Spectrum Interiors

"Steven C. Adamko is a Professional Interior Designer, Lighting Designer, and Furniture Designer with an Architectural Background. In addition to being the Owner and Founder of Spectrum Interiors, Steve is also the Host and Producer of the Interior Design Beat Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, PlayerFM, iHeartRadio, Libsyn, and others. His podcast is dynamic, energetic, powerful, funny, humorous, and impactful. Steve focuses on communicating the truth about professional interior design, and what constitutes true interior design, especially in the residential realm . . . So you don't make expensive and time consuming mistakes."

"We have an old English Tudor house that had a combination powder room and bathroom that was in need of redoing. It consists of a small room with a counter and two windows. There’s a tiled archway opposite the counter, which leads into a small toilet chamber. It includes a toilet and sink, and has a window over the sink. All three windows overlook the dog run. Obviously, it’s not the best view to envision. Steve came up with a design that was absolutely stunning for such a small space. Because of the black and gold tiling, it reminded Steve of Egyptian or Assyrian aspects from antiquity. Knowing his history came in pretty handy! Anyway, I wanted something significantly more elegant than what it looked like with its brown floral wallpaper. You brought in oriental rugs, fabric wall covering, and painted the ceiling and trim black. He also brought in low-voltage lighting with well-controlled beam spreads to add contrast and drama. In addition, he custom-designed three pieces of unique furniture that fit the space superbly. He designed a bench, a pedestal, and a marble top console table. The materials on these one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture utilized black lacquer, faux lizard, and Birdseye maple veneer. One of the unexpected, unique things that Steve did was to cover all the windows. He completely covered the two windows in the small room in special artistic panels with beautiful blue draperies framing the panels. He covered the sink window in the toilet chamber with a mirror and then draperies over the mirror. He did the same style of window treatment over the toilet that was opposite the sink and hung a 500-year-old Chinese woodblock print that was the perfect combination of blue to go with the draperies. Additionally, a beautiful antique watercolor is now hanging between the pair of windows in the small room over the pedestal he designed that holds a beautiful example of a quartz crystal geological specimen. A pinpoint beam of light now illuminates geological specimen and another beam of light illuminates the watercolor. It is truly stunning and dramatic, especially when you first enter the room! I'm so elated with the total completed environment that I feel like Cleopatra every time I enter the room."