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“If you touch it every day, it should be beautiful—from your cabinet knobs to your mail tray. My toothbrush holder is a heavy cut-glass tumbler that I got for a couple of bucks at a flea market. It’s lovely, and it feels special to me.” …Nate Berkus on how to make your house a home.
What could be better than winning the HGTV dream home? Winning the HGTV Green home! The HGTV 2010 Green home offers so many fantastic gems, like the mud room/recycling center (seriously..that room spoke to me!) The third floor tower room would be the perfect place to blog from! Love it. Take the tour below, then enter to win it at HGTV.
Look of the day: Gorgeous Black and White on Tan. Clean, classic, simplified, and stylish. This look courtesy of HGTV’s Rate My Space. If you adore interior design (it’s practically part of my DNA code), then you’ll love Rate My Space. Budding designers everywhere with great ideas.
HGTV’s Dream Home is in New Mexico this year and it’s absolutely gorgeous from top to bottom. Linda Woodrum, the home’s interior designer, must have had great fun decorating this home, pulling inspiration from Sante Fe decor. The tile work in the kitchen is mind-blowing . To me, the style feels sexy-urban with a twist of Santa Fe. It really works. There are five days left to enter the Dream Home giveaway. Enter at www.HGTV.com. Take a look inside.
While I wouldn’t classify myself as an organizational freak, per se, I certainly am a fan of the notion a place for everything, and everything in its place. One way to create space and eliminate clutter is to ditch all your owners manuals. When you have a question about your product, you can likely find the answer on the manufacturer’s website or at sites like www.ManualsMania.com or The www.UserManualSite.com.
Chocolate brown walls are really hot right now. Brown is the new black …or at least it is this season. Chocolate brown walls are super-chic and rich looking and dramatically transform a room into an elegant, grown up space. If you are color-phobic, start with painting one wall in your space a deep shade of chocolate, and accessorize with creamy white mouldings. It’s a gorgeous look, and can go across the board style-wise, from urban to suburban. (And to be green…Make sure the paint you purchase is either low-VOCs or no-VOCs. )
Gorgeous, yet so easy. I’ll be making this centerpiece for my Thanksgiving dinner. Simply clip a cluster of branches from a tree in your yard, (it’s time to prune anyway), or use fallen branches, and secure it into a large vase. Hang tealight candles from the branches and surround the base with flowers or leaves. It’s as simple as that. Gorgeous, low cost, high impact, and totally Green. Love that!
Color Trending for 2010: Blue has been gone for so long, it’s making its way back onto the color wheel. With a heavy emphasis on earth tones, golden honey especially, blue walls took a back seat. Now we see it’s reemerging in every form. Robin’s egg blue (or Tiffany’s box blue, if you prefer) and shades of everything from tans to deep chocolate browns are showing up in design everywhere. Embrace the color blue, it’s on its way back.
Friday Feature: Hampton’s Style. One word…Gorgeous. Two words… Ridiculously Gorgeous! Let’s discuss: Hampton’s style. This beach house look is clean and minimalistic. The use of black and creamy white are perfect in contrast. Framed pictures (matching mats and black frames are key) add wonderful contrast to the painted bead board walls. The black iron chandelier is so minimalistic, yet beautiful. The best part about this design is that it’s so achievable. Keep your focus with creamy white walls, matching frames in black of varying sizes, and a substantial, yet simple, chandelier to bring this look together. If you stick with a theme, such as this Hampton’s style decor, it’s easy to design a room like a professional.
