Do you remember when I did a dining room consultation for the Bright family awhile back? (Click on that link if ya wanna read, or re-read, all about it!)
(Move your cursor back and forth over the photo below to see what I suggested!)
Well, my friend Beth decided to use it as inspiration for her dining room a while back, and in case you haven’t seen it, I thought I’d feature it here on the blog today.
Here it is decorated for Spring…
And here it is decorated for Fall…
Isn’t it absolutely lovely? I’m totally diggin’ those monogrammed chair backs. (and that amazing brick wall!)
She really nailed the sideboard styling too. Look at those framed corks, hanging lanterns and tall, skinny lamps!
She even used an oversized basket filled with hydrangeas on the floor on one side of it- just like in my photo drawing! Neat-o!
Rumor has it she’s got a whole buncha’ Sherwin Williams “Sea Salt” colored paint in her house right now, just waiting to go up on the walls. So I have a feeling that pretty soon, the room will actually look more like this…
(Move your cursor back and forth over the photo below to see!)
…but you’ll have to stay tuned to Beth’s blog to find out for sure!
PS- I stopped accepting new design consultation clients a while back because they take a really long time to do from start to finish, and I started having a really hard time balancing everything. I’ve got a few clients left to finish up with, but I will continue to post some new (and old) “just for fun” ones here on the blog every now and then. Hopefully some of the ideas will come in handy to some of our readers, like the Brights consult did for Beth. I have, however, been toying around with the idea of creating an (under $10) e-book for folks who might be interested in taking a more in-depth look at some more of my past design consultations, or for folks who have Photoshop and are interested in learning how to create presto chango’s themselves. I’ve had the pleasure of working on almost a thousand rooms at this point, so I could definitely jam pack that sucker with lots of tips, tricks and inspiration! Consider this a sort of “informal poll”, if you will, and leave me a comment if you’d be interested in learning/reading about those kinds of things. If there’s enough interest, maybe I can put something together by next Spring. Thanks!
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Wow that is one beautiful dining room. I love the exposed brick!
Beautiful brick wall! I love what she did with it!
I’ve been wanting to know how you do those before and afters in photoshop so consider me voting yes!
Layla….I’m currently enrolled in the Sheffield Course and would ABSOLUTELY L.O.V.E. it if you would put something together on how to use Photoshop to design a room. I have Photoshop CS3. (and Elements 7)
It is your blog and your redesigns that inspired me to pursue my dream in interior design. Your home…and the Cottage Style speaks to me!
Thanks for sharing all your work with us!
Cheri
Cheri, How far along are in the Sheffield Course? I have been thinking about doing it and was wondering how people in the design industry feel about the course. Thanks!
I agree, this blogs and others like it really inspire me too!
First of all, the room is gorgeous and secondly, I love hearing the thoughts behind the details. I can only imagine how busy you are though and totally understand if something must go.
Beautiful she will love the sea salt it looks a lot like a color we used in the cottage called dockside haze….love it.
Love when you share the design process….thanks
I would love to know how to do the befores and afters. It would come in handy when trying to convince my husband of something. 🙂
Love her dining room! I need a make-over in mine!
So beautiful; wow!! The brick wall is amazing. And I would LOVE to have some kind of photoshop tutorial; I would buy that in a heartbeat!
Aw, thanks girl! (Thanks also for removing my vacuum cord from the pic! LOL!) I cannot figure out Photoshop for the life of me, but I would by your e-book to try!
I would buy that e-book in a minute! I’ve been wanting a design consult but couldn’t figure out which room to choose. So maybe I could do all my rooms myself. How fun!
Layla, I’d definitely be interested in that e-book!! I am currently taking the Sheffield course and have been wondering how you do your presto changos and your e-decorating renderings! Would absolutely be happy to pay for an e-book containing info on this!!
yes, i’d love to know how you do those presto chango’s! i have such a hard time visioning what the room will look like. i need to learn to do this!
Vote me yes, please!
Looks great! I just love those monogrammed chairbacks as well!
I vote for a neck massage. I got whiplash looking back and forth at all those beautiful things!!!!!!!!!
A brick wall is to die for. I wonder if Brad would be ok with me tearing through my drywall?????
I’d love to see more in depth design consultations!! I love your style and am sad that I wasn’t able to get a consultation for myself!! I could live vicariously through others!!
I’d love an e-book filled with your design consultation before and afters. How fun! A go-to book of ideas would be stellar.
I’d love to find out how to do presto chango’s! Oh, and I definitely would buy the e-book, especially if you could give ANY idea for how to incorporate a flat-screen TV hung on the wall and make it “blend” with any decor. My wall has been blank for 2 YEARS because I don’t know how to decorate around the huge “man-screen” that is the bane of my decorating existence!
Yes on the photoshop tutorials, I would love to learn all about these presto changeos – so i can convince my husband to make the changes that i want around the house! We’re both visual people, so Photoshop has been a lifesaver for us in deciding some house-related things – and getting better with Photoshop would be great!
I love her dining room!! That brick wall is amazing! I would totally buy your e-book!
I would certainly be interested in an e-book. Love your suggestions. Sally
I have been looking for those natural shades for my own dining room. Does anyone have a store or online site they can recommend?
yes, count me in on the Photoshop tutorial. I’d love to be able to do the presto chango.
thanks, denise
I love the changes she has made, I too adore that brick wall. I have an ugly brick fireplace, if I could make it look like that, I would love it. I wonder how I would accomplish it?
Hugs, Cindy
Thanks for the post about Beth’s room. I love the exposed brick, and I think the sea salt paint will look beautiful next to it.
