interior glass doors: 2008-08-31

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!

When James Saavedra of Decor Fellow asked me to be a part of the debut issue of Fellow, his online magazine, I was very flattered and excited to participate and now that I've seen the finished product, I'm completely blown away! It is more professional than a lot of magazines on the newsstand! I know you will also love it! Inside is an amazing interview with Vicente Wolfe, a city guide to Seattle, some inspired styles, a few fabulous floor lamps and oh, my little list of what I need for a "well lived life." James did such an outstanding job that he's going to make everyone in the blog world step up their game! He's truