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Boost Your Fabric IQ

by on January 30, 2011 in Home Decor

Expert answers to questions about home decor fabrics. When interior designer and textile expert Jamie Gibbs teaches his class on interior fabrics at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC, he asks each student to bring in a sample. Then he does a virtuoso “show and tell,” identifying and discussing fibers, weaving, printing, finishing, [...]

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plate rack on the end of an antique island in a yellow kitchen

Antique Island Kitchen

by on January 28, 2011 in Yellow Kitchen

Pale yellow and dark wood blend with marble and steel in a contemporary cottage. There’s something very neat and understated about this East Coast country house kitchen which shows a welcome balance between warm and cool, old and new. On the warm side are the elegant pale yellow, Shaker style perimeter cabinets around a dark [...]

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Antique Attraction

by on January 26, 2011 in Allison Shops

Like family, antiques are welcomed into our homes. It’s not often that I run across an online shop where everything feels like a long lost relative.  In the case of Alhambra (Antiques), it’s like having an affluent grandmother.  They use the parenthesis because for the Granda family it’s not just about antiques but style, art [...]

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middle eastern style bedroom with woven fiber accent wall behind bed

Bedroom Backdrops

by on January 26, 2011 in Rooms

There’s something about repainting the bedroom that heightened my sensitivity to accent walls. “Well, duh,” you may be thinking. It wasn’t that obvious to me since I was mainly focused on finding a fresh color without making radical changes in the headboard or bedding.  But having seen so many hideous painted, patterned or textured bedroom [...]

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Gray Marble Bathroom

by on January 25, 2011 in Traditional Bath

A renovation with simple details yields fabulous results When a friend of ours redid her narrow, turn-of-the-century NYC apartment bathroom, she opted for simplicity with a kiss of glitz. Honed gray marble tiles in four sizes allowed Country Floors to plan subways for the wainscot, mosaic for floors, and tiny ½-inch tesserae for borders to [...]

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