Every year June DeLugas interiors’ Retail Shoppe and Showroom has a lonely lamp sale and our customers look forward to this event. Most people buy lamps in pairs, however, occasionally lamps are sold as a single leaving the mate alone in our store. As this event nears, we start thinking about the clients we are working with and their needs. We either call or e-mail them to make sure they know that June DeLugas interiors’ biggest store event of the year is coming up February l3-l7th.
Lighting is such an important element of room design. Lamps add an ambient tone and character to corners, end tables, console tables, desks, buffets, kitchen counters and built- in shelving units. I personally have a lamp fetish. Lamps serve as pieces of art. My family room has 4 lamps, 6 cans and 2 puck lights, as well as a chandelier.

June’s forte is an eye for color and the expert weaving of tones throughout an interior, giving rooms a common thread with unexpected and exciting accents. While her work tends to be chic with a cutting edge, June’s design and retail shop has a look of French and English romance. As one customer told her, who has a house in France, “I feel right at home when I come in here”. She said it was like taking a stroll through the French Flea Markets.

Rather than throwing a room together we like to start early with a conversation on what you like and don’t like. We recommend allowing yourself more time to accumulate items you will love for a lifetime rather the quickly chosen pieces that may fall out of style or favor. When June goes antique shopping, she won’t buy a piece unless it is something she just can’t get out of her mind. The same should apply to any item you put in your home, let it speak to you first. Whether you just want to update and refresh your home with a few simple items and tweak your individual style, or start from scratch and re-invent a room, start early and come see us at June DeLugas Interiors. We can help you create a plan and carry it out to the end. The result will be a not instant gratification, but your own masterpiece- a room you will love for years and years to come. Call us today!

The end of one year and the beginning of the next brings most of us to make resolutions and pledges for a new “me!” When you are stressed or just want a moment of calm, along with that cup of tea or glass of wine, do you write, cook, paint or find something creative to do? Wonderful! Perhaps the “new you” for 2012 should include adding new colors or mixing up the world around you!

We pride ourselves on creating cutting edge “Style” that fits each client’s uniqueness and changing life and styles. Let us support your New Year’s Resolution for a new you by starting a project in your home. Whether it’s re-arranging a room, adding a small piece of art or furniture, or completely starting over for the New Year, develop your imagination and expand on that existing Style you love so much! Here’s to your 2012!

Before June DeLugas went to work!

After June's Work!

With Christmas upon us in a few days, home is more important than ever. We look forward to seeing family and friends. For me, I can’t wait to see my daughter, who is coming home from UNC Chapel Hill and my son, who is from Columbia, South Carolina. I am excited to continue sharing my inspirations and this week’s remodel that tells the story in the attached photos.

We began this client’s remodel project around April of 2011. First we measured the three rooms and put our pens to paper so the builder could have a footprint to use. We recommended the removal of a kitchen wall between the kitchen and the dining room. We recommended changing the beams in step down den to a coffer ceiling. Judging by the dark paneling, you can imagine that our first thoughts were to change the paneling to sheetrock and paint everything light. The cabinets were dark pine from the 1960’s. For the step up kitchen, the new cabinets were selected, granite, backsplash, appliances and tile floor. For the den and sunroom, new wood floors were installed with a plan to continue the wood floors down the hall and into the living room. New paint colors were chosen for the kitchen, den and sunroom. We painted the walls a light neutral color that coordinates all the new elements for three rooms.

The new furniture has colors of light blue greens in multiple textures. The sunroom’s existing wicker furniture was recovered in coordinating patterns to flow off den. New shears were added to the windows so that light could be controlled with a draw drape system. The transformation is amazing with the intention of courting a little color.