Yes, its the Beverly Hills Hotel for your feet! (Or your handbag.) Charlotte Olympias summer line includes these fun tributes to the famous banana leaf wallpaper - apropos, since its everywhere ...
If you havent been to a (non-sold out, picked-over) Target recently, be sure to check out their newest home decor line, Privet House. The line is yet another of Targets ever popular celeb-shops - Mis...
One of the most exciting things about Apartment Therapys annual Small Cool Contest is peeking into so many other peoples homes - its a bit like walking down a street in the early evening, when the cu...
A gracious thanks to friends - new and old - who voted for me in the Apartment Therapy Small Cool Contest! I had such a fun time competing, and finished in the top 10 for my division, thanks to ...
One of the unexpected side effects of competing in the Apartment Therapy Small Cool contest has been all the questions about where items in my apartment came from, and its been a lot of fun digging t...
Every year Apartment Therapy hosts the Small Cool Contest - a celebration of living big in little spaces. I entered this year, and I hope youll visit the site and "like" my place by clicking ...
Oscar de la Rentas home in the 1970s; this room is the love child of a Delft factory and a Magic Eye picture. Where do the walls end and decorations begin? Low lamps on Chinese stools are unexpected,...
Charlotte Moss for Fabricut fabrics....gathers no Moss. Charlotte Moss visited the Washington Design Center today, and admonished designers hoping to make it on the quick: "Work, work, work...
For the past few weeks, Ive gotten nothing done on the decorating front except clicking "order sample" buttons on fabric warehouse websites. I desperately need some curtains in my l...
Fabulosity! Its Martyn Lawrence-Bullard for Schumacher fabrics, wrought by Schumacher in weaving centers around the world (paisley in England, velvets in Italy, ikats in India). Every enviable stitch...
I celebrated Presidents Day this weekend by visiting the historic Williamsburg Premium Outlets. The Outlets were founded by Captain John Smith in 1607 after he arrived at the head of the James River ...
So far, 2012 has brought me a lot of green - green paint, green fabric, green porcelain...Over the holiday, I got some presents for the apartment. Its a work in process, but Ive painted an "...
Since Im decorating a small (minuscule) living space, I spend a lot of time digging through photo archives of everything from diminutive hous es, to one-bedroom apartments and studios, looki...
Ever since I saw Alixes apartment featured in Matchbook Magazine, Ive come back to her photo spread again and again. The small size and bizarre soffit-ing gave me a boost of hope that I could pull of...
Ever since I saw a spread in Matchbook Magazine featuring this fabulous faux bamboo console, Ive been webstalking CIRCA WHO, a treasure chest of chinoise located in West Palm Beach.After a fruit...
For centuries, Christmas has been celebrated with various flora and fauna, from trees to holly, but the poinsettia is a fairly recent addition. We have our own U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Joel Poinset...
Tony Duquette for COACH - Im loving the line! And is that a starburst I spy? Duquette was doing them first, of course, but since were all going to put them on our walls these days, it only makes sens...
Im not much for the summer camp style that Lands End popularizes myself, but the new Lands End Home has some pieces that definitely dont feel like roughing it.Gosh, this doesnt look anythin...
Soffit (saw-fit). def. The underside of an architectural structure such as an arch or overhanging eaves. An odd plague of city-dwellers, apartment complexes, and handy-man renos. "Miss...
West Elm is one of those stores that always surprises me; its not really my style, but I almost always come across something fun. West Elm is to home decor what Gap used to be to clothes; classics re...
Sometimes, blogland feels like an imaginary decorland, full of pretty pictures of pretty houses, where pretty people live (interactive Architectural Digest meets The Thomas Crowne Affair or something...
Braving the chill winter air and delighted throngs of toddlers, I made my way to the National Botanic Gardens to see their Christmas displays last weekend. Its a gorgeous building, all glass domes on...
This year I was determined - DETERMINED! - to have a Christmas tree. But if you live in a thimble, you have to have magical properties, and mine happens to be finding tiny little fir trees that fit i...
I usually end up decorating the family table for Thanksgiving each year, but this November I had little time to plan, and even fewer pieces to plan with. Using one of the last fall-ish looking bouque...
I have a real thing for finials (because I have a real thing for lamps - accessorizing accessories is so addictive!). Finding an unusual one is an imperative to buy. The right lamp will show up event...
The rewards of cleaning out the closet! I found several sheets of a bamboo trellis paper from Elum, ordered ages ago from Paper Mojo for a DIY project that never got off the ground. Ive been eyeing m...
A little while ago I posted about a great lamp I found at Home Goods. I wish I had more space for lamps, because they have so many more great options! Im especially in love with this pair of amazing ...
A few months ago, I ordered this throw from Jonathan Adler. Actually, I should say I ordered it from HSN - and its BY Jonathan Adler. Generally, I get the idea that many HSN buys are made a...
Paper whites are most loved as a Christmas flower, but I enjoy them anytime in a cold winter - or a mild fall. Theyre the most forgiving of flowers. Even brown thumbs can grow a grasp of paper whites...
The main joy of a three-day weekend is that "bonus" feeling. Its like finding an extra $20 in your pocket you didnt know you had: pure squander (for those in professions not r...
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