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2010 ASID Heartland Design Awards

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Master Bedroom
Arlene Ladegaard
Owner/Principal Designer

A client she’d worked with in the past presented a challenge to Arlene Ladegaard, owner and principal designer of Design Connection Inc.

“This couple had a very light bedroom with French Country furniture,” she says. “But they wanted something deep, dark and womb-ish. It was the total opposite of what they already had.”

So Ladegaard got down to work, replacing shutters with black Roman shades, investigating wall colors and searching for fabrics.

“We started with the carpet and found this wonderful rich brown with some gold in it,” Ladegaard says. “Then the search for furniture began. Black furniture is hard to find these days, and I knew it would be a challenge.”

Black tends to be very modern, and the couple did not want a contemporary bedroom, but Ladegaard was able to find transitional pieces.

“Transitional describes this room because it’s a little bit of everything,” she says. “There’s texture, style, color. It just feels very rich and glamorous.”

The updated, fun zebra fabric was found in a local showroom and is beautifully offset by the bronze silk fabric on the bedspread and drapes. Wool mohair on the chairs shimmers with a life of its own and looks different from every area of the room. Three layers of dark paint make the walls feel like leather.

“Because it’s such a dark room, I wanted the ceiling to lighten it up,” Ladegaard says. “So it’s painted a khaki shade with gold. It looks like platinum when light is shining on it. This is a great effect for a dark room.”