Room Service Atlanta: my charity project

Hi friends,
Its that time of year again!  Time to give back with the amazing foundation Room Service Atlanta. If you are not familiar let me quickly explain. Two amazing women got together and thought how can we deliver great design to those that need it most? By rallying local designers to showcase their work through homeless shelters and foster homes all over the city of Atlanta. And they are back at again, partnering with United Methodist Children’s Home. Read more about their wonderful organization HERE.

Lisa and I participated in the last cottage and landed the kitchen. It had recently been renovated, so we had to get really creative with paint colors, accessories and add design elements where we could. Starting with the refrigerators…

I wanted to somehow tie them all together and to not look so institutional, if you will. And it clicked, let’s paint numbers on them!

While I was at it, I added stripes to the bottom of the kitchen island…

And an inspirational chalkboard wall…

And here it is all styled and professionally photographed by the fabulously talented Christina Wedge…

This time around I’ve chosen a lounge space for the boys (there are two cottages this year, one for the girls, one for the boys. It was very tempting to take one of the girl’s rooms but they are much larger with kitchen spaces and I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew). So here it is, the big BEFORE…

I managed to put together a nice seating arrangement with the two wooden sofas that were already floating around the cottage. A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Long’s Upholstery in Alpharetta for generously donating 8 yards of fabric and DEEPLY discounting their labor cost to reupholster all 8 cushions for me. It was a great gesture before the Alpharetta movers were due to come and begin the process of moving us out. Yup, we’re only moving a few blocks to a fancy modern house! Whoop Whoop!

The inspiration for the room? This recent spread in House Beautiful. I’m craving color (who are you and what have you done with Jen?)!!! And absolutely fell in love with this next spread. So when Tim Long said pick any fabric you want from our left over stash, I thought yes! Any plaid, stripe or paisley will do.

The colors you see here are from Farrow & Ball and are Picture Gallery Red, Light Blue and Pigeon. Not all of them will exactly work with the stripe fabric I dug out of the stash but will be shooting for the same general idea.

Another BIG SHOUT OUT TO my friend and independent workroom owner, Lorraine Salvatore for offering to sew the burlap skirt for a round table frame my friend Dorothy, of Dorothy Burke Interiors, scored from one of her clients. THANKS LADIES!!!

I was all fired up that day from everyone’s generosity that I ran right over to the Queen of Hearts in Alpharetta and purchased this steamer trunk for $140 for the coffee table. The colors are perfect!

#meanttobe

I’m a sucker for a trunk coffee table. I love the look and use it very often in my design plans, especially when looking for a more masculine look.

Unfortunately I have many more design plan ideas I want to share with you but not enough time to finish today. I’ll be back with more and a WISH LIST of items I need in the event you’d like to help. In the interim, if you’d like to make a monetary donation to my project, I would be SO GRATEFUL for any help you can provide.

Please send your tax deductible donations to:

United Methodist Children’s Home
c/o Khalid Battle
500 South Columbia Dr.
Decatur, Georgia 30030
tele: 404/327-5820
please note “Room Service Atlanta/J. Schoenberger Design” in the memo section.

If you would like to donate a piece of furniture or home decor item please email me, Dayka Robinson [email protected] OR Erika Ward [email protected] to make arrangements for pick up/delivery.

It’s such an honor to be the facilitator of all your good deeds! I don’t know about you, but January, February and March went by with a blink and I’m thinking what have I accomplished this year? Yes I’ve been working hard for my clients and yes, I’ve been taking care of my family but still had that feeling of not enough. Well, this is it. Giving back is like money in the bank. Time so well spent, not a penny wasted!

Thanks friends! Have a BEAUTIFUL weekend!!!

Love,
Jen
your humble design servant
xo

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