Too many people live with generic, stuffy houses.
Imagine buying a home in a uniquely beautiful region like the Pacific Palisades–only to settle for builder grade fixtures, humdrum finishes and the most basic and inadequate of windows.
And yet many people have a hard time looking at the home they have and envisioning how it could be better: how a new color scheme, a unique floor tile and some larger windows could transform their spaces and create a connection between their home and the beautiful region in which it stands.
Christine Markatos, a Pacific Palisades interior designer, is ready to help you bring a fresh vision to your home. She brings an incredible sense of space to the homes that she renovates, creating a sense of cohesion and gracious beauty–while paying respect to the traditions of home arrangement and the needs of the family for function and flow.
The Pacific Palisades: A Landscape That Demands Quiet Elegance
The mountains of coastal California are a uniquely beautiful backdrop that has created high demand in the real estate market–possibly at the cost of the creation of unique homes.
Developers have prioritized rapid building of tract houses over considering the unique surroundings as inspiration for their homes.
Fortunately, with a good designer, these home can be retroactively renovated to create a space that does its surroundings justice.
Mountain views and ocean sunsets abound, and deserve to be seen through beautiful windows and French doors. Mirrors, high ceilings and gracious open doorways can bring the unique properties of the coastal light into the very heart of the home.
Unique Finishes Over Timeless Structural Beauty: How An Interior Designer Can Retain Good Function While Enhancing Natural Beauty
Some people fear that an interior designer is going to try to ruin what they love about their home in an effort to create something unique.
But the most important aspect of a home is its function as a home. The kitchen has to be a work space, the living areas should be restful, the transitional spaces should be easy to navigate.
Not every interior designer walks into a home and immediately starts knocking down walls. Sometimes opening spaces is a great move, while at other times these demarcations of areas are vital to the home’s very soul. A great interior designer listens to what the customer most desires from their home, and then finds ways to ensure that these vital aspects of the home’s structure are retained while also bringing in much needed beauty and spaciousness.
Maybe the answer is a feature ceiling and a tall window to create a feeling of airiness, rather than the cliched answer of knocking down the wall between living room and den.
Maybe exposing some beams in a cathedral ceiling, while also planing and painting them to retain a sense of continuity, can create a feeling of gracious beauty that mirrors the region’s surroundings while also allowing the space to function exactly as it always has.
If you know that your home is far too generic to do justice to the region where you live, yet you are afraid to bring in an unknown interior designer who might decide to upend your very lifestyle in the interest of being more original than is strictly necessary, consider a consultation with Christine Markatos.
Her impeccable eye for finishes combines with her sensitivity to the needs of the homeowner to make her a true genius in the way she handles homes. You won’t be disappointed.
Guest Post by Wendy Leibowitz
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