Metallic, shiny, and fun details

By: Marissa Bargmann, Designer

Home Furnishings, Interior Design and Spring 2009 Market Trends

Metallic accents are everywhere. The shiny, fun finish is seen used to enhance and embellish with fabrics and leathers on upholstery, mirrors, lamps, and wallpapers. This embellishment is used quite often on accent tables and case good finishes.

As far as embellishments go, interior design is becoming more more fashion forward. Many details used in the fashion industry are making their way to the interior design world. Ruffles, Swarovski crystals, beading, and even butterfly accents are just a few fun details used to add that extra special touch you may be missing.

A fresh new outlook on color is always exciting. Touching base on a few color trends that are making it big include earthy purples, charcoal grey to light glass-like grey hues, and intense greens. While blue is not yet going anywhere, it has however undergone a slight makeover. Becoming much more intense, rich royal blue and crisp airy blue will take place of the spa-like blue tones that were popular for quite awhile.

Last but not least, the always-popular "green design" is definitely in vogue. Many companies are enthusiastic aobut making their product better for the environment as well as for you and me. You can find eco-friendly products almost anywhere. Being "green" may include choosing to use fabrics such as cotton, hemp, or silk; energy-efficient lighting played a major role this market also. Many furniture companies are now using soy based foam for their upholstery inserts and choosing recycled materials for their packaging needs.

These are just a few ideas shown at the Spring 2009 International Furnishings Convention in High Point, NC. Contact Johnathan Blake Home Decor to have these details added to your home or business.

Siouxland Race for the Cure 2009

Johnathan Blake Home Decor is proud to participate in the first annual Race for the Cure to be held in Sioux City on Sunday, May 11, 2009. This is Mother's Day...what a great way to get out and show your love and friendship to all the women in your life! Help find a cure to breast cancer by participating in this great event!

The entire Johnathan Blake staff has been affected by breast cancer and believe in supporting the Susan G. Komen Organization in our area.

Please, remember to be vigilant about monthly examinations and speak with your doctor if you have any concerns. You are the first line of defense in battling the disease.

Please take a moment and visit the website for our local organization http://www.komensiouxland.org/. Please consider donating to the cause. Also, please consider joining the community on May 11 for the Race for the Cure. You don't have to be a marathoner to participate.

Also, please take a moment to visit the local businesses who "painted Siouxland pink" with their entries in a great contest to promote breast cancer awareness.

Johnathan Blake has also participated - our display flanks our north-facing store windows. You may also see part of the display in the photo above!

Photography by Alan Parker Scheffer & Dee Polak

Johnathan Blake Home Decor is excited to showcase the photography works of Alan Parker Scheffer and Dee Polak in our Sioux City design studio through May 2009.

Scheffer's work is features color photography, enhanced digitally to produce images in varying tones and moods.

Polak works mainly in black and white photography.

Both artists feature images that seem familar to the viewer, along some images are not from the Siouxland region.

To read more about the local art we feature, look for the upcoming Spring 2009 issue of Siouxland Magazine - available mid March.

We invite you to stop by our design center and view the art currently on display and available for purchase. Please call if you have any questions.

We welcome artists to contact us for consideration for future exhibitions.