Bella Vita Designs

Bella Vita Designs 🌈 Hi, I’m Dorothy GoForth — designer, dreamer, and believer that home heals. 🏡✨Every room should inspire you to live boldly and love deeply.

"There’s no place like home”… especially when it’s filled with you. 💫 This is My Yellow Brick Road 🌈🤩 Welcome

✨ “Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”True style is less about followi...
08/30/2025

✨ “Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”

True style is less about following trends and more about honoring what feels authentic to you. Fashion, décor, hobbies, even the way you live your life—all of it becomes timeless when it reflects who you are at your core. Trends may fade, but authenticity endures.

When you stay true to your own taste, you create a life that feels good to you—not one that’s dictated by fleeting opinions. What you genuinely love will always carry meaning and beauty, because it’s an expression of your soul.

08/28/2025

This living space was already beautiful, it just needed a little attention and some color! By adding colorfully arranged books, elegant fall decor, and of course, fresh flowers - this space came to life! I'm so happy with how it turned out. If you want to transform your living or office space, please give me a call! (337) 794-5831 Bella Vita Designs Leigh Ann McMullen

08/26/2025

❤️ buy what you love to look at, what you love to live with, and throw it all together and it will work because YOU love it!

🧡 shop for controversial items to place in your home that are totally unique and unexpected! Pieces with a story. This g...
08/26/2025

🧡 shop for controversial items to place in your home that are totally unique and unexpected! Pieces with a story. This gives you and your guests something to stop and talk about!

If you need someone to help you find neat and curated pieces for your space, I'm your girl. Give me a call at (337) 794-5831 and let's talk about it!

Leigh Ann McMullen with Bella Vita Designs

✨ "The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them." - D...
08/25/2025

✨ "The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them."
- Dorothy Draper ✨

Dorothy Draper never trafficked in cliches. She dealt in declarations.

Draper's interiors were bold because she was. She pioneered a style that refused to be quiet. At a time where women were often relegated to the background - both in society and design - she painted the background acid green and lacquered it to high gloss. She wasn't trying to emulate European restraint or play by the rules of good taste. She was rewriting them. With dramatic contrasts, theatrical scale, and colour stories so decisive they verged on political, Draper made it clear: a room shall never be vague. It should say something. Clearly.

To design with personality is not to clutter or confuse. It is to resist the homogeny of trend. It is to ask: what matters here? What feeling is being built? What memories are given room to remain?

A beautifully styled space will age. A truly personal one will evolve.

We are so often encouraged to aspire to a kind of visual perfection - to smooth the edges, match the tones, iron out the quirks. But the rooms we remember - the ones we ache to return to - are the ones that leave something behind. A smell. A feeling. A glimpse of who someone is when the door is closed and the outside world is held at bay.

Draper's work reminds us that good interiors don't just show you how someone lives. They let you feel what they love for. ❤️

❤️ great ideas for thrifted glass wear!
08/25/2025

❤️ great ideas for thrifted glass wear!

✨ check out this before and after of a beautiful bookcase I transformed today! By arranging the books in rainbow color o...
08/25/2025

✨ check out this before and after of a beautiful bookcase I transformed today! By arranging the books in rainbow color order, this space was brought to life! 🌈❤️ it's so warm and inviting, cheerful and colorful! Just the look i was going for. I love the way it turned out!

If you need help going from drab to fab, call me for a free consultation! ✨ (337) 794-5831

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08/24/2025

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