Can’t Beat This!

Bring your dining room out of the Dark Ages! For an updated, sleeker look, we love this ivory and gold drum chandelier. The single suspended drum has the look and feel of a pendant lamp and is a fresh alternative to stuffy bulky overhead lighting. The lighter weight construction and modern shape sheds a diffused light on the subject of entertaining in style. Definitely not your grandma’s chandelier! Available at Jones Lighting Specialists, 1010 York Road, Towson, 410.828.1010

Enter, Stage Right

Having trouble getting those tired rooms to reveal their chic and fabulous selves to potential buyers? Now you can enlist the help of a professional to get your house ready for public consideration. Stagers like Bradshaw Interiors, Spruce Home Design and Finley Weatherford bring a new set of “buyer’s eyes” to advise on ways of accenting the positives and minimizing the negatives of a house. With that “model home” look, potential buyers visualize themselves living there already. They’ll also help fix up for the holidays, before the boss comes for dinner or just for your own enjoyment. Finley also transforms rooms with her stylistic faux painting—mostly on walls, but sometimes on floors. Hot trends include replicating wallpaper as well as metallic paint. Bradshaw Interiors, http://www.fashionforthehome.com, 443.421.1452; Spruce Home Design, , 202.498.1311; Finley Weatherford and Faux Fabulous, , 443.695.4774

With a Twist

So nothing rhymes with orange, but this season designers are using bold shades of orange to go with just about everything to squeeze some juice out of tired dwellings. Rich browns, powder blues and hot pinks paired with eye-popping orange bring a hint of spice by way of painted walls and accents. Think Hermes, not pumpkins, for the hottest trend in fall home rejuvenation.

Niermann Weeks

Sitting Pretty

At once ancient and contemporary, the virtues of the klismos chair lie in its original inspiration: the human form. The Ancient Greeks were the first folks to build a klismos chair with its gently curved back, comfortable seat and sturdy legs, and the clever shape continues to inspired new adaptations for modern lifestyles. This contemporary klismos will make you glad someone knew his history. The Niermann Weeks klismos chair is available to the trade only or through your designer. Niermann Weeks, 410.923.0123