The Master Suite
It all started when Rhonda’s client decided to re-decorate her master bedroom. The client had admired Rhonda’s work in an advertisement, and called her for an initial appointment. The client and her husband live, in a Normandy-style home in an Eastern Iowa wooded estate. 
The first order of business, Rhonda decided was to rearrange the room to frame the new carved king bed with a canopy, and repeat the canopy as cornices on the other large windows. Rhonda designed an over-mantle to give the fireplace more presence in the room, and planned a color scheme of gold, champagne, and accents of persimmon. The sitting area is elegant yet a comfortable spot for TV-watching, or helping young children with homework at night.
The Family Room
As often happens when Rhonda starts a design project, she and the client share a working relationship that continues, and the next call to Rhonda was to re-decorate the family’s main family room. Limestone tile floors were in place, and although practical, felt cold. Rhonda used textures such as an animal-print suede on the cocktail-ottoman, chenille fabrics, wool-like drapery panels, pottery and iron accents. The unique room has views of the landscape, as well as the indoor swimming pool pavilion behind seating area. The stairway to both upper and lower floors also is in view, and leads to the children’s bedrooms and lower family room and office.Rhonda continued the autumn-toned colors with a custom-bordered stair and landing carpet, and a surprise treatment for the walls, of faux-limestone wallpaper. The limestone block walls continue into the upstairs loft’s seating area outside of the children’s bedrooms.
Pre-Teen Perfection
A recent re-do was for a pre-teen daughter. Rhonda and the client took color cues from the daughter who selected a bedcover from a mail-order catalog. Then Rhonda found furniture, designed the custom draperies, bed skirt, pillows and lamps to support the scheme. A pale blue faux-suede chaise is perfect for reading a book, and a pair of drapery panels adds luxury to the opening of the dressing room.
The Living Room
The client had partially furnished the living room prior to her working with Rhonda. Recently, Rhonda enhanced areas of the living room, adding a tapestry and creating new seating arrangements.
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