Luscious Linen Balloon Curtains for Master Bedroom

 Romantic and luscious, these Linen Balloon Drapery Panels are gorgeous! They add more of the European relaxed glamourous look that I was going for in the master bedroom redecorating project.   Soft Surroundings is so wonderful for their European and French home decor offerings. I was delighted to partner up with them again on these beautiful window treatments.   They have a large selection to choose from,  but I really had my heart set on these linen panels for...

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French Provincial cabinet doors solve a design dilemma

Using cabinet doors from a french provincial china cabinet for doors on our  bookcases was a thought that struck me just this morning.   Why had I never bothered to take a measurement and see if this would work?   But I am glad it finally did occur to me, as I have long wanted to hide the  busy looking bookcases with shutters or custom doors.   (Here is an old photo of the french provincial dining room cabinet. This before it was painted...

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No More Pink Curtains and a new video!

So its been awhile since I last posted, and that was all about the pink linen curtain panels I made for the dining room. I apologize. (Even my sister Ellen called me up and said, "You need to blog because every time I go to look, all I see are pink curtains!!")  Believe it or not, they only stayed up for 48 hours.  I just couldn't stand how it looked.  The pink was  way too pink... The light coming through the fabric made them even more pink then they actually were.  And...

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Pink Linen Curtains for my French Dining Room

 Perhaps I have been swayed by the popularity of blush pink in interiors this year. It is a color that is everywhere these days.... Pink is a color I have always been attracted to, and yet it can be a bit much in "regular" rooms, often relegated to babies rooms or young girls.  Maybe since  I have a grand daughter on the way, this desire for more pink in my own house was too much to ignore.  Whatever the reason, I ordered a bolt of pink Irish linen to create a pair...

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Grey Gardens: A Haunting Real Life Riches to Rags Tale

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful mansion built in the Hamptons called Grey Gardens.  Grey Gardens got its name from the cement garden walls, the color of the dunes and the sea mist. Grey Gardens would become notorious for its eccentric mother and daughter inhabitants, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, after a series of twists and turns, brought them cult status and notoriety. A reverse story of riches to rags with celebrity relatives always makes for a great tale. A14 room...

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Road trip to Long Island and the Hamptons with Matthew Mead

Road Trip!! Matthew Mead and I just returned from a three day road trip to Long Island, NY, where he was doing two shoots for his upcoming magazine for the fall, Upstyled Home, Industrial.  He invited me along for the adventure, and we decided to do some video shoots of our trip and the people and places that were on our itinerary.  We also decided to do some LIVE video, on Facebook, for the first time, which is a new feature on FB that has you showing what you are doing in real...

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