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Projects

Before & after photos from my

experience as a designer for a custom upholstery studio.

Louis XV Fainting Couch 

1970's Vintage Dining Chairs

1980's Channel Back Scoop Chair

Hair-on-Hide Office Chairs

Victorian Sofa 

Restore

vs

Revamp

Art Nouveau Wing Chair 

Louis XV Chair 

Outdoor Wicker Wing Chair 

1970's Vintage Hex Sofa 

1920's Art Deco Channel Back Chair

1920's Art Deco Channel Back Sofa

Other Projects

Various projects from my time at a Custom Design Studio

in Pittsburgh,PA

Victorian Sofa Modernization

Custom Built Dining Chairs

Embossed Leather

Other Upholstery Projects

Carnegie Library

of Homestead

Built in 1898, one of the over 2,000 public libraries founded by steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, this library features a music hall, swimming pool, and several reading rooms. In one of these reading rooms, I was asked to design historically accurate decorative window treatments. As with most projects, I started with a drawing with my proposed design to be approved by the client. With their go-ahead, we installed  15' brocade drapery panels, in a crimson and green stripe, with goblet pleats attached to two massive mahogany rods. 

West Reading Room

Project Rendering

Before

After

Custom 

Booths

Spencer Residence

When the Spencer's bought this 7 bedroom mansion, built in 1903 in Pittsburgh's affluent  Shadyside neighborhood, it was obvious it was in great need of an update. Sparing no expense, the house was gutted and completely renovated; I was hired to focus on the dining room, family room, several bedrooms, and various other spots throughout this vast home. In the dining room and family room I chose dupioni silk drapery panels in a deep periwinkle and ivory color, respectively. In a guest bedroom we installed custom roman shades and the master features extra full yellow silk drapes with a baby blue lamb skin banding, to match the custom made lamb skin headboard.

Master Bedroom

Living Room

Dining Room

Guest Bedroom

Residential

Commercial

Attic 

Sitting Room

Grommet top panels on custom metal  rod

Custom

Swags

Victorian Settee 

Architecture is a visual art, the buildings speak for themselves

                                                             -Julia Morgan

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