living where we talk about unity in the home function in the twenty first century and of course connect you to all local resources well today we're very excited to be talking to cheryl out and everything is showcased as it was quite an exciting trip wasn't it very exciting very exciting visual candy visual i call it you know what is it this new world for carolina because there's so much to see there's so many different styles so what we're going to share with our viewers today is what we got to see and we needed to start with with the point that we were looking at moderate to medium price furniture why would we didn't go very very high again and we didn't go to low end and so that's what we're bringing to our viewers today yes we're right in the middle right in the middle right what's what's best for all of us  and you were an interior designer for sixteen years so you have exactly what we're talking about yeah i got it you got it right so we're going to have a lot of fun why it was so much fun so let's start with the slide first of all look at my brand new logo cheryl thank you so much for the reinventing of soul scape living logo but let's talk about high point furniture market and thank you so much there we are at the international home furnishing building and we looked and looked at looked at a lot of furniture so here we go we're going to first talk about what we found when we were looking at all the consul's well you see here cheryl tell me a lot of texture yeah i see carving and inlays i see a mixture of contemporary and things that are a little more already almost like a new  person it glistened which you're not really seeing in the photograph but what a beautiful clean line textured front as well as the one on the bottom again a lot of surface a look at the  and here we have like metallic you know the metals that are textured to us from the naturals the wanted to the painted woods to the metal the metals but the the beautiful thing about this metal work is that it doesn't feel so i love the birds again soul scape living i love any kind of imagery in the home so those birds flying around just make me feel happy it's a neat way to bring them in you know without color without color so it's a beautiful what we see here in this console is in this fabulous gorgeous these mitered corners and the way the furniture is done so that when the doors are open it's just the perfect fit  it really takes a nice look at the console and all of the details that we see tonight pointed this less so right here where apps the round the door what you're saying is the artist actually brought the design all the way around it's wrapped right so it's it's seamless right there yes it is really it is and here in this photograph you can see that the door's open and the pattern just matches match like a piece of upholstery right it's gorgeous right and that ellen important to do that in these types of consuls because that's what makes it look so unique and special i also like the inlay wood in this one just that fan i mean there's so much detail in both of these that they could really be a beautiful statement piece in your home now look at these fabulous these are a little bit more high end but i had to put them in the presentation because i feel that this is something that you know we can i work with a furniture designer and i feel that this is something we could we could duplicate at a lesser price which i think is fabulous but any kind of mirror any kind  of artwork can be put in the front of these console so you can actually have a custom hand painted surface surface for your client right right or it could be an artist who decides to just paint the panels and then we put them on the console or right now what's very popular now is all the vinyl wrapping vinyl wrapping is coming into the home we know why no wrapping in cars yeah but it's coming into the home so believe it or not the one on the left that's a vinyl rack that's an actual photograph that's been put on vinyl and the vinyl is wrapped on the piece of furniture and so you can think about the endless love possibilities that you can have on these table also having it in your dining room i mean you could actually real that anywhere could be an island in a kitchen but it's so great i like the natural curves of it so if a person is standing behind it serving you just planting into the curves and it's just so naturally appealing yes yes and having gone to interior design school i love the architectural that you know there we go back go back to our history i just love that i want one for me even though i don't sit there and do a lot of drafting anymore it's just something so beautiful about that table you know what this reminds me of kind of is this steam punk because that's really trendy  and you know it's trendy it's like really ill now it's it's everything there's a trend that they like i think yes and so that kind of feels right for for that person to do and of course on in the dining room table you could see the dust real bottom which you know i think if you have a lot of little kids kicking on those legs they're not going to destroy that you know house fire their son yes so we did love the industrial look and i mean did we get funky though room yes and it was just really interesting right so love the lamp as well here you see some drawings some architectural drawings in detail so very industrial and we really love this look i just think it's funky i think it's fun and i think it's here to stay here another one i love love love this this is a dining room table with all these gears and the way it opened  and closed as well yeah it actually worked with the gears but you can see there was beautiful it's like looking into the internals of a watch yes i was thinking this would make a gorgeous conference table for  big company who fabricates things yes yes just it's just it's obviously a high end looking piece yes and artistic functional and this this industrial look looks very modern it does does so old fashion know it's the industrial work and we love it i love the glass table and the base the metal base beautiful so what we noticed as well was a lot of metal and asia as you can see here all different types of wood whether it be the barrel wood on the top that has a little bit more modern look to it a more high end look or the rustic wood in the mirror with the metal around it is just a great combination again we're bringing in that industrial look with the warmth of the home there's a there's a lot of yelling and that's going there don't you think oh absolutely and different elements of nature combine combined yeah yeah the five elements we've got a good end metal coming together all we need is all the others so again here are some great pictures of metal and wood combination here's one of those where there's four units that were put together yes yes and we're going to talk about the fact that people were you know homes are getting bigger and so being able to take pieces and stacking them like you see here there's actually four units really make for a nice combination here again we have a lot of metal and world i especially like this one where the metal detail is just on the top and the bottom such great line yea fall again that piece looks timeless to me timeless menfolk good looking with the coffee table but yet there are two different manufacturers believe it or not but great very compatible very compatible again metals you're going to see a lot of gold medal and chrome