite room in childhood home: “My mother’s walkin closet.”

9. Peter Rivoli
Design Complements; 617-242-7587
Lives in: Boston
Designing for: 16 years
Strength: Color and spatial design
Palette preference: Earth tones
Architectural crush: Trinity Church
Favorite room in childhood home:“The sunroom off the living room.”

10. Annsley McCaleer
Annsley Interiors
Lives in: Back Bay
Designing for: 11 years
Strength: “Fabrics. I love to shop for them, I love to place them—I just love textiles.”
Palette preference: Blue
Architectural crush: Boston Athenaeum
Favorite room in childhood home: “My first bedroom. My twin bed had a white bamboo-style headboard and a lime-green comforter with a white bamboo pattern.

VIA : IRINA GRECHKO

http://artcocktail.mallforarts.com/2012/06/an-artists-apartment-new-york/

The artist Jonny Detiger is living in this stunning apartment situated on a loft in New York; its design is

provided by the expert-architect Markus Dochantschi of the studio MDA. The unique objects and interior details, however, are completely implemented by the artist, owner of this apartment.

Top Five Trends for Luxury Interior Design in 2013

2013 is set to be the era of purity for interior design trends. Interior design 2013 is all about creating a free flowing space in which comfort and style are equally important.

An achromatic colour palette can be paired with dark, natural furniture and evenly dispersed lighting for a soft feel, whilst glass should be utilized wherever possible to open up your home to natural light. Craft design is still fashionable, albeit with a contemporary feel that makes use of light to open up your home, and primary colours are being showcased on walls and furniture for dramatic effect.

Check out the top five trends predicted to be big in interior design 2013.

Modern Industrial

Traditional will meet contemporary as natural materials are combined with synthetic ones in a melting pot of styles and designs. Computer generated photorealist fabrics and transparent wall features have been showcased alongside distressed furniture for a totally modern take on vintage.

Sustainability

Nature will be returning in a big way, making its presence felt through natural materials in furniture, walls and artwork, and colours will be cooling for a more soothing, elegant feel. Keep natural materials simple and minimalist for an up-to-date look which draws inspiration from the environment.

Homey Kitchens

The kitchen has returned to its rightful place as the heart of the home, but this time in possession of an increased social aspect. The modern kitchen is now a meeting place where conversations take place and people do more than eat.

Integrated Technology

The top trend for home interior design in 2013 is rooted in technology, but not as we’ve ever known it before. App technology for controlling ovens, touchscreen fridges, and tabletop tablets will all make their way into our homes over the coming months, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Bespoke Furniture

Interior design is all about using bespoke pieces to create a space which is uniquely ours. Bespoke furniture can range from customising leather sofas to distressing cabinets and can be done by a professional or on a budget at home. If you’re interested in customising leather sofas UK specialist Sitting and Sleeping has a wide selection of bespoke leather sofas and armchairs to choose from, at affordable prices.

Glamorous Futuristic Interior Design Concept by Karim Rashid

The Canadian designer Karim Rashid presented his new futuristic interior design concept called ‘Smart-ologic Corian® Living’ at Milan Design Week 2010. The idea is very unusual making the interior fresh, bright and spacey.

It has nothing in common with a traditional one. It will seem to you that you turn out to be in the world of unreal future.

Everything will surprise you: either engaging colour palette or the walls with different shapes. The apartments consist of a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom. The photovoltaic modules of DuPont, integrated into the roof, create environmentally-sustainable energy.

One more feature of the project is “Eco Bank”, an automatic system for the collection of rain water used to self-water the green mantle of grass planted into one of the seat’s undulating curves. Enjoy the delightful glam design of the future combined with high technologies.

Via : Kia

Estimating How Much Paint to Buy

Before you begin painting your home's interior walls, ceiling, woodwork, doors, or windows, you need to estimate the amount of paint you'll use. Estimates require specific calculations for each surface you want to paint.

To estimate the amount of paint you need in order to cover the walls of a room, add together the length of all the walls and then multiply the number by the height of the room, from floor to ceiling. The number you get is the room's square footage. Is that math class coming back to you now?

