A Designer’s Eye for Entertaining by Knotting Hill Interiors featured on Design Journal.

A Designer’s Eye for Entertaining

For Lynn and James Callihan, it was an easy decision to transform a 15-year old home with a crumbling stucco exterior into a beautiful home designed to suit the functional needs of their young family. Though the decision was made easy only after finding an interior designer who possessed the necessary mix of creative vision and talent for breathing new life into their home. To accommodate the Callihan’s love of entertaining, they teamed up with Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based interior designer Kimberly Grigg, CEO and principal designer for Knotting Hill Interiors, to strategically redesign their dining room for hosting guests during both casual and formal dinner parties. The combination of the dining room’s sophistication and functionality was at the forefront of Kimberly’s mind when conceptualizing the layout, furnishings, artwork, and lighting. She specifically chose an antique, 3-pane display cabinet to complement the room’s elongated oval dining table with 10 Louis XIV-style straight-backed, armless chairs. Kimberly had the chair fronts covered in a velvet-like solid cream fabric with a customized silky-blue appliqué of the Callihan name initials. She backed the chairs with a stripped blue, cream and soft-gold fabric to draw out the corresponding blue wall color as well as the blue tones of the family’s heirloom Mottahedeh china displayed in the cabinet. The china played an integral role in choosing a color palette for the house that well-matched the design tastes of the Callihans. “I have always had a fetish for blue and white porcelain. In fact, I have been collecting it since I was 10, so I was enthralled when Lynn presented me with the largest and most breath-taking collection of Mottahedeh china I had ever seen,” says Kimberly. Grounding the furnishings around the dining room and reminiscent of the overall home’s Parisian theme, Kimberly selected a bordered rug with detailed motifs and a short fringe in harmonizing hues. To complete the room’s design, Kimberly created custom, rich draperies accented with an ornate gold valance to hang along a large window.At the hands of Kimberly and her design team, the Callihan’s dining room was transformed into a utilitarian, yet elegant dining space, ideal for hosting lavish dinner parties and yet easily used by family members for quiet dinners at home. From its eye-catching glass chandeliers to a paragraph of beautiful antique chests, this dining room was designed for livable luxury.

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Kimberly Grigg is CEO and principle designer of Knotting Hill Interiors. The company specializes in designing beautiful homes with intricate detail, elegance and comfort. The professional design team works diligently to ensure that each client's personality and lifestyle is reflected in every detail of the home. Knotting Hill Interiors' services include luxury interior design; home remodeling and renovation; green interior design; children's rooms and nurseries; construction services including all specification, paint and color selections, furniture layout, electrical plan and project management; commercial application for hospitality, restaurants and offices; and much more.

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