“I could never do this with my clients,” admits Atlanta designer Lauren Lowe, founder of Lauren Elaine Interiors. “But I asked myself what I could use from my old house—how quick and dirty can I do this? What can I do to make what I already have sing in a new house?”
What she had was an eclectic collection of contemporary art, traditional art, vintage furniture, and antique Persian rugs that she had purchased from the previous owners of her previous home. At the same time, she didn’t want to “copy-paste a room from my old house.”
As for the new abode, in the same neighborhood, it was “not cute, but it had the space we needed,” she says of her growing young family. The previous owner of that house had seen her career take off so quickly that they never had time to properly decorate or even paint.
