This limited edition holiday collection celebrates small gestures with big impacts, wrapped up in a signature Tiffany Blue Box®. The post Tiffany � ...
Santos Angel Makeover How-to details for painting a Santos Angel to take it from dark to a more updated white with soft gold accents. We\'be been c ...
Swedish-Australian Kelly Gale, famed Victoria\'s Secrets model, emotes Bond Girl and sizzles in this photoshoot by Cameron Hammond for Australian swim ...
Photo via: @angelineilmastDenim lovers should stock their online carts with this season?s coolest style: baggy, wide-leg jeans. We love oversized deni ...
Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021A decade after her first book on Rooms for Children, Susanna Salk has curated a natura ...
I\'ve been a fan of Mark D. Sikes for a long time. I\'ve blogged about him, his home, and his many published rooms crafted for his clients. Yesterday, ...
Architectural Digest just published the beautifully finished NYC home of designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent. A little more than a year ago, I st ...
©Â Â 2019 Alan I W Frank House Foundation. All Rights Reserved.At the end of 2019, publishing powerhouse Rizzoli published an amazing book - a ra ...
Architectural Digest just published a web exclusive tour of a Hollywood Hills home recently completed by Daniel Romualdez for a young entrepreneur, Wi ...
One of my most favorite designs ever shared by Mark was a home he finished about 9 years ago in Pacific Palisades.I\'m sure you remember it from his b ...
I think many of you probably follow along on instagram, and you probably already know that about 19-months ago I met a wonderful man whom I\'ve fallen ...
I know, we haven\'t even eaten the turkey yet! BUT Christmas, like it or not, is right around the corner! And if you\'re interesting in buying handmad ...
Arlo and LounaI was so excited to work on a pop up with Joan from fortheloveofahouse blog. Joan and I have known each other for a long time, have a mu ...
Today has been a long day coming, one that I\'m insanely grateful for the chance to be working with my dear friend Joan on. Joan has been my biggest c ...
So, I may be the only person who remembers this - quite possibly the only person who cares - but I found all sorts of information that was entirely to ...
HEY THERE! One of the biggest questions I\'ve received since I began selling pieces on instagram is "What\'s still available"" And while I\'ve been ...
I love art. I love making art, buying art, having art, selling art, and creating art to gift to friends and worthwhile causes. Recently, I donated an ...
Interior Design by Becky BoyleI couldn\'t be more happy to write this post! A dear friend of mine with talent that consistently wows me each and every ...
Interior Design by Sara Bartholomew, Photo by Melanie Acevedo ...
Many of you know that I used to spend A LOT of time on stage. I took a long break from the stage (10-years long) but recently had the wonderful opport ...
So excited to offer up these mini-paintings to my blog readers! I\'ve got a HUGE pop up thing coming up soon that I\'m SOOOOOO excited about. So, thes ...
On the surface, this large home on more than four acres in East Memphis doesn\'t look like it\'d have a large spread in a national magazine like Elle ...
Did you know that I studied art in College" High-school too, but eventually into College earning a Fine Arts degree ... one that I\'ve used mostly at ...
If you\'re following me on Instagram, you\'ve already seen this. But - for those of you who aren\'t on instagram - and for those of you who follow so ...
So if you missed it, last week I did a "Look for Less" on the new living room decor at designer Mark D. Sikes\' private home in the Hollywood Hills, w ...
My mailbox has been flooded lately with a lot of Look For Less requests. However, there\'s been one room that I\'ve been sent TWELVE times, by 12 diff ...
I\'ve recently started following Birmingham, AL artist, McKenzie Dove on Instagram and have been really charmed by the renovation she and her husband ...
Remember the little teaser I gave you on the "HUGE" story I had for you. Well, maybe huge was the wrong word. What it actually should have been called ...
I\'m working on a HUGE story to share later this week, but I wanted to make sure that any of my blog readers who also follow my handmade art blog Cros ...
In February 2019, Architectural Digest had a cover feature on Kris Jenner, the "momager" probably responsible for the zeitgeist of reality television. ...
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For those of you who know me well, you know that I change my mind as fast as the wind changes direction. I\'ve worked really hard at trying to love th ...
