Terilyn Adams Blog

Decorating

Color, texture and the things that pull a room together.

Before choosing the frame, check what the mirror will show from the places where people actually sit and walk.

Leave a console with space for the thing that arrives next: a bag, the mail, or a glass someone needs to set down.

Balance a mantel through visual weight, with one clear arrangement and enough unoccupied space to see its outline.

An open shelf can hold plenty without filling every visible inch. Make the empty space serve the objects around it.

Let the shapes of a few vessels remain visible. A collection becomes easier to appreciate when it is not packed edge to edge.

A woven surface can soften a polished room without making every object look weathered or handmade.

Different metals can coexist when their amounts and locations make sense. Exact matching is only one way to create continuity.

Look at a lamp as a whole object: base, shade, light, and the surface it leaves available beside the chair.

A shade changes both the outline of a lamp and the impression it gives when illuminated. Compare both conditions.