with soul skate living where we talk about beauty in the home function in the twenty first century and connect you to our local resources this is part two of sheryl craig from  chant your brand sheryl is a boutique boutique brand styling and marketing agency she specializes in intuitive color analysis and aesthetics and cheryl was an interior designer for sixteen years in years and for many years we worked together in the interior design business and you are now doing branding and marketing but you went with me to the furniture market and high point north carolina where we saw lots of beautiful furniture and you're here to help us with the rebranding soul scape living and actually help me with interior design and you know it was such a great trip  was like a road trip it was like two girlfriends on a road trip but it was business i know this is part two so we're going to continue with our slide presentation and we start with talking about desk and you know sheryl there many people that are working from home now and you know that whole bookcase we are going paperless yes and less less and less files right unless books we want to keep it simple right yeah a lot of just does so how god drawers and file cabinets and desk yeah just a pencil drawer right it's all you're getting hey when you use a notebook computer for everything when you need all that right storage you know sleek about five years ago i had a class it was called paperless and i said that's my vision to go totally paperless and everyone in the room thought i was crazy as an interior designer there's no way you can go paperless but you know i go to see a client now with my i pad and that yeah everything's on there i mean the time has come here it's here so here we are with beautiful desk again i love this curve one yeah i think around one is wonderful if you want to have a desk in your bedroom that looks fabulous much more modern look here you have the one on the left by you is a little bit more functional a little cubby a little filing cabinet  nice and clean and then of course this one over here is all metal and again just just a little drawer and that's it is all you need in a more traditional leather and i love that i love the leather hand crafted looking yes like i notice a lot of things either or or look handcrafted that's true that's true and in this particular desk you know i love to talk about feminine masculine energy and that's what we need in this world right that harmony here's the other thing i want to talk about when we talked about desk is you know our kids are doing homework they need a computer they need a place to work and so again it's about maybe just finding a surface so you could see the one on the left there right flipped open you remember that yes i do and if it imagine it being behind a sofa the parents are in the room reading or doing whatever and their child is working on homework or something they're still in the room right they're still together as a family right and that opens on both sides yeah so if you have two kids you just turn it right you'll slip it all right these pieces here you can see the hinges and so those pieces flip open on both sides like a book right and make an even bigger surface right so you can sit them there and then this one against the wall here again you could put that next to a wall or a sofa that was really cool and we could use that as a bar when your engine painting or a desk when the kids or doing their homework and again this one is well i just love the way the sides flipped up and you can make this is one big you know table or you can just have a nice console so you know using a desk in the home you know is important  crystal and glass didn't we see a lot of our is the height i loved seeing all of that this cost this table on the left with the glass bottle is just saw glamorous glamorous is a good word yes it was yes and and you could see i don't know if you could see in the photograph but a lot of band gets a lot of curve seating there you see you nail heads and you see all of this beautiful classwork but actual crystals real yeah real crystals from the earth yes we saw a lot of that a lot lot of stones a lot of amethysts and so we're getting very spiritual yeah i mean i think we all are yeah i think we even in the furniture we're bringing in all of that supernatural crystal that luhansk that when it's president i think that there is a perception of it energy even though people don't realize it when it's in the room there's something special about that space now because that piece is there it just really it just really look at  some crystals on my on my vision board but i mean that's huge and look at that coffee table is an awning it is now these of course are a little bit more high and but they're worth the money because those are real beautiful statement pieces and even the piece on the bottom there you see the wood yes and the crystal combination and the metal so you know i guess i was wrong blended into that piece of wood it's hard to see in the photo but that's like three different elements for those of us who have small homes we could use one piece if we have a bigger home we could put two three or four pieces so these are some still what we call stackable yeah i was calling them twins and triplets you w one piece and it was magnificent so to see three pieces in a room and again that's a little bit more transparent because you could see right through that but it's a little bit more hazy the glass so it's not really so clear but it is it is transparent as well and then the stackable here lots of storage and you have three pieces there and and you know what happens in those rooms yes those family rooms you have all those foreigners i think and then the the clients always say oh i do with all the space up here where you could actually stacks three of those right if you wanted to you could really create this height that you normally couldn't get in a regular piece of furniture and just took the shelving out and put the t v in but i love the the one on