Tip #1
Hang your curtains high
Draw the eye up. Makes the room taller. Draw the eye up and away from the driveway.
Savannah Anna Danna-Leigh
Founder, Principal Designer & Spiritual Authority
Look expensive.
Professional design advice nobody requested.
The house
Hang them high. Then pick a focal point.
How to make the home look expensive when the husband says there is no budget. Somehow he funds a Marriott for the secretary.
Tip #2
Create a focal point
Her guest-house project: an exquisite Italian chandelier. He chose a 24-year-old receptionist at his dermatologist’s office. Different eye for detail.
The dorm
Four looks. One freshman.
Higher education should never require lower standards — or reveal the family’s actual tax bracket.
The Davenport name comes from her mother-in-law, Delta Dawn Davenport, who taught two things. Never discuss money. Never decorate as though you don’t have any.
Is your precious little freshman about to move into a dorm that looks like a minimum-security correctional facility? Oh, we can’t have that.
She transforms cold cinderblock cells into fully realized expressions of generational wealth. Color palette. Personal aesthetic. Precisely how much better she believes she is than her roommate.
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Coastal Heiress
Whether your freshman identifies as a Coastal Heiress. Cinderblock, but make it generational wealth.
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Disco Debutante
Or maybe a Disco Debutante. Custom fabrics. Imported trim. Enough decorative pillows to violate the fire code.
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Cheetah-Print Contessa
A Cheetah-Print Contessa. Conceal every trace of university-issue furniture.
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Patriot Princess
For the young lady who loves her country every bit as much as she loves attention. Freedom isn’t free, and neither are custom window treatments.
Bedding. Window treatments. Desk accessories. Emergency ring lights. The monogrammed wastebasket she’ll be vomiting into by homecoming. The team arrives before move-in, so she never has to witness the room in its natural, unsightly condition. That would be bad.
Packages begin with Daddy Will Be Furious and run through He Doesn’t Need to Know What It Cost. Nothing says independent like spending $40,000 of your parents’ money on curtains.
The close
Your home should make a statement — even if your husband has already made one.
College is temporary, but being perceived as poor is forever.
The desk
Book a consult
She hops on. You get the tips. He says there is no budget. She still hangs the drapes — or the freshman never sees the cinderblock.
Noted. If the rod is still at the sill — or the cinderblock is still showing — she already knows.