I\'ve long been a fan of Darryl Carter. His neutral rooms are showstopping, and his eye for blending the unique with the traditional is unerring. I ha ...
The other day I was leaving to head out for the day, and I turned the corner from the bedroom into the living room and thought this was a prime photo ...
Recently Ralph Lauren Home dropped the photos of their 2019 Spring Collection titled "Sonoma Valley" and it\'s beautiful, as usual.viaAs I looked over ...
Just a quick little note to let all of you know that my handmade cross bottle art is ON SALE this week as a sort of little celebration of my 37th birt ...
Recently, my friend Joni blogged about downsizing into an apartment from her 3,100-squarefoot family home. Her story was heartfelt, and worth the read ...
You may remember a blog post I did on the ever so chic Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor in 2017. I oohed and aahed at her eye catching interior design, el ...
I\'ve said a lot of great things about William Rankin McLure IV over the last couple of years. The breakout artist had been an interior designer in th ...
You ever happen upon a crumb and you can\'t let go of it until you find the cake" That\'s what happened to me, as I lay in bed one night thumbing thro ...
Hey all! Having some posting issues, so things are a bit out of sequence. I\'ve figured out the problem, and it shouldn\'t happen again ... fingers cr ...
Aloha, and hello from Hawaii!I just wanted to remind everyone that you can follow along with all the things going on while we are on this trip by hopp ...
Photo by Andrew and Gemma IngallsIf you aren\'t already familiar, Christopher Spitzmiller is the world renowned ceramist who has cornered the market o ...
If you haven\'t gotten a chance to read the lengthy post on the high end property toss I wrote a couple of days ago, read The Michael Smith Pass Off. ...
Here\'s a fun little post to help get you through the weekend. It tackles a few of our favorite things around here, before and afters, Mark D. Sike ...
This is a long, crazy story. One that a faithful reader spurred, after asking me to do a "Look for Less" post about a house she\'d found online. A lit ...
I love, neh LOVE when I get to see a room featured that I was able to watch form from the ground up. Thanks to Instagram, a Birmingham home featured i ...
Recently, I blogged about a beautiful feature on the work of Mark D. Sikes in the March issue of Elle Decor. He and his team recently uploaded more ...
Today\'s story is a bit of a mind bender, but it\'s a good one. It starts with this apartment in New York City. The apartment itself is a in a landmar ...
Did anyone miss the Architectural Digest cover story on Shonda Rhimes\' massive overhaul of her Hancock Park Mansion with Designer Michael S. Smith" W ...
At first glance, you may not be one who would give this issue of Elle Decor a second thought. It\'s loud. Maybe too loud" And while Mary McDonald is o ...
What do Tory Burch, Daniel Romualdez, and Jeffrey Bilhuber have in common" Several things probably, but oddly enough, they\'ve all had their hands on ...
Photo by Emily Toycen via UnsplashWe knew that the winter weather wasn\'t going to be mild forever, didn\'t we" Those of us in the north east are now ...
Remember when my bedroom looked like this"This was the first apartment I had where I really put any effort into the bedroom space. I found those littl ...
© Best Places to Rent on the Planet, to be published by teNeues in September 2018, ? 80, ...
Gorgeous, right"! And if you\'re a mega fan like me then you can probably already guess who designed it. Jeffrey Bilhuber posted this sneak peek at a ...
Someone wrote me the other day and asked if I could write a post about my "tips" and must-haves for setting a perfect table. I began to reply and then ...
Yep! Blue and White Porcelain for less than $50 is a reality, and I\'m gonna tell you where. But first, I wanted to take a second to talk about quite ...
If you follow me on Instagram, you\'ve probably already seen this image. It\'s the corner of my dining room now that I\'ve finally decided that it was ...
Dutch interior design is quite remarkable really. There\'s a certain sleekness to it, which it has always had and maintains without exception. It\'s a ...
What do we all expect a coffee table book on design to be" It needs to have fantastic photos, right" Photos that lead to inspiration, and action, desi ...
Paris is one of those cities that captivates the imaginations of the globe. If you\'ve never been, you fantasize about going, and if you\'re lucky eno ...