the left as well is just two pieces again a lot of that sunburst feel which i love right and stacked and yes again yeah yeah dressers instead of just putting one dresser you have to just to right next to each other you know what else is really cool about this is getting this stuff in the house yes because if if you were going to order one piece that that was this size right how cumbersome is it to get the delivery yeah it's got to go or if you have to move or if they if if you big enough but the room late like the openings to the room where are you know not all in alignment then you you couldn't even have that right so now all you can have is because you want when you're putting these multiple easy to move there you have move and again because we are a transit society if you are in a big home and then we have to move to a smaller home right we don't lose the pieces we can just divide them up and buy them up we saw them on opposite walls from each other even  always paired next to each other on top sometimes they were on opposite walls yes and i did just putting two pieces together really gives you the anchoring in the room does and then eventually impact  and i love the clean lines of that as well so how many bedrooms that we see shelves are a lot and can we talk forever about bedrooms yeah well when i was doing the sly presentation my husband said something to me he said you know you don't have any wooden head boards and i'm like well that's because it's back to trend sorry i don't know what is the trend was mostly upholstered had boards that we saw we did see some you know what trend yeah w takes a lot of nailheads but i love the upholstered look i think it's because we do a lot of work in our bedrooms as well and so i think having something saw the softer yeah against people who are sitting in bed on their tablets and their leaning back yeah you know it's just more comfortable comfortable and look at these two again just because an upholstered headboard it doesn't have to be flyin right lots of different shapes the benches two yeah they always throw a bench at the end of the bed for some reason i guess that's where you can sit put your shoes on which i have to have a big room in order to do that because i've seen people put in benches and they actually take away from the space so make sure you have the room for it but one of the things we noticed about bedrooms as well is like the one on the right is more of a suite where you have the two end tables but the one on the left we're mixing and matching yeah but we saw a lot of that and that was exciting to me you know because you know as a former interior designer i remember it was just too cute to do a set of anything you don't want to do is so when you're into your designs that's know like for beginners yeah so so did god oh yeah to have things that were like the to my little one on the right like idols are different from each other and then we would see a dresser different from the chest of drawers  wasn't like a sat right and then with the upholstered headboard that's not right not the same wood and so it's all harmonizing without being the same right well and again look at the shape on the headboard that is really beautiful again a lot of nail tough thing to see what else we have again all these different shape boards the diners the furniture designers are really getting creative yes with the head board yes there's just something so nice about this again because you have all the the dark wood you have the nail heads which is very masculine but you have these waves that is a very feminine feel again so there is this this beauty that happening this harmony that's happening but the the bend on the left which you think about that mattress i wasn't quite sure about like it was mean there i don't know is this like do you sleep it i don't know i wasn't sure either has a gigantic well to around it so it all that fanciness made me feel like that was the finish line i would want to sweep on it but because is not on the top the ribbing is only around the mattress right but i'm not quite sure that's an actual cover that we buy for the mattress i know but i hate to make that bed every day if i have to put that cover on it i can imagine tucking into that but it are really pretty let's see what else what about this now this to me is again more modern more clean lines i personally prefer the feminine masculine feel this feels a little bit too masculine to me too straight line for me that's not to say wouldn't work for another client right how do you feel about that well i like curving lines myself  this appeals to me because it's so clean and simple it's there's not a lot of distraction in foss it's just i d contemporary modern i love it i was of the way these night tables luck the gee they are really neat and i recall google i like the way the bit the headboard you know well it goes he'd have to have a decent sized ceiling to but that's the other problem is with a lot of my clients we go into homes that they have ten foot ceiling and that this works for them right the beds look like they're on the floor when they're on when they're not so if you have a high ceilings the one on the left would be a great way to do that you don't have to have the side panels with the with the end tables i did like those and tables as well i cut them off in my picture but they were like three different levels  on the would right but again you could see a lot of the industrial light a us and we loved looking at all these beds we really did here's more again more metal around the headboards and i'm going to have a nice a look at the black and white with the red right with the gold i mean and you know just beautiful beautiful more headboards again two different two different initials to different and table unified by the same them so there is symmetry now this is the only pictures that i found where the headboard were actually made out of wood so i wanted to show i did like this with the drawers that pulled out great for a kid's room when they needed extra