Patio Pop: Neon Accents for Outdoor Rooms

Patio Pop: Neon Accents for Outdoor Rooms

Rustic chic neutral palate inspires accessories

Love the pink chair and #Fortunay pillows. Enjoy the rest of the pics in the post. Very #homchic

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Real vs Artificial House Plants: classic • casual • home:

Live, preserved, artificial or none at all? My vote says NATURAL ALWAYS, never artificial. Give yourself the gift of greenery with soul. Check out this great blog post with options and lots of wonderful fotos. Enjoy

"Just say no" to fake plants...

unless they are preserved boxwood or super authentic looking.

I don't have a green thumb either

(if that is what you are thinking), but here are some tips below.

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These beautifully preserved boxwood spheres in Debbie's entry are from Restoration Hardware.  They aren't cheap but they are on sale right now.

Don't buy the plastic kind at Pottery Barn.

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Here they are in the topiary version that would be lovely on a mantel or in a kitchen window. Even Target has cute preserved 

boxwoods by Smith and Hawkins.

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In my gym, every time I walk past the dusty ficus trees (where you can see the plastic branch to leaf attachments), I just have to shake my head. The place would be better off without them.

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How about using these organic looking spheres for some greenery, like my sister does on her dining room table?

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Or orchids last a long time. Just place a couple of ice cubes on top once a week. These are either from Home Depot or Trader Joe's. I added the moss.

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Claire uses succulents on her kitchen island...these are tough to kill.

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With saucers and felt pads, these would be charming inside and require little attention.

If you aren't around enough to water your house plant, use a Jardinier reservoir system.

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I filled the pot with some pebbles, potting soil, ivy and moss.

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Leaf shine adds a florist touch.

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Voila...only needs watering every week to 10 days.

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I put a cork mat under the basket to protect the floor.

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Donna uses the Jardinier system and has kept her tree alive for a couple of years (or is it even longer, Donna?). She also feeds it fertilizer down the tube. Note to self: buy liquid plant fertilizer.

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I am not a totally against fake plants. Look what I have in my laundry room--from Pottery Barn a few years ago. Ha! All the watering these get is to rinse the dust off.

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So what do you think? Live, preserved, artificial or none at all?


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» Jonathan Adler, Jeffrey Lewis and Andy Cohen Together? Blue Key Studio Blog

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On a recent BravoTV web exclusive, Jeff Lewis and Jenny from “Flipping Out” go to NYC and critique the decor in Andy Cohen’s office. The network exec got a bit of a ribbing from the designer and his kooky assistant. While the office was truly a bit of a mess, the seating area was actually quite cute. You can watch the video below.

What’s interesting to note is that Andy has the Jonathan Adler blue Capri tall table Lamps flanking his sofa. They look great and are a great choice, but that office definitely needs a bit of a clean up and rearrange. For starters he needs a bigger desk! What would you do to improve Andy’s office?

Sewing Up Modernity - Shelterpop

Sewing Up Modernity - Shelterpop

Be "Polite"

Thanks to the Fancy.com we stumbled upon an awesome website chalked full of irreverently chic greeting cards, accessories, and coffee table books. These unusual salt and pepper shakers are our favorite!

Here is a link to their website so you can see for yourself: Polite.

200 Square Feet and Room to Swivel

A photo of Times Square printed on an aluminum panel dominates
the living area in Malena Georgieva’s studio apartment.  

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By FRED A. BERNSTEIN

FOR Malena Georgieva, it’s been a long trip to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a provincial city about an hour from Sofia, she received a degree in Soviet-style industrial management just as the Soviet Union was collapsing. Adapting to the post-Communist world after emigrating to the United States in 1993, she enrolled in a master’s program at the University of New Haven, supporting herself as a hotel chambermaid for $4.50 an hour. (“I thought, if I ever make $10 an hour, I’ll be queen of the world,” she said.) Eventually, she was hired by Deloitte & Touche, beginning a career in risk management, and her simultaneous love affair with New York City.

