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Interior Design for a Florida Home

Homeowner Teresa Fogolini greets Bob as he enters the house for the final walkthrough. Bob remarks that this is move-in time for the homeowners, but little remains of their belongings since they lost virtually everything when Hurricane Charley destroyed their home. Cynthia Guncsaga from Bacon's Furniture Galleries joins them to explain how they determined furniture selections and design schemes for the new home. Guncsaga explains that it's important to learn from the homeowners, what they like, and start from there to assemble groupings and themes. Fogolini and Bob mention the Porcelanosa steel-look tile that became the driving force for the colors selected inside, picking up on the blues, browns, and natural hues in the tile. The bamboo welcome garden in the front yard becomes a material theme that is carried throughout, in the furniture frames, tables, and chairs. Art that reflects the style of the homeowners including a painting depicting a hurricane survival kit are on loan from Presseller's Gallery in Punta Gorda. In the bedroom, natural wood tones continue and complement the Brazilian Walnut hardwood floor from Bellawood. Neutral tiles and earth tones complete the look in the master bath.
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Interior Design for a Florida Home

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" A lucky man. You've got your house put back together and you've got your family around you you've even got a brother -- with some talent who put together beautiful little entry garden here by the front door. "

" You have if you know a year ago I had no idea what was going to happen to -- were devastated but now look at it. All the town we've had wonderful people you Bob coming in to do us. Who would've been here without you."

" Now it's been an honor and privilege for all of us to know and I'm gonna go inside trying to wife and we'll start the tour Aussie and a little there and watched as well."

" And Teresa are here I'm great Bob how are we'll be happy I didn't have delighted ecstatic. And couldn't be better this will be out of here in just a matter of hours and I coming weekend you actually get move. Whatever stuff you have left but sadly most of your belongings were lost in the storm is not true. So that there aren't any photographs William -- Photographs behind panels -- but anyway everything is looking back -- and we have Cynthia over here who is tell us together the company that you're with here Florida."

" Bacon's furniture galleries in port Charlotte OK there full fledged furniture gallery as well designed center and so Teresa you and and Cynthia have done wonders in terms of shopping yes. -- Try to make shopping fun and this is -- committed to the -- kind of extension of the bamboo look from whom we meet with the customary find out their personality or lifestyle. And then from there we show them all of our furniture galleries but let me tell you so many people who have lost their homes and fortunately had insurance are able to do this other people. Clearly -- tougher situation. But it's so hard starting from scratch and trying to pick out everything for every room they made a lot of mistakes don't think."

" We make a lot of mistakes unfortunately but it's all -- learning experience we find out what everyone really likes to see and they I guess learn about themselves as well. People will walk in and want a particular style we bring in the house they figure they don't like it and we start from scratch and replace -- yeah."

" Big big statement that Teresa made early on was the floor product from porcelanosa that this the Spanish town manufactures. And this is a large format porcelain tile that's made to look like steel plate you still like it."

" I am in love with that and we built. The house cut with the decoration and color and everything around this -- yeah."

" Let's let's talk about Pakistan aimed at the time although it looks like it's blacks and grays it has a lot of data."

" It have a lot of variation that there's some subtleties to that the light plays well -- Cynthia tell us about the furnishings in the fabrics that use it and how that plays together -- Teresa brought a piece of the tile in the forest to look at we saw the blues the golds and decided that was a great color -- to start with so you get blues and the butterflies -- and and so forth we also picked up the blues -- out in the pool we might want to bring the outside inside. We have more bamboo DT out as well to reiterate what's going on when you walk in the front door and we have wicker and bamboo with leather bindings as well that's a nice comfortable Florida look."

" The paintings are quite a statement that Cochran tubes -- car it is now have you already gonna monarch -- is actually."

" We've had a wonderful opportunity to work with a local gallery pressed for sellers gallery of fine art gallery and also they have a cafe here in front of artists all of the art are local artists. They brought in art we're got -- and yes a lot of art on loan excellent and another wonderful piece over here in the absence of nothin'. Well it's a hurricane survival kit. Kind of has everything you'd need from duct tape to bottle of wine and."

" A flash --"

" Variously."

" All right so here I guess your inspiration comes from our Brazilian walnut floors from bellawood right."

" Yes -- happy to see that there was many wood tones a lot of coordinating ideas to match our amber bedroom set."

" You this do you call this amber yes it is OK yeah no answering machine."

" It has a resort feel to it very casual bringing the outside indoors as well be doing -- bamboo in there too yes. Stylized. As well as pineapple. Details and it's king sized."

" Bed that's great really fills in the room and the bathroom has been completed so you've coordinated using the tile and the kind of the earth tones in there as well yes. Nice job."

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