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The Inside Out Designs team has created a warm, southwestern-inspired atmosphere filled with decorative details guaranteed to draw your attention back down to earth. The decor of this room was largely influenced by two outstanding architectural features, the first of which is a stately fireplace (designed by the builder Rex Bost) that dominates one wall. Its sizable overmantel, rather than lying flat against the wall, features a center section that extends outward over the mantel a few inches, adding interest to the structure and saving the interior designers from the almost impossible task of finding a painting massive enough to fill the entire overmantel space. Instead, they were able to select a modest-sized painting, entitled “Santiago Sunset,” to serve as a centerpiece, and they surrounded it with a large twig floral arrangement (in keeping with the scale of the fireplace), several urns (including one filled with snake grass), and two pieces of African statuary. They dressed up the hearth with tall candle stands and brass leaf planters.
Deciding what to place in the other niches presented a challenge for the designers. They wanted to avoid a mishmash of unrelated items, because, says Wilson, “We wanted it to look like we were showcasing something the homeowner actually collected.” Ultimately, they chose Asam pottery pieces (vases, pots, urns, jugs, and bowls), placing just one or two pieces in each cubbyhole to avoid a cluttered look. Asam pottery has a distinctive leather or wood-like appearance, due to tamarind and palm oil being splashed on its surface during the firing process. Some pieces are embellished with rattan trim. Asam pottery fits nicely in this room, Wilson says, because the pieces have a “desert feel, but with a contemporary flair.”
In front of the sofa is an animal print ottoman, which might serve as a coffee table, when needed; behind the sofa is a black sofa table bedecked with an array of accessories, including art deco bottles and gold and silver candlestick lamps. Two piazza chairs are arranged on the wall opposite the TV, their multicolored cushions picking up the other colors in the room, such as the orange in the sofa and the green in the raw silk drapery panels. A round, black deco table is positioned between the chairs, adorned with a black and gold swirled turban lamp.
With furnishings and accessories this
rich in color and texture, you won’t want to spend all your time looking
at the ceiling—no matter how beautiful it is! ▪
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second architectural feature contributing to the uniqueness of this room
is an assemblage of large, deep niches crafted into one of the walls. The
niches are painted light beige, as counterpoints to the rest of the walls
which are bathed in terra-cotta. One large niche was obviously created
with a specific purpose in mind: it houses a 42-inch, flat-screen, plasma
television. In the cubbyhole above the TV, “we knew we needed art,” says
Wilson, noting that a search for a painting to fill this space proved
unsuccessful. In desperation, he asked one of his interior designers, Joy
Leonard, to produce the needed piece of artwork. Leonard rose to the
challenge, creating a wonderful abstract piece she calls “Silent Echo.” It
represents Inside Out Designs’ signature on the room. 
As
for the furnishings in the room, all are custom-made. Perhaps the most
eye-catching piece is the traditional-style, tangerine-colored sofa. The
vivid color warms up the room and prevents the sofa from getting lost in a
space with such prominent architectural features. Additionally, the orange
color of the fabric, along with its almost-quilted texture, provides a
nice contrast to the black leather chair and ottoman across the room.