But Ms. Georgieva had another dream — to become an artist and designer. So she took continuing-education courses in interior design at New York University, and then set up her own firm. Two days after it opened for business in 2008, the economy took a nose dive.

Clients weren’t exactly beating down her door, so she went back to work in risk management and put her design efforts into her home, a tiny space down the block from the Dakota, on West 72nd Street. The fourth-floor apartment, for which she pays $1,750 a month, consists of a single room, just over 200 square feet, with a bed, a desk, a dining table and a couple of swivel chairs.

It is essential that they swivel — it allows them to face the dining area, the sleeping area or the living area, depending on how Ms. Georgieva is using the apartment. The Tirup chairs cost nearly $400 each at Ikea, making them far and away the most expensive furnishings in the space. Some items cost $12 (a glass cheese platter that she turned into a tabletop) or $40 (table legs, from Ikea, on which she mounted a board upholstered in imitation leather from the fabric emporium Mood). One substantial expenditure was for lumber, with which she and her father, a retired engineer who visited from Plovdiv, built the queen-size platform bed.

All in all, she spent about $1,500. Given that she would like to open a design firm again someday, and can’t deplete her savings, her frugal decorating is just another form of risk management.

Evidence of Ms. Georgieva’s cleverness is everywhere. She discovered she could turn a guest mattress on its side and slide it between her bed and the wall, where it functions as a kind of bolster pillow. To make the sleeping area feel like a room, she had three photographs of orchids, which she took on her Canon Rebel, blown up to 6-by-6-foot images, then hung them on the walls and ceiling surrounding the bed. (Ms. Georgieva did have to cut a few inches off the photos to get them up the building’s stairs.)

“I need to check my appearance before I go out,” said Ms. Georgieva, 43, explaining the full-length mirror, a $9 item that she turned into a conceptual artwork, gluing tiny toys to its frame and painting it all white.
She hung another mirror at an angle on the wall, so that it would disrupt the boxy lines of the apartment and send light from the lone window across the room. Below that mirror is a tiny dining table that can seat four, using two stools from Overstock.com and a bench she created by putting an upholstered board on top of a rarely used radiator.

Another upholstered board became her desktop. She attached her cable box to the underside of the board, using leftover curtain rod brackets, so it doesn’t take up valuable desk space.

“I’m sure everybody has the tools at home,” she said, of her ingenious cable-box solution. “It’s just that they don’t think about it.”


On the Upper West Side, 200 Square Feet and Room to Swivel - NYTimes.com

Chad Rogers House Tour : Pet Friendly

From Apartment Therapy website at:
Chad Rogers House Tour : Apartment Therapy

  

  



Name: Chad Rogers and Starla the Chihuahua

Location: Beverly Hills, California

Size: 1,694 square feet — 2 Beds 2 Baths

Years lived in: 1

Who watched Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing?" I watch the show religiously and couldn't wait to see what property Chad Rogers listed next. Now that Chad has sold millions of luxury real estate and has seen some of the best designs, he wants to share his own perspective on design and what makes a home. Sharing a home with another person is never easy, but in Chad's case he had to make certain accommodations for his tiny little dog, Starla.

When I first started browsing through the photos of Chad's new condo and comparing it to his resource list, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that many of the furniture pieces and accessories were acquired through rather affordable furniture stores (compared to the furniture featured in his listed properties) and eBay. He got creative looking for unique finds and even shopped at As Seen On TV for pet furniture. He may be my new favorite "Million Dollar Listing" realtor. I am really going to miss seeing him on the show this season!

Apartment Therapy Survey:

My Style: Post Modern

Inspiration: I have always been a fan of modern furnishings and design, but sometimes that style can translate into a very cold office-like feel. It was important for me to give my place warmth. I have always felt that one’s home should be an extension of their personality. My home is 150% Chad Rogers.

Favorite Element: My favorite design element that I was able to create was warmth and personality through different fabrics and textures. My place also has a lot of vintage art from different genres, which really makes it unique to me. I am also now collecting pottery to enhance my home design.

