00:00 Hi, my name is Carmion Hamilton.
00:01 I'm an interior designer, and welcome to my home.
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00:07 I get asked the question often,
00:18 what is my own personal style?
00:19 And I would describe it as modern bohemian.
00:22 You'll see all of the furniture has very clean lines.
00:25 It's layered with tons of texture,
00:27 and of course, lots of plants.
00:28 That's where the bohemian element comes in.
00:30 So we're currently sitting in my living room,
00:32 but you can also see a little bit of the office.
00:35 The entryway, which is right behind me,
00:37 is the first thing you see when you walk in.
00:39 And so it is all personality.
00:42 You are hit with a hand-painted mural by Moff,
00:46 and it moves into our hallway,
00:48 which has a Serengeti wallpaper
00:51 reminiscent of African terrain.
00:54 I knew exactly where I wanted to put this wallpaper
00:58 when I found it through Hooga and West.
01:00 Made the perfect background for some artwork
01:03 that I absolutely love.
01:05 This is G. Horton, another artist that I am a huge fan of.
01:09 He turns Black American culture
01:13 and incorporates African culture.
01:17 These boys are very reminiscent of my own son,
01:22 and so having their faces reflected in our home,
01:26 I make sure that my son can see himself.
01:28 So now, come with me to my kitchen.
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01:33 So we're standing in my very small,
01:41 but mighty galley kitchen.
01:44 Most people go into a home
01:46 and they would see a kitchen this small
01:47 and wanna blow out the walls and make it bigger and open,
01:50 and I'm not a fan of that.
01:53 Number one, I don't want to see my dirty dishes
01:56 from my living room and from everywhere else in the house.
01:58 I love that it is all contained right here,
02:01 and I love that I can move from my sink to my stove
02:04 to my refrigerator in no time.
02:07 Since it was a small kitchen,
02:08 I wanted to ground the floor with the black cabinets
02:12 and raise the ceiling with the white uppers.
02:15 The tile for the backsplash came from fireclay,
02:18 and this particular tile was created
02:21 to look like the lengths of a watch.
02:24 However, if you look at it, it's the letter H,
02:27 which is the beginning of my last name, Hamilton.
02:31 So I thought it was perfect to include
02:34 in the hub of our home in the kitchen.
02:37 That's pretty much the only updates we've done here.
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02:42 So we're sitting in our dining room.
02:51 I wanted to make sure this space felt very special.
02:56 One of the first furniture pieces that we bought
02:59 for our home was this dining table.
03:01 I am a mid-century furniture lover to my core,
03:05 and I knew I wanted something sculptural
03:07 that would be beautiful no matter
03:09 if it had chairs around it or not.
03:10 My proudest DIY is this hand-painted mural
03:15 in our dining room.
03:17 My favorite number is three.
03:18 It represents my family and several other things.
03:21 And so I took the three hash marks
03:24 and created this almost mud cloth looking texture
03:28 on the wall, and it blew people away on the internet
03:31 so much so that it's now turned into wallpaper.
03:33 So you can buy that.
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03:37 So we are currently standing in my office.
03:43 This is where the hub of two businesses is.
03:49 Our desks, two long desks, they have integrated plugs.
03:53 So we have our laptops, we charge our phones.
03:55 Everything happens here.
03:57 And the desk is standing height, it's bar height.
04:00 So our bar stools, I wanted something very comfortable.
04:03 They're leather, they're black, they're very chic, gold,
04:08 very reminiscent of the modern bohemian feel
04:11 that's happening throughout the whole space.
04:13 One of my prized possessions, this artist is Lauren Pierce.
04:18 She's based in Detroit.
04:20 I just so happened to get one of her pieces
04:23 before she blew up.
04:24 She has pieces in Swiss Beats House,
04:27 Swiss Beats and Alicia Keys Home.
04:29 And yeah, you can't get her stuff anymore
04:31 unless you're a bajillionaire.
04:33 But if you can get a Lauren Pierce piece,
04:36 get a Lauren Pierce piece.
04:38 So on this side of the room, I devoted one side
04:42 to my plants and things I love to look at.
04:45 This is where a lot of the work happens.
