Made for Living

Pretty pictures but a bit too heavy on the “me, me, me.”

Here are the steps I learned that will ensure I design a beautiful interior:

1. Have a ginormous house. 6,000 square feet should be sufficient, as demonstrated by “Bu Round Two.” If you can only fit two couches, a coffee table, and a big chair in your living room (as demonstrated in the “small space” that's 3x larger than my living room), you can still make it “comfy.”

2. Layer things. Layer layer layer. How do you know what to layer? Just put things on top of each other and if it looks right, that's what you should layer.

3. Put vintage rugs everywhere, including bathrooms and mudrooms. But never have only the front feet of your bedside tables on the vintage rug. That's just tacky. Or basic. Or something.

4. When in doubt, some piece of furniture from Shoppe Amber Interiors will pull it all together.

It's still worth browsing through the pictures á la Pinterest. But for a gal that gets “asked a million times a day” about her style, her answers seem pretty much to be, “I try things and pick the ones that look best.” Fair enough, but doesn't merit the level of navel-gazing that follows.

(Also: I'm very sad there wasn't a single bookshelf with a reasonable number of books on it. It's clear that “books” are a decorative touch only, to be put in small impractical stacks to “make a statement” for a “#shelfie”. I didn't dock stars for this because maybe her clients genuinely don't read, but it still makes me sad.)