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ROOMS MADE MAGICAL
How do they do it? Bergen designers share their secrets for transforming three key spaces in a home.
Any homeowner who’s started a DIY design project knows it’s easier said than done. An apparently infinite number of choices must be made, from the latest furniture finds to a huge array of paint hues differentiated by the tiniest increments of nuance or blush. Just refining one’s vision is a design job in itself. For pro designers, that’s where the mood board comes in. Whether it’s created on old-fashioned corkboard or on a site such as Pinterest, it’s a visual collage of styles, textures, furniture and fixings that is used to define and illustrate a room’s aesthetic and thus help a client visualize it—while it’s not too late to change things up. Unable to sneak a peek at top designers’ mood boards for key rooms in a home—which in any case vary dramatically from project to project—BERGEN settled for the next best thing. We asked five designers to put into words their approaches to three key rooms in a home: the kitchen, a bedroom and the living room—what they favor and why. Here’s what they told us.
OUR EXPERTS:
Christie Adams Christie Adams Design, Wyckoff
Rina Capodieci-Quinn RCQ Design, Ramsey BERGENMAG.COM
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Jaclyn Isaac Doni Douglas Designs, Rutherford
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Jennifer Pacca Jennifer Pacca Interiors, Wyckoff
Kristen Sawyer Sawyer Interiors, Westwood
OCTOBER 2021
9/22/21 2:51 PM
