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Inspiring Easter eggs

Martha Stewart

These are not just any ordinary Easter eggs - you know, the ones you buy in the little kits and make with your kids every year? From beautiful gold foiled, marbleized, moss covered, to fun painted silhouettes, beautiful robins egg blue, to chalk painted eggs to personalize, these eggs are beautiful and so unique. They would make a beautiful addition to any Easter décor. And I love showing off eggs in glass vases and cloches. Here are a few of my favorite photos to help inspire you this Easter season.

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Terrain

Better Homes and Garden

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Terrain

Dreaming.....

HGTV photo

I know that I am not the only one dreaming about the possibility of my family living in this years' 2015 HGTV Dream Home, in Martha's Vineyard.....just move me right in! The entry to the contest has ended, so I'm sure there are many hopeful dreamers out there. Although I have never been to Martha's Vineyard, I have been up and down the New England coast and also to Nantucket many times, in fact I got engaged there, so its always been special to me. New England is so beautiful with all of its coastal towns and Martha's Vineyard I'm sure, does not disappoint.

HGTV photo

This year's Dream house is so inviting and has such a cozy feel, and although it's not too big, 
there are so many great design elements that have been packed into this home. The open floor plan is great for everyone to be in the same area and it's all centrally located in the middle of the house where it's so bright and open with tons of doors and windows.

HGTV photo

With so many coastal inspired and beautiful features carried throughout this home, there's 
no doubt where you are. All the fabrics chosen work so well with all the different neutral shades and blues carried through the home, but the colors also transition nicely from room to room by bringing in other colors as well. 

Besides the nice living room space above, there is additional seating spread around creating 
their own smaller spaces.

HGTV photo

HGTV photo

HGTV photo

The guest bedroom below is so fun and bright, and the use of orange in the room adds such a bright pop of color.

HGTV photo


But seriously, if this was mine, I don't think that I would have any reason to even leave this beautiful, serene. master bathroom in the picture below. I love the use of the turquoise blues brought in here, it is just gorgeous.

HGTV photo



No matter what, how big or small your gathering, everyone always ends up in the kitchen, and with the nice substantial island in the space, it provides plenty of room for all your guests that are for sure to come!

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Whoever the lucky winner is, and I sure hope it's me, would have a hard time complaining about anything in this Dream Home, fingers crossed! 

color trends

Photo from Pantone

I love the new Pantone color of the year, Marsala.  It is such a beautiful, deep, rich red. I'm not about to change everything in my home to follow the latest color trend, but an accent here and there could work.

   

This Old House

                                                                                                    

When I go out to a client's house to help them pick out paint colors, fabrics, accents or other design needs, I often get asked what the latest color trends are. I try to tell them that although it is nice to keep up with what's new and trendy, it really all depends on what you really like, what you're comfortable with and how design trends fit in with your current style. So as beautiful as the room looks above with that rich sexy color, Marsala, it would get pretty expensive to change your look every year to keep up with the color trends. But certainly some things are easy to change out and work with, paint and accents for example.

I 'm working with a client right now and helping to design her kitchen. It's an older home with a very challenging kitchen, the whole thing is going to be gutted. We are planning on crisp white cabinets, super white granite and warm wood tones. But what I am so excited about is that my client loves turquoise. We have been working through all the details, and have been talking about bringing turquoise in the kitchen and she is really excited to add in a pop of color. She has the color carried through out her home and has a great painted turquoise buffet in her dining room. She went out appliance shopping and came back with this idea, the beautiful water blue, Blue Star range below. It is going to look so amazing with the other things we have planned in the kitchen and will make a great focal point in the kitchen. It is a big commitment to go with a color for a major appliance but it works so well for her home because it's carried throughout house, and she feels comfortable with the color. So even though its not the official color of the year, it is what she loves for her home, and it will make her happy every time she walks in her new kitchen. Can't wait to start posting the project.

Blue Star

sunroom fabrics

I had so much fun working with and picking out these fabrics for my client's sunroom and I wanted to wait until everything was finished in the space before I showed them. The fabrics worked so well together, between the brighter super cozy custom swivel chairs and the grain sack like fabric on the custom love seat and coordinating fabric on the custom pillows.


 I loved how the roman shades turned out, there are six windows all in a row so I didn't want to overwhelm the space with a very bright or busy fabric. I found this pretty fabric, it is a simple linen blend with beautiful embroidered vines throughout. I was really happy with how they turned out.


The room is such a great space that is used for an eating area on one end and an inviting sitting area on the other. The space is grounded by two of the same rugs that fill the room nicely and really bring the areas together.

Pretty guest bedroom

I've been meaning to post these pictures for some time now, actually a few months. I've been a bit side tracked and haven't shared much! I had worked on this guest bedroom during the late spring for one of my clients. She wanted the room to be pretty for when her mother stayed. The room was previously painted and the furniture was already existing, I was just picking out all the fabrics for the custom bedding.

I was so happy when it was finished - it all came out really nice.  The bedspread was quilted and looks beautiful and inviting. There is also a bed skirt that matches with the pillow shams. In fact, the fabric looked so pretty that my client decided she wanted to use it to have some valances made for the windows (we just started working on them). 


The bolster pillow came out great too. The fabric has a slight raised pattern so the flowers and vines really pop, it makes it a focal point on the bed. The duvet cover, at the end of the bed, also has a nice textured fabric on it as well.

When the window treatments are all finished I will share more pictures, hopefully it won't take me so long to post them next time! 

                                  

clients dining room

For nearly 18 months I have been working with a client on a new construction home in Delaware. Since I was involved from the beginning, it included everything from room layout suggestions and paint and floor color selections to kitchen and bath design and furniture. From start to finish, it's been a great experience. Here are some previous posting on the home's progress here and here.

Now, as the project comes to completion, I am so excited to work on finishing off my clients dining room. After so much construction going on with their home, it was great to finally be able to put those finishing touches in the rooms. The panels turned out so beautiful. We choose a Robert Allen fabric and a really pretty onion ball fringe to go with the fabric. The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore's Hale Navy, and with all the beautiful white wainscoting, the navy really pops, especially now with the blue and white fabric. Also setting the whole room off is the gorgeous Schonbek chandelier chosen for the room. It really came out so pretty and classic looking.

We are finalizing all the rest of the window treatments and I can't wait to share those when they are all finished.