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It could be considered challenging to merge Asian and mid-century décor in a traditional Georgian-style home.
Not so for Cindy Lloyd of Feather Your Nest and Cindy Lloyd Design. A former Fredericksburg client for whom Lloyd had executed several projects was moving to Williamsburg. She wanted Lloyd’s assistance there, too, beginning with draperies the designer had chosen for the Fredericksburg living room finding a new life in Williamsburg. “She loved them so much that she wanted them brought to the new house,” Lloyd says. “All we had to do was add more.”
Then it was on to what had once been a den being reimagined as a room where guests could retire after dinner. Lloyd kept the room’s mustard gold walls, knowing they’d work well with the client’s love of Asian furniture and accessories. “She wanted this to be a ‘dragon room,’ so I found a fabric with a Chinese red background and dragon pattern and did quasi-pagoda–shaped valances,” Lloyd says. “Everything evolved from there.”
An antique Asian coffee table fit perfectly atop an untraditional-looking Oriental rug in hues of browns and blacks. Consignment shop chairs were reupholstered in a fabric patterned with Oriental trellises in tone-on-tone shades of cream and greens. “All the room’s colors were drawn from those valances,” she says. “The client had a mid-century cabinet she wanted in the room as well, and the room evolved to embrace all aspects of the different elements.”
Once the dragon room was completed, the client wanted to transform a nearby powder room. Dragon wallpaper in similar colors was chosen and coordinated window treatments were made. “For the side entry near the powder room, we did window treatments that coordinated with the dragon room,” Lloyd says.
She saw the project as successfully accomplished because it was sequential. “As each step was taken, the room spoke to us and told us what was needed to finish the project,” she says. “The result is unexpected since you wouldn’t necessarily think of Asian and mid-century in a traditional home.”
Yet it works, a fact evident in how the dragon room gets used. “That room has accomplished what the client had hoped it would. She uses it daily and says everyone gravitates there after meals for a drink and conversation.” Lloyd says. “It’s very cozy and it definitely doesn’t feel like a den.”
CINDY LLOYD
Direct: 804-761-3715
cindylloydfeatheryournest@gmail.com
5011 Richmond Road
Warsaw, Virginia 22572
