Home styling can fuel your feng shui intentions and help you to create intimate, exciting spaces. From adding flowers or a fountain to painting walls and accessorizing, home style is a personal part of finding the Tao or “connectedness” that powerfully links you to your environment. Gorgeous interior design, ingenious innovation, furniture, accessories and weekend projects that can take your home to the next level.
While it’s no mystery that I am a super-fan if the handira wedding blankets of Morocco, the culture, lifestyle, deep colors, earthen material and searing flavors… well… I am obsessed. The grounding nature of Moroccan decor stirred with it’s sparkle and fire can add a lot of solid yet fantastically exciting rhythm to your life. Continue Reading…
If you have struggled to find a way to make your home look more open and air, sheer voile curtains may be the uber-solution to create light, height and luxury in a full spectrum of colors! Let’s look at some inspiration to see how this inexpensive fabric can make a major impression on your home. Continue Reading…
John Willey creates really livable spaces that literally teem with color yet are balanced by geometry and design. His interiors are a good study in workable eclecticism, and his ability to truly layer on color is amazing. Let’s look at a handful of his incredible work and see what we can learn…! Continue Reading…
Afghans are one of the first things my Godmother taught me to make when I was about six years old. They don’t require much doing once you get the hang of counting the stitches. The V pattern was my favorite, and still is, though I have experimented with Granny squares and other designs. I’ve had the same afghans for decades. I will never give them up. They remind me of home, in the most multidimensional and amazing way possible. On that note, I thought today we could look at some afghan inspiration to add a bit of fire, craft & love to your own space! Continue Reading…
While we usually think of browns as neutral colors, there are many hues mixed with brown that add a bit more compelling and creative interest to a room rather than tan and brown. Today, olive is the star of the woodsy neutral hue interior design inspiration round-up! Continue Reading…
Outdoor space on balconies is the most often neglected, not because we don’t have the desire… but because we often lack the inspiration. Depending on your climate and architectural restrictions, a balcony can be everything from a beautiful view to an extra room of your home. Here are some ideas to get you started in balcony beautification. Continue Reading…
As a child walking on the Jersey shore, I would hoard sea glass and stash it in a secret spot in our beach house. It was so luminous, rich and opalescent that I was sure it was a rare, precious jewel. When I learned that sea glass was actually the product of the ocean sand wearing down pieces of glass that entered the ocean…well… that made me love it more! Sea glass colors are the beach and cool yet somewhat frosted and magically satiny colors that are perfection for gathering rooms and awesome accents. Continue Reading…
I love the richness and depth of jewel toned greens. Emerald greens, as well as all greens in nature, have tremendous and measured creative properties that have been studied extensively. Emerald is a regal, rich and unusual color for interiors….perfect to individualize your personal space! Continue Reading…
June 17, 2013 • 2 comments