Decorating & Product Sourcing

Living Room Portiere

The addition of a portiere adds a colorful focal point to this living room that is dominated by wood tones. The portiere brings a sense of privacy to other spaces in the home, and helps to demarcate where one space flows into the next.

Library Portiere

The other side of the portiere is made from a richly patterned, green, jewel-toned fabric. It makes a dramatic counterpoint to the red fabric found on the living room’s side. The portiere screens off the home’s library/office, and helps to privatize the route to the second floor bedrooms.

Library/Office Portiere

The jewel-toned greens of the portiere brings added interest to the wood and leather tones that dominate the room, and makes an exciting complement to the red tones dominating the oriental rug.

Falling Leaves Portiere

We created this dramatic portiere, composed of appliqué, embroidery and beadwork, for our traveling showroom, Falling Leaves. The portiere hangs in the entryway to the room, and illustrates the impact customized fabrics can bring to an interior.

You can learn more about the Falling Leaves roomset on our Falling Leaves showroom page under Hand-painted Interiors.

Drapes for a Queen Anne

We designed these drapes for the interior of an 1890’s Aesthetic Queen Anne cottage. They are lined for both light blocking and bringing privacy to the room when needed. The rich pattern and heavy weight of the drapes complements the delicate, light bringing, lace hanging in the window behind them.

Queen Anne Drapes

This detail of the drapes illustrates how the fabric’s rich pattern, primarily in tones of red, counterbalances the pale green of the walls while integrating the red and gold polychrome on the rosettes of the home’s trim.

Arts & Crafts Café Curtains

Custom café curtains, made from scrim embroidered with metallic threads, delicately screen the home’s interior from the outside. Café curtains create privacy while keeping the top lights of the windows open to both light, and views.

Gossamer and Beaded Curtains

Curtains of gossamer with beaded skirting makes a dramatic display of light in The White Rose dining room. The White Rose acts as a showroom for Century Arts.

You can learn more about the White Rose roomset on our White Rose showroom page under Hand-painted Interiors.

Henry Hahn House Lighting Project

The right lighting sets the mood of a room. We sourced the lighting for the restoration of the Henry Hahn House, a landmark Arts & Crafts home designed by architect Emile Schacht. The chandelier in the home’s foyer features slag- glass in tones of amber and blue. The glass sets off the fixture’s brass fretwork. We like how the amber glass echoes the colors of the flames in the fireplace, and the blue tones bring the colors of the sky into the home.

Henry Hahn House Lighting Project

This detail of the light we sourced for the home’s foyer shows off the aged patina of the brass, and the detail of it’s patterned fretwork.

Henry Hahn House Lighting Project

We sourced a suite of lights for the Henry Hahn House. They share the amber and blue glass, the patterned fretwork, and aged brass patina.

Henry Hahn House Lighting Project

This cute, single-drop light fixture hangs in the hallway outside the home’s second floor bath.

Henry Hahn House Lighting Project

We used the most dramatic light for the home’s stair hall. It has all of the hallmarks of the other lights we sourced for the home, with the addition of a wonderful embossed pattern on the fixture’s main square pan.

Bungalow Dining Room Light

A floral-scrolled and polychrome chandelier was the perfect addition to complete the dining room of this Arts & Crafts bungalow.

Bungalow Dining Room Buffet Lights

The built-in single-drop fixtures on the buffet share the same shades as the room’s chandelier bringing continuity to the lighting of the room. These fixtures work to light the serving area of the buffet. We designed the buffet and worked closely with a respected carpenter to build it.

Bungalow Dining Room Lights

A broad view shows how the lights interact with the dark wood tones of the dining room, and make the room complete.

Queen Anne Exterior Lights

The restoration of a Queen Anne required the perfect lights for the home’s two porches. Although we placed restored vintage lights in most of the home’s interior, we chose new fixtures for the exterior. We sourced this scrolled-iron fixture with antique styled bubbled-glass shades to meet the home’s exterior lighting needs. The black iron is a great complement to the home’s lively Victorian color scheme.

J.S. Bradley House Dining Room Chandelier

We sourced this wonderful Arts & Crafts chandelier for the J.S. Bradley house. The home had lost its original fixtures to years of remodels undertaken by previous owners. The fixture is a playful blend of Gothic Revival and Floral Art Nouveau that brings the glow of candlelight to the room through its amber slag-glass shades.

J.S. Bradley House Foyer Chandelier

Medieval Gothic and Continental Art Nouveau come together is the rough-hewn chandelier that we sourced for the Bradley House’s foyer. This awesome Arts & Crafts fixture boasts lots of hand hammering and a glowing coppery patina.

