Design 101 - Dramatic Outdoor Curtains

Chad Oppenheim

Perhaps you have a a grand opening to curtain or perhaps your design calls for yards and yards of fabric to be gathered and tied back either way there is a big wow factor.  Outdoor curtains of this magnitude make visitors exclaim "Oooooh!".

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Inspiration Board - Accessorizing

I've had the opportunity to design and produce a couple of speciality outdoor living spaces for Home Infatuation customers.  At the end of each of these projects I smugly thought to myself, these spaces look great.  That smugness quickly dissipated when the stylists arrived with their bags full of seemingly incompatible fruits, foods, flowers, vases, planters, bottles, glasses and  knickknacks to style the spaces for the photo shoot. It is truly amazing what skillful accessorizing can do to a space - I believe it to be an art form.  My projects went from nice to amazing right before my eyes. This week we will be talking about accessorizing your outdoor spaces and I thought there was no better place to start than with some inspiration from professional stylists' portfolios.  

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