Neighborhood interior designer earns nationwide recognition

Community inside designer Eliana de Leon

Eliana de Leon awarded for do the job at new Geneseo Inn

–Eliana de Leon, an inside designer dependent in Paso Robles, lately received the 2021 Metal Architecture Style Award in the Interiors Group the judges reviewed her perform completed at the Geneseo Inn, a bed and breakfast found at Cass Winery’s vineyard.

“It was a successful collaboration in between Alice and Steve Cass, Ted Plemons [the owners] and me,” de Leon reported. “It was energizing to present atypical concepts and resources to purchasers that were being on board with ‘designing outside the house the box’. As shortly as I listened to from Ted that upcoming attendees would be remaining in true freight containers positioned in just the vines, I knew I experienced to come up with one of a kind thoughts to mesh with their eyesight and assistance develop an extraordinary practical experience. We agreed that the interiors needed to be ‘edgy’ to match this special thought,” she reported.

Geneseo Inn, which was concluded in June 2020, was developed making use of recycled industrial transport containers and this cleanse-lined, city aesthetic was additional made through the interior style. Each of the eight models has a distinctive concept inspired by a track. For the ‘Country Roads’ area, de Leon explained that “we experienced a custom headboard fabricated from Cass Wine staves and installed ceramic planks on shower partitions that appear like colorful pale barn wooden that exude outdated time travels”. For the ‘Gaia’ room, the aim was to use sustainable products to develop a calming ecosystem, like “a specific Tansu ground tile that is rumored to have therapeutic properties”. For the ‘Ebony & Ivory’ space, the use of “glossy black tiles juxtaposed with larger sized white matte tiles that create a startlingly stunning contrast” in the shower, as very well as other black and white accents in the room, have been used to signify piano keys, as the proprietors are sponsors of the Paderewski Competition.

“I moved to Paso Robles just after a vocation in Los Angeles planning thrilling initiatives like Lodge Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Bellagio Lodge in Las Vegas. But this undertaking was the most stimulating. It gave me a probability to pull from my 30 many years of design and style working experience and support customers make a genuinely special position in Paso Robles for vacationers and locals to enjoy,” de Leon said.

For extra information pertaining to the award and de Leon’s operate, visit the Metallic Architecture Magazine’s site and her website.