Category: interior design
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Belgrade beauty Ana kraš is the creator of soft and delicate objects that light up. Pendant lights. But more than just pendants, each one is handcrafted, slowly, in meditation, with the kind of patience that is reserved for only a scarce few souls in the perpetual motion of this 21st century. She weaves…
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Merci beaucoup Romantic Homes Magazine and Beth Livesay for the shout out in the July 2013 issue. I’m so tickled to be featured alongside my buddies Di Overton of Designer’s Block and Beata of Rose Hip. Beata is one of my earliest blogger friends from way back, so nice to be reminded to get back…
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Florence Welch, singer with Florence + the Machine, has her home featured in the recent issue of Vogue Magazine. “It’s like being drunk or on a ship — I think it suits me.” And I think she likes turquoise… Photographed by Angelo Pennetta Living Room: turquoise wall, Keith Haring poster, custom upholstered down cushion sofa…
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This is a San Francisco family home interior design job I did (cont., Part 1 here). Click on the photos for enlargements. Before: Dining table off to one side: Convertible sofa in the corner: Sewing equipment everywhere, even in the china cabinet: During: Fresh coat of benjamin Moore…
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This is a San Francisco Family home interior design job that I did (Part 1 here). Before & After shots; click on the photos for enlargements. Corner of living room with TV, toys, wreath, & pink walls: Same corner with bookcase and a reading wingback: Living Room Mantle Before:…
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Okay. This is a draft of a post from October 24, 2010. I never completed it as you'll see. I have a weird block about follow-through once I've completed an interior design job, I never get around to posting the documentation. I'm too much like a locmotive, moving forward, on to the next job, not…
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"The house received a mini spring-cleaning. Slops and ashes, which are usually removed in the morning, are carried out. Debts must be paid, borrowed articles returned, stockings darned, tears mended, clocks wound up, musical instruments tuned, pictures hung straight; brass and silver must be glittering, fresh linen must be put on the beds.…
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You may have already had the confounding experience of seeing Gerard Butler's New York City loft in the latest issue of Architectural Digest. You may have even been having interior design nightmares ever since. Well maybe I can help ease the trauma. I prescribe an exercise that may exorcise all those dark images from your…
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No interior designer should be without this book: We have so many books in our home that I've rewritten the story of the Three Little Pigs: the first pig built his house out of straw, the second pig used wood, the third pig chose bricks, but the forth little pig was a clever little pig,…
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