Blu Before and After

We did another Sales Office for the Kor Group down in Long Beach. They acquired the property and proceeded to rebrand. Clearly the first design direction left a lot to be desired. This one we turned around in about 2 weeks. I was busy with other clients so I wasn't as involved in the lead up to installation. But I was there for the install, let me tell you. This is one of my favorite spaces. It's rustic, modern, cozy but sleek. I'm also so happy that we ended up with this wallpaper in the sales office. Love.






This is the conference room. Nice big farm table, upholstered chairs and fun shelves with great objects and coffee table books.





This is the lobby that residents of the complex will use. The before was so dark, heavy and sad. It didn't make any sense and you definitely didn't want to hang out or spend any time there. We warmed it up, filled the wall with vintage images, wallpapered the ceiling, added some texture and made two distinct seating arrangements.








We had to reuse or repurpose furniture wherever possible and didn't repaint in the lobby, so it was incredible to see the transformation from blah to warm and cozy, modern and stylish without a complete overhaul of the original elements.

All designs are Nadia Geller Designs.

More Before and Afters

Remember these befores and afters? Well Erin over at Design for Mankind loved them too and featured them over on Shelter Pop for a feature on warming up loft spaces while staying cool and minimal. It was fun to write about what I learned on the project. Check out the article here.

It reminded me that I had some other befores and afters to share with you from the same project:

This was a unit I was pretty proud of since I helped source the inspiration and did a lot of the installing. The logs are possibly my favorite part (or maybe the old framed Sunset Magazine Build Your Own furniture Pages.)




This was the single we needed to make more spacious. It was the biggest challenge and Nadia really had to work it. But she had such an eye for finding the right balance of color and pattern that it ended up being a ot of people's favorite unit:


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FYI that's a hand painted wall mural, not wallpaper. The very talented Jill Crawford did it for us. See her home over on design sponge.

WestEnd Lofts

Just noticed that WestEnd added images of the lofts we worked on to their website. Looks pretty fancy (if I do say so myself). See some before and afters right here.

Entryway update

The other night Abby gave me a pep talk (something along these lines) and I took what she said to heart. I need to make this place in Pasadena my own. I need to nest and I need to feel like I like how things look around me. So I started rearranging and I started with the entry. If you remember, it was looking like this. Using things we already owned I put this together (not entirely true, I bought the boxes ad the rug at Ikea) and feel much happier overall. Though it made me realize what I really really would like to see.


A narrower credenza or table that leaves room for a giant basket for all the shoes or a chair to sit on with hooks above for my purse and the backpacks. Yes. that would be perfect. But for now, this is a huge improvement.