Behind The Scenes: How We Style A Room

Hey anyone! Nowadays the content material crew is getting in excess of the weblog! Our names are Jenna and Ramona, and concerning the two of us we make and make most of the written content you see on Juniper Print Shop & Jenny’s blog. We imagined it would be enjoyment to give you a driving the scenes appear at how we model new Juniper prints in our studio house! We usually style among 3-10 prints a week, and individuals visuals are applied for the print store web page, social media, and structure articles for Jenny’s website. This week we are styling Vale by Laurel-Dawn Latshaw. She had 4 new prints hit the print store this 7 days!!  You can store her selection below. 

Prior to going to our latest office space, we experienced a brilliant and lovely studio (examine out a tour of our previous area right here) that was suitable for pictures, and we grew seriously accustomed to styling most of our Juniper Print Shop information in-household. Our present area has far more of a warehouse really feel, which has created that a obstacle! Last calendar year we ended up capable to have a couple of studio sets crafted in the back again of just one of our workplace areas to give the search and feel of a actual dwelling. The sets are full with relocating partitions, fake windows, changeable wall moldings and two distinct sorts of flooring, which implies we can generate fully special rooms each time we design!

The very first move is determining what form of house we want to create. We commonly rotate among residing rooms, bedrooms, or entry spaces. We understood we desired this print to be outsized, so we resolved on dwelling place so we could dangle it above a couch. Our studio room has numerous wall molding possibilities we can swap in and out to give every styled area a absolutely special glance, so we opted for a common wainscoting below.

Upcoming we make your mind up on our coloration scheme. A single of our favored pieces of styling on a set is getting to use enjoyable, bold paint colors. Though most men and women are typically drawn to a neutral palette for  property interiors, our studio place is the perfect area to experiment with punchier hues. We rely closely on our Benjamin Moore and Farrow & Ball paint decks. (Even if you aren’t a designer, a lover deck can be tremendous helpful to enable visualize hues in your house!) We normally pick our wall shade centered on the tones of the print we are styling. We like to pull a lesser utilised tone in the art, or a complimentary shade. For this individual print, we selected a muted eco-friendly by Benjamin Moore named Desert Twilight, that performed truly very well the the muddy blue-environmentally friendly tones the artist made use of. 

Soon after settling on our paint, we pick out a body shade. When styling smaller sized sized prints, we ordinarily adhere with prepared-manufactured frames in neutral shades like white, black, gold or wood. For this place we are likely with an oversized print, which indicates utilizing the Ikea Bjorksta body. The Bjorksta frame only will come in black or silver, so we really like to spray paint it to get a new glance! Past yr we wrote a truly handy article about our “Tried & True” spray paint colors and made these little sample frame parts that we use to pick out a frame coloration all the time.  We realized we desired to pair a gold or brass complete with this print, so we introduced out a couple of favorites. We finished up settling on Rustoleum’s Satin Bronze. 

sofa  //  striped rug (identical) //  dresser (related)

The moment we finalize our shade plan, we determine on what home furniture we want to use in the space. Considering the fact that we went with a daring wall color, we made a decision to retain the sofa neutral. We genuinely cherished the way this white slip covered couch popped against the environmentally friendly.

Subsequent up is deciding on a rug. Rugs can be challenging, so we generally like to have something in thoughts early on in the layout approach. We weren’t certain if we desired to use a bolder, striped option or a thing classic influenced. We love Loloi rugs, so we pulled in 3 that we recently extra to our prop selection. (If you are in the marketplace we remarkably propose the 1 on the suitable. It is SO unbelievably comfortable!)

striped rug (very similar) //  best left classic-search rug  //  bottom remaining vintage-glimpse rug  //  right classic glance rug

The moment we narrowed down our alternatives, we brought them into the space to see how they seemed. When the a few classic-inspired rugs appeared beautiful with the wall colour, they all felt a small too pink for the print, so we decided on the stripe. 

Following up is introducing smaller furnishings. Styling for a picture can be a lot unique than styling for an genuine dwelling place. In your household you’d normally make alternatives dependent on how you reside and functionality within the place. For a picture, we tend to focus far more on scale, shape and visual stability. We made a decision on a wood dresser as an outsized side desk. Acquiring the more top on this side of the body gave the table lamp extra visible equilibrium with the flooring lamp and curtains on the other side. We layered in an extra wood side desk to generate some dimension, and then experimented with a couple of unique espresso tables, ahead of finally deciding on two small ottomans.  This allows the foreground of the frame to experience lighter and retains your eye relocating through the room.

sofa  //  ottomans  //  dresser (equivalent)  //  aspect desk (identical)  //  flooring lamp (very similar)  //  rug (identical)

The next step (and occasionally the toughest) is deciding upon pillows. Pillows can swiftly transform the sense of a area, so it is constantly fantastic to have a shade palette and design and style in mind. We’ve collected so many pillows over the yrs. We always discover very good picks at Concentrate on and other major box retailers, but our complete most loved area to resource pillows is on Etsy!

Classic Kilim pillows are a staple all over below, and we like pairing them with present day prints. We always advise employing a high high-quality down insert, it will make these a big change in how your pillows glimpse and experience! If you will need assist with your pillow assortment, check out out our “Recipe For The Best Pillow Combination” submit! Don’t over-strain about receiving it as well “perfect”. If you select shades and patterns that you enjoy, it will feel excellent to you!

orange mudcloth pillow  //  white tassel pillow  //  striped fringe pillow  //  blue pillow
vintage kilim pillows  //  grid pillow

Just after some demo and error, we lastly narrowed down our alternatives to just a couple. Due to the fact we commonly want the artwork to be the target of our photos, we attempt to decide pillows that engage in off the hues of the print with out overpowering the space.

beige pillow  //  orange mudcloth pillow  //  grid pillow  //  environmentally friendly pillow

One of the very last ways in the styling process is adding in a layer of decor. This can consist of baskets, vases, trays… genuinely everything you really like! We have a Large range of styling pieces listed here in our studio. We like to combine shades, products, and sometimes include in pieces that are a little little bit funky or unusual. 

black metal storage shelf

We are generally on the hunt for new ornamental parts. We obtain a large amount of our compact decor at classic outlets and thrift outlets. We also like to buy new goods to examination out prior to incorporating them to the Shop Our Finds portion of the web page! Some decor products get utilized a handful of situations in advance of becoming donated or handed on to mates, family or coworkers, though others have been in our rotation for Years! Do you place any items from past Juniper jobs?!

marble tray

The remaining action is including greenery and bouquets. Even in a studio area, contemporary florals are a will have to!!

vase (very similar)

We generally try out to end by our community Trader Joes on photograph shoot times, but we use standard grocery retailer flowers all the time and nobody is the wiser. As prolonged as you know what you’re searching for, you can supply stunning flowers from nearly anywhere! Some of our favorites are peonies, alstroemeria, ranunculus, chamomile, dahlias, mums, and we normally enjoy seeded eucalyptus for some greenery!

sofa  //  rug (comparable)  //  ottomans  //  dresser (comparable)  //  table lamp  //  facet table (equivalent)

We hope you loved this driving the scene search at our styling system, and a minor working day in the lifestyle of the Juniper content material group! If you have any issues, leave them in the opinions!