Durham Designs and Consulting, LLC, offers concept to completion with residential selections for exterior and interior, customization of unique products exclusive to your home for new construction, remodels and updating a room. Working with premium vendors or your vendors of choice enables a fluid transition with space planning, cabinet design, and ultimately furniture, art, draperies, etc. Services Provided Art Selection, Color Consulting, Custom Furniture, Custom Kitchen Cabinets, Custom Rugs, Downsizing, Furniture Selection, Interior Design, Consultation with client and architect, Whole Home Selections, Custom Furniture Sales, Custom Window Treatments, Furniture Sales, Lighting sales, Accessory Sales, Rugs sales, Custom Rugs Available, Online Shopping Early in life watching old black and white movies, I'd notice the glittering of crystal chandeliers, the flicker of a cigarette lighter, and the beautiful brocade, opulent drapes gracing large windows with twinkling lights from the city glowing through the dark windows. A handsome, romantic, tuxedo-dressed man was always crooning and playing the piano while sipping on something in a heavy, sparkling glass. Ladies with tiny waists were dancing with long white gloves and sipping from martini glasses. The romance of it all was almost more than I could imagine. I held my glass in my hand, sipping Kool-Aid and making my skirt swirl, as I attempted to emulate the fantasy. I grew up in a small rural community in the south, and while my parents were blue collar and very middle class, my mother was an excellent seamstress, able to reproduce the boucle' suits with fringe made by Channel for Jackie O. I, in my patent leather shoes and white lace socks, would go to fabric stores with her weekly to select fabric that she would magically sew into dresses for me that were copied or adapted from Life Magazine’s portrayal of Caroline Kennedy’s wardrobe. Eventually, I began to sketch what I wanted and she would produce my designs effortlessly. She and I would go to the library together and check out books on interior design and study the way rooms should be arranged. Everyone assumed that we were wealthy due to her hand-made window treatments with swags and jabots, covered sofas and chairs in damask and velvet and collected lovely silver plate items, individual crystal salt and pepper cellars, and crisp, starched, cut lace white table linens with fresh cut flowers from the garden in the center of the table. Many bowls of punch were served with lit candles floating atop, and freshly baked cakes and pies served alongside gleaming baked hams covered in pineapple slices, cherries and cloves with a hard butter and brown sugar glaze.