Ep. 150: designer Marika Meyer
b'This week we welcome Designer and Artist Marika Meyer, who has a lot of advice about fabrics and rugs from creating and running her own firm, Marika Meyer Textiles. Marika discusses her style that mixes beautiful patterns, polished pieces, and rooms that can provide both beauty and space for young families. Marika also talks with us about how to keep a room looking elevated and gorgeous even when it is heavily used, the process of creating fabrics, and how she picks a color palette for her collection.\\nWhat You\\u2019ll Hear On This Episode:\\n\\nTrials and triumphs about the removal of both a cast and trees on the roof, some patio construction, repurposing a terrarium, and some creative fixes for lighting up a ceiling,\\n\\nMarika combined her love of business and data with art and photography when following a career in design and opening her own firm.\\n\\nBeing a designer is a very personal business, so you better make sure you are into people before you choose this path!\\n\\nOur homes can be the background for great stories, and it\\u2019s okay to design a beautiful and edited space knowing it won\\u2019t stay perfect forever.\\n\\nWhy the phrase \\u201cpractical luxury and functional beauty\\u201d perfectly sums up Marika\\u2019s work.\\n\\nHow to keep a room looking elevated and gorgeous using basics as the backdrop and the \\u201clittle black dress\\u201d of the room.\\n\\nWays we can design a room for purposefully for exactly how we plan to use it, how much we plan on entertaining, etc.\\n\\nMore about the process of creating fabric from start to finish and taking a painting into a pattern.\\n\\nHow Marika picks the color palette for her collection.\\n\\nThe dirty little secret about her giant Palladian windows in a design house and how we can use Roman shades to add layers and hide mistakes.\\n\\nHow we can use textiles, tones, different values, and colors to make a neutral room lively.\\n\\n\\nMentioned In This Episode:\\nEp #66: Andrew Cogar and Kristin Kong \\nBallard Suzanne Kasler Chairs \\nMeyer Interiors\\nMarika Meyer Textiles\\n@marikameyersinc \\n\\nDecorating Dilemma:\\nWe love your thoroughness, and actually this is a lovely dilemma. First, if you were to move the eating area to the top of the L shape on the porch, you could take advantage of the more narrow space without sacrificing the light. One trick could be putting together two square tables to make a larger rectangle, and you could separate the tables and pull them apart if you need more distance. We agree that Option #1 could work, and it appears as if the view is nicer from the backside, so maximizing that view would also create a nice space to add in more seating to fill out that area, augmented by two sets of chairs on the existing porch that could be easily pulled in to the conversation area if needed. Some school house benches that also serves as a cocktail table could be fun and easily defined. The layering of texture is key, and we believe in you!'