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Kip offers comprehensive residential and commercial interior design with access to Evansville's premiere design resource, Evaline Karges Interiors, Inc. The 60-year-old company has accumulated a design library second-to-none, featuring top designer product including: furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, window treatments, floor coverings, lighting, and accessories.

Along with this classic approach to interior design projects, Kip also offers consultation services billed at an hourly rate. This work-style allows clients the freedom to access furnishings from the retail source of their choosing be it local stores, mail order catalogs, or on-line shopping. With so many options available to the consumer today, Kip flexes with individual projects, offering just as much or as little design input as required. "As a design consultant, I become the clients' design advocate -- not their salesperson," says Kip. "We're free to focus on the project at hand, and we have the flexibility to achieve success through any means possible." Kip concludes, "My goal is great design; it's that simple."

Color Planning: Color selection is key to outstanding design. Kip expertly selects beautiful paint colors that are unique yet easy to live with. He also specifies the appropriate finishes for each application. Textures, glazing, and faux treatments also developed, when desired, in consultation with area finish artists.

Accessorization: The icing on the cake. Often the difference between good design and great design is the finishing touch. Whether providing the perfect addition to an existing collection or bringing in a fresh new look for your home, Kip taps leading design sources to create accessory solutions for your space.

Redesign: A good place to start is where you are. Kip makes believers out of new clients every day by reworking existing furnishings and accessories into a revitalizing new feeling - you at your best.

Building Specification: Kip is a crucial member of your home-building team. His insight throughout the planning stages brings the end result together beautifully. He not only beautifies your investment, but also makes wiser use of your building funds. From elements as impacting as exterior building materials, to finer interior appointments such as faucets and door hardware, Kip's experienced eye for detail helps clients get the home of their dreams.

Lighting Plans: Light. It's the single most powerful design tool. From a focal-point fixture for the dining room to the more practical illumination of space, there is a definite science to the art of lighting. Kip works with you in all phases of lighting design whether you're building, remodeling, or simply searching for the perfect lamp.

Artwork Consultation: Artwork is the very soul of interior design. Kip is as adept at the appropriate museum matting and framing of an 18th century botanical as he is at accessing original contemporary paintings. His lifelong appreciation of the visual arts comes together with his experienced eye for design, when selecting artwork for your home. From posters to masterpieces, he selects pieces that are strong design elements in their own right, yet work within your environs. Kip also offers distinctive, to-the-point framing solutions.

Shopping Assistance: Designing in the trenches -- shopping with Kip brings the expert out into the marketplace. Clients marvel as he brings rooms together from the aisles of some of our area's best retail sources. From super home-centers to elegant furniture showrooms, sometimes the hands-on approach to design selection is the most effective. "I also turn pages with clients in their favorite catalogs," offers Kip. "And I can point-and-click with the best of them." Yes...except the best of them usually won't offer this great service.

Antiques Investment: Accessing his relationships with the Tri-State's best antique dealers, Kip's counsel on antique acquisition brings a rich knowledge of a piece's value and its appropriateness as a design element in your space.

Space Planning: Regardless of what is directing your decision making process -- flow, function, or form - room arrangement is the catalyst for your success. Kip's space planning service can range from detailed scale drawings of furniture layout to some direct "lifting and shifting" of pieces. The goal: better design through better placement.

Kitchen and Bath Design: A specialty unto itself, kitchen and bath design is perfected through years of practical application and a keen eye for design and function. Kip leads his clientele through this maze of cabinetry makers, electricians, flooring contractors, appliance manufacturers and plumbing suppliers to bring together a cohesive design. "These spaces can be the core of our home or our sanctuary from the day's stresses," Kip explains. "It is an important and innovative field of design that I always enjoy."

Real Estate Services: Kip partners with area Realtors and homeowners alike, to tackle the vital issues surrounding a real estate purchase. Enhancing and protecting your number-one investment, is Kip's number-one concern. "I often step into a home as it is being listed and make certain that it is designed to sell," he says. "Garnering top dollar from the prospective sale is our focus." Kip will also work with families relocating from other cities. "I take a 'designer's inventory' of their existing furnishings and note how they work in their current environment," explains Kip. This is often done through digital photos exchanged via email or by capturing videotape footage of the home. "Then by touring the client's new space with their local real estate professional, I can design the furniture layout, color plan -- even install window treatment -- before the new owners ever move in."

Exterior Design: Good design should begin at your curbside. The very skills of color, balance, and furniture selection that you would only trust to a designer are even more public and important on the outside of your home. Kip partners his design with area landscapers to create an overall effect of great style. From exterior paint colors to porch furniture to plant materials, Kip brings his skills outdoors for a fresh approach to your curb appeal.