Bedroom embellishments can take many forms but headboards are often the focus. Lately, we’ve been seeing upholstered fancy shape headboards in various styles. Now, a few new ones are downright baroque. What’s baroque? That’s highly elaborate and dramatic with mounded up shapes that twist and turn and are embellished with nailheads, mirror and golden embroidery. [...]
Archive | October, 2011
Antique to Chic Upholstery
Funky fabrics modernize antiques while allowing them to keep their vintage charm. A few years ago James Pickering was in New York visiting his friend, Timothy Warr, when the duo spotted a brightly upholstered chair in a shop window. It was a poor quality reproduction piece and, despite its outrageous price tag, was attracting a [...]
Jasper Conran’s Country Kitchen
In a historic house focused on antiques, this white kitchen island quietly rocks. English merchant and designer Jasper Conran (menswear, women’s wear, home goods) wrote a book about country life in 2010. Pictures of his own historically important (18th century, natch) country house, Ven, were published just this month. The focus was on the glorious [...]
Hidden Laundry Spaces
Now you see it, now you don’t! Clever ideas to conceal a washer and dryer. The popularity of front loading appliances has given the decorating obsessed crowd (those who don’t want them to be “seen”) another area for creativity with the home design process. DD2 and I easily fall into that crowd. When she purchased [...]
Paris & Paint
I don’t often look at clothes these days – I’m too busy sorting out the house. I’m also not adding any new paint colors but this past week I found myself browsing the Spring 2012 ready-to-wear shows in Paris. Another day, on a quick dash through my local Lowe’s, I stopped for a pick-through at [...]
