I am so excited for the new few weeks of posts. Although, I know this week has been light and the first quarter, scant; there is so much stirring in me to write. I picked up Martha Stewart Living today, which you should if you haven’t already, and I am bursting to look into some new ideas and do some new research! One of my favorite pieces I read from this issue was part of an interview with a homeowner who had recently hired designer Chloe Redmond Warner of Redmond Aldrich Design:
"Sometimes I’d ask Chloe, ‘Is this going to match?’ She’d respond: ‘Its going to look good, but matching is not the point.’”
“Matching only gets you so far. I like to start with wallpaper and use that to help establish a palette for every room. Then you need to introduce elements that play nicely with each other. That’s how you achieve a truly personalized, truly interesting look.”
I’ve been thinking about this lately, as I contemplate buying rugs and furniture for rooms I don’t own. Style is not linear, it is more of a composition, a smattering. The minute it is linear, you are the manikin. Which is sad, and implicitly not you!
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