Perhaps you remember my friend (and client) Anna who did a fantastic job renovating her family’s house with no previous experience. But after everything was done they realized “the change orders ate the furniture budget”. Needless to say the designs she asked me to help with had to be budget friendly. The worst mistake you can do when operating on a budget is to go out and buy everything Ikea. You have to be clever about where to save, and where to spend, to get a look that will last long term. The house has a very large bedroom, and their wish was to turn it in to a Ritz Carlton suite, since the vacation for the next year will be taken….yes, you guessed it…at home. The corner of the bedroom serves as her husband Garret’s sometime working area. In it they had the Ikea version of a Saarinen table… Client furniture Before/After
