STYLING
This dining room is truly a visual treat. Honestly, it was quite the designer treat! This entire home is filled with so many different colors, patterns, textures and exciting elements that I could truly just go on and on about it for hours.
Read MoreMore often than not, clients are stepping outside of the box from the simple all white kitchen, and we couldn’t be more thrilled!
Here are seven gorgeous kitchens of various styles that we love. Each project showcases different personalities, charm and elements special to each homeowner. Dive in and get inspired for your personal kitchen with style.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: DHM Construction | Seamus Payne Photography
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: DHM Construction | Seamus Payne Photography
Keeping with a soft overall palette, the perimeter of this kitchen features a custom “city loft” color finish, with light glazing. The island is a deep charcoal. We pumped it up with a very modern geometric backsplash combined with three different types of marble.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Bee Studios | Native House Photography
Lisa Gilmore Design | | Native House Photography
These days traditional doesn’t mean stuffy, don’t be afraid to take your traditional style up a notch! Our client was fearless when it came to color - so we had fun and didn’t a custom “Lemon Grass” finish, keeping the over all feeling open and airy with a soft pale green hue giving the space personality. A classic marble penny round mosaic has a light shimmering prettiness to it. Cheerful window treatments, and sweet little birds perch upon the island on the brass pendants.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Bee Studios
With interior design I absolutely love mixing metals and finishes. With this kitchen, the overall cabinet color has a beautiful silvery gray finish, it almost has a metal look to it. Combined with the brass fixtures and plumbing I love it! We opted to keep the hood and the backsplash simple and lacking color, full of dimension and hand made imperfection.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Olde World Cabinetry
Here again is an example of an all over light perimeter, a nice soft white combined with a deeper tone island. A lot of people find they get break out of their comfort zone a bit with the island, which we are fans of! This client allowed us to put a bit more bold of a backsplash featuring a beautiful hand painted design, while all the other elements nicely play together in the space. We absolutely love how the kitchen flows into the oversized kitchen nook where we incorporated a custom wainscoting design to really bring dimension in the room!
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Bee Studios | Native House Photography
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Bee Studios | Native House Photography
Light gray cabinetry paired with a super soft blue subway tile that has the most delicate basketweave pattern, that is so ever subtle. It plays gracefully with the classic stripe wallpaper in the adjoining eat in kitchen.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Olde World Cabinetry | Seamus Payne Photography
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Olde World Cabinetry | Seamus Payne Photography
If you are feeling like you want a bit of spark and color, however, do not want a full color commitment cabinetry, add it with your backsplash! In this kitchen we opted to do a light perimeter, deep navy island and add pops of rusty and blue to the backsplash. Then over at the wine bar, we incorporated a pretty antique mirror tile!
Lisa Gilmore Design | Custom Kitchen: Total Design Source
Mixed wood tones, hand painted backsplash tile, wallpaper at the built in desk area, oversized pendants, double islands, my-oh-my! This home has the popular modern farmhouse style, without leading with too many trends or things that will date it a few years from now.
Can you tell with this round up, why we absolutely love our job?! We get to work with so many amazing people with all different personalities and style, no day is ever the same.
So maybe you find you are ready to bring in more color, mixed wood tones or bold backsplashes - follow your heart and bring happiness into your home!
In our opinion, bedrooms are such an important place and they should be planned well with your design. Often bedrooms are forgotten or maybe not seen as that important because it’s kind of a “hidden room”. However, we feel the exact opposite! Bedrooms are the last thing you see when you fall asleep and the first thing you see when you wake up. It sets the tone for your day and your mood, it’s also a great place to show your personality and have some fun!
A well designed bedroom can rejuvenate you and give you the perfect comfort you need and we feel it shouldn’t sacrifice style. Wallpaper is one way we really like to punch it up in the bedroom.