storage but we did see a lot of upholstery headboard lighting what did you think about lighting so there was much so much so much and quite a variety of styles yes not like you could just say well this is the trend right now with lighting there was everything there was everything so that's what we're going to look at is again there's the industrial look to it i although this one here is made out of the gold which is still very popular the one on the bottom there is the gold and the black on top is the gold and the black what do you think of these i love this one i feel like it's really transitional where these to me are just more contemporary contemporary that one i feel could go either traditional or contemporary and that's what we're doing a lot we're mixing yeah everything is a mix but you know people really need to have an entire interior desire and tear your designer out them they get all are going to do i but the bottom one there i just think it's going to function really well that reminds me of like track lighting yeah because i could you know direct these things in many of the different directions always say every room needs five elements of whites provide and that was a rule that i learned in interior design school and people look at me they go five i can have five but this is a beautiful way this beautiful i love these balls that was just something about them that just there intrigues me but those towers they were tall they were a good six feet to maybe floor yes we saw them in in laden furniture you know that's a thing i guess so and of course we go back to the farm chic chandelier years they're still very popular and i love them i think that they're great and for years and here we have again the the double chandelier and the dining room or there you see the triple right that's been a trend and it's still  current and again a lot of the metals going back and forth in here is probably at least two of the same the stackable yes creating them so again it's a matter of using more than one  but here you see the one gold with the glass beautiful very industrial looking lamb's but you know i was a big fan of torture lamps and you know this is a nice approach to them where you have something just free standing in a corner that's going to give you the light that you need you can shine it up you can shine them down but a great way to to bring a classical  this one in the middle reminds me of like i don't know what is it maybe nineteen thirty's modern to yeah we can see that one on the top but it's very industrial very industrial like a cage around a light bulb right yes a lot of modern feel again the use of three is very popular and we all got to see this one if we  show you the slides better but you see the three hanging down in the corner i love that i love that do you know it's just over there's the seating area and it was just enough lighting and very ambient yes and i'm sure you could put them on  and again look at this chandelier here what i love about that chandelier was it has this industrial black masculine feel to the outside but the inside of that metal was like a  and the way the light reflected it was beautiful it was beautiful so what you think of that i think is very artistic very futuristic feeling terrorists yeah yeah and then you see the doubles again  want for chic i want to more upscale but i want that casual walk so i said ok we'll call it form sophisticated idea we'll be fine what was a color trends that we saw are so a lot of blue we didn't see a lot of real yeah they're using a lot of blue and white a lot of blue with the gold accents but navy we love navy and teal rule and i put in that picture of that showroom because i just love the way they brought in the teal as it just drew me right into the showroom it was like it was in the front then it was over to the right than it was on the back wall right that's the one where they used color to lead you through the show room and i remember that  well and it's a great approach for the yeah that's how we need to design a home is it not introduce the color in the foyer give them a taste of it with a couple of lance ryan and bring the artwork maybe to the back of the room and that drawers that right a deliberate placement of the color throughout yes and a lot of this color on the wall and a lot of teal which is different than the navy and here we see a lot of what i call nine hundred thirty s blue room it's that soft mystical blue where you think of this color i love the color it's restful it's used that chandelier a couple of times not that that looks familiar and i love it and green i just had to put this color in because it's the way they mix the yellow in the blue and the green again it's just the fun use of color what do you think of this i love it it's i can't even explain this it's like a combination of caribbean and far mixed together so you kind furniture and then they have these little stackable but it's not the same color right a stencil on top of it and then you have the chair and the chair has a print so we we  love the look of that color is great yeah all this beautiful yellow we have to i got that yeah i was like yeah what does saffron yes so yeah that's i remember that piece that was really incredible you have people who are afraid of yellow but in the touch is just a few touches yeah working pinks we're going to have to roll through this because we could talk about this forever you know ever read it's and we're going to talk about ar really quickly art again people are using a lot of the great homes the neutral bases and we're just you know bringing in the punch of color with our art yeah i noticed that too lot of neutrals and then all the color was in console right the which is beautiful this one's got the peacock feather just beautiful artwork again can we name all three but of now i think i don't remember them the one in the middle yeah all of this is really about art a lot of metals in the art work a lot of spirituality work and wallpapers big yes wallpaper is big board and it was the silk