Proudest DIY: My favorite DIY was choosing and hanging the wallpaper in my powder room. The powder room is one bathroom that you can always have a great time being really creative with. The wallpaper I selected is not only fun but also chic and sophisticated. The wallpaper I went with gave my powder room the perfect edge I was looking for. The wallpaper can be found at designyourwall.com.

Biggest Indulgence: The biggest indulgence in my home is my led-lighted faucets. These faucets light the water blue when it’s on cold and red when it’s on hot. It’s a great conversation piece. I love the design because it is very sleek.

Best advice: The best advice I was given was to do a lot of research online. It’s important to hear what people have to say about their experiences with certain furniture, faucets, toilets and other misc items. I went onto Apartment Therapy daily.

Dream source: I hired Jensen Dagget as my interior designer. She is such an amazing source of information when it comes to home design.

Enter House Tour

Thanks Chad!

Images: Jeffrey Ong, David Franco

Resources of Note:
APPLIANCES

• Snyder Diamond

BATHROOM FIXTURES

• Hansa
  
• Toto

HARDWARE

• Snyder Diamond

FURNITURE

• Blueprint Furniture
  
• Ebay

ACCESSORIES

• Jonathan Adler
  
• eBay

RUGS & CARPETS

• Import Flooring

TILES & STONE

• Classic Tile & Mosaic

LIGHTING

• Lumens
  
• Premiere Luminaire

BED

• Blueprint Furniture

BEDDING

• Linens Et Al

ARTWORK

• Floor Plan
  
• E-bay

PET FURNITURE

• D.O.G. Pet Boutique
  
• As Seen On TV

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W EDITOR'S BLOG - FUN WITH JONATHAN ADLER

"Walking through Maison Objet in Paris, the salon for all things new in the world of home design and décor, I passed by hundreds of internationally acclaimed furniture and home accessory design labels, but it was Jonathan Adler's bright, happy booth that had me most inspired. Colorful glasses, fun porcelain shaped vases, tiny travel pillows embroidered with names of cities I dream of one day visiting, squirrel shoehorns, letter openers and the most vibrant backgammon set I’ve seen—it was fun central and, as usual, so was Mr. Adler himself." -Talya Cousins.
Read more at the link below.

http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/editorsblog/accessories/

Notable Interiors

We love getting inspiration from various interior designs! So what is better than getting inspiration from prominent designers and professionals that we already love!


Nanette Lepore's New York City Apartment not only follows Jonathan Adler's color commandments by using a pop of turquoise in the drapes but note one his fabulous throw pillows gracing the couch:
Prominent M.D. Samantha Boardman allowed Vogue to visit her stunning home; decorated by her and her architect husband Aby Rosen. The result shows off their amazing teamwork:

I adore this photo of their home library! The dark leather sectional and cow hide pillows define the room with masculinity while the gilded Victorian frames add a feminine charm to the warm room. Museum-like skeletons hanging from the ceiling and the ornate matador costume add some much appreciated whimsy to the space:

This built-in is made to be a focal point rather than a general storage spot. The couple takes one of our favorite accent colors, robin's egg blue, and uses it as the backdrop for her white and antique silver accessories:

One of my favorite designers, Yves Saint Laurent, takes our favorite color (again!) to design a beautiful Indian inspired fireplace:

Finally, we get a glimpse at Valentino's New York Apartment. The most notable design aspect is the huge piece of modern art hanging in the entry way. We not only love everything about modern art but when it is incorporated into a contemporary design, we are in Heaven! (The painting also echoes the piece hanging in Samantha's dining room shown earlier).

We hope you have been truly inspired by these beautiful spaces and amazing designers who reside in these homes!

Have a very chic day. Om

Uncommomgoods.com Face Mug

Saw these online at FANCY.COM. Who can resist a cookie cave?

http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/face-mug

Crate&Barrel Best Buys...

Some things we like from the recent catalog.

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Have a very chic day. Om