Leading Interior Designer Proves Point With 15,000 sq. ft. Luxury Dream Home
Top interior designer says many busy, wealthy people don't get the deep satisfaction they want from their luxury interior design projects. Creates interior design ideas for people dissatisfied with their luxury interior design projects.
Charlotte, N.C. (PRWEB) June 25, 2009 -- Prominent interior designer Leo Dowell today revealed a hidden secret of the interior design world with his claim that many clients in affluent U.S. markets are deeply dissatisfied with the luxury interior design projects in their homes.
Front Entrance of Dowell Designed Home
Dowell's decision to pull aside what he calls "the curtain of client frustration" reflects his finding that many financially successful people yearn for a place of sanctuary and re-creation but often don't have it. In fact, many clients have told Leo that they wish they'd known about him before spending hundreds of thousands - or even millions - of dollars on projects for their luxury homes, designs that fail to satisfy.
"We paid someone a fortune to design our home before we learned about Leo," confides one Dowell convert. "As soon as we saw his houses, we knew we'd hit the jackpot. His eye for color, detail and architectural accuracy is truly remarkable."
"I don't mean to suggest that every wealthy client is dissatisfied with their interior design," Dowell says. "But I have encountered enough unhappy people to know that many are indeed frustrated. The secret to pleasing affluent clients," the designer claims, "is to help them create a sanctuary where wealth is at ease, where they can renew themselves surrounded by the warmth of family and friends and the amenities of their well-earned success. Most often, they're not looking for some over-the-top design that looks good in photographs but isn't livable, they're looking for that hard-to-find combination of style and comfort."
Dowell's trademark style is New Vintage European Country: French Country, Italian Country, Mediterranean Country, English Country, etc., which he applied recently to a 15,000 sq. ft. luxury dream home. Design elements include thick barrel vaults, unexpected ceiling treatments (even in bedrooms), one-of-a kind furniture, vintage wine cellars, old world balconies, groin vaulted entrance ways, window seats, nooks, crannies and corners and other classical design features - in short, timeless design.
"European Country is a lifestyle, not a decorating style," Leo declares. "It's a richly appointed, even lavish setting patterned after the manner in which European gentry lived a couple of hundred years ago -- using as many original materials as possible (a very green strategy, he notes).
Leo Dowell is expert at translating the images and textures of 18th and 19th century European country living into 21st century settings. He combines casual and elegant in a way that some interior and exterior residential designers can't accomplish. Case in point: the 15-thousand square foot home that Leo designed for a software entrepreneur. Despite its size, that sense of wealth at ease he describes is clearly apparent in this home.
Dowell's homes are, first and foremost, authentic. A telling example is Treillage, a three-home French Country hamlet set in the midst of Charlotte's urban sprawl and patterned after Marie Antoinette's country village. "People bring their interior designers to see my Leo-designed house," says one client. Another client wondered why Leo wasn't on the cover of Architectural Digest twenty years ago!"
"Leo only does things correctly," said the client who wished she had discovered him before spinning her wheels with other designers. Clients consistently say that their Leo-designed home is what they'd always wanted but had not been able to achieve. The secret," Dowell says, "is "architectural aging, a dusting of the centuries -- the romance we're starved for."
"Our society seems to have forgotten the pleasures of natural materials in its quest to acquire the new and the perfect," he suggests. "That's why people often end up dissatisfied with interior design projects on which they've spent so much money -- and reaped so much disappointment. "It's not so much the materials themselves," he says, "but the way they're used. Imagine a new or renovated home that looks like it's been in the family for generations."
Leo's obsession for authenticity also extends to working with contractors. "Our builder, the finest in the county, didn't quite know how to get our roof line right," says one client. "Leo showed him."
This attention to exterior detailing was born of the designer's near obsession about interior authenticity, says Crystal Herring, Leo's daughter, who also works in the business. Examples: a rug worn by time and discovered on one of his European "grand tours" gracing a comfortable family room. A French Country kitchen with authentic Provence details set off by up-to-date touches like a Sub Zero refrigerator and La Cornue range. Or a distressed table that invites you to put your feet up and relax.
Leo Dowell-designed homes are deeply and personally satisfying.
Prospective clients interested in learning more about Leo Dowell's satisfying exterior and interior designs are invited to contact Leo Dowell Interiors. A no-obligation phone conversation will be arranged with Leo at the earliest convenience.
Use this address to see a Leo-designed Country French residential neighborhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUok_SBQJc
Use this address to take an engaging video walk-through of a 15-thousand square foot Leo-designed European Country home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xxP8aiTvn4
About Leo Dowell:
Leo Dowell grew up in Mt. Airy, N.C., the small town Andy Griffith made famous as "Mayberry." This experience wove the bedrock values of character and integrity into his life. For many years, Leo designed high-end residential interiors and commercial interiors for the region's most discerning clients. Then he discovered France - and the rest of Europe. Many years of poking around the Continent with clients refined his taste and sharpened his eye for authenticity, not to mention his appreciation for a bargain. Today, Leo's family-run business creates deeply satisfying European Country interior designs for affluent clients in the Southeast and in locales like New York City, Palm Beach and Santa Barbara. He specializes in, but is not limited to, authentic European Country, including French Country designs. His homes and developments are noted for their look of permanence and comfort.
Contact:
Leo Dowell Interiors
704-334-3817
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