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April 5th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
There’s still a few days left to get ready for Easter, if you’re celebrating, that is! Whether you plan on doing some DIY decor or whipping together some Easter sweets, we’ve got a bunch egg-related ideas for you!
#1 – Rainbow Easter Eggs
#2 – Marbled Easter Eggs
#3 – Silk-Dyed Eggs
#4 – Chalkboard Eggs
#5 – Chocolate Cheesecake Eggs
#6 – Embroidery Floss Eggs
Are you making anything egg-inspired this week?
April 4th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Sometimes a wood surface is desirable in areas other than your tabletop or your flooring. With modern wood surfaces from the Jamie Beckwith Collection, you can put a unique wood design on your wall too! The designs can also be put in as flooring, but how much fun is a wood surface on the wall?
Check out the different shapes and finishes at the Jamie Beckwith website. Which design would you choose?
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April 3rd, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Not only is it already April, but it’s almost Easter, too! If you celebrate Easter, have you put up your decorations and gotten ready for the holiday?
Here are some fun and festive Easter centerpieces, most of them made with candy that you want to hide from yourself. Or the kids if you have them!
I’m thinking I might try this with all the gross Jelly Belly flavors I won’t eat. How are you decorating for April and the upcoming Easter weekend?
Centerpieces from L to R: 1 – 2 – 3 -4
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March 30th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Instead of a weekly six this week, we’ve got an entire tower of dream homes from the Philippines. Acqua Livingstone is the only residential building in the world that will be completely branded by MissoniHome. There are currently two Missoni-branded hotels, one in Edinburgh and another in Kuwait.
The Acqua Livingstone condominiums are a result of a partnership between Century Properties and Missoni. To learn more about the collaboration and to see more renderings, visit their website.
Would you want to live in a Missoni-adorned home?
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March 30th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
With Summer approaching, I’m on a serious bar cart mission. After a recent trip to Colorado that involved a handful of delicious encounters with a Build-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar, I’ve been inspired to recreate one of my own on a fabulous bar cart for our backyard. At the same time, I don’t want to break the bank on something I won’t use all that often, so I’ve been scouring craigslist with an open mind. Which means, I’m ready to break out the gold spray paint!
Do you have a bar cart in your home or outdoor space? I’d love to see it if you do!
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March 30th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
With Summer approaching, I’m on a serious bar cart mission. After a recent trip to Colorado that involved a handful of delicious encounters with a Build-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar, I’ve been inspired to recreate one of my own on a fabulous bar cart for our backyard. At the same time, I don’t want to break the bank on something I won’t use all that often, so I’ve been scouring craigslist with an open mind. Which means, I’m ready to break out the gold spray paint!
Do you have a bar cart in your home or outdoor space? I’d love to see it if you do!
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March 29th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Recently we’ve talked a couple of times about wallpaper accent walls, but how about wallpaper on the ceiling? In this bright blue-green bedroom from the June/July 2010 issue of Lonny, that’s exactly what we get!
The bold walls of this bedroom coordinate perfectly with the patterned paper on the ceiling. In my opinion, at least. What’s your view on this room?
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March 28th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Last week, I posted a Love This Look? post about wallpaper accent walls. Ever since then, I’ve been thinking about how I would recreate the look. So, I made a moodboard for it!
Creating a living room based around the wallpaper accent wall, I chose a patterned paper that had a bold purple background and green, blue and yellow accents to work with. The above moodboard is what I came up with. Looking at it again, I’m thinking I would maybe make a quick change and paint the walls the green accent from the wallpaper rather than the buttery yellow.
How would you approach the wallpaper accent wall?
[All sources here]
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March 27th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
I know what you’re thinking, but I can’t help it. I LOVE pink! And being that there’s not a chance my fiance will ever allow me to have pink living room, I’ve got to live vicariously here! Maybe I’ll ask him if we can paint our entire living room like the last image here, just to see what he says. Or I could just paint it – April Fools Day is just right around the corner!
What do you think of these pink living rooms?
[All found on Pinterest: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4]
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March 26th, 2012 — Designer Stuff
Do you know the difference between a coffee table and a cocktail table? I didn’t either, don’t worry. I figured a coffee table was well, a coffee table and a cocktail table was essentially a bar table. But then I started seeing low tables in living rooms being referred to as cocktail tables and I had to do some investigation as to what the difference is between a coffee table and a cocktail table. And guess what? There’s no difference at all! They’re exactly the same thing.
I know you’re not supposed to fully trust Wikipedia, but I often do, especially when it sounds legit. Here’s what they have to say about the coffee table vs. cocktail table debate: “A coffee table, also called a cocktail table, is a style of long, low table which is designed to be placed in front of a sofa, to support beverages (hence the name), magazines, books (especially coffee table books), and other small items to be used while sitting, such as beverage coasters. ”
Makes sense, right? Both coffee and cocktails refer to beverages and depending on what time of the day you’re sitting at the sofa, it’s like that you’re sipping a coffee or a cocktail. (Or both!)
After reading Wikipedia, I headed over to Cymax and went through some of their coffee tables and cocktail tables and found the images above. As you can see, one has glasses for cocktails and another has a cup for coffee (or tea). So, the styling on these tables reiterates the fact that cocktail tables and coffee tables are essentially one in the same!
Well, after all that rambling, I’m glad I settled that! From now on, I’ll use the terms interchangeably depending on the time of day or what type of beverage I’m craving! How about you – what do you call these tables – coffee tables or cocktail tables?
[All images via Cymax]
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