Noëlle’s passion for interior was born from her background in styling and her love for travel as she gains her knowledge and inspiration by traveling. She gets her inspiration from browsing antique markets in France, studying different architecture and art in Spain or exploring Morocco. Her travels mirror her way of working with a mix of different styles. Natural items and colors, unique vintage pieces and design in combination with colorful accessories. Her style can be described as a good mix between design, mainstream and vintage. Her motto is interior should provide energy. Noëlle has her studio on the Gerard Doustraat in Amsterdam, a place of inspiration that she continuously renews and changes as she doesn’t work with permanent collections. On Fridays and Saturdays you are welcome to come in for inspiration or shop furniture and accessories of well-known designers but also from smaller brands from countries like Australia, America, France and Spain.

Project Comfortable teamed up with Noëlle especially for you. We wanted to create an easy concept on how to make your home cozy and a joy to live in. With just small and easy changes you can make a big difference. I invited Noelle in my home, for her vision to meet mine..

Noëlle and I share more than one thing in common but there’s one in particular. We have the same role model when it comes to interior. Kelly Wearstler is one of the world’s top interior designers, and her design work has been featured in publications the world over, from Architectural Digest and Elle Decorto Vogue and The New Yorker.

SPACES
‍Create cute little spaces that will give your home that cozy feeling. By using the corners you can easy create little areas that will do a lot for the energy in your house. But small-space living can quickly go from cozy to chaotic. While it can be a challenge to make all of your design dreams come true in a small home, there are plenty of tricks that can help you make your space feel larger than it really is.

Here are a few of her interior design ideas that will help you make the most of your home’s square footage. Kelly Wearstler’s 7 Tips for Designing Small Spaces:
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• Add a mirror or two (or three). Mirrors are a quick-and-easy DIY hack that visually enlarge spaces because they create depth and reflect back light to make a room feel more open. Kelly’s recommendation if you want to make a room look bigger—whether it’s a small kitchen or an entire tiny home—is to try at least one mirror: “You could either go floor to ceiling with a mirror, or you could get several mirrors. … If you want to enlarge your space in your small living room, buy three mirrors and put them on a wall—and it completely transforms the room.” For a small bedroom, a mirror as a headboard is a great way to open things up.
  
  
• Choose furniture with legs. “For making a small space feel larger,” Kelly says, “consider legs on everything. Because if you have furniture that’s rooted to the ground and you can't see under it, your eye’s not going to travel beyond the lines of the front of the piece of furniture.” Having pieces of furniture that are up on legs—couches, beds, bookshelves, dining tables, chairs—will help extend your floor space and create more visual surface area. “You could easily have a marble coffee table that’s on delicate bronze legs,” says Kelly. “That would absolutely do the trick.”
  
  
• Create mixed-use rooms.  For example take a multipurpose daybed (a long couch that can serve as a bed), which can also serve as a couch to work, or as a guest bed. She then included a small side table next to the daybed, which served “as a drink table if the client is sitting there working” or as a bedside table. When designing a smaller space, keep in mind the functionality of each individual item and include as many things as possible that can perform double-duty.  
  
  
• Make use of hidden storage. If your storage spaces are all out in the open, your small space will start to look cluttered and uninviting. Look for ways to hide your extra storage spots, whether it’s enclosed shelving, kitchen cabinets, sliding doors, or attractive bookcases. Try to expand your storage ideas into places you wouldn’t normally think of—for instance, installing shelving under your bed.
  
  
• Don’t shy away from small focal points. “A focal point in a room is something where your eye immediately goes to,” Kelly explains. “It’s the thing that your eye goes to that immediately tells the story.” Many beginning designers think that focal points have to be large pieces, but that’s not the case. Large pieces have a lot of visual weight, and in a small room that can quickly become overpowering. Instead, consider a small focal point. “Small pieces can be just as powerful as large pieces,” Kelly says.
  
  
• Work within a color palette. Kelly describes her experience of painting her first apartment: “I moved to LA, and it was an historic building. … At the top of my windows was a stained glass window, and there was this citron color. I loved it. I went and got about 20 quarts of yellow … and I painted the entire living room, and then I went and experimented in the adjacent room.” When she was done, she discovered that the cohesive color actually made the space look larger. “Color unifies a space, it truly does,” Kelly says. Working within a simple paint color palette will help bring all of your rooms together into one larger whole.
  
• Take advantage of every inch. Kelly describes the good use of space as “designing a boat”—you have to consider every square inch and make use of it, which is especially important in small space design. She designed a townhome where the clients wanted a bar somewhere in the space: “We were looking at the architecture and considering where we would put a bar. And then it occurred to us that there’s a cavity in the staircase below the railings. … And so we put in a secret bar in the place.” Kelly took advantage of a nook that the clients didn’t realize they had and transformed it into a little room—making the townhome feel larger. You could do this in your own house design for a few more square feet or new storage areas.

Source www.masterclass.com/ kelly-wearstler.

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If you’re not so much of a daredevil who easily plays with color – start with accessories and go from there. If you really want to start painting, start with a hallway or bedroom. I really like the California collection from Farrow & Ball x Kelly Wearstler, Noëlle says. She also made her own collection with L’Authentique. L'Authentique Chalk Paints are water-based, mineral paints with a velvety appearance. Suitable for indoor use, on wood as well as walls.

WALL SHELVES AND TABLE BOOKS
From fashion to cars, and from history to some of the best photography of all time, there's a coffee table book for that. It’s a beautiful investment for your home. Not only it brings joy to the table but also to spice up your wall. Stacking them up on your wall shelves really tells a story and serves a great ambience. All of this doesn’t need to cost you a lot of money, these shelves can easily be bought at Ikea. Again, you can give them a nice color by painting them. Gather as many precious and beautiful things from traveling, and place them all up on the shelf together with the books and you have the ultimate eye-catcher wall.

If you’re someone who can’t get enough of candles or ceramics, you can gather them and group them so that it becomes more of a statement instead of just single items. This is a really good tip I got from Noëlle. It’s important to decide for yourself what colors you like and which ones match so you can play with them. We love Handcrafted vases from Spain, candle Lola James Harper – Rue Saint-Honoré. This is the scent of The Mythical Concept Store Colette, 213 Rue Saint-Honoré in the first arrondissement of Paris. Scented candles is an important factor to create an ambiance. Some other favorites are Pine from Soho House - Inspired by Christmas time at Soho Farmhouse (London) and Feu de Bois from Diptyque.

PILLOWS
‍They’re important for the vibe in your home. Playing with different shapes and colors can do a lot. For the couch we chose for the Soho Home x Pierre Frey and the Dedar tiger mountain print. This print is also seen on the cover of this month’s Architectural Digest magazine. Soho Home is an interiors collection from Soho House, that’s located all around the world. The fun thing about working with pillows is that you can work with all kinds of fabrics, material, shapes and colors.

WINE & DINE
Your home is a reflection of yourself. You want to be able to destress, receive energy, feel loved when friends are coming over for dinner. I find it very important a home sends out good energy. For the table set up we chose for ceramics from Granada.
Items available in the shop and online https://www.noellestyling.com

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