DecRenew Interiors of Grapevine, TX Receives

Best Of Houzz 2014 Award

Annual Survey and Analysis of 16 Million Monthly Users

Reveals Top-Rated Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals

Grapevine, Texas, February 4, 2014 – DecRenew Interiors of Grapevine, TX has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The 10 year Decorating Business was chosen by the more than 16 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community.

The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Customer Satisfaction and Design. Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2013. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 16 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers,” who saved more than 230 million professional images of home interiors and exteriors to their personal ideabooks via the Houzz site, iPad /iPhone app and Android app. Winners will receive a “Best Of Houzz 2014” badge on their profiles, showing the Houzz community their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.

“DecRenew Interior’s mission is to Connect Life and Home and we do so through a focus on exceeding our customers’ expectations. We are very honored to receive recognition from Houzz for Customer Satisfaction.” Houzz has made our job much more efficient, when working with clients, because now they can share their inspiration boards with us, helping us better understand their design style right up front.”

“Houzz provides homeowners with the most comprehensive view of home building, remodeling and design professionals, empowering them to find and hire the right professional to execute their vision,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of community for Houzz. “We’re delighted to recognize DecRenew Interiorsamong our “Best Of” professionals for customer satisfaction as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.”

With Houzz, homeowners can identify not only the top-rated professionals like DecRenew Interiors, but also those whose work matches their own aspirations for their home. Homeowners can also evaluate professionals by contacting them directly on the Houzz platform, asking questions about their work and reviewing their responses to questions from others in the Houzz community.

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About DecRenew Interiors:

Interior Decorator, Ruthie Staalsen of DecRenew Interiors has been in business over 10 years, serving clients in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. DecRenew Interiors tailors its services to the individual needs of their clients, offering everything from full-service design to “Walk-thru” consultations. Ruthie’s unique approach focuses on making her clients homes look collected, not decorated. DecRenew Interiors was featured in Traditional Home Magazine "Great Kitchens" Page 42, in May 2013. www.DecRenew.com

About Houzz

Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish - online or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to get the design inspiration, project advice, product information and professional reviews they need to help turn ideas into reality. For more information, visit www .houzz .com

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A couple weeks ago we finished this wonderful family room. The client and I sat down together during our "walk-thru" consultation and decided what was going to STAY and what was going to GO.

She was moving from another home and had used browns and gold as her color scheme. She desperately wanted to move into more of a fresh, clean & modern look. She had lots of antiques and accessories we could incorporate as well as a beautiful rug she paid a lot for. Knowing that my speciality is "incorporating as much of what you have" into the design, we decided to keep as much as we could and made a list of items that we needed to add to make the transition from OLD and TIRED to NEW and FRESH.

I knew I could do this by adding some new custom pillows to her existing gold couch. Because her rug had gray, black, gold and red in it, it totally worked.

I apologize for the lame pictures, my camera died and my Ipad had to do the trick :(

A few chevron pillows combined with a some patterned gray and white pillows made it look updated immediately.

I especially loved how we added the Greek key gimp to the pillows. The lamps with stone and wrought iron and the burlap shades add a casual feel and lightened up the room immediately.

She had a lot of formal items throughout the home so we made some simple changes like painting the fireplace black to make it feel less intimidating and more inviting and cozy.

We layered books with photo's and other misc. accessories that we thought belonged in this room. I especially loved the pottery vase I found in HER existing treasures.

We added these amazing chairs that are from my "ONE by ONE"" collection. See the before and after here.

Don't you just love the pillows we had made? We are also having some bar chairs made for her in this pattern. It brings the whole room together and makes the rug work!

I found these wonderful art pieces. They are translucent leaves layered to make a flower.

I hung one on each side of the fireplace. I placed existing console tables underneath each one with fresh flowers in vases she already had.

I thought they were absolutely fabulous. When I first showed my client the picture of them, she was not quite sure....but told me she would trust me on this one. When she called me the day of the install to let me know what she thought, she was raving about these two pieces! My job is to stretch my client to try new things, usually when they trust me, they are pleased!

This little desk was upstairs amongst boxes but my intern "Audra" found it and brought it downstairs. She created this lovely little grouping of books and little treasures. I found these two African busts and thought they added a fun eclectic mix to the room (you know I love Africa since it's my birth home). My client couldn't believe I combined these items because she said her mom gave her the desk and her brother brought the busts from a vacation trip. She said they would be extremely pleased to see these items combined together in one spot in her new home.

So here is the.....

BEFORE

and NOW the

AFTER

We created this little sitting area below with the leftover furniture that didn't go anywhere else.

It's a temporary solution for now so she can at least entertain guests in her home until the new furniture arrives for this room. We used an existing table, chairs and rug. I found the lamp base in the garage and stole the lampshade off another lamp upstairs.

We have ordered some custom chairs for the round table and this will be her "wine/bar" room when the final plan is complete.

We are now working on her dining room and master bedroom and will install next week.

(Sneak Peak)

I'm crazy about this Ikat rug!

Ruthie's Tip of the week - Just because trends are moving away from gold and browns, etc. doesn't mean you have to start redecorating from scratch. Have a decorator help you incorporate the items that still have style and life in them. We have ideas that you may not have thought of to make it feasible for you to update your home without breaking the bank. The ABOVE room is a true example of a transformation that could happen in your home.

I'm taking the weekend off to spend some time with family and rest my foot (planters fasciatis) that is about to kill me. Doctors orders are to rest up but I seem to be having a hard time doing that!