Paloma Contreras Interview | Tips and Methods She Uses for Design

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today we’ve got Paloma Contreras who is an award winning interior designer and taste maker based in Houston Texas. Her design is a modern take on traditional style gravitating toward classic silhouettes and timeless pieces paired with a touch of glamour and an infusion of color. Paloma is highly decorated when it comes to being a designer. She’s in the Next Wave interior designer by House Beautiful and has been named on LUXE Magazine’s gold list, the ELLE Decor A List, and she has also been named number 4 on Forbes list of the Top Social Media influencers in the home category. Her book Dream, Design, Live 3:15How she starts with people who are stumped 9:14Kips Bay Showhouse 11:47Paloma’s style 17:27Sources of inspiration 20:03Tried and true design advice 23:31Being a teacher 26:07What she’s learned from having a showroom 29:38“You usually get about 2 and a half months from the time that you’re asked to participate until opening night and in this particular case of Palm Beach, we couple that with a pandemic and a global supply chain crisis and it’s not for the faint of heart, but I actually loved that part of it. I loved the challenge and having sort of the satisfaction at the end of it to think ‘OK guys, we pulled this off. We did it.’ And you know, that feels really great.” 14:38www.palomacontreras.com@palomacontrerasdesign@shoppalomaandcohttps://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
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0:52.7	That's hunterdouglas.com slash dear Alice.
0:57.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice.
1:00.7	Today we have a really special guest.
1:03.7	We've got Paloma Contreras, who's an award-winning interior designer and tastemaker based in Houston,
1:09.7	Texas.
1:10.7	Paloma's design is a modern take on traditional style, gravitating toward classic silhouettes
1:16.7	and timeless pieces paired with a touch of glamour and an infusion of color.
1:22.7	Paloma is highly decorated when it comes to being a designer.
1:26.7	She's been the next wave interior designer by House Beautiful, has been named Lux Magazine.
1:32.7	She's on their gold list.
1:34.7	And she's also been named number four on Forbes list of the top social media influencers
1:40.7	in the home category.
1:42.7	And so much more.
1:43.7	Oh, and that's not forget the elder core a list, which is so major.
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