Now you have to determine how much of that square footage is paintable surface area. Because you use a different paint on the doors and windows, subtract those areas from the room total. No sweat, just subtract 20 square feet for each door and 15 square feet for each average-sized window in the room. You end up with a number that is close to the actual wall area you have to cover with paint.

In general, you can expect 1 gallon of paint to cover about 350 square feet. You need slightly more than a gallon if the walls are unpainted drywall, which absorbs more of the paint. You also need to consider whether to paint more than one coat. If you're painting walls that are unfinished, heavily patched, or dark in color, plan on applying two coats of paint.

When painting a dark color, pros often add a color tint to the white primer. Tints for both latex or alkyd paints are available at most paint stores. For best results, choose a tint shade that's closest to the top coat color.

Now for the clincher of the math problem. Divide the paintable wall area by 350 (the square-foot coverage in each gallon can) to find the number of gallons of paint you need for the walls. You can round uneven numbers; if the remainder is less than .5, order a couple of quarts of wall paint to go with the gallons; if the remainder is more than .5, order an extra gallon. Of course, buying in bulk is usually more economical, so you may discover that 3 quarts of paint cost as much as a gallon.

Examples

The following examples walk you through the calculations for determining how much paint you need for a 14-x-20-foot room that's 8 feet tall and has two doors and two windows.

Ceiling paint estimator

Use the following formula to estimate the amount of ceiling paint you need. Double the result if the ceiling requires two coats.

1. Multiply the length of the ceiling times its width to find its area.

14 × 20 = 280 square feet

2. Divide that number by 350 (the estimated square feet covered per gallon) to figure out how many gallons of paint you need.

280 ÷ 350 = .8

For this example, you want to buy 1 gallon of ceiling paint for a single coat.

Wall paint estimator

Use the following formula to estimate the amount of wall paint you need. Double the result if the walls require two coats.

1. Add together the length of each wall.

14 + 20 + 14 + 20 = 68 feet

2. Multiply the sum by the wall height, to find the total wall area.

68 × 8 = 544 square feet

3. Subtract 20 square feet for each door (20 × 2 = 40) and 15 square feet for each window (15 × 2 = 30) to find the actual amount of wall area you're painting.

544 – 70 = 474 square feet

4. Divide this figure by the paint coverage (350 square feet per gallon), and the result is the number of gallons to purchase.

474 ÷ 350 = 1.4

For this example, you want to buy 1 gallon and 2 quarts of paint for a single coat.

Woodwork paint estimator

Measure the length of the trim in feet, and multiply that number by 1/2 foot (.5), as a rough size for the width of the trim. Include all the trim around doors and windows, at baseboards, along the ceiling, and for any built-in furniture.

As an example, imagine that you have ceiling molding running around a room that is 14 feet wide and 20 feet long.

1. Determine the total length of molding around the room by adding together the length of all the walls that the molding covers.

Round the numbers off to the nearest foot.

14 + 20 + 14 + 20 = 68 feet

2. Multiply the sum by .5 for an estimated width of the molding.

68 × .5 = 34 square feet

3. Divide this number by 350 to estimate the gallons of paint required to cover the molding.

34 ÷ 350 = .09

The result in this example is much less than a quart, but you may paint other woodwork in the room the same color, so buying a full quart may not be terribly wasteful.

Door and window estimator

Use the same figure for estimating door coverage as you use in your wall-area calculations — 20 square feet = one door. Multiply the number of doors by 20, doubling the answer if you plan to paint both sides. Wall paint estimates allow for 15 square feet for each window. Use about half that window area to figure trim and inside sash — the glass isn't important to the calculation.

For the room in this example:

1. Multiply the number of doors by 20.

2 × 20 = 40 square feet

2. Multiply the number of windows by 7.5.

2 Windows × 7.5 = 15 square feet

3. Add these numbers together.

40 + 15 = 55

4. Divide the result by 350 (the estimated square feet covered per gallon).

54 ÷ 350 = .16

Often, you end up needing to buy only a quart of paint, which goes a long way on doors and window trim.