fauxplusdesign

Redesigning my studio, or, fun with old stuff!

I've been at my current studio location in a 1898 restored flannel mill for three years now. My Morrocan-inspired decor in cheery bright oranges and greens and yellows made me love showing up to work.

But I do love change. Just when I'm too busy to think about a project, I always jump in head first.

So I went to my favorite High Point Furniture Market vendor and scored lots of industrial-crusty-funky new treasures. As designer-friend Sandra and I were unloading our haul, I was selling the old treasures right and left.

Yesterday, while hubby made the coolest ever metal rolling walls, I finished this project:

 
THE NEW DESIGN CONFERENCE AREA:

My old rolling table found at a used fixture store, plus new metal stools.

I COMBINED:

An old piece of frosty glass, plus a new stencil from Royal Design Studio, and some leftover Annie Sloan paint:

Love it!

Stay tuned for a little more studio magic...

DESIGN SOURCES:

Stencil: Royal Design Studio

Paint: Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Paint Stockist: Faux Works Studio

Introducing DION HAYES DESIGN STUDIO, or, Here I Come High Point Furniture Market!

 
A spectacular trip to Umbria with Gary Lord and Melanie Royals.

A dusty pile of recycled tempered glass.

A custom-designed wall mount - and my new line of glass art line is born!

Enter my amazing sister-in-law Patricia Chrisley and her fabulous company, P. Chrisley International, and look out world, here we come!

DION HAYES DESIGN STUDIO for P. Chrisley International.

TO THE TRADE at Hamilton Square.

Please stop by during Market, April 2 through 7!

Many designs to choose from. With semi-precious stones and coins, and without.

Interchangeable designs which include the wall mount,

hanging hardware and directions for hanging.

SWEET.

 

Coming soon on facebook

The Ultimate Italianate Man Cave, or, Wine, Booze, and Cigars...

Every once in a while I find extraordinary clients.

They have class and style.

They know what they want and they let me be me.

I have worked in this fabulous 1920s restored Italianate home on an ongoing basis since 2005.

Over the past couple of years we have showly brought the basement to life for the very manly Rodney  - he throws many fine evenings here for his friends!

And, I hear the very lovely Denise gets to play here too on occasion...

The stairs to freedom.

 

A throne fit for a king...

 

And his own shower! No need to leave for days.

 

A very cozy corner for very deep conversation. Complete with custom seven-foot cigar art!

 

And yet another custom design to disguise the business end of the basement.

Another smoking corner.

  
The perfect guy arena for challenges and throwing some punches.

 

 
And who could forget my favorite little princesses!

 

DESIGN SOURCE:

Modello Designs - "Loose Screws" Modello

Art on Etsy.com

 
Just perusing some lovely art on Etsy.

Especially adore Karen Fields Gallery.

Oh the colors!

They speak to me!

Night moves, or, midnight at the oasis.

 

 

 

 

73 degrees.

Sweet balmy breezes.

Lapping waves.

Chirping coqui.

 

Frankenstein on the beach, or, one too many cocktails...

Mix gently:

Two creative sisters-in-law.

One gorgeous remote Puerto Rican beach.

One questionable amount of frosty adult beverages and lots of time on our hands.

PLUS

Unlimited sources of inspiring goofy materials.

What do you get? Just look...(giggle, hiccup...)

Con-chia Coconutta

Chia-Chia Rodriquez

Mrs. ("come up and see me sometime") Frankenstein

See what a little vacation time will do to a faux finisher with nothing to finish?

 

Tantalizingly Textural Puerto Rican Treats, or, I'm So Color Inspired!!!

My zippy little pocket Canon camera was busy

on vacation last week.

So many textures to capture.

So many seashells to discover.

So many quiet moments to savor.

 

Stay tuned for more from the Gran Melia...

 

A Fab Florence Design Studio, or, I Want It All!

I fell more in love with design in Florence.

Our hotel in the Oltrarno artist district was just seconds away from the Porto Romano and the Riccardo Barthel studio. Every time we passed by we stuck our noses to the display windows and dreamed and drooled.

Until they had to invite us in.

The experience viewing room after fabulous room was, well, right up there with the wine, food and gelato. We'll never forget this feast for our designer's eyes.

 

 

HMMMM....

WHAT must Melanie Royals be thinking?

A new stencil perhaps for Royal Designs? Why, I think yes.

Check out her newest designs here.

Sometimes My Camera Only Wants to See Greens, or, Heaven Must Be Verde

If you have read this blog before, you already know I have a fondness, no, let's say a passion, for green. It lifts my spirits. It makes soar over the rainforests. It makes me smell the moss. It makes me trample the newly-mown grass.

I am no photographer. I know no rules. My little camera just gravitates to anything than photosynthesizes. Anything that molds. Anything that glows chartreuse. Anything painted and crusty.

So, here are a few observations, once more, from our October painting trip to Umbria.

A little Rome-ish. A little countryside-ish. A little garden-ish. A little woods-ish.

A little me-ish...

 

A New Year, My Year-Old Blog, A Lovely New Design To Launch, or, Thank You, Thank You!

Photo by Melanie Royals. Or was it Barb Skivington...at the Castello di Casigliano. (Yes, we snuck out back for some shennanigans. And that's dappled sun on my face, not paint.

To all of my readers old and new...

I've made it an entire year doing this blogging project I began on a whim, with a bad cold and a new camera.

I've discovered something.

I love it.

I read all of the wonderful blogs out there about design, faux finishing and amazing artists, and I look forward to what they have in store for me always.

And I have discovered - magic. Folks actually read fauxplusdesign and they keep coming back!

So I now know what my blog is about for sure. A few words. A lot of pictures. A twist. A turn. Consistently inconsistent. My unique view of the worlds I love.

My faux world all mixed up with my amazing traveling adventures and what I do with it all through my Nikon.

So next time you visit, and I hope it will be soon, you will see a new look.
But the same old me.

Thanks for a great year from the bottom of my heart!

Debbie Hayes