Left, Meg Braff fabric adds color to a mudroom. Top, Braff designed a bright and cheerful dining area in a North Carolina home. Above, a Palm Beach home features bright upholstery and whimsical wallpaper.
Braff had a limited budget for that inaugural project, but she had unlimited reach. Her budding ingenuity led her to reuse items already on hand, repainting or reupholstering many of the anchoring pieces in the home to give them novel appeal. The simplicity that carried into her later work shows in the cabin’s understated warmth. She uses detailed layers to
add depth without cluttering her spaces. The rooms also reflect the “lived-in” look that Braff often employs in her designs. Perhaps most striking in Braff’s work is her unapologetic embrace of color and pattern, which has made her a popular choice among homeowners in major cities as well as coastal locales, including Florida, Maine, Texas and
Jamaica. Throughout the Williams cabin, she used “clear and unmuddied” shades of vibrant blues, reds and greens, as she does in the designs pictured in her book and displayed at her store. Color is just one of the thoughtful design elements that lends the cabin a modern feel that has endured years of family gatherings. April 2018 | INVITATION
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