Meet Supon Phornirunlit, a designer who gave up his award-winning graphic design company to take some time off, travel and revel in life. In reprioritizing the function work played in his lifetime, he realized,”If you like what you do, then it is not work” In focusing on his immediate environment, a home in the Kalorama (Embassy Row) area in Washington, D.C., and his enthusiasm for keeping things clean and simple whilst injecting his sense of comedy, he inadvertently established a new company, Naked Decor.
Phornirunlit’s love for pop up art, smart hotel design, creatures and laughs makes his home a stylish, contemporary nest with delightful surprises around every corner. His line of pop-inspired accessories has been embraced by press and designers alike. He brings the joyful into the house, which makes it easy for anybody to switch up stalls along with other accessories to completely alter a room’s appearance. Let’s take a look at how his enthusiasm for decorating his house helped him create work that does not feel like work.
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Here’s Phornirunlit and two of his puppies, Toto and Taylor. He’s had around four pets at a time, and you’ll quickly see how much they influence his job.
at a Glance:
Who lives here? Supon Phornirunlit plus a menagerie of beloved pets
Design and location: Postmodern home built in 1963 from the Kalorama area of Washington, D.C.; it’s never undergone a major architectural renovation.
Size: 3 stories, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
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This is the room that started Phornirunlit’s most up-to-date company, Naked Decor. He entered a picture of his living room in a magazine competition and won. Shortly afterwards, there was high demand for your”Live Like a Queen” pillows he’d left for himself. He began to fill orders for them, and Naked Decor was first born.
“I loved the draping in a boutique resort in which I stayed in Miami,” he says. This motivated the 20-foot-long wall of curtains across either side of the room and its expansive windows.
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Phornirunlit enjoys to utilize props and change them out for various appearances (play”spot the difference” on this image and also the one above to see how he does so ). “Real men aren’t afraid of pink!” He says. He found these larger-than-life poodles in Mexico and had quite a time in habits convincing officials to not cut open. “They had been packed in boxes with their heads sticking out!” he laughs. Luckily, they made it across the edge intact.
The sofas and chairs are from Crate and Barrel, and the tripod lamp together with the faux-feathered color is out of Thailand. The dog-related pillows and trays in this image are Naked Decor.
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“I like to make unique sections in a huge room like this one,” Phornirunlit says. “I never need a seating to force folks to arrange themselves as they’re all sitting around a campfire.”
He likes oversize pieces that produce a big visual effect — for example, the big, striped ottoman in this room.
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Now that Phornirunlit runs his business out of his house, living room also serves as a reception area and conference room. This adjoining room, connected through French doors, serves as his office. Besides the easy flow from one space to the other, this lets in the natural light from the living room.
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This darker, first-floor sitting room has more of a personal, man-cave vibe. Phornirunlit calls it”a pop take on rustic” The room was motivated by swimming, which also motivated his Oh Deer pillow found on the sofa. “No animals were harmed in decorating this space,” he says. The decorations are cast in resin, and the carpet’s zebra pattern is painted on.
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The other end of the room contains this dining area. “I needed to do something fun at full-dog dimensions,” says Phornirunlit. Therefore, the Happy Hot Dog Screen Tray was created to present atop a tablescape. He bought the George Rodrigue blue dog painting more than 15 years ago, before the artist’s popularity exploded.
During celebrations, the curtains and doors between the sitting room and the deck have been opened , allowing for free flow between inside and outside.
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What is behind most of those curtains in the sitting room? An incredible, 8-inch-deep reflecting pool, motivated by one he had seen in a hotel lobby in Thailand. “This was once a simple 800-square-foot deck, with 200 to 300 potted plants onto it,” Phornirunlit explains. “I realized it took approximately two hours a day to be certain they were watered and decided to make a change.”
The reflecting pool is surrounded by a delightful mixture of repeated elements such as inexpensive chairs from IKEA adorned with Warhol-esque Chairman Mao pillows, elephant-shaped umbrella racks, $10 umbrellas from Pier 1, plus a Buddha figure from Thailand. The crystal lights are solar.
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The kitchen renovation is Phornirunlit’s most up-to-date project. “This 7-foot-high subway sign from Restoration Hardware has been my inspiration,” he says. What followed were black granite counters and mini glass subway tiles, which take on just a touch of green.
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The kitchen recovery was motivated by a lack of storage. As opposed to opening it up to the adjoining sitting room, he used the wall for cabinets and maintained things bright by using lots of white, reflective surfaces such as glass tiles, stainless steel appliances and lots of lighting options. Notice the lights inside the cabinets.
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Clear glass cabinet doors gave Phornirunlit an opportunity to infuse color and playfulness into the kitchen through his tiki mug and martini shaker collections. The kitchen also allowed him to utilize stitches leftover from a customer’s project, an example of his balance of practicality and whimsy.
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The original laundry room”was a wreck, and that I needed additional storage for the home,” Phornirunlit says. Cabinets fill the 84-square-foot space. After picking the red front-loading washer and dryer, he realized using black granite flooring was a fantastic way to supply punctuating contrast.
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“Every room in the home has its own personality,” Phornirunlit says. This guest room has Thai accents, like the temple doors with hand-painted Buddhas and also the intricate quilt on the bed. Throughout the House, he ties everything together with contemporary pieces, such as the Puzzle Chairs from David Kawecki and the Knoll Toothpick Table. The rug was a 10 score from Urban Outfitters.
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Next to the Buddha guest space is the room that Phornirunlit dubs”The Addams Family Black and White Room.” He painted all of the organic wood furniture white and black and inserted the silver chrome hardware to the dresser. Black trim adds sharp borders and emphasizes straight lines.
The rug is assembled using FLOR tiles. “I enjoy FLOR. You can produce a rug as big as the space, and with around four animals around, I will cut and replace one piece of it whenever necessary,” Phornirunlit says.
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When Phornirunlit realized that the tiles he enjoyed at Home Depot Expo were half off, he remodeled all of his bathrooms at once, giving each one a different feel through the colours he chose.
This bathroom is adjacent into the darkened bedroom, which motivated its own glam and minimal palette. As much pleasure as Phornirunlit likes to possess with décor, he retains resale in mind to ensure major renovations won’t be needed if he wants to sell the home.
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All these hornlike sconces from Philippe Starck were in the home if Phornirunlit moved in. “The wall looks like a smiley face, together with the bird serving as the red lipstick,” he says. When you look closely, you’ll realize that the wall on the right is coated in the same tile in white. The skylight in the ceiling of the third-floor bedroom bathes the room in natural light, which can be reflected by the tiles.
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The drama of high hotel design influenced Phornirunlit inside this bathroom, in which he covered the whole wall in the identical blue tile.
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The pop appeal from the master bedroom has been punched up from the Campbell’s soup renderings, done by Andy Warhol’s former assistant, Steve Kaufman. Again, FLOR tiles extend the rug to the size of the space and may be replaced when stained.
Have you guessed why he called his company Naked Decor? Beyond believing that sex sells, Phornirunlit explains”when you move into your house, it is naked and bare” His accessories dress the house, transforming furnishings into fun outfits for rooms.
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