Veere Grenney is a master of creating timeless, classic rooms with a decidedly English point of view. An AD100 designer with thirty years of experienc ...
Country style is a design style that has so many definitions. Unlike most every other, country style can span nearly every genre of interior design an ...
If you follow me on instagram you probably saw this picture from the weekend. A sneak peek at the the changes that have happened in the living room ...
When I was a wee tot, I remember visiting my grandmother a few times every summer. She lived in East Texas, only a few hours away, but my parents rare ...
We all know that I love interior design books, right" Even though I parted with dozens that I had loved for long enough this past spring, I still have ...
I\'ve been stacking up the books for book reviews this fall and winter season, knowing that so many of us are going to be fighting the unwelcoming and ...
Many of you (well, probably ALL of you) have seen the pictures of the bedroom I designed for the apartment with the striped walls. The drama of creati ...
So, after my last post, I thought that you might all enjoy a REAL before and after. And it\'s a great one. It\'s VERY LONG, but it\'s a great post. ...
So, I bet we are all aware of the house that Mark D. Sikes designed for fashion designer Karen Kane and her family in Montecito a couple of years ago, ...
I hate to say it, but Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner folks. Seriously - you can\'t ignore it. Before you know it, it\'ll be he ...
So we all know that Hermes blankets are expensive, right" I mean, what\'s not expensive from Hermes" They\'ve managed to stay trendy, used as props in ...
Some of you may know, some of you may not - but I\'m a junky for a spin class. It\'s true. There\'s something about the repetition of pedaling, the mu ...
There are so many pieces left to finish in this puzzle, but the living room is starting to come together. Once I get it all finished, I\'ll have to ma ...
Today, we lost a legend in interior design. Mario Buatta was hailed for decades as the Prince of Chintz, his rooms were brilliantly English, richly ...
Part of the struggle of good design in any room is figuring out what should go on the floor. Not only do you want a RugVista who has a giant selection ...
You\'re no stranger to Suzanne Kasler, I\'m sure. She\'s a powerhouse when it comes to "name brand" interior designers. She\'s published three books w ...
A very dear blogging friend of mine, Deserae at Peeking Thru The Sunflowers, has had her lovely home featured in probably a dozen magazines, including ...
Trying to liquidate a few things to make room for the new stuff, and get it all finished. Everything has been DRASTICALLY reduced, if you have questio ...
While I\'m sure that not many detectives read the blog, have you ever gone looking for something, and then you stumble upon something else" Something ...
Most of us have one neighbor we can rely on in a pinch, right" You run out of sugar, or milk, or need to borrow a lawn mower - they\'re usually readil ...
You ever think you\'ve got everything all figured out and then all of a sudden something tilts your perspective and you\'re back to the drawing board" ...
Oh how I love Nina Campbell. Her nearly fifty-year career in interior design has always exemplified the best of English interiors. Her work spans nine ...
Many of you know that I went to Peru from late June to early July, even though I\'ve yet to blog much about it. If you\'ve been waiting, today is the ...
I\'ve been helping a friend with her living and dining rooms for a while now. A single mother who can\'t devote much time or money to decorating thing ...
What feels like a million years ago, I blogged about Joan Rivers\' Connecticut kitchen, designed by her friend Joseph Cicio. Before being known as the ...
I was at the grocery store yesterday, and I swear there had to be 8 tabloid covers with "Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston married, again!" or "Jennifer ...
I\'ve been working on the living room now for far too long. Just when I thought I had a room nearly pulled together, something went awry and I had to ...
Many of you have probably already seen the new House Beautiful, which hit shelves just a few days ago. On the cover, a peek at a living room designed ...
Has there ever been a place you\'ve longed to go" A trip you\'ve put on your "bucket list" and just know one day you\'ll visit" For me, that list is l ...
So, if I had to pick a city in the south that I\'d move to tomorrow, it\'d be Birmingham - hands down. There seems to be no end to the talent that\'s ...
So, there\'s a lot of things going on behind the scenes at the apartment, some that I really, no REALLY REALLY want to scream from the rooftops, but I ...