I think your idea of the e-book is an excellent one. Keep us posted about your decision!
Looks amazing!
Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!!!!!!!!! And YES!
I’d love to learn the art of the presto-chango and would definitely pick up the e-book. Get to work!!!! 😉
Presto chango stuff with how you cut and paste, twirl, position info for me! May I have it by next week? LOL
Donna
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Yes! I love your first e-book and help in figuring out photoshop would be great!
That dining room in the first picture has been in my inspiration folder since you posted it the first time (and I don’t even have a dining room yet haha) . I adore what Beth did with it. Her room is gorgeous! I can’t wait until I have my own dining room so I can interpret it in my own way.
I’m voting YES to the e-book!!!
I would love some help with photoshop!
This is awesome! I love that brick wall too….those lanterns…oh my, I need to find out where she bought those 🙂
I love seeing your makeovers a e-book would be fun!
XO
Kristin
I’ve already told Kristin that I go the lanterns at the Christmas Tree Shop for like $7 each. But those who are still pining for lanterns can find some online at Target here: http://www.target.com/Watchman-Globe-Lantern/dp/B003GVDVWE/ref=sc_qi_detaillink
YESS!!!! I would pay MORE than $10 for an e-book on how to do before and afters in Photoshop. That would be so awesome! I can paint walls, and usually I can pick up items with the magic wand and place them in a new picture. What I cannot figure out for the life of me is how to angle items like rugs to look as if they are lying on the floor. You have such a talent for placing things in Photoshop. I’d like just an ounce of that talent! So YES please do an e-book!
I’m super bummed you aren’t doing makeovers anymore, but it’s totally understandable. 🙂
I’d love presto-chango 101! My masterbath remodel might actually get finished…
Looks great! I love those chairbacks and that blue is going to look fabulous!
I’m voting “yes” for the Photoshopping tuturials!
I would definately purchase that e-book!
Layla, Yes, yes, yes I’d love to buy an e book to learn how to do those presto changos in photoshop. I’ve been on your list forever for a consultation and am sad to learn that you’re not doing them anymore. I’m desperate for some help with my challenging master bedroom and have been for 13 years. Please consider seriously doing the e-book to help the decorating challenged among us.
P.S. Love the way your own master bedroom is coming along. Please keep us posted with lots of photos and thanks for your inspiration.
I would definitely LOVE LOVE LOVE to know how you do those “presto chango’s”! I tried to figure it out a while back but I need a step by step (hold my hand) manual. I could spend all day trying out different scenarios for my house. Consider me IN!
Absolutely!!! I’d buy the ebook. Sad to hear about no more consultations, though I understand why. Sure wish I could have gotten one for every area of my house! I love how you take someone else’s style and expand on that, rather than simply making it your style–not that there is ANYthing wrong with your style!!
I would LOVE a tutorial on photoshop makeovers-so “Yes Please”…when can i buy it?
Amazing presto change-o’s. I’d read anything you write, go for it! I especially like your vlogs though. You and Kevin are a dynamic duo.
I would love to know how you do the makeovers in photoshop and would happily invest in your tutorial ebook!
Love these presto-Chango’s! Beth’s room looks great! Thanks for all the inspiration. I vote YES to the Photoshop presto-chango e-book (complete with how to do the mouse-overs, those are neat)
~Jazz
Yes, please! I’d love it and would be very grateful if you made both: an e-book with past design consultaions and an e-book with how-to’s for the presto-change-os with tips, tricks, and inspiration–or a big e-book with all of the above!
I’m so, so very sad to find out that you are not taking any more design consulations, although I certainly understand why. However, it would be so very generous of you and helpful for us who love your work and had hoped to get a personal consulation one day to at least try to take some baby steps on our homes with your information. Please, please make the e-books!
Oh I love this one! I’ve recently become a big Beth fan myself, and love her sweet spirit and blog. 🙂 Fun that you featured her. Two precious ladies, you gals are!!!
Aw, I love you too girl :).
Yes, I’d be TOTALLY interested to see your e-book. I’ve checked out several others and they’re awesome and super handy, so it’d be fab to check out yours too! Such talent you have lady!
I’m a HUGE photoshop freak and I love doing before/after transformations in it with the sections I’ve been making over for our little studio. That program is essential for any designer – not that I am one! I have to figure out how to code the switcheroo like you did on this post. I could do it in html,..but not sure if it’s a plugin I should be using on here…etc.
P.S. – I think we have the same blog template. Did you use Genesis? It took me so long to figure out the code for it. How do you like it? I’m still not sure if I’ll be keeping this one or trying out a new one – but so far, I like! Great job on yours by the way. 🙂 (Ok, I blabber too much.)
Wishing you endless success!!
Be sure I am interested about your e-book 🙂
I wanted to ask you how you remake those photos, but when I read about the upcoming e-book, I started dancing 😀
I do own Photoshop, and use it quite well, but I have to learn so much more… Yours tips and tricks would be SO helpful.
Rooms look amazing, and although I follow your blog for a while, I didn’t see all your design inspirations…and now this is going to change
Wish you a lovely day
Millie @passiondecor
Hey Layla! First off, Beth’s room rocks and the exposed brick is to die for! Secondly, I HAVE to know where the Brights got those dining room chairs…please let me know if you know. I have been looking for the chairs with the rounded backs FOREVER and can’t seem to find them anywhere! I want 4 for my kitching table…I already have the fabric to upholster them and everything. (can you say putting the cart before the horse?!) 🙂
I would love to have the presto chango secret and also a tute on photo shop…I keep telling you I want you to rub off on me! lol 😉
Talk to you later sweet girl!
HUGS!