vanessa deleon: i'm vanessadeleon, and i am an interior designer and host of yourplace is a deal breaker on spaces tv. welcome to my eight foot wideinterior design studio in edgewater, new jersey. this actually was an alley. so this was actually betweentwo buildings. that facade, which happens to bebrick, is the facade of the side of the building.
all they did was drop a roof,hence the 934 and 1/2. what's cool about this placeis it really feels like a bowling alley whenyou come in. it can get really jam packed. i'm always about thebolder you go, the more exciting it is. so i intentionally andstrategically planned placements of color. and if you notice, all thecountertops happen to be
white, because i like my staffto work on their samples on a white surface. i didn't want a typical bookcasethat was going to be an installation fromthe ground up. so i wanted to raise them sowe have the ability to use underneath space. because, again, we'rein a small space, so every inch counts. so there are about 100 framesof all my work that is
installed on this wall andin my office or my desk space in the back. so when a client does come in,they kind of view all my work while they're walking down. this is my office. this is where all thebusiness happens. this is where i write upproposals, meet with the consultation, takephone calls. and this is where i keepall the clients' files.
these are the only books that ireally like exposed, because i want them easily accessiblefor any designer. i have thousands and thousandsof fabric books. so i actually foundthese in ikea. and i'm like, wow, i can totallyuse these hooks to hang all my fabric. so i hang my fabrics byvendor and color. it's better than going througha bookshelf or having them stacked, because we'llnever pull them out.
the bigger you go,the costs go up. the electricity, overhead. i like to keep the costs down,and my design to be kind of the priority focus. i try to keep it simple, butyet glamorous, kind of streamlined. you can do that ina small space. they say go big or go home, butwhy not just stay in your space if it's functional?
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