Kitchen and Dining Room
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This is a kitchen and dining room. To the left is the kitchen and to the right is the dining room. The blue dining room chairs and blue kitchen tile help tie the two spaces together. The spaces are also tied together with the wood flooring and green walls.
Dining rooms are one of the hardest rooms to draw because of all of the overlaping shapes, but kitchens aren’t easy either! Bedrooms are the easiest to draw.
I love the bright blue chairs because they draw attention away from the painting above the table. The bright yellow and red bullseye pattern makes it a bold piece, but 6 bright blue chairs are bold, also.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of bright blue chairs.
House
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This is a house, obviously. It is a two story house. The front entrance has french doors and two tall posts in the left and right corners. I was not sure what color I should “paint” this house, so I left it blank. Please leave a comment with what color you think the house should be and maybe in the future I will post it again! The hardest part of this design was the posts and roof. Many windows let lots of light into this beautiful house.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of windows.
Family Room
This is a family room. Like many family rooms, it must serve many purposes. It’s where the guys hang to watch football. It’s where momma quilts. It’s where the kids play when their friends come over. To handle these three very different needs for the space, I devided the room into three parts. The guy’s space is to the left. The kid’s space is to the right. Mom’s space is behind you.
The guys have a large couch and flatscreen TV, all you need to watch a football game.
The kids have a bookcase along the wall, beanbag chairs, and a soft rug.
The art in this room is a mountain scene and a heart in texting language.
I love the fireplace, even though it was hard to draw. It is the heart of the room, the middle of the three spaces.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of rooms with many purposes.
Mediterranean Room with Wall Letters
This is a Mediterranean entry and sitting room. The floor is concrete. The warm red walls and green and yellow accents complete the Mediterranean feel.
Large wall letters are a great way to say something in a room. Here, the RELAX wall letters make you want to sit down and read the paper or have a cup of coffee. In my bedroom, I have IMAGINE in wall letters made out of recycled food packaging. You will also see wall letters spelling out children’s names in their nurseries.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of wall letters.
Nature Inspired Bedroom
The top and the bottom are the same design, but one is colored and the other isn’t. I bet you can’t tell which one is colored! Did I stump you? You’re just begging me to give you a hint. Okay, here’s the hint: It’s not the top one! You still stumped? Okay, I’ll just tell you the answer: It’s the bottom one!
This nature inspired master bedroom is calming. A great place to see before you close your eyes in the morning and after you open them in the morning. The other walls of this room would be covered in windows to let in the natural light. There would be access to a porch, too.
The paintings are all the same bamboo look, which keeps the natural theme and draws your eye around. The bed to the left has a few pillows, but not too many. The yellow color is the same as the chair in the reading nook. The shelves set in the wall in the headboard are perfect because there wasn’t space for nightstands. The shelf above the headboard displays two pieces of artwork, a single rose bud, and a photo tree. The door in the middle of the picture goes to the large walk in closet with plenty of built in storage-every girl’s dream. The nook to the right is a relaxing place to read a good book. The soft white rug defines the space. The chair has the same yellow fabric as the bed and is extra tall to balance the visual hight of everything else in the room. The built in bookcase has two open shelves and three closed.
The doors have three layers, from outside to inside they are; wood, a small strip of metal, frosted glass. Very modern and very natural.
Notice the white trim and cieling. It leaves the room open and light. The wood floor is more modern than tile or carpet and a soft, natural stain that matches the doors.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of nature inspired bedrooms.
Design Tip of the Month: Febuary
Painting your kitchen cabinets
Painting your kitchen cabinets is a great way to make them look new. Paint your kitchen (or bathroom) cabinets with a semigloss rather than a matte or eggshell finish. Kitchen cabinets will get spilled and dripped on a lot and will be easier to clean if they are painted with a glossey finish. Gell stain will protect your cabinets even more.
Kitchen in a Box
This is a kitchen in a box; a simple, modern, money and space saving alternative to a full kitchen. You may have heard the name “kitchen in a box” because that is what Bedrock Creations calls thier DIY countertop kit, but this kitchen in a box is very different.
The different parts of the kitchen in a box are labeled, but they might be a little hard to see. From the top left and around in a clockwise circle they are; freezer, sink, Microwave, range, Dishwasher, and Fridge.
The estimated dimensions are 2’x7’x9’h
I got my inspiration from a full house that just looked like a box in a white room I found in Dwell magazine (http://www.dwell.com/ )
If walls could dream… they’d dream of kitchens in boxes.
Want this for real? I found something sumular at http://www.acmekitchenettes.com/ It isn’t super cool like mine is, but it’s an actual company that makes actual kitchenettes.
A dining room that works with any style
I didn’t know what type of room to draw. I’ve drawn kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms… but never a dining room. So this is the first dining room I’ve drawn. For some reason it looks wavy in this image but the lines are straight on the paper.
A rug is always a good idea in a dining room. People will spill things in a dining room and it is easier to clean up on a rug. The busier the rug, the more it will hide stains. While busy, patterned, and colorful rugs are great I chose a plain red rug for this space. (http://www.rugstudio.com/ has many beautiful rugs.)
The graphic artwork and pink chairs offset the large, blocky table, and traditional chocolate brown curtains.
Overall, this dining room has a style that would work in any house, weather traditional, contemporary, or whatever!
If walls could dream… they’d dream of rooms that work with any style.
Purple and Green Bedroom
This is a purple and green bedroom. The tall headboard/footboard bring lots of drama to this room. The yellow wall color makes the room happy and light. The green cabinet fronts are just a fun detail! The red vase on the cabinet in the back of the room was a drawing challnge. How do you draw a round vase and keep it in perspective? I don’t know, but I tried my best (and erased it like 30 times.)
If walls could dream… they’d dream of how to draw a vase in perspective.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of how to draw a vase in perspective.
Granny House
This is what is oftenly called a granny house. It is a smaller house on the same property as a larger house. Your grandma could live here, you could let guests stay here, or you could rent it out. This granny house is just over 580sqft with overall dimensions of 25′ 0″ by 23′ 10″.
It has one bedroom, spacous enough for a king sized bed. It has one bathroom with double sinks, a shower, bathtub, and combo washer/dryer. The great room has an open feel with no walls between the kitchen/dining room and living room.
Throughout the whole house there are muted tones of blue and green with white carpet in the bedroom and weathered hard wood in the rest of the house. Blue and red are the accent colors. If I had to create a name for this style, I would call it modern beach. The modern parts are the style of the kitchen and bathroom cabinetry and the accent color red. The beach parts are the use of ocean tones (blue and green) and the weathered floors.
Many paintings were used in this design. A painting by Cezanne of apples is under a window in the kitchen. A painting by an unknown artist of two people in a forest is the face of a clock in the kitchen (not pictured). A painting by Cezanne of fruit and vases is not pictured. The Mona Lisa by Da Vinci is in the bedroom on top of an amoire.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of granny houses.