What's that thing in common, you ask?? Beautiful wallpaper lining the back of the shelves. I adore it! Anyone have this in their own closet? Anyone else dreaming of it like me?? If you could choose any wallpaper, what would you choose?
3.16.2012
{happy weekend + closet pretty}
Yay for Friday once again! Boy the weeks are flying by. Do you notice that when you are extremely busy with work/studies you are just itching to do anything and everything BUT what you are supposed to be doing?? For me that's cleaning and organizing. My house drives me crazy when I am too busy, I dream up all the things I am going to clean and organize once I have the free time to get my hands on them! Enter: closet envy. These two closets below are very different; one is light and airy and the other is dark and chic. But they have one thing in common that is on my 'dream closet' list:
3.15.2012
{a pretty kitchen that pops}
This kitchen featured in the current issue of Canadian House & Home caught my eye; what I love the most is that all of the fixed items {cabinetry, backsplash, flooring, etc} are classic and neutral, and color is brought in with elements that can easily be changed when you tire of it! Good thinking in a place like the kitchen:
Favorite details: The marble herringbone backsplash, the fabulous detail on the glass cabinet doors, and those adorable chairs of course!
3.14.2012
{designer profile: annsley interiors}
Boston-based interior designer Annsley McAleer has fabulous traditional style with a fun & forward twist! Annsley was named one of Domino Magazine’s "Domino 10: Decorators on the Verge" and Traditional Home Magazine’s "20 Young Designers We’ve Got Our Eye On." Very well deserved when you take a look at her porfolio:
3.13.2012
{4 ways to display fresh flowers}
Hi friends! I'm happy to be back here after a tough last 3 days. My Mom & Dad brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers this weekend to celebrate submitting my thesis, and I was thrilled because I adore fresh flowers in the house! And an added bonus was all the beautiful bright pinks & purples gave me the hope that spring is actually on its way. On that note, I started dreaming up what I would like to try to do with flowers this coming season ...
1. Flowers in a bowl: I love the trick of using a grid of clear tape to keep the flowers perfectly in place across a wide-mouthed vessel like a simple bowl.
2. Ombre: Everything ombre is all the rage, just type it in on Pinterest and you'll get everything from cakes to hair to clothing. I love this simple trick of placing a few shades of the same flower in a longer vessel, wouldn't this wow your dinner guests?
via Ruffled Blog
3. Giving flowers as a gift? How about brown paper packaging? I made a vow to use kraft paper for all of my gift-wrapping needs this year, so I'll be doing the same with flowers.
via Free to be Lea
4. Try a different vessel: I love the look of flowers displayed in tea canisters or old sugar jars and the like. It always creates a unique result, especially when considering you can place flowers in anything when you place a glass vase with water into your desired vessel.
via ritzy bee
Does all this talk of flowers get you excited for spring? It does for me :)
Thank you SOO much for all of your emails & comment support this past week. I am insanely behind on responding to emails so please bear with me, I'll be playing catch up this week. Also, thanks for being genuinely interested in my progress, now that my thesis is submitted I have one month to study like crazy in order to orally defend my PhD in April. I can see that light at the end of the tunnel and I am so grateful!
3.09.2012
{happy friday + bedroom pretty}
Yay for the end of the week! Can you believe it's March 9th already? Crazy. I will be finishing up my thesis writing this weekend (woohoo!) and I hope to get some much needed rest after that. So naturally, I had comfy & pretty bedrooms on the brain ... here are a few beauties I came across recently ...
Love those scalloped edges ...
Yep, I could see myself having a good sleep-in in any one of those pretty rooms. Hope you have a restful weekend too x
3.08.2012
{designer profile: ashley goforth}
Houston-based designer Ashley Goforth has impeccable taste. I love her use of a soothing neutral color palette in all of her designs. There are no real pops of color anywhere, but every space still oozes with style and personality. It works so well because of her eye for incorporating classic shapes, fabulous textures and patterns. Take a look at just a sample of her extensive portfolio, I'm sure you will agree:
Isn't it all so lovely? I adore the touches of animal print here & there in her work. And everything seems so classic and timeless! And there is so much more where that came from, you can see her portfolio here.
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