Courtney Balsam Interior Design
By Courtney Balsam, Owner & Principal Designer
Photography By Glass Lake Media
The Devil is in the Details
We’ve all heard the phrase “The Devil is in the Details,” and no saying has ever been more relevant than when designing bespoke homes. From the exterior second-story railing to the custom leaded glass entry with lion head knockers, every aspect was carefully designed to tell a story. Attention to detail is key in creating beautiful, interesting spaces that feel worldly and curated.
Enchanting Dining Spaces
Each minute element of this space helps to create the perfect blend of layers to keep your eye traveling throughout the room. In this formal dining room, we continue to draw the eye up to the ceiling, where the intricate custom trim design adds an elegant compliment to the climbing vine wallpaper. The dining chairs allowed us to play with fabrics by incorporating a performance stain-repellent fabric on the chair seats and a complimenting, more sophisticated fabric on the back, where we added a pop of color to the chairs to pull out the pink accents in the wallpaper.
Elevated yet Comfortable Rooms for Families
The Family Room was intentionally designed to not only look fabulous at a moment’s notice but, more importantly, be functional for a family of five. The motion sofa, with its soft comfort fabric, also provides sensibility with its bleach-cleanable performance feature. Outlets and charging ports built into the sofa ensure phones and tablets are always ready. There are plenty of places to perch in this space, including the custom ottomans at the fireplace trimmed out with a contrast leather welting, providing a place to put your feet up or to seat additional guests.
Children’s Baths that will Grow
Living spaces aren’t the only place where we can instill layers of pattern and interest. In this girl’s bathroom, our requirement from the homeowner was to create a pink bathroom that was classic and timeless and would grow with their daughter. The starting point was the wallcovering, which we then complimented with a pink mosaic floor and added pink trim details to the shower walls. The shower curtain and wall sconces were carefully curated to compliment the motif on the wallcovering. Contrasting the pink with the deeper color tones provides opposition to the lightness of the pink, making it really stand out.
Form meets Function
Laundry Rooms are notorious for being a place where multiple functions are necessary in a small footprint. These functions are typically tasks that aren’t the most fun or glamorous, but that doesn’t mean that your space can’t be fun and welcoming. This laundry room, in particular, needed to act as a cleaning and storage space, laundry space, ironing headquarters, dog feeding and kennel space, as well as a gift-wrapping station. By creating well-planned, functional zones for each task, we were able to maximize the space. We incorporated a tall closet for mops, brooms, and cleaning supplies. Integrated dog kennels and food storage were located near the sink with a built-in food drawer at the bottom of the sink cabinet that the client can open at feeding time and then close when not in use. The island has multiple functions, acting as a folding station, ironing station and gift-wrapping station with wrapping paper conveniently located for easy access at the side.
Courtney Balsam Interior Design
903 E. Nakoma St., Suite 106, San Antonio, Tx 78216
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(210) 816-7052