Here are a few bedrooms we have designed over the years that showcase all the wallpaper feels.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Seamus Payne Photography
Often high rise living comes with amazing views, but sometimes smaller spaces. For this master, we opted to keep it rather monochromatic with the design, but mixing patterns and textures. This wallpaper has a bit of an urban flair that paired so nicely with more feminine elements. We just love how the horizontal lines lead your eye out beyond the floor to ceiling windows.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Native House Photography
Inviting warm tones, layered rugs, modern furniture - the perfect compliment for this space is a wallpaper with an artistic hand. The navy and white hand painted details create the perfect amount of movement and add more depth to the space.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Native House Photography
This wall mural has such a tranquil and moody vibe to it. The space leans to be more transitional and calming, however the wallpaper takes it up a notch with the stormy cloud feelings.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Native House Photography
This master bedroom is filled with so much sunshine and happiness! We love that our client wasn’t afraid to have a bit of fun with the wallpaper. Monkeys and lemon trees set the tone for this space. Paired with tailored furniture pieces and natural textiles this bedroom is whimsical and chic all in the same breathe.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Seamus Payne Photography
Our client has such an amazing collection of Art Deco furniture and lighting, when designing this master bedroom we really had fun pulling together the wallpaper to compliment her stunning headboard. The base of the wall is a monochromatic black abstract design, layered with an amazing embroidered wallpaper on top. Truly layers of decadence.
Lisa Gilmore Design | Seamus Payne Photography
It all started with our clients existing antique bed, we reupholstered it in a beautiful merlot velvet, the gorgeous palm wallpaper in varying shades of pinks and greens makes such a great statement for this guest bedroom suite.
As you can see, we feel that wallpaper is often the perfect element for an added layer of luxury for your bedroom. It’s a great way to bring in style, artistic quality, additional color and texture.
Which of the above styles are you most attracted to?
If you have had a design meeting with me, chances are you have heard me say “I love to design sweet little powder rooms, they are like the little jewel box of your home!” I say it a lot, because, quite frankly, I just believe in it that much. That’s a space where you can have fun, get creative and really give your guests something really unexpected when they open the door.
Lisa presenting different selections for a residential renovation
However, as of lately, we have been so fortunate to work with such amazing and trusting clients, that this “jewel box” philosophy has worked its way into the everyday functional washrooms, too!
Here are a few of our favorite washrooms and powder baths with wow factor of the years, no particular order, just beautiful spaces that make us happy!
When designing the guest bathroom for this custom home last year, we wanted it to be bright and airy, but have a bit of southern charm, to match the style of the whole property. So we had fun with textured tiles, wallpaper and tiles that showcased hand painted patterns. I love how the window in the shower allows the room to be flooded with natural light. See the rest of the property tour here.
Lisa Gilmore Design | LaBram Custom Homes | Seamus Payne Photography
This powder bath was truly an interesting situation! When diving into the renovation of this home, the house only had 2 full bathrooms… and one awkward hall with lots of doors and a weird closet. Our pal, Brooke, the awesome kitchen & bath designer of Bee Studios, who we collaborated with on this project had the great idea to rework the space and fit in this really great powder bath. So the LGDesign team got to work to make this new washroom a stylish new addition. Beautifully selected tiles paired with chic metal tones all topped off with a great hand painted mural from one of our favorite local artists!
Lead Interior Design: Lisa Gilmore Design | Kitchen & Bath Design: Bee Studios Design | Native House Photography
For this modern high rise property we went full throttle with color, pattern and texture. The raspberry hues flow throughout the condo and do not rest in the powder bath. Mixing different tones of marble create an elegant nod to design, while the fun wallpaper, lighting and hardware make it layered and modern. Loving this vibe? Check out the whole property tour here.
Lisa Gilmore Design | DHM Construction | Seamus Payne Photography
This is another one of the bathrooms we had fun working on with Bee Studios, in the same house as mentioned above with the added powder bath. This bathroom turned out so sweet, just as intended for the 4 year old it was designed for! The house is an older home, so keeping some historic referenced tiles made perfect sense. Then we had fun topping it off with whimsical and modern lighting. All in all, it’s fun, beautiful and something she will be able to grow up with over time! To see more of this modern bohemian renovation check it out here.
Lead Interior Design: Lisa Gilmore Design | Kitchen & Bath Design: Bee Studios Design | Native House Photography
This next washroom is fresh out of the design vault! As in literally, our client just got certificate of occupancy a week ago! We can’t wait to get this pretty space professionally photographed, but for now - this iPhone photo will have to do.
There are so many beautiful things to talk about in this space, it’s hard to say what we love most… so in this case, we will just let the photo do the talking! Stay tuned for when we reveal the rest of the project in the near future.
Lisa Gilmore Design | LaBram Custom Homes
Which of these projects above speak to your personal style best? Are you ready to take your washrooms up a notch with the design? They can be such great conversation starters and provide spaces to really showcase some unique style!