Sacramento Furniture blog by McCreery’s Home Furnishings

We all live in a world of vibrant colors reflected by nature. From grassy green fields bursting with vibrant wild flowers to the deep blue oceans and black starry night skies. But do you know how to use that *just right* color palette to capture the mood of your special room?

Let’s dive in and briefly and discuss how color influences are lives, our moods, and what colors we can bring into our homes to compliment our personalities and lifestyles!

	Red empowers, stimulates, dramatizes & symbolizes passion.
	Orange: cheers commands, stimulates, conversation & charity
	Yellow: Expands, cheers, increases energy & brightens your day
	White: purifies, energizes, energizes & enlivens when combined with any color
	Pink: soothes, acquiesces, promotes friendliness and & affection
	Purple: comforts, spiritualizes, soothes, draws intuition & creates mystery
	Blue: relaxes, refreshes, cools, tranquil, peaceful & enhances moods
	Black: crisp, clean, disciplines, strong, independent & makes a statement

Here at McCreerys we can show you how color effects your room from fabric, rugs, paint, windows, upholstery, wood products, lighting, accessories & plants. If you’ve been living with white for along time, the first stroke of the roller might give you a heart attack. Don’t make judgments until you have finished the job, paint is the easiest and least expensive decorating tool there is.

The Discovery of your color personality could be quite interesting and fun and If you change your mind just paint over, this is your decorating palette!

Active Colors: On the warm side of the color wheel we have active colors which include yellow, orange, and red. These advancing hues step out in the room to greet and sometimes dominate. They are great for inspiring conversation and creating an upbeat atmosphere. Red, the most intense, pumps the adrenaline like no other hue. Small doses of fire engine hue wake up an entry or turn up the heat on a hearthside den. Golden or lemony yellows — good for home offices and kitchen unleash creative juices.

Passive Colors: The cool colors — blue, green, and purple — will sooth and relax while remaining quiet and calm in the background. These colors are ideal for personal retreats and places of refuge such as your bedroom or other places of refuge. If however, you live in a colder climate, it’s always a good idea to toss in a little contrast, such as a sunny yellow for warmth.

Neutral Colors: Brown, beige, gray, white, & taupe neither activate nor pacify but they combine and cooperate with one another bridging together different rooms and colors making a subtle quiet decorating statement. Of course you will discover the darker the color the more striking the statement & the lighter the color the softer the statement.

Paint is just the first place to infuse color and every step after that is another way to incorporate color in your room, layer by layer, upholstery, fabric, rugs, windows, wood products, lighting, accessories & plants.

Come into McCreery’s Home Furnishings and let one of our talented designers help you accentuate your personality and make your home uniquely yours!

Charlene Jarone has been part of the McCreery’s Home Furnishings Signature Design team for over 9 years.

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When you see a well-dressed woman in an outfit you admire, it’s usually because she’s enhanced her clothes with beautiful shoes, jewelry, scarves or other accessories. As a designer, I know it’s the same with a well-appointed room. Good furniture is important, but the proper accessories make it special.

Here at McCreery’s, we have beautiful accessories in different price
ranges to complete your room.

Our rug gallery has the finest quality rugs for the best prices in the area. Our lamps range from beautiful, affordable designs from Uttermost to the exquisite quality of Fine Art lighting.

Oil paintings from Artmaster, beautifully framed art from Picture Gallery,
as well as table-top decor, plants, and much more are all here to add the
finishing touches to a beautiful home.

Vicki has been part of the McCreery’s Signature Design team for over 9 years.

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Drexel Heritage unveils their summer 2008 video circular.

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Hey I’m Gregg, and I am the only man on our Design Team. I am known as the “Wood Guy”. I love wood and what can be made out of it, like a beautiful piece of furniture. If you think about how a piece of furniture gets made, you realize how much effort goes into the design and of course the labor of building it. We sell furniture from many fine manufacturers here at McCreery’s, among them are Drexel Heritage, Henredon, FFDM, and Stanley just to name a few. Our case goods (furniture speak for anything that doesn’t include upholstery) employ solid wood and veneered construction. Solid wood is found in all structured components, frames, legs, posts and pedestals.

Veneers panels are used to create decorative patterns and for large surface areas, tops, fronts and sides that have a tendency to crack or warp when chopped off solid wood.

