February 18, 2015 Finds

Spring Wish Listing
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A round up of a few lovely things that I’m purposefully distracting myself with until spring arrives- #snowfatigue
1. Quirky little cocktail napkins 2. Loving the rose gold side zipper details on this J.Crew cotton tuxedo top. 3. Kate Spade finally re-issued this darling bowl, and I need it. 4. A rose scented, soothing bath to deal with yet another school snow day closing. 5. Python print sandals, because eventually it will be warm again – right???

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February 10, 2015 Connecticut Home

New Kitchen Tour

Welcome to our renovated kitchen tour.

our kitchen house tour
 

 

our new kitchen house tour

 

Hope you’re not too sick of seeing my kitchen!

Although I’m constantly tweaking the decorative displays in the glass cabinets and there are also some cabinets missing hardware, and a large blank wall that craves some attention (and possibly the need for window treatments-  these are really lovely, aren’t they?) our kitchen renovation is for the most part D.O.N.E!

Call it week 31 of the one room challenge…(if you’re new here, this room was part of a decor blog link up challenge to re-do one room in six weeks, the reveal date coincided with our real life moving date-in retrospect, not the best planning on my part, but you can catch up with all that design drama including sources and before and afters—here)

Finally, here’s the pretty reveal (complete with professional photos by Nicole Cohen) that I wish I could’ve posted back in November -better late than never!

PS: Come back tomorrow for images of our high gloss blue butler’s pantry that you can glimpse in the background-I just found the “before” photos, a testimony to the power of paint!

 

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January 29, 2015 Connecticut Home

Next Steps

I’m usually able to make interior design decisions for our home pretty quickly. I pride myself on this ability to know what I want design wise, no doubt a side benefit of immersing myself in inspiring images both off and online weekly, if not daily…

However, right now I’m a little stuck. The item that has me second and third guessing my options is the carpet runner for our front stair case (above). At first we considered leaving the stairs alone…but they’re quite slippery. There are additional benefits of having carpeted stair runners (aside from aesthetics) safety, warmth, and dirt catching are a few that immediately come to mind.

I absolutely loved the Stark runner that we had on our old front stairs (see below) and thought about repeating that again here (as I did with so many other interior elements of our old house) but the new stairs are much wider and even have a round curved bend where the old ones were a straight shot up and down. So not sure how that will impact the over all look…

Lauren Muse showed me a really great selection of samples, but the samples are only about a 12″ square, not always the easiest to imagine. From that I narrowed the choices down to these two and then turned to the internet and installation images to get a better sense. It’s a big ticket item, so I really want to make sure to get this one right. Here’s what it comes down to…

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