Designer: Juniper Tedhams

The Inspiration: A black-and-white–striped flat-woven rug — similar to the reversible kilims made for centuries in Turkey — fueled Juniper Tedhams’s room design.

The Ideas: Tedhams built her theme from the ground up, beginning with the rug and continuing to the ceiling, covering the wall with wallpaper remnants in black and white. “I didn’t have enough in either color,” she says, “so I thought I could alternate two papers to create a pattern of blown-up stripes that would become the focal point of the room.”

A friend gave her the coffee table, which is topped with a piece of salvaged bowling-alley flooring that echoes the stripes on the wall and the floor; pin-striped throw pillows further emphasize the scheme. While the large blocks of color on the wall seem extreme at first glance, they help ground the space and give a sense of proportion to the smaller stripes in the room, Tedhams notes.

Designer Tips and Tricks: The decorator pulled a faded 19th-century English chesterfield sofa out of storage and gave it a cheerful update, re-covering it in soft burlap. A surprising fabric choice, perhaps, but “it’s durable, it has great texture, and it’s cheap,” Tedhams says. And instead of minimizing the wallpapers’ impact by hanging artwork all over it, she casually set an ink drawing by Anna Gaskell on the floor. An arrangement of cherry blossoms adds a jolt of fresh color.

Source List

Rug: Williams-Sonoma Home, www.wshome.com.
Wallpaper: Studio E from EverGreene Painting Studios, www.evergreene.com.
Pillow Fabric: B&J Fabrics, www.bandjfabrics.com.
Ink Drawing: Anna Gaskell, www.yvon-lambert.com.
Club Chairs: ABC Carpet & Home, www.abchome.com.