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New Place

Tim Tice — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:06:55 +0000

My wife and I (also our new baby girl) just moved into a new place a couple of weeks ago. I had forgotten how big of a job moving really was. When we turn the keys over to a new client I often forget how difficult it is to get all of our accumulated stuff into that brand new home. Moving furniture, hanging pictures, shifting billing addresses, appointments with cable companies, all of that stuff adds up. We are just about finished with all of that. My wife and I are still relatively young and this is our first place where we are getting to have “real” furniture. We had a hodgepodge of things from our old house that was just things we had collected over the years. We purchased some new things through Echelon Interiors (of course) and I have to say that it is so nice to come home to a place that feels like a home. Now I understand that it is just “stuff” but I am grateful for it. Thanks to Joni and Renee for your help with it!

Echelon Interiors Featured in Professional Builder

Echelon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:20:42 +0000

By Pat Curry, Contributing Editor
March 1, 2010
Professional Builder

Every year, NAHB’s National Sales and Marketing Council recognizes creativity, excellence and innovation across several disciplines, including advertising, marketing, model merchandising and design. The awards, known simply as The Nationals, are the most prestigious honor in the business. As much as we wish we could feature all the winners, it’s impossible with 63 categories. This year, Professional Builder zeroed in on four categories that represent the central tools of every builder’s sales and marketing efforts — the sales center, Web site, model merchandising and advertising.

Best Interior Merchandising of a Model Under $500,000
MARINER AT LOVE CREEK, Lewes, DE
Builder: Schell Brothers, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Interior designer: Joni Hitchens, Echelon Interiors, Rehoboth Beach, DE

Mariner at Love Creek

With a client base that’s half year-round residents and half vacation-home owners, interior designer Joni Hitchens had to present an aesthetic that looked like a vacation getaway, but felt like home. She did it by blending traditional pieces in vibrant blues and greens, which were inspired by the community’s beach location.

“Most of my clients are bringing some pieces from home,” she explains. “They’ll use what they have, and maybe get a new sofa. We wanted them to be able to visualize their antique table if they put lime-green chairs with it.”

WHY IT WON: “It was more reminiscent of a home-y feel than an artificial model feel,” judge Dottie Paek says.

YOUR TAKE: Designers can over-merchandise to the point that customers can’t visualize how their own pieces would look in a home. If it doesn’t feel lived in, people get turned off.

~read full article

Interior design trends – Spring 2010

Joni Hitchens — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:32 +0000

Echelon Interiors is just returning from the High Point Furniture Market. The market was exciting and exploding with fresh new colors. It was wonderful seeing all the latest fabrics and color combinations. The highlights of the latest showings in fabric colors were grays mixed with spa blues and cranberry. Navy made a big entrance with pairings of charcoal.Yellows, greens and oranges are still strong for coastal areas.

Whimsical accessories in fun bright palettes of yellows and oranges compliments the coastal colors from spring. Green was very strong mixed with blue bringing the return of teal to the stage.

We added new furniture lines to our existing collections. On order for some of the newest models, a rare find of a great painted collections that are time worn offering bright custom colors and unique designs.

Please call for an appointment to see all the newest collections hot off the runway of Hightpoint.