J.S. Bradley House Back Parlor Chandelier

We found this completely intact fixture, with its original finish and shades, for the back parlor the home. We kept the lighting of the home’s primary rooms consistent in style, choosing Arts and Crafts fixtures that blended Gothic Revival with Floral Art Nouveau, as seen here with the combination of medieval inspired quatrefoils on the bowl shaped pan, and stylized plant forms on the armatures. The hand hammering on this elegant, yet rough-hewn design, with coppery patina, make this Arts & Crafts gem.

Bungalow Foyer Light

Square chain and interesting fretwork combines with green and amber tinted slag-glass on this Arts & Crafts pendant light. The fixture makes an elegant statement in this bungalow’s entryway.

Arts & Crafts Bathroom Light

A set of milk glass and chrome fixtures were definitely a fun find for this Arts & Crafts bathroom. The “subway” patterned embossed milk glass shades work harmoniously with the bathroom’s white subway tile!

Arts & Crafts Wall Sconce

The armature of this fixture, with its flared hook-shaped end, is the perfect place to hang the lantern portion of this Arts & Crafts wall sconce. The sconce is cast iron with hammered surface and a copper patina. We used it in the hall of the J.S. Bradley House.

Arts & Crafts Bathroom Ceiling Light

This bathroom ceiling fixture is made from white ceramic. The shade is embossed with a “subway” pattern that pairs well with white subway tiles of the room. An awesome oversized pull-chain fob gives this fixture extra pizzazz.

Victorian Gaslight Fixture

The right lighting is the perfect finish to any period home. We sourced a vintage gaslight, modified for electricity, to finish this Victorian interior. The acanthus leaves that wrap the fixture’s lower portion continues the theme of nature found in the plant forms printed on the room’s period wallpaper.

Victorian Bedroom Gaslight Fixture

We sourced another modified vintage gaslight that sets the mood of this Victorian bedroom.

Art Deco Wall Sconce

We found this Romantic Revival candlestick wall sconce, from the Art Deco era, to set a period mood in the hallway of this vintage home.

Medieval Arts & Crafts Chandeliers

Two medieval inspired Arts and Crafts chandeliers accent the hallway and stair- hall of the J.S. Bradley house. We sourced these fixtures to bring authentic period details back into this fully restored home.

Aesthetic/Japanesque Doorbell

Salvaged, period reproduction, and period-inspired hardware helps return authenticity to a vintage home. In the case of this Queen Anne, a period-inspired doorbell, in the Aesthetic/Japanesque style, makes a stylish greeting to guests of the home.

Victorian Butterfly Hinges

Reproduction Aesthetic period butterfly hinges complete the authentic touches of a Victorian screen door.

Victorian Curtain Tiebacks

We gave the Victorian lace of this Queen Anne home these period-authentic reproduction curtain tiebacks. Manufacturers began making these pressed glass beauties circa 1840, and they add a sparkling touch to a Victorian home.

Art & Crafts Kitchen Hardware

We added the final touch of authenticity to this kitchen we designed by using gothic inspired butterfly hinges, and brass thumb-latches. Wavy and bubbled glass helps to obscure the contents of the glass-front cabinet doors.

Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau Period Upholstery and Drapes

We gave the Art Nouveau period furniture of this room authentic reproduction upholstery, and brought additional Art Nouveau flair with period lace and custom floral draperies in a poppy motif. Medieval inspired Arts & Crafts accent furniture combined with the homeowner’s collection of vintage crystal lamps, rounds out the scene.

Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau Period Parlor

In this whole-house restoration, our client asked us to select from, and repurpose his eclectic collection of antique furnishings. With new upholstery, we unified a large collection of Art Nouveau furniture and medieval inspired Arts & Crafts furniture, along with an eclectic mixture of other period furnishings. Period pieces, newly designed and custom made carpets, upholstery and drapes all come together pleasingly in the parlor of this Arts & Crafts home.

Back Parlor Décor

Art Deco period furnishings, that carry over the whiplash lines of the Art Nouveau period, blend seamlessly with an eclectic collection of various Victorian pieces, French marquetry pieces and Depression era crystal lamps. We sourced the carpets, lace and upholstery for this handsome room in the J.S. Bradley home, while overseeing the restoration of its period furnishings.

Back Parlor Décor

Our client had collected an impressive array of beautiful period crystal lamps dating from the Depression era up to the 1960’s. He loves the lamps and we wanted to incorporate them into the extensive redesign project. We oversaw the cleaning and restoration and had new elegant new shades made to fit every room in the house.