Top-tier interior designers are known for their ability to create elegant yet exceptionally inviting living spaces that are in alignment with their clients’ unique personal tastes. Throughout the design process, enormous attention is devoted to color palettes, flooring material, ceiling details, cabinetry and countertop choices, furnishings, draperies, and accessories. To be sure, all of these considerations are essential to creating a cohesive, visually appealing design. Yet there is another critically important design element that often gets overlooked that can elevate a design beyond the norm. That element is lighting.
Paulin’s interiors incorporate thoughtfully considered lighting designs. Her artwork and accessory items are spotlighted in a way that reflects their importance within her design concept. Glass objects are often backlit to enhance their prominence. Cove lighting and pin lights bring additional drama and visual appeal to her architectural details, including adding a glow to faux finished coffered ceiling treatments that can bring a sense of warmth and comfort to even the grandest spaces. When tall drapery treatments are included in her design, down lighting is used to provide highlights. All of these lighting elements can be effectively used in concert with a gorgeous chandelier that serves as a room’s most prominent memory point.