And the Winner of This Weeks Tres Chic Giveaway is...

This week's Tres Chic Giveaway winner is Ashley Culberson!!  To claim your custom black lacquer barstools and schedule delivery please email us at info@lgreenstudios.com with in 20 days of winning.  Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend...

And the Winner of This Weeks Tres Chic Giveaway is...

The winner of this weeks giveaway item an wonderfully aged persian rug is Heather Gentner!!  Please email us at info@lgreenstudios.com to schedule delivery to your doorstep...Congratulations!!

The Roswell Current, May Issue

Introducing Organic Prints to Your Palette

Editorial By: Laura Green Thome;May 2010 The Roswell Current;http://www.theroswellcurrent.com/


Sophistication used often, but rarely defined well~ in homes it seams anyway! Most of us live a cluttered life and an overwhelmingly distracted existence. Par for the course for most everyone with all the gadgets and devices we use frequently. Simply defining your style and color palette along with a little or a lot of spring cleaning will help you incorporate a more sophisticated approach to day to day life. Many of you have written in and requested actual color recommendations. So here we go-keep in mind hours upon hours are spent by designers in color theory classes and studying color, hues, shades and tones. So my recommendations are limited at best in their application to each consumer—that is why there are so many options to suit each individual best!


Let’s start with one of my favorite color teams. Experts forecasted color this year as being vivacious, fun-loving and lively for the season. Here is a color sampling of what is in store for the duration of the year from Pantone’s color forecast 2010:
If you are ready to paint your living room this season try Farrow & Ball’s Arsenic in a pale room full of neutral furniture, have it mixed in a satin finish and try three coats with a glossy glaze on top. The resulting color intensity will evoke a fresh invigorating feeling as you pass through and enjoy evenings at home during the coming months. In the fall try adding a few indigo colored throws around and adding a chunky hound’s tooth fabric on a few ottomans with dark architectural legs. Also introduce a few dark indigo lamps with chocolate card shades for another layer of richness. You will want to drink this color up all year long!


It is of the utmost significance when balancing color intensity with crisp definition to use natural fibers and nubby woven textiles in combination to form a wonderful warm palette. While using solids introduce a few organic linen prints or tobacco leaf prints as a focal point on a settee or as a drapery panel. Many times I use a tobacco leaf print coated in vinyl as a powder room wallpaper. This adds an element of both confidence and comfort, organic patterns are so important in adding that touch of personality whether light and airy or stunning and contrasting, go ahead and introduce a few patterns to your palette.


If you are wanting a bright and cheery sunroom or breakfast room after this years long cold winter~Try Farrow & Ball’s Citron in ½ strength formula. The color will intensify in large areas so make certain with a sample pot that you like it’s acidity for your home. If you have the panache to carry it you have the talent to put together the proper art and accessories—I assume?




On the subject of panache, I absolutely love pistachio’s are they related, of course not! But it did remind me that my favorite Guest Room I have ever worked on was the color of a pale pistachio ice cream and we used it in combination with ivory lacquer on the bed and Ivory/Taupe subtle strie on the drapery panels. The bedside table was an antique primitive American piece done in a walnut. It was so simple but just called you to have a mint julep and unwind after a long day…For that color try: Pantone Paints, Luminary Green 12-0525 similar to Endive shown above. Shown here is a recently completed Great Room in Atlanta done in a crisp and understated green, we contrasted the wall color with crisp Belgian Linen Panels balancing the simplicity with a few Hinson & Bergamo Fabrics.

According to Devoe Paints Color Psychology: “If green is your favorite color, this indicates stability, balance and persistence. Organization is fundamental to your environment. When you start something, you finish it. You tend to be honest, moral and sensitive to social etiquette. Exceptionally intelligent, you understand new ideas and before making decisions, you recognize the importance of having all the details and considering outcomes.” Check out other impacts of color on your mind at: http://www.devoepaint.com/Jahia/home/color/clrcolorpsychology

And the winner is...

And the Winner of the first Tres Chic Giveaway Item is... (announced early)
Katie McGoogan Weeks!!! The custom Hickory Chair Bergere is all yours!!! Please contact us at info@lgreenstudios.com for delivery to your doorstep next week...

 For Tres Chic Giveaway Details see post below...Enjoy!  

