Room of the Day: Bright Transitional Home Office Serves Double Duty

This room’s most important purpose is to function as a home office, but since it is off the home’s living room, guests also spend time in it during get-togethers with family members and friends. Interior designer Jamie Keskin worked throughout the home with her customer, and the two discovered an simple, bright and light style and carried from room to room. Transitional style may be an all-encompassing and confusing seem to specify, but Keskin helps us get a better knowledge of it with this airy room.

Jamie Keskin Design

Pictures by Greg Perko Photography

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What happens here:
That really is really a home control central plus also a home office for telecommuting, in addition to an extra seating area during get-togethers.
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Size: 150 square feet (14 square meters); 10 feet by 15 feet (3 meters by 4.5 meters)

Although Keskin worked on rooms throughout the house, this was the only one which was a truly blank slate. However, she and her customer agreed to maintain the present built-in bookcases, right down to the blue paint. They are great for corralling all the office clutter and keeping a clean, paperless desk. This, in turn, makes altering the room into a seating area much easier; all the client does is drag the table chair over near the love chair during celebrations, and the entertainment area is complete.

Jamie Keskin Design

Transitional is a tricky style to specify sometimes, but Keskin sees it as a style with traditional roots that’s lighter, brighter and much more compact. For example, she combined a traditional bamboo desk seat with a clean-lined, classic contemporary Parsons desk in here. The bright aqua color of this seat is sudden and makes it a standout piece.

Background: Gibralter, Thibault; seat: Zinc Door; wastebasket, glass lamp: Target; Parsons Desk: West Elm

Jamie Keskin Design

“If I had been going for traditional in here, I might have chosen a French settee, a busier floral and a fussier background,” Keskin states. Instead she combined a more compact love chair and a brightly colored, large-print abstract floral from Romo. A woven coffee table and midcentury-modern-inspired side tables freshen things up.

Actually, the floral print was the jumping-off point for everything else in the area. “I wanted to select something inspirational,” she states. “I pulled each the colors from that print” She utilized the fabric on the throw pillow along with the custom Roman colour.

Savvy budget reconciliation allowed splurging on background by Thibault along with the above floral fabric. These two elements provided the foundation for the room, and the layout jumped off from that point. The lamps are from Horchow, the mirror is from Ballard Designs, the love seat and side tables are from Crate & Barrel, and the coffee table is from Pottery Barn.

Jamie Keskin Design

Jamie Keskin Design

The bone inlay on the Parsons desk is still just another portion of this transitional balance — it is a more customary detail on a contemporary piece. The glass lamp helps provide the desk a clean appearance. Additionally, it helped balance the budget; Keskin discovered it .

The designer along with her customer found the floral art print, which complements the floral fabric, on Etsy, and had it framed. A brass snail found at an antiques shop serves as a cute mascot for your room — you may have captured him moving around during the photo shoot.

“Transitional has traditional roots but is brighter and fresher,” Keskin states. “It is a real mix of this very traditional and modern.”

See more of this transitional mix in other rooms in this home

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