Home Furnishings & Remodeling

A home makeover with simple a coat of fresh paint and a thoughtful rearrangement of your own fine furniture and home accessories can refresh your interiors with each transition in your life. Gain a new outlook on life by stirring things up in a new room design!
Presented in MBA Remodeled Home Tour, 2003

Treasured furnishings that were built to last years ago need only be reupholstered to last another generation. When graceful aging in the place you love is your goal, then bringing in new fabrics and finishes onto the furniture you love is the key to a new beginning on the next stage of life in your own home.

Book clubs, private reading time and a welcoming living room entry to your home is well served by luxurious fabrics and leather on custom made furniture. Fine accessories, Persian rugs and hand-woven throws add a level of comfort that brings rich beauty into daily living.

The new built-in bookcase surrounding the lapis granite fireplace in this "not so big house" adds a sense of elegance with reupholstered furniture. Family gathering and dinner guests are well managed with a living room furniture arrangement made for pleasant conversations, or family reading time around the fire.

For the growing young family with the professional home office, only a large home entertainment space will be enough to be an all-in-one room. By day a rec room, by evening an business dinner party room, and on holidays a guest room with a hidden built-in wall bed. The home decor of rich fabrics and leather furniture with a jungle theme are a nod to the great, great grandfather who went on safaris in Africa.

Tucked quietly away from the busy family life upstairs, this home office with private entry lets the pros get work done on the global Internet highway. Traditional custom cabinets and leather furniture have all the amenities of the high-rise corner office.

Entertaining out-of-town business guests with your best party idea is handled easily with refreshments readily available near the awards display. The built-in wall unit with wine cooler create an ambiance of both comfort and professionalism for the home office adjacent to the Business and Family Entertainment Center.

When the furniture you own is the most comfortable sofa passed down through generations, the best choice is to refurbish it with new long-lasting fabrics and accessories. All one needs is a hint from the past to create a home makeover with a new level of comfort in a cozy, unique historical home, to make the next generation of treasured furnishings.

When living in tight quarters, every furniture piece is multi-purpose. Here, the home office doubles as the guest room for the visiting family, the storage for seasonal items, the file room and the foyer entry, as well as the quite place to work. The custom furniture was designed to match antique armoire.

This custom daybed on the house boat stores file cabinets below for the home office and has arms that hold the coffee cup or glass of wine, yet folds out into a full size bed. This guest bedroom furniture has cushions precisely sized to tuck behind the bed, and also fit perfectly against the arms for a little light reading while lounging in the daybed with a view to the lake.