Come on by for an Early Summer Soiree at Cest Moi!!~

Would love to have you join us for our first early summer soiree at Cest Moi on May 13th, Next Thursday, 7pm for a FREE SEMINAR!!! Topic: 'Using What You Have Well & When To Know The Difference'  A Q&A session will be held immediatly following.  Feel free to bring your pictures for free design advice during the Session.  Wine & Cheese along with other refreshments will be served...

We look forward to seeing you!  Laura Green Thome

For Directions: http://www.thecafeparis.net/

To RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=111142872260983&ref=mf

Tres Chic Giveaway Contest...

Tres Chic Giveaway


May is Tres Chic Month at L. Green Studios, LLC. We are giving away one weekly item du jour for each of the four weeks in May. Each item to be given away will be on May 7th, May 14th, May 21st & Final Item on May 28th. In order to be eligible for entry you must be a L. Green Studios Facebook Fan, all fans will be entered in each weekly giveaway.

Become a Fan and win a wonderful piece to add to your collection... http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/L-Green-Studios/105499070408?ref=ts


Giveaway Details: For every person you recommend that becomes a fan you will be eligible for one additional entry ticket for each raffle. In order to claim the referrals/additional entry tickets you send you must email the name of each fan you have suggested to us at info@lgreenstudios.com by Noon on the day of the giveaway. Each item will be featured the week it is to be given away on our blog & on Facebook. We will be giving away a few great wool rugs, custom furniture pieces & the Grand Prize on May 28th is a free room makeover to the winner, details to follow. Each winner will be announced at 4pm on the day of the raffle.  To claim your Item if you are announced a winner, you must respond via info@lgreenstudios.com within 20 days of winning. 


Items du jour

1. Custom French Cabriole Leg Hickory Chair Chair in Bone White with Tan Linen Value $1850

2. Beautifully aged approx. 60 year old wool Persian Rug in Ivory & Apple Green 8X10 Value $1,700

3. Pair of Beautiful Hand carved Black Lacquer Barstools Value $1,050

4. Free in home Room Makeover details to follow Value $3,000

Windsor, Coming Together, Nestled Just Outside Atlanta

We have recently put together this wonderful home just outside of Atlanta, in suburban Cobb County, where we have infused a subtle palette of color with the homeowners collection of things.  We added complimentary pieces where needed including this really fantastic table by The Bowback Chair Company in a salvaged old knotty pine with great patina.  We completed to look in the Breakfast Room with Asymetry.  Three Chinese Chippendale Chairs in a Bone Colored Lacquer with a fantastic updated version of a classic summer check, allusions to an ikat, for those of you looking close enough!  The remaining three classic Louis chairs compliment and close the space off further defining the intimacy of a quiet dinner or brunch.  Enjoy!  More to come...

Photographed by Sarah Emrich

Sneak Preview to March's Editorial...

Form vs. Function in Your Home, Where it matters…
By: Laura Green Thome
Not yet released to be published March 1, 2010


Many times I am asked by clients if I had to choose form vs. function, which would I choose? The answers I wish were a simple one! Yet it has so many facets and is so much deeper than one might think. When it comes to your home there are many moving parts and many areas that significantly change annually or seasonally, this makes it completely impossible to always choose one over the other. Remember, when you were young, your grandmother told you never to use never or always. The same is true when it comes to this question! I have included different areas of your home where one matters over the other and my recommendations in each area. Enjoy these photographs done by Blayne Beacham of my personal prep kitchen and Living Room!

Photographed By: Blayne Beacham

 

Let’s start with the heart of the home the kitchen: In your kitchen whether you have an eat-in or a galley you spend a great deal of time there as do your guests and family. Kitchens are definitely about function first and foremost, form being the secondary consideration when designing. That being said the form with which you enhance the function can make all the difference in your home evoking that feeling you are aiming for. I recommend the ‘cooking triangle’ when setting up your sink, refrigerator & cook top/stove. This simple geometric configuration minimizes steps involved in preparation and eases the wear and tear on your body over a lifetime. Larger kitchens are not always better, although they make for great entertaining! Many times when designing a large kitchen the triangle is still used for the preparation area to promote ease for whomever may be cooking. More to come... 

Blogs to Follow...

