Behind The Scenes: How We Style A Room

Hey all people! Currently the written content crew is taking above the blog! Our names are Jenna and Ramona, and in between the two of us we make and make most of the information you see on Juniper Print Shop & Jenny’s web site. We considered it would be exciting to give you a driving the scenes search at how we design new Juniper prints in our studio place! We usually design and style in between 3-10 prints a week, and people pictures are applied for the print store web-site, social media, and design and style material for Jenny’s blog. This 7 days we are styling Vale by Laurel-Dawn Latshaw. She had 4 new prints strike the print store this 7 days!!  You can store her collection here. 

In advance of moving to our recent workplace area, we had a dazzling and attractive studio (check out a tour of our old house in this article) that was best for photography, and we grew really accustomed to styling most of our Juniper Print Store information in-dwelling. Our present-day house has more of a warehouse sense, which has made that a challenge! Last calendar year we had been ready to have a number of studio sets crafted in the back again of one of our office environment areas to give the look and really feel of a real residence. The sets are finish with going walls, faux windows, changeable wall moldings and two different kinds of flooring, which usually means we can build absolutely unique rooms just about every time we model!

The 1st step is choosing what variety of space we want to make. We typically rotate between living rooms, bedrooms, or entry spaces. We realized we wanted this print to be oversized, so we decided on dwelling room so we could dangle it about a couch. Our studio space has numerous wall molding alternatives we can swap in and out to give each styled area a fully exclusive appear, so we opted for a standard wainscoting listed here.

Up coming we choose on our colour scheme. Just one of our preferred elements of styling on a set is acquiring to use fun, daring paint shades. Whilst most people are normally drawn to a neutral palette for  home interiors, our studio area is the excellent place to experiment with punchier hues. We count intensely on our Benjamin Moore and Farrow & Ball paint decks. (Even if you are not a designer, a supporter deck can be super practical to assistance visualize shades in your area!) We commonly decide our wall shade based mostly on the tones of the print we are styling. We like to pull a lesser employed tone in the artwork, or a complimentary shade. For this particular print, we selected a muted environmentally friendly by Benjamin Moore named Desert Twilight, that played genuinely effectively the the muddy blue-environmentally friendly tones the artist made use of. 

Immediately after settling on our paint, we pick out a frame colour. When styling scaled-down sized prints, we normally adhere with completely ready-produced frames in neutral shades like white, black, gold or wooden. For this room we are likely with an outsized print, which usually means using the Ikea Bjorksta frame. The Bjorksta frame only comes in black or silver, so we enjoy to spray paint it to get a new glance! Very last year we wrote a definitely useful article about our “Tried & True” spray paint colors and created these little sample body pieces that we use to opt for a body color all the time.  We understood we wished to pair a gold or brass complete with this print, so we brought out a number of favorites. We ended up settling on Rustoleum’s Satin Bronze. 

couch  //  striped rug (very similar) //  dresser (related)

The moment we finalize our colour scheme, we choose on what household furniture we want to use in the area. Considering that we went with a bold wall coloration, we made the decision to retain the couch neutral. We really liked the way this white slip lined couch popped against the green.

Up coming up is deciding upon a rug. Rugs can be difficult, so we often like to have something in thoughts early on in the design and style approach. We weren’t sure if we required to use a bolder, striped choice or one thing classic influenced. We like Loloi rugs, so we pulled in 3 that we just lately included to our prop assortment. (If you are in the market we highly advocate the one particular on the ideal. It is SO unbelievably soft!)

striped rug (identical) //  top left vintage-appear rug  //  bottom still left classic-search rug  //  proper vintage appear rug

The moment we narrowed down our decisions, we brought them into the space to see how they appeared. Even though the three classic-impressed rugs looked attractive with the wall colour, they all felt a small much too pink for the print, so we decided on the stripe. 

Subsequent up is including compact home furniture. Styling for a picture can be a ton diverse than styling for an real living area. In your residence you’d typically make alternatives based on how you live and function within the room. For a picture, we are likely to concentrate far more on scale, condition and visual balance. We decided on a wooden dresser as an oversized side desk. Possessing the extra peak on this aspect of the body gave the desk lamp much more visual balance with the floor lamp and curtains on the other side. We layered in an extra wood side table to create some dimension, and then attempted a several distinct coffee tables, right before ultimately choosing on two tiny ottomans.  This helps the foreground of the frame to experience lighter and keeps your eye relocating through the area.

couch  //  ottomans  //  dresser (comparable)  //  aspect desk (identical)  //  ground lamp (identical)  //  rug (equivalent)

The up coming stage (and sometimes the hardest) is deciding on pillows. Pillows can rapidly improve the sense of a room, so it’s generally fantastic to have a shade palette and style in brain. We have collected so many pillows more than the decades. We often come across very good picks at Focus on and other big box shops, but our absolute beloved put to supply pillows is on Etsy!

Vintage Kilim pillows are a staple all-around listed here, and we love pairing them with modern-day prints. We often advocate utilizing a high quality down insert, it will make these kinds of a massive big difference in how your pillows glance and really feel! If you want assistance with your pillow selection, test out our “Recipe For The Excellent Pillow Combination” put up! Really don’t about-anxiety about obtaining it way too “perfect”. If you choose colours and styles that you love, it will feel fantastic to you!

orange mudcloth pillow  //  white tassel pillow  //  striped fringe pillow  //  blue pillow
vintage kilim pillows  //  grid pillow

Soon after some demo and error, we ultimately narrowed down our selections to just a few. For the reason that we typically want the artwork to be the concentrate of our photos, we attempt to decide on pillows that enjoy off the hues of the print without overpowering the space.

beige pillow  //  orange mudcloth pillow  //  grid pillow  //  green pillow

1 of the previous steps in the styling process is introducing in a layer of decor. This can include things like baskets, vases, trays… seriously just about anything you enjoy! We have a Large selection of styling items below in our studio. We love to blend colors, elements, and sometimes insert in pieces that are a minor bit funky or bizarre. 

black metallic storage shelf

We are constantly on the hunt for new decorative pieces. We uncover a whole lot of our compact decor at classic outlets and thrift retailers. We also enjoy to get new objects to exam out before including them to the Shop Our Finds part of the web-site! Some decor merchandise get utilised a couple periods ahead of becoming donated or handed on to pals, relatives or coworkers, while other individuals have been in our rotation for A long time! Do you spot any items from earlier Juniper projects?!

marble tray

The final phase is incorporating greenery and flowers. Even in a studio house, new florals are a should!!

vase (similar)

We normally attempt to quit by our area Trader Joes on image shoot days, but we use typical grocery store bouquets all the time and no person is the wiser. As very long as you know what you’re looking for, you can resource gorgeous flowers from nearly wherever! Some of our favorites are peonies, alstroemeria, ranunculus, chamomile, dahlias, mums, and we constantly adore seeded eucalyptus for some greenery!

sofa  //  rug (similar)  //  ottomans  //  dresser (related)  //  desk lamp  //  aspect desk (comparable)

We hope you beloved this powering the scene look at our styling process, and a little working day in the life of the Juniper information group! If you have any thoughts, leave them in the comments!