For this new entry, I have decided to talk about an actual interior designer that I truly admire; she is also a blogger and author of the book “Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life”—which I have selected for today’s discussion—and this is Erin Gates! Erin’s blog “Elements of Style” has been around since 2007, and she has been providing outstanding advices for the world of design since then.
In her book, she separates each chapter by different sections of a typical home: The Entry, The Living Room, The Kitchen, The Dining Room, The Family Room, The Bedroom, The Bathroom, The Nursery, The Office, The Closet, The Sunroom & Outdoor Spaces. Now, you might think the same thing that I thought when my friend gave me this book last Christmas: “Oh, another Interior Design book of someone whose greatest aspiration is to become the next Frank Lloyd Wright of our civilization.” Well, this is not the case.
Erin Gates provides different aspects of her personal and professional life as a designer to literally build even the least significant detail of her diverse interior and exterior spaces with love and passion. She opens our eyes into the various styles that we can choose from when talking about every area of our homes, and personally, the one that caught my attention the most was the entry. Who would have thought that a space that is commonly seen, as she mentions, as “…a place to hang out a coat and toss a stack of mail.” (Gates 9), can get to be this relevant into someone’s life?
With her chapter “The Entry”, Gates introduces us to what our actual entries are saying about the rest of our home. Because of her ideas, now I am actually able to see my home as a book, and the entry as its introduction. When an introduction of the book is just this endless piece of tedious and monotonous text, I just tend to leave it aside and wait until I finish other more interesting works than that one. This also applies for our house entry; if this last one is uniquely decorated by our keys and mail, the expectations of our guests become instantly lowered in drastic ways. This is when Erin Gates makes us wonder and think what the entry of our house is saying about the rest of our taste for our interior and exterior surroundings.
Furthermore, I personally loved the great diversity of styles that Gates provided us. She gives us the modern style along with its geometrical lines, the finished wood and its gleaming accents, but at the same time she also gives us a more country-like option, with the new country feel that simple characteristics such as a stripped rug and the utilization of leather wrapping can constitute it. If I can give my opinion on this one, I would say that the ideas around the glamorous style seemed to be the most appealing to me, since I consider myself totally classic, but my love for color also keeps pushing me towards a more contemporary interior style. Hence, this feminine and classical elegance is definitely what I would be looking for when decorating my first stable apartment or home.
If you guys are dying to know more about this stylish interior designer and blogger, or if you just need inspiration for your own home, I highly recommend Erin Gates’ book, “Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life”. Let her guide you with her own process of building that nest that everyone needs eventually. Gates is the perfect example of an open mind for visuals, and I know everyone can adopt at least one of her concepts for their own lives.
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