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Pro Spotlight: Fill Your Home With Harmonizing Features
A Breckenridge-area interior designer reveals how to create comfortable, welcoming spaces
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Who: Lynn Myers of Harmony Interiors
Where: Frisco, Colorado
In her own words: “I love seeing how materials, textures and colors can come together as one and how different personalities shine through, making each space original.”
Travel has a way of making an impact on people. When you’ve spent 30 years as a flight attendant — as Lynn Myers, the owner of Harmony Interiors, has — it becomes a part of you. Myers helps clients with design details such as color, furniture placement and scale, but also considers their personality and culture to “help transform their personal environment, creating harmony, balance and a natural flow of energy through the space,” she says.
While in Asia, Myers became inspired to learn the practice of interior alignment. This is an intuitive approach to feng shui, combining the mystical traditions of the East and the practical methods of the West. She uses these principles to design homes that are comfortable and welcoming for guests and homeowners alike.
Where: Frisco, Colorado
In her own words: “I love seeing how materials, textures and colors can come together as one and how different personalities shine through, making each space original.”
Travel has a way of making an impact on people. When you’ve spent 30 years as a flight attendant — as Lynn Myers, the owner of Harmony Interiors, has — it becomes a part of you. Myers helps clients with design details such as color, furniture placement and scale, but also considers their personality and culture to “help transform their personal environment, creating harmony, balance and a natural flow of energy through the space,” she says.
While in Asia, Myers became inspired to learn the practice of interior alignment. This is an intuitive approach to feng shui, combining the mystical traditions of the East and the practical methods of the West. She uses these principles to design homes that are comfortable and welcoming for guests and homeowners alike.
On the move. Myers has always had a love for design, decorating and arranging furniture. “I kept moving every six months so I could keep rearranging my stuff,” she says. When that started getting expensive, she enrolled in design school to pursue her longtime passion: “After all, doing something you love will never feel like work.”
Getting the feeling. “I love how space can make you feel,” Myers says. “People are very happy with our work because they come into it and immediately feel comfortable. It’s a matter of taking so many different elements and finding a way to get them to all work together.”
Ready to make your home a feel-good space? Read Myers’ tips below.
Ready to make your home a feel-good space? Read Myers’ tips below.
1. Focus on the Entryway
The entryway is one of the most vital areas for creating good energy, as it’s where both people and energy enter the house. “Visitors should want to move into the house as soon as they open the door,” Myers says. “Your entry needs to be well-lit to make the space feel warm, comfortable and inviting.”
Myers filled the Breckenridge entryway seen here with several types of light, including a chandelier and several fixtures, to illuminate every nook and cranny. She also placed a chair off to the side. “In Colorado, everyone’s wearing boots, so it’s nice to have a place to sit down and take them off,” she says. “We put it in the corner so there’s nothing blocking the entry, but it makes guests feel welcome right away.”
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The entryway is one of the most vital areas for creating good energy, as it’s where both people and energy enter the house. “Visitors should want to move into the house as soon as they open the door,” Myers says. “Your entry needs to be well-lit to make the space feel warm, comfortable and inviting.”
Myers filled the Breckenridge entryway seen here with several types of light, including a chandelier and several fixtures, to illuminate every nook and cranny. She also placed a chair off to the side. “In Colorado, everyone’s wearing boots, so it’s nice to have a place to sit down and take them off,” she says. “We put it in the corner so there’s nothing blocking the entry, but it makes guests feel welcome right away.”
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2. Bring the Outside In
In areas that transition from outdoors to indoors, using similar materials can create a Zen-like feeling. For example, the stone on the fireplace seen here in another Breckenridge home is the same as that used for the columns in the front of the house. “It creates a harmonizing effect as people walk into the house, because all of the elements are working together,” Myers says.
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In areas that transition from outdoors to indoors, using similar materials can create a Zen-like feeling. For example, the stone on the fireplace seen here in another Breckenridge home is the same as that used for the columns in the front of the house. “It creates a harmonizing effect as people walk into the house, because all of the elements are working together,” Myers says.
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3. Find the Flow
In feng shui, energy is known as chi — and to have chi flow through the house in a harmonizing way, furniture placement is essential. “If the front door faces the back door or porch doors, you have to put enough items in the room to slow down the chi,” Myers says. “You want to keep the chi in the space, because it will make the room feel good.”
For the Breckenridge home seen here, Myers placed a sofa table and sofa in front of large glass doors that lead out to the patio, to slow the chi’s escaping. “You don’t want it to be running out the back deck, but you also don’t want it to bang into the back of the sofa and die,” she says.
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More: For more information on Lynn Myers and examples of her work, visit Harmony Interiors’ Houzz profile.
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
In feng shui, energy is known as chi — and to have chi flow through the house in a harmonizing way, furniture placement is essential. “If the front door faces the back door or porch doors, you have to put enough items in the room to slow down the chi,” Myers says. “You want to keep the chi in the space, because it will make the room feel good.”
For the Breckenridge home seen here, Myers placed a sofa table and sofa in front of large glass doors that lead out to the patio, to slow the chi’s escaping. “You don’t want it to be running out the back deck, but you also don’t want it to bang into the back of the sofa and die,” she says.
See more of this project
More: For more information on Lynn Myers and examples of her work, visit Harmony Interiors’ Houzz profile.
This story was written by the Houzz Sponsored Content team.
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Lynn took my vision and created a space beyond what I even imagined. I absolutely love my new ski condo: it's modern, it's mountain, and it's unique. She listened to understand my style and picked out...More