Inspiration 12.13

Photo shot by Mortem Holtum

Inspiration 11.19

Happy weekend, lovelies...

via Kika Reichert

Inspiration 11.12

Absolutely adored this glam bed/bath/dressing room suite featured in Lonny Mag. This is what my dreams are made of.

Inspiration 11.10

Yes, please.

via Emma's Blog

Inspiration 10.6

Via Tea for Joy

Inspiration 9.23

This bedroom is really not my style, but something about it is reading very glam to me. Kind of "Betty Draper post hubbie #2," right?

via Whole Living

Inspiration 9.17

Photos by Francois Halard

Inspiration 9.10

via The New York Times

Want: Olatz Schnabel's Bedroom

Interrupting this supposedly unplugged beach weekend to swoon over Olatz Schnabel's bedroom featured in this month's House Beautiful. I know there's a good chance you've seen it already (on ten different blogs), and it's probably so last week, but I'm just dying over this.

It takes a lot for something to break me out of my preference for pure white sheets and calming sandy neutrals in a bedroom, but Olatz has done it. I'm trying to refrain from just tossing everything out of my bedroom and starting again.

By the way, pick up the magazine -- the pictures here, lovely as they are, don't even do it justice.

Images via The Decorista and La Dolce Vita Blog

Inspiration 7.21

Via My Little Things

Inspiration 7.19

Love this idea for revamping drap pull-down shades.

Via We Heart It

Inspiration 7.13

Some favorites from the June Côte Paris, more to come!

Inspiration 7.9

Ok, kids, confession time. Sometimes...when I get really bored, I mean really bored, I start making lists of things I want-- 50-item long lists. So occasionally, when I'm cleaning, I'll find pieces of paper with numbered lists that terrify me. A recent example:

Want:

• Jorts (but the cool Parisian ones, I swear they exist)
• Stairs
• A straw hat
• Shiny pans
• Canning jars (I'm laughing while typing this one out. Like THAT will ever happen)
• A sectional sofa
• Loose, silky button up
• Brown K-Jacques (done!)
• Shutters

Ok, so you get the point. Anyways, this self indulgent rambling was brought on by the shutters in the photo above, where I think how nice it would be to wake up in the country with an early morning breeze wafting in, or closing the shutters at night during a storm.

Of course, I think the room would be a bit too spare in real life, even for "daydream me" who never accumulates clutter, but the composition is certainly pretty to look at.

Image discovered on Head Over Heels, a great blog after my own heart. Oh, and another thing I want desperately -- to incorporate written sentiments into my home. Another fave from the site:

Forget want, I need this floor, and I'll take the trough sink too.

Inspiration 6.18

Another fab wallpapered bedroom...

via Automatism

Inspiration 6.15

One of my favorite rooms from the new issue of Lonny Mag. A little crazy, and I probably would have cut the additional patterns on the bedding, but it works.

Inspiration 6.9

Via Sweet Home Style

Inspiration 5.26

It's open windows season. Love these cool, tilting pane examples...

Via This is Glamorous and White Trash Beautiful

Twig Hutchinson

Reason #757 to love Twitter: This weekend, local foodie, and all around stylish girl, Nikki Rappaport tweeted a link to stylist Twig Hutchinson's site to me.

I was blown away. Hutchinson has the most perfect design sensibility -- romantic, homey, lived-in and bohemian. It's everything I love about interiors rolled into one gorgeous portfolio.

It reminded me of this great Jezebel post about catalogs: "The life your life could look like." They describe the secret life of catalog models. The description for Anthropologie, just seems so fitting for these images:

"You press flowers between the pages of first-edition Dickens novels. Your job involves traveling to Italy and being pensive in rooms. You have a book-strap. You have a wrought-iron bed. You know how to applique. Any sorrow you experience is like fine tea, artfully staining the stationery of your life."

The worst (best?) part is, that's basically the life of my daydreams. So, if any of my colleagues are reading this...all of those times you caught me blankly staring into space in my cubicle...this is where my brain has wandered...and I would prefer it if you didn't bother me while I'm busy making imaginary flower arrangements, or sipping imaginary tea in my imaginary wrought-iron bed.

P.S. Go check out Nikki's blog -- she has an amazing banana bread recipe up right now.

Inspiration 5.20

Loved these spaces from Nuevo Estilo spied on Desire to Inspire the other day...

Inspiration 5.14

Love the buttery yellow and marigold color scheme here, and the hidden desk is brilliant.

via White Trash Beautiful