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Hollywood Regency Decorating

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Must Haves With Hollywood Regency Decorating:

1. Lacquer Furniture

Hollywood Regency focuses on glamour, shine and glitz. Lacquer everything from furniture frames to accesssories. Hollywood Regency style used a lot of glossy colors on furniture.

Buy super glossy spray paint and do it yourself.  Paint your dining chairs, (Read More.....)

Hollywood Regency Designer Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler Regency Furniture PictureKelly Wearstler is known for bold color choices, antique incorporation's into modern designs.  Her look has been compared to the classic Hollywood Regency designers such as Dorothy Draper.  Her mother was a decorator and antiques dealer, her father an engineer.  She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she studied interior and graphic design.   She moved to Los Angeles hoping to start a movie career only to find her original direction in design and decorating.  She eventually opened her design business, Kelly Wearstler Interior Design, or Kwid, in 1995

Real estate developer Brad Korzen, hired her to renovate the interiors of a few of his residential properties.   She convinced him to renovate his 40's era hotel "the Avalon" in Beverly Hills, California.   One hotel after another, her colorful theatrical interiors caught attention, and her career (Read More.....)