Interior Designer, Sharon Hess, has named this transitional, hip market The Urban Warriors. "This vastly appealing group best reflects today's strong currents in design, which demand clean lines and high style. For the tried and true Urban Warrior, only the finest quality items will do. Cutting-edge and aesthetically smart pieces of the highest caliber are readily embraced, welcomed and fully appreciated in the homes of these bionic urbanites, our new millennium style warriors." The two key factors distinguishing this modern, yet accessible, style are the intermixing of today's latest materials with clean lines to create the new urban aesthetic. Miracuously, amist all of this sleek, stylish efficiency, the homes maintain a warmth only possible through the human touch. The effect is anything but paint-by-number, computer generated solutions, or simply copied ideas and room settings from ever-popular decor magazomes and catalogues. For this group, individuality reigns the results. 

Designer Recommendations : The best palette consists of the latest neutrals with an innovative twist. Artfully layering in modern sheens and metallics into unexpected surfaces, such as fabrics and accessories, will liven up the space and harmonize what is an essentially neutral, masculine color scheme. The result can be equally yin and yang, zen and current. The wood finishes should either be all natural or wenge (brown/black). For fabrics pick either all leather or the latest raging neutral weave, coupled with basic, but distinctive sheers. Pattern must be kept to a minimum. Accessories are carefully selected.