Q & A with Judy

What's your favorite recent design trend?
The new wave of contemporary design, with emphasis on support furnishings to enhance the high-tech trends in home electronics. The trend emphasizes a sleek and clean-lined interior.

What trend is about to surprise everyone?
The bold use of color in new homes today, specifically reds, oranges and pinks.

What trend are you glad to see go?
Overly scaled, heavy and ornate furnishings that aren't really applicable to our Florida lifestyle.

What color schemes and palettes are coming into the home?
Bright, pure colors that are not muddy or dusty. Citrus colors in yellows, greens and oranges, again in their pure form.

What kinds of fabrics are being used to create a look and a mood?
I see the return of silks for window treatments and bedding. This is because of their ability to give us the crisp, bold, saturated colors that we are looking for.

What's happening in flooring that excites you?
A return to wood floors, specifically bamboo, and woods in combination with ceramic tile. It adds a warmth that we want to recapture in our interiors.

What's your favorite thing you've ever found for a client?
For a client's foyer, I found a woven copper wall hanging with paint overlay, that reflects all the colors in the interior.

What completely dates a house?
Eight foot celings, kitchens and master bathrooms,due to the non-use of modern fixtures or materials.

What's the ultimate home luxury?

Large, spa-like master bathrooms with overflow soaking tubs, flat screen televisions and privacy walls that allw the room to be opened to the outside.

Give me five words that characterize the Southwest Florida market - the clients and the homes.
Open, water, view, light and warm.