French & French ShowHouse Santa Fe 2017
French & French’s ShowHouse Santa Fe 2017 Showcase!
Once again ShowHouse Santa Fe is complete! Matt and I are so happy with how our room turned out this year!Also, we are starting something new with our blog posts. Now, you can use our affiliate links to "Shop This Look" and buy the furniture, fabrics, and the other assets used to make this blog post! Check it out here:
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...Now here’s a quick look at the final product:
The ShowHouse 2017 Process
If you saw our preview post, you know we had big plans for this room with tons of bold patterns and colors to mix and match. While that’s not too far outside the French & French comfort zone (as you probably know!), this space did come with one challenge: a built-in pueblo-style bed.Because of this, it took me a while to wrap my head around this room being a kids’ space and how to use it. Ultimately, we ended up draping the bed to turn into more of a playspace than a permanent sleeping area. When we saw the kids come in and automatically close the drapes to make an instant tent...we knew this would work!They ended up having a blast, and our mental hurdle turned into yet another defining feature of this space — especially when we added the wicker swing!
The ShowHouse 2017 Mentality
Every ShowHouse year has its differences, but the spaces and purposes are always assigned to participating designers. For us, doing a kids’ room felt a bit more familiar since we’ve done lots of other family spaces in that more whimsical style (even using other built-in features to amp-up the fun factor).ShowHouse’s founders are also great about placing designers in spaces that help them grow. For us, that meant working on a more sophisticated, layered level than we might have tried for a client’s project — this was definitely more extreme!Really, ShowHouse is an amazing chance for us designers to push boundaries and spread our wings a bit every year. It’s almost like fashion in a department store vs. what you’d see on a runway: high-fashion runway shows are meant to serve as an inspiration. This is where designers are trying to evoke an emotion — to help people expand their own thoughts about what’s possible, and not be afraid to try something out.So while I might take several aspects of this room and use it in a client project, it probably wouldn’t be an exact reinterpretation, just because of how bold the final product turned out!