stainless steel even so lots of metal here again is some of the metal bookcases and i'm going to let's go to the next because we we can talk about this forever and i know some of these so much because there's so much in the dark about farm chic don't we love the farm yeah really well you know i think in today's world most people think everything is farm chic and in my recent clients you know they come to me and when i start to try to figure out what style they're looking for this is what everybody seems to be asking for nowadays was that i think there's a relaxed mood going on people are enjoying just kicking back and really relaxing and not being so concerned with you know fussiness right and so having these things in your environment just allows you to just like be and appreciate the aged we were in a while ago because all the furniture was distressed yeah now the furniture is not so distressed but it is this casual field dry and of course the form table i can't tell you how many i've put in recently and dining rooms are all different finishes but this particular company we love there but yeah you can really change the inside of the cabinet and the outside and really mix and match and just do so many fun things and everyone's still asking for form barn children or wear and tear it's part of the look yeah so we're not concerned but we go from farm chic to lot to nineteen thirty's glahn and modern life which is beautiful as well i actually sofas just like this i love the curve it's just so inviting it really takes you into the space where you think of those chairs i love all of this what i like about the one nine hundred thirty s glam is that it's formal and elegant but it's simple it's got sleek lines easy to live with well very easy love it and of course fabrics are becoming more and more beautiful beautiful so we have some more what we call nine hundred thirty s gland just casual nice clean straight line testing is still very popular we saw a lot of the nail heads to little heads or big would you know would get damaged very easily that's not the case anymore so fabrics have come a long way and the velvets are beautiful we're still seeing a little bit of the set he and this in the clean line but you're going to see still a lot of the gold furniture in the metals and we're just going to talk more about seating because i love these two in high point those modules there i just think that you can just put two or three or just even one in a kid's room where they can jump on it and sleep on it but those you can make any configuration you want yeah you can put them anywhere and what about this on the right i remember sitting on not wanting to get up after we walked and walked and yeah i think they were smart enough to put that in the showroom if if i had that i may not need a bedroom it looks so comfy clean yeah and again very inviting yes very not not the same as the one thing thirty glam no that's not is inviting but that's got a whole different vibe a whole different vibe i'm looking for right here again is some  and we can break this down but we've got to go through some of the slides again lots of seating all different types of arabesque the signs in the back and just really playing up a little detail there the nailhead i love the shapes of the shapes review the full beautiful nothing was basic no and if it was basic it was paired with something really interesting right right and of course we saw in seating all of this organic feel i want those swing chairs i wasn't going to put the slide in the presentation but for some reason i could see myself having like six wing chairs in my kitchen and the swimming along i made a big kitchen for that but i just love all of these they were really neat wrapping yeah the chair the knots and very organic looking beautiful and again more seating on love this little sweetheart chair i love this one you love that yeah bob chair with the tough thing in the back of the male head again these chairs were so comfy to sit in because they just actually bought two of these for my clients and they love them gorgeous so we're going to talk about our best designs you know there is the islamic influence and are you going to see the moroccan the moroccan you're going to see this a lot in tile were and here we see it in front of her i just love it i love that chair i love this and table again these pieces are just beautiful beautiful motif s and look at this i mean that console is just stunning the picture doesn't even come close to you know what we saw all just that that transition of  of pictures so here they are but there are you know there is this more rock and feel and we love it it has a beautiful line to it i love it and again you could see it here in mirror in console's and accessories it's just fabulous neat about this is that you you get the the vibe of a tile pattern without tile it's got that same moroccan feel with way they put the chairs to like if the chairs have the same similar lines so very well done now what we've noticed was bars lots of war a lot of cells and the the bombers have for some reason are standing up nice and tall you know we are so used to having these big tall arm was for t v s and now that's not the case anymore right right yeah so what they're doing instead is you know every room ne some height exactly and i think that's probably what influenced the designers to create these yes you have to have things that you know balance out yeah so and you know they can put the t v in these cabinets any right because they keep getting younger and bigger so now we're having these beautiful bars and of course you could see the one on the left has a more modern feel and the one on the right you could put in a farm she comb but yet you open that up and it's going to look very similar to that one where you have a hole and i think i have another this one as well is fabulous again it doesn't it doesn't have to be something formal but i could see entertaining in opening this up and just having everything right there are some good shots there yeah i try to take some shots without me being in the picture you know we're in the point that well so we have what i call transparent furniture we're noticing as well another trend is that you can see right through the furniture so they're putting these glass doors how do you feel about this i think it's really interesting i think it gives a dimension to the space because of that not sure where i would use these things for myself but we've got to be organized yeah you have your own eyes and i think there are courage is like us well this one i mean it's a you can display and use it at the same time yeah you have beautiful things to display yeah i want on the right i'm not sure my husband will be that organized to keep it clean mine i'd have to go behind him in and fix it yeah every day but it is it was one of the most interesting pieces it was and i think we saw that it's a trend yeah so coffee table inserts what i noticed and i love these coffee tables is for instance the table on the right it's a trait you could actually pick up the tray go on come back and place it into the coffee mill and the one on the bottom as well has a small tray that you can pick up but again these coffee tables are becoming much more functional we want functional with and and so this is going to be part one of our part two series because there's so much to talk about and so cheryl we're going to continue this show with part two thank you for being with us today