Quality furniture and fine antiques have decorative wood veneers that are used to create inlaid patterns such as marquetry, parquetry and banching. Exotic and expensive woods including rosewood, tulipwood, and satinwood are incorporated to add grain interest. All those surfaces are known as “fancy face patterns” and are cut and pieced together by hand, which is similar to assembling an intricate puzzle.

Realizing how much work it takes to create an heirloom piece of furniture, I always say it should cost a lot more than it does. We sell great furniture at a great value. I have an extensive background in wood expertise, spending 4 years in the lumber industry and 8 years in furniture sales. If you have some time to talk “wood”, come see me and I’ll be happy to show you our selection.

Gregg Weder has been a part of McCreery’s Signature Design team for over 8 years.

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Furniture has seen many changes in respects to quality and craftsmanship. And especially in today’s day and age with the influx of cheap furniture from China, isn’t it nice to know there are still great quality manufacturers that are taking the high road when it comes to quality and construction?

Canadel furniture specializes in creating beautiful solid birch casual dining furniture - and in any style, size and color too! The tables we carry here from Canadel allow you to personalize your dinette set so it’s as unique as you are. Choose from seven single bases or 10 different styles of table legs all made of solid Canadian birch.

Canadel offers an ecclectic mix of finishes and table tops, choose from Corian, Zodiaq, Wood, Antique, and your custom choice of fabrics.

In addition to the range of over 100 wood colors and three finishes - matte, glossy, and antique, we offer round or square bistro tables which are all the rage right now. How many chairs would you like around your table? Our selection of over 200 chairs, benches and stools, as well as 90 models of buffets and hutches.

With an endless combination of styles, shapes, colors and materials we can make your dining room entirely unique - entirely you.

Canadel is definitely unprecedented with innovation in the field of dining furniture, finished with catalyzed lacquer which is impenetrable this set will last you a lifetime.

Heirloom quality, superbly stylish and customized by you!

Visit Canadel’s website for more information regarding their great product

And come visit McCreery’s Home Furnishings for Canadel solid wood furniture

Charlene Jarone has been part of McCreery’s Signature Design team for over 9 years.

Our home; the place we share with the ones we love, a place where we create memories that are never forgotten, where our lives unfold, our place of refuge, and where we love to be.
	From the magic of color to the way the light shines beauty all over cloth and material, we know the amazing way that fabrics can touch our souls. They can make us feel warm and cozy or brighten a room with the sheer existence of vibrant color. For some of us, the exquisite colors of nature are reminiscent of that feeling of tranquility we are surrounded by in our homes.

Here at McCreery’s, we have a passion to help you transform your home to the charming and enchanted place you have always dreamed about. Each of our upholstery lines have a very large selection of fabrics to choose from. We can help you select and coordinate all of your sofas, love seats and chairs, ottomans, and whatever else the empty space in your home requires. We are here to lend you a hand in blending the colors of fabric, walls, window coverings, and all the other belongings your home should have. We also have a wonderful selection of rugs that can help complete the look of your miraculous home.

Our designing staff is here to help you realize your dream. We welcome you to come in and let our family help you build your home with the remarkable and extraordinary fabrics we carry at McCreery’s Home Furnishings.

Carol Agrifolio has been a member of McCreery’s Signature Design team for 6 years.

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Hi, I’m Teresa, part of McCreery’s Signature Design Team and I’d like to take a moment to briefly share my appreciation for the new Flexsteel Wrangler #47 collection. A modular collection that “wows!” you with endless possibilities to put furniture in your room. With warm golden brown finishes and rich brown metal accents, it emerges to make a perfect fit for many of my clients.

I’m attracted to the simple lines and refined shapes, and I love the sense that it can pull me from the beaches of Monterey Bay to the mountains of Lake Tahoe.

The pieces elegantly store, organize, and display your collections of audio, art, and other personal items making a sophisticated yet simple statement.

I love the names on the versatile occasional tables too! Featuring Sinatra, Armstrong, Gershwin, Shaw, and Goodman. Recognize any of these?

With Flexsteel’s custom leather and upholstery options the choices are abundant allowing you to design your perfect sofa, love seat, or sectional!

With all these great choices as well as Flexsteel’s superior quality in construction I think we all can sing a happy tune!

As Frank Sanatra would say, “I did it my way.”

Teresa Jamison has been part of McCreery’s Signature Design Team for over 8 years.

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Creating beautiful rooms is passion of mine. I consider it a blessing to work in an environment that allows me to see my clients dreams for their interiors come alive. Purchasing the right furniture for your family and home can be compared to acquiring art – it’s very personal. I believe furniture should be timeless, and with Drexel Heritage furniture at McCreery’s I can help you achieve that.