04:48 When I'm working on projects,
04:50 I like to put all of the finishes and materials up here
04:54 and see how things work together.
04:57 I've mixed in personal artwork
05:00 with things that I am working with
05:02 just to give my workspace some interest.
05:07 Never without plants, ever.
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05:21 The room I'm most proud of
05:22 is definitely the living room office area.
05:26 Since this space was so wide open,
05:29 I wanted to break things up using different textures
05:32 and also color blocking on the walls.
05:34 The living room side of this room, which is one long room,
05:38 I've painted black to represent the lounge area of the room.
05:43 And the office side of the room is painted white
05:46 because that's where we work.
05:47 We wanna be energized.
05:48 It's very important to me that people are comfortable
05:51 when they come into my home.
05:52 And so layers of texture are part of making sure
05:56 this space looks like I want you to come in and sit down.
05:59 So every single thing that's here,
06:01 from the rug to the sofa to the chairs,
06:04 they're all hardworking fabrics
06:06 that people don't have to worry about messing up
06:08 when they're here because I don't want people
06:10 thinking about ruining things.
06:12 I just want them to be comfortable
06:14 and feel like they're at home themselves.
06:16 Once I knew how we wanted to use that space,
06:20 designing it and picking out all the furniture
06:24 and the finishes, the paint colors, and the artwork
06:27 was just a joy.
06:28 It turned out exactly the way I wanted it to.
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06:37 My son is 14 years old and we completed his room
06:46 about two years ago.
06:48 A lot of people ask me about designing for kids
06:51 and I say, "Listen to your kids."
06:55 My son wanted a Sonic the Hedgehog blue and red room.
07:00 So a tone on tone, very monochromatic space
07:04 is what we created.
07:05 We went with a blue headboard and a blue chair.
07:08 His desk chair is blue, blue bedding.
07:11 So the eye gets to rest when you're in this space,
07:14 but it's still fun because it's his favorite color.
07:17 A lot of the things in here are very sentimental to my son.
07:22 So my husband passed away a little over a year ago
07:26 and his best friends got together
07:28 and framed a football jersey.
07:30 A lot of them play football and had my husband's number
07:34 put on it and had this frame for my son.
07:36 This piece of art is something my son did back in,
07:40 I think he was in second grade
07:42 and it's a picture of him and my husband.
07:45 So I put it in a shadow box and framed it,
07:48 made sure it was hanging in his space as well.
07:51 One of the last things that my husband did
07:53 before he passed away was he found this art piece
07:57 of Muhammad Ali in his grandmother's home
08:01 and he had it reframed and I was able to pick it up.
08:04 I didn't know he was framing it in a red frame,
08:06 but it was perfect for my son's room.
08:09 I love this space.
08:10 It is so vastly different from the rest of our home.
08:13 You can still tell that it has a designer's touch
08:16 because everything is so cohesive,
08:18 but you also know this room belongs to a teenager
08:21 because that's what it should look like.
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08:26 So this space is our main bedroom
08:38 and bedrooms are function first.
08:41 You put a bed in it and you go to sleep, essentially.
08:44 So you have to get really creative
08:48 around making a bedroom interesting
08:50 and you do that through textures and varying surfaces.
08:53 So we have a pattern on the bed and then all of the layers.
08:57 I love a very layered bed and I'm also a fan of linen.
09:02 So everything on the bed is linen.
09:04 So lots of softness, but there's a leather chair in here too
09:07 to give an element of something that's more modern
09:10 in this very bohemian space.
09:13 Lots of wood, varying wood textures to warm up the space.
09:17 So when I was designing our bedroom,
09:20 I knew I wanted some visual texture on the walls.
09:24 I loved the idea of slatted walls,
09:27 but I wanted to put my own spin on it.
09:30 Most of the time you see them go floor to ceiling
09:32 or there's some type of wainscoting,
09:35 especially if you have a low profile bed like this,
09:38 you may see them pop up just a little bit above the bed.
09:41 But for me, I wanted to treat it like a piece of art.
09:44 It's the most interesting thing,
09:46 but it's also the quietest thing in the room.
09:48 I'm Carmion Hamilton,
09:57 and you're watching Home & Texture House Tours.
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