Community interior designer earns national recognition

Local interior designer Eliana de Leon

Eliana de Leon awarded for get the job done at new Geneseo Inn

–Eliana de Leon, an interior designer centered in Paso Robles, a short while ago gained the 2021 Steel Architecture Structure Award in the Interiors Category the judges reviewed her work accomplished at the Geneseo Inn, a bed and breakfast situated at Cass Winery’s vineyard.

“It was a effective collaboration concerning Alice and Steve Cass, Ted Plemons [the owners] and me,” de Leon said. “It was energizing to existing atypical thoughts and resources to clientele that ended up on board with ‘designing outside the box’. As before long as I listened to from Ted that long run friends would be remaining in real freight containers positioned within just the vines, I knew I experienced to appear up with exclusive ideas to mesh with their vision and assist generate an extraordinary knowledge. We agreed that the interiors needed to be ‘edgy’ to match this specific strategy,” she reported.

Geneseo Inn, which was concluded in June 2020, was created utilizing recycled industrial shipping containers and this clear-lined, city aesthetic was additional designed through the interior layout. Each of the eight units has a unique theme influenced by a track. For the ‘Country Roads’ home, de Leon described that “we experienced a custom made headboard fabricated from Cass Wine staves and mounted ceramic planks on shower partitions that look like colourful faded barn wood that exude aged time travels”. For the ‘Gaia’ area, the goal was to use sustainable products to build a calming natural environment, which include “a special Tansu floor tile that is rumored to have healing properties”. For the ‘Ebony & Ivory’ space, the use of “glossy black tiles juxtaposed with much larger white matte tiles that generate a startlingly lovely contrast” in the shower, as perfectly as other black and white accents in the area, had been used to signify piano keys, as the homeowners are sponsors of the Paderewski Competition.

“I moved to Paso Robles just after a vocation in Los Angeles creating thrilling initiatives like Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Bellagio Lodge in Las Vegas. But this undertaking was the most stimulating. It gave me a opportunity to pull from my 30 yrs of design and style experience and assist customers build a actually special place in Paso Robles for visitors and locals to delight in,” de Leon said.

For a lot more facts concerning the award and de Leon’s operate, pay a visit to the Metal Architecture Magazine’s internet site and her web site.

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