For the past 4 months I’ve been on the hunt for blue and white ikat pillows. More specifically these couldn’t-get-any-better-if-they-tried Madeline Weinrib Collins Ikat Pillows. After first seeing these beauties steal the spotlight in an Elle Decor pic of a living room (below), I have been on a moderate to highly obsessed hunt to track them down and wrap my arms around their crisp sophistication and squeeze the loving right out of them. And I had all but given up on this relentlessly reoccurring dream until earlier this week when I gave up. Literally. Then, as if the universe felt my moody blues kicking in, the source was revealed — along with my embarrassing failure to substitute the word…
Get Mindy Kaling’s New Office With Your Paycheck, Not Hers!
There’s no denying that Mindy Kaling is bold, bright and committed, so it makes perfect sense that her new office is exactly the same. It’s also fun, inviting and full of happy as far as the eye can see, like seriously deliriously happy spread over each and every inch of a perfectly curated home away home on the NBC lot. Full of vibrant colors and rich textiles, it looks more like and in inviting living room you never want to leave rather than an actual office, but who’d complain about that! If you can surround yourself with a space dripping with creativity and whimsy, then why not keep it polished while still being uber playful? I mean seriously, there’s a…
My Designer Girl Crush Strikes Again!
When I convinced my husband to accept a navy blue velvet couch into our lives it was based on this photo (above) I stumbled across on the internet, somewhere. It’s bold and masculine while also being happy, refined and user friendly. But because things are pinned and re-pinned, tagged and re-tagged, and dare I say swiped and stolen, I had no idea at the time, the living room I was lusting over was an Emily Henderson living room. I simply loved it, took a snapshot from my phone and filed it away under my “one day” dream living room. Until one day, that one day came when West Elm, much to my dellight, featured this little beauty. The Peggy Mid-Century…
Lulu And Georgia Take Me Home (With You!)
One week ago today I was just getting back to Los Angeles after a whirlwind trip to the beautiful city of Chicago where I met all the lovely ladies from Create + Cultivate. And while the conference was filled with inspirational women taking charge and living their dreams in the digital world, I have to admit the one thing I cannot stop thinking about is Lulu and Gerogia, one of the event’s pop up shops. And to be honest I have no idea how I have survived so long without discovering this priceless gem of a home design resource that I actually had to ask my design minded friends if I failed epically or if L&G was just playing…
Five Tips to Decorating Your Kid’s Room
A little over a month ago I started transitioning Sebastian’s room from his former obsession, planes, to his current one, space. And in doing so I learned a few very valuable lessons when it comes to decorating for children. 1. Don’t design a child’s room based on their current fixation. Decorate it with the current fixation. What’s the difference? Anything permanent or a little more than semi permanent is design in my book and anything easily removable, decor. I learned this hard way. We had planes on the walls, planes on the ceiling, and almost installed a plane light fixture. But the planes phase landed before I even officially finished the room and Sebastian was on to his next obsession,…
The quest for a couch
I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but this little beauty just made its’ way into my life — and in 8-10 weeks, it will make its’ way into my living room! Oh happy me! Now, I’m hoping the 8-10 weeks is more of a worst case scenario as the one week we have now spent without a couch was about as enjoyable as a foot massage at the dentist’s office. And when I say I’m not “entirely sure how it happened” what I really mean to say is I did a phenomenal job of making my husband believe he won our “couch quest” when indeed, I just got him to accept a crushed velvet navy blue mid-centuryesque couch into…
