Its me again, Margaret. So this week Ive been running around like a crazy person, pulling together my vignette for this years Housing Works: Design on a Dime event. Its one of my favorite organizatio...
OH HI THERE WOOPS I HAVENT BLOGGED IN 2+ MONTHS WOOPS SORRY.So Ive been a little busy with a few projects (see next post) but Im super pumped to share my feature in the latest issue of TRADHome (blur...
I really dropped the self-promotion ball and forgot to mention Lady Meares predicted Ill be big in 2012 to ELLEDecor.com. Aint that nice? Im just hoping shell remember our chip buffets and talks out ...
Lately my Pisces Drifter soul has had an itch to pick up and leave this Lacquer Cave. Its a tiny, flawed apartment in a great neighborhood but Im trying to think practically ... oh, who am I kidding?...
Or rather shame on me, because it took googling my own name + "kitchen" (in an aborted attempt to show Mrs. Meares some vintage love for her new fave color combo) to discover my pal Mary Kate...
Happy 2012, yall! I got stuck in the work-holiday vortex but hope urrybody had a great Christmukkahzaa. Pa Olsen, who is given to rhyming New Years mottos, announced "Well get off the shelf in Tw...
This is sooner than you thought, right? So Im thrilled to be named one of the IFDAs (International Furnishings and Design Association) Rising Stars of Interior Design, an honor I share with the super...
Ive been a bad blogger. Took a radical sabbatical. But if you want know about my daily routine over the past month or so, just ask my favorite chav-sportif woodland sprite, Cher Lloyd. Ill let Drake ...
Did you know that the Huffington Post has a new decor-centric site called Stylelist Home? For their launch today I was happy to chat about all manner of very butch topics, including the bedskirt I ju...
Kudos, me: I finally have a working scanner ... and printer, and copier, and fax machine (yes, I fax CONSTANTLY). Two months ago a plaster shell bracket fell off the wall and onto my four-in-one Epso...
I have a weakness for easily listening, and the other day this haunting lil tune (penned by Mr. Easy himself, Lionel Richie) popped into my head: After a lengthy Youtube sesh I decided Miss Ross will...
So I recently staged a small studio in a slick new building. It started out like this: And after three days looked like this: Yes, ladies and gentleman, I painted an accent wall. Call me a hypocrite ...
To yesterdays sofa: Melanie Acevedo for Domino But last Friday I did. I ditched the sofa (settee? canape??) I bought when I was 14 for 40 bucks. Pa Olsen drove it back from the thrift store that day ...
Check out another gentlemans quarters, this one belonging to financier and Chinese Porcelain Company founder/proprietor Pierre Durand, as featured recently-ish in the New York Social Diary: Photos by...
Thats a little double entendre meant to congratulate my insanely talented friend Keehnan Konyha and his boyfriend Jacob Gaboury, who turned a light-challenged Williamsburg loft (and former bathhouse!...
Hootie hoo, yal! Remember like a month ago when I said I had news? Well, EXTRY! EXTRY! Read all bout it (sorry, can you tell Im in Pensacola?):Björn Wallander for House BeautifulA TEENSY apartment I ...
Okay, that season officially begins on the 21st but Ill give you a few guesses as to how Ive passed the time since my last post:- Spending my lifes savings publicizing The Rapture and drinking heavil...
Did you know Mercury has been in retrograde since March 30th and will be for, oh, 28 more hours? Hence the communication breakdown. Also, lotsa stuff is popping off in my little lacquered universe. G...
I have this ongoing fantasy that infomercial queen Suzanne Somers actually lives like another alliteratively named success story, Debo, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. With piles of William Kent a...
Is a makeover. Cher Horowitz and I have buttloads in common, truly. So imagine my delight when a consultation client of mine, the adorable shelter writer Mary Kate Frank, tweeted moi this piece on he...
Its finally short sleeve weather again in New York and Im extremely overcaffeinated, so to relax I think Ill retire to my Angelo Donghia-designed pool pavilion (via here):Where my new fave slow jam (...
Remember this post from, oh, two posts ago? Well a kindly French reader took me to school on my fave Mood find of all time:She wrote:In fact, it is Yves Saint-Laurent and you can look at the pictures...
Not that I dont feel like dancin, but I dedicate this Friday to two pixieish blonde Swedish Gemini singers with soul:Marie Fredriksson of timeless supergroup Roxette (b. May 30, 1958), andRobyn (b. J...
Wow, this is uncomfortable. Looks like Steven Meisel is at it again:Stealing my color scheme for a clients living room I based on this fabric:Jaccuse!Kidding. I practically stole this from Mood (past...
This week well combine three of my passions: chairs, Janet, and militaria:The whole shebang:My sister and I used to stand in front of MTV to practice every last snap and clap. Honestly, Gaga should f...
Commenter rubyhanoi sent me this trailer for Bill Cunningham New York, bound to be this seasons The September Issue:Who the hell DOES want a kitchen and a bathroom anyway?! (Visitors to the Lacquer C...
I love this demijohn-ish mercury glass lamp from West Elm, but wouldnt it look so much better with a black paper empire shade? They do this maddening thing in the store where the white drum is sold s...
Related: If youre not watching the best show on television its time to start.Work the Friday runway, sweeties!
Back in the ol undergrad architecture studio my second favorite model (next to an art-gallery-as-wedding-cake fiasco that boasted real icing and plastic columns) was a simple white chipboard affair w...
The face on this Gentleman Rider resembles that of a Nazi villain in some also-ran 90s WWII movie like Shining Through (or Teddy Roosevelt, according to Pete), but the rest of composition is sort of ...
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