With more than twenty collections to select from you are sure to find the perfect combination that will suit your personal taste.

Accents Francais (as seen in Architectural Digest) is a beautiful reminder of Provence, in the southern part of France. This captivating group with its many eclectic pieces evokes the tradition of France at its best.

British Accents is a collection of classic English styling using cherry and mahogany woods that bring richness and warmth to any room.

One of Drexel Heritage’s most popular groupings is At Home in Tuscany. This collection can be customized to the clients style, specifications, and offers a dazzling array of textures and finishes.

The luxurious upholstery that Drexel Heritage offers is uncompromising in its quality and style. Here you can choose between five different seat cushion designs after all, comfort is the key to any well made sofa, chair, or sectional! There are more than 1,500 fabulous fabrics and trims to choose from. This is where my design expertise can help reveal your personal style.

Beautiful décor can have a beneficial influence in our lives. Come visit McCreery’s and allow me to make a difference in beautifying your home!

Sandi Kaseman has been a part of McCreery’s Signature Design team for over 9 years.

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McCreery’s Home Furnishings is a wonderful source for traditional furniture in Sacramento. In fact, people come from all over to find just the right period piece. But wait, we also have a great selection of contemporary furniture in Sacramento for those with a taste for a more modern approach to furnishing their homes.

Contemporary furniture is very adaptable and can look well in both traditional and modern homes. And, in many cases, it is smaller in scale than it’s traditional brothers.

It becomes a great choice for those in the downsizing mode because of that.With it’s straighter lines, contemporary design tends to emphasize beautiful woods and finishes.

McCreery’s has several sources for beautiful contemporary furniture ranging across the spectrum of price and quality. Most of our manufacturers, even the traditional ones, have collections which are contemporary. And several of our upholstery lines have the ability to choose contemporary styling on sofas, love seats, chairs.

One upholstery line which tends to have a more contemporary leaning is RC Furniture. They have some very exciting styles and beautiful fabrics to choose from to create a one-of-a-kind statement of your taste.

FFDM is another manufacturer which has some unusual and beautiful contemporary collections which are of the best quality. One of the lines we carry is the Tranqulities collection. The softened lines and geometric shaping of Tranquilities imply serenity that balances the movement suggested by burled veneers and the collection’s antiqued finish. Uniting Contemporary and Asian design elements, Tranquilities features parquet tops with burl veneers, block feet, rectangular shaping and tabbed pendants of hardware with a burnished coppery finish, to capture the attention of those who prefer simplicity with an equal measure of enthusiasm. A ringed, cone-shaped table in the collection reveals its parquet burl inlay under a glass top. Simple linear shaping contrasts with soft curves – in dining chair backs, or in cabinetry of case pieces. Rectangular headboard and dining table shapes are defined and intersected with darker strips of wood and glass wall units with mirrored backs flank the entertainment center. Tranquilities exudes the sleek simplicity of a Contemporary collection and the sophistication of Asian design elements in a blended design that honors both influences.

Better Homes and Gardens has a contemporary collection which has attracted a lot of attention around here with it’s creative designs and beautiful woods, and at a very affordable price.

Even those who prefer more traditional furniture can benefit from a piece of contemporary in their décor to act as a counterpoint to their look.

Mandy Priess has been part of McCreery’s Home Furnishings Signature Design team in Sacramento for over 6 years.

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Here at McCreery’s Home Furnishings we’re proud to showcase the beautiful Better Homes and Garden’s collections inspired from BH&G magazine!

The collections consist of three different styles that can be easily mixed and matched allowing you to express your own style and tastes.

Cottage View has a look that is casual and comfortable. The perfect combination of rustic décor and warmth, with a natural distressed finishes and a variety of paint options, these charming pieces are the very definition of easy living!

Classics Today collection by Better Homes and Gardens also provides an eclectic style that stylishly traditional yet inviting and perfect for todays modern world.

Modern Outlook collection by Better Homes and Gardens combines smooth lines, traditional roots, and in its essence is contemporary with a slight Asian influence. The dark walnut finish of this collection is complimented by it’s unique hardware.

Three beautiful collections perfectly styled and suited for home! And in Sacramento you can only find them at McCreery’s Home Furnishings!

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Trudy Beaman has over 15 years of design consultation experience in the Sacramento area.