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In the News . . . " an intimate gallery with a large presence" Cape Arts Review |
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Cape Cod Magazine March 2008
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The Cape Cod View Elizabeth Rowley, an interior decorator and owner of the Rowley Gallery, a tiny place in Orleans filled with oil paintings by well-known Cape artists, says she takes her cue from the client's taste before choosing a holiday theme. "I pick up colors in their interior design scheme or even choose complementary colors from a painting in the space to be decorated," says Rowley, who developed an interior design business after several gallery customers started asking her for decorating advice. "I would be delivering a painting to them and they would say, 'So long as you're here, what do you think I should do with the rest of this room? Can you give me some design help?'" Rowley, a member of the American Society of Interior Designers, likes to use gold in holiday decor. "Gold is just a great talent to work around," she says. This season, she is using teal to accent the greens decorating her gallery's doorway. A long-tailed, velvet bow dresses up her boxwood and English ivy wreath, while glistening through the greens in her window boxes are decorative elements (pods, cones, spirals) spray-painted teal or gold. Another of Rowley's doorway design ideas is a swag festooned with pink and green plaid ribbons, gold artificial grape ivy and tiny pink roses. "I love to mix up textures with the greens and then really puch things up by adding these fabulous pink silk roses," she says, noting that her education as an art student has served her well as an interior designer. Rowley advises homeowners who want to do their own decorating to choose something they love - a favorite vase, a cherished painting - and create a theme around that treasure. "Take a favorite bowl your grandmother gave you and head out to your yard for lots of greenery," she says. "Put in red carnations and baby's breath from your local supermarket. You will have a decoration that not only will endure for the entire holiday season, it will have a connection to some you love." |
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