So in light of all the transformations taking place in business today ~ budget cuts, advertising and their vehicles (Magazines, Journals, Local Papers) have taken some major hits as well.  Blogging and online magazines such as Lonny Mag have been founded to fill the gaps.  Lonny Mag was founded by displaced editors from the fallen Domino Magazine, I applaud their resilience.  What I have continued to find is that it is not the easiest thing to find the great blogs that are out there, so I have put together a list of a few of the blogs that seem to have good content...


http://stylecourt.blogspot.com/
http://thepeakofchic.blogspot.com/
http://highglossblue.blogspot.com/
http://www.thisphotographerslife.com/
http://blog.atlantahomesmag.com/tags/atlanta-homes-lifestyles/
http://materialgirlsblog.com/
http://thegeorgianrevival.wordpress.com/
http://negriphotography.com/
http://www.nestegg.typepad.com/
http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/
http://tobifairley.com/blog/
http://cocokelley.blogspot.com/
http://www.thingsthatinspire.net/
http://brookegiannetti.typepad.com/velvet_and_linen/
www.theartfullifestyle.blogspot.com
http://www.absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com/




Enjoy~more blogs to come...

February's Antidote: Bookshelves

February’s Perfect Antidote: Bookshelves

The Roswell Current February 12, 2010

By: Laura Green Thome

The perfect way to spend time indoors combined with a ‘do it yourself project’ and well weather that is too cold to do anything other than drink hot tea and plan~Bookshelves!!!

I can’t tell you how often I spent hours arranging and rearranging bookshelves while working on projects, thinking… ‘I spent all those studio hours for this?’ Well, it has paid off and I now understand fully how great of an impact bookshelves and the arrangement of such has on a home or space. The simplistic nature of them provides ample backdrop to be a near perfect canvas to set the tone of your home. With the right built in you can seasonally or weekly, depending on your compulsion change the attitude of your space.


I was recently in Houston working on an installation and we were able to completely change the visual impact of the home by reconfiguring the built-in bookcases. Shown Below:

We used a well poised collection of artifacts, objects of art, journals, studies & books to pull together a simple and sophisticated space. Starting with grouping the collected objects according to color palette and size, we then grouped them in an asymmetrical arrangement to balance the room. Each artifact must be balanced by each sub sequential artifact, and book further balanced by another set of books or journals. I love introducing unusual pieces layered on top of a stack of horizontal books. The intrigue and forms made by layering the objects causes a certain amount of illusion causing your eye to be drawn to the niches created. It is almost as if each grouping becomes a vignette itself. While total time spent was almost five hours grouping and arranging bookshelves, the result was breathtaking. The client could not have been more pleased, saying that they would actually enjoy sitting & entertaining in the room now that things seemed so much more inviting and pleasant.



So make a list, look at your bookshelves and built in millwork and get to work this weekend! You will need to first take everything down off the shelves, then dust while you are at it of course! Then group all books and journals according to size and color, after grouping them you will want to start arranging the books in blocks, starting at the centerline first. Once you have established your symmetry or asymmetry, you may start introducing art or objects of art into the mix. You will soon start to get into a pattern resulting in a wonderful, well balanced and pleasing mix of your personal articles that seems to beg others and guests to get to know you better!~Enjoy the process and take your time! ~Laura

Westgate Coming Together Houston, TX

We had a great weekend installation & design development presentation in Houston, TX. What a fabulous city! Great rug shopping with Abraham, food at Central Market http://www.centralmarket.com/

Enjoy watching with us as it all comes together...

Detail at Custom Millwork in Living Room

Detail at Mies Van der Rohe Chairs in Living Room

Detail View from Dining Room into Living Room...

more to come...

Dear Designer, January 2010

Dear Designer, I recently renovated a small space with light walls and am having window treatments made for a pair of French doors. I plan on having full-length panels made floor to ceiling but am curious if I should have grommets or pleats at the top to complete the look? Marge, Roswell



Dear Marge,
I would definately go for the classic pleats in the type of space you are describing. While the grommet look is very on trend right now it really is not a classic treatment for an interior space. My favorite two pleats are a Goblet pleat or a French pleat -- both allow the material to move naturally and give a full body to the drapery panel. I also recommend doing at minimum a width and a half for each panel, as the pleating takes up several inches of width per pleat. You want each panel to look nice and full, not skimpy. The only application for which I really recommend grommets is in an outdoor room such as a lanai or screened room with an outdoor entertaining area. The grommets allow for easy sliding along the rod and keep there from being too many folds in the material, retaining moisture. Let us know how they turn out and send in a picture! -Laura