DE RISI DESIGNS

There is a trend happening...it's the no color trend! I visited clients today on my 17th St job in NYC. I love love love this space. I love love love these clients. It's been a fun challenge combining their likes of single pieces into a whole story. I cannot wait for you guys to see this space. We started with a palette of grey, brown and navy. We are still working in the same palette but upped our blue from navy to sapphire! Sounds so sexy!! I am so happy to add a po

Thank goodness for Pinterest.  I do not know about you, but it's 3am and I'm awake doing Pinterest searches.  Aside of quotes about anything, I love looking for ideas for future projects.  I have an exciting project that is in the early stages on 17th St.  It is a large 3 bedroom with 12ft ceilings!!  The young couple has coined their style as "urban prep"...  These are a few ideas from Pinterest that inspired me.

I am mildly obsessed with wallpaper. Ok, that's a complete lie, I am wildly obsessed with wallpaper!!! I think wallpaper can transform a room more than a rug, a piece of furniture, a light fixture, paint... I can spend hours and hours looking at wallpaper books. When I start a new project, sometimes I start right there, in a showroom, surrounding myself with the thing I might love most about design, WALLPAPER!!! I love the change in a space like the following pictures!!!

There are some projects that always seem to be on-going!  I never mind moving slowly with a project.  I find with some clients, including my own home, some rooms are continuously works in progress!!  Here are a few rooms I continue to revisit!  I have painted and repainted...wallpapered and rewallpapered...added more and more molding...  you get what I mean!!!

I work with an amazing wood workroom.  When I tell you these guys have saved me, that's an understatement.  I love handing over a project, a sketch, very Joanna Gaines, and then watching it come to fruition. Ok, ok, ok... I'm a bit of a nag.  I probably visit too much, but I am truly obsessed with the people there and watching them work!  I stop by just to see if any new lumber has been delivered and then write my name on pieces I imagine I will use one day for a bar, desk, t

Before and After I always love seeing a project start to come to completion. Having access to a camera (iphone), while I am managing a project, makes it easy to document the progression of a project. When I finally get to bed at night, I find myself reviewing the day by taking a look at my photos. I bounce back and forth, kind of nit-picking...looking and thinking about the details. In a sense, I can imagine the end project by viewing the angles I have a shot, making sure