![]() ![]() "It's personal."Īnd then the hunt for a one-of-a-kind home begins. You can tell a lot about a client by what they're wearing," McCombs says. "It's all about individuality all I need is an hour in front of them. "They kept saying, 'Can you make my house look like your shop?' " McCombs says. Customers loved the shops - almost too much. Then she opened an interiors shop in Belltown, later moving to Pacific Place. Previously she worked as a house painter and a mortgage banker. "These townhouses are one big room, and you have to break them up," McCombs says.Ĭolor is the interior designer's specialty. Olives, reds, browns, creams and pumpkin lend dignity to the occasional likeness of barn animals and rusted found objects. She mixed and matched and mismatched fabrics for personality. She placed an old arched church window at the top of the stairs for glory. She thought her Queen Anne townhome to be plain and says, "Kelly helped me be bold." McCombs hunted down groaning wooden corbels and bolted them over the entrance to the dining room for splash. McNichols says her previous home in Idaho had "kind of a Western whorehouse look" with red walls, antique furniture and antlers hanging on the walls. McCombs framed an old black-and-white family photograph and centered it on a big piece of weathered ceiling tin. "What I saw of Nancy was that she liked folk art," McCombs says. McCombs is an advocate of quilts - piled on beds, made into pillows, hung from walls, thrown over tables. ![]() McNichols, a new grandmother, repairs quilts. And, dare one say, with a few candelabras and crystal chandeliers tossed about, a more elegant one. A place where a man can put his feet up and have his way with a good cigar on a chubby black-leather chair. A place where a woman can curl up with a good book on overstuffed, flowered window-seat cushions bunkered by custom velvet pillows. Not as in "average," but as in country, clubby, classy, casual, comfortable, creative. Not when you have to go around correcting your own mistakes." "Some people think an interior designer is expensive. "What Kelly did was save me from my own decisions," McNichols says, guiding a scone toward a visitor like a pointer for a ouija board. "When I bought that hutch from Kelly she said, 'Can I come and see where you're going to put it?' And then she said, 'I can make that better.'Īnd 1,984 square feet later, McNichols is tucked in a total Kelly McCombs makeover with chandeliers of crystal and wrought iron upholstery in velvet, chintz, plaids and leather, all set among heavy distressed woods, feathered lampshades, creweled seat cushions and lavender-scented bed pillows. Yesterday's whim, today's whimsical Queen Anne townhouse. Her sister told her she should buy what she wanted. She had no idea what she would do with it. ON A WHIM, Nancy McNichols bought a massive dining-room hutch, distressed and painted in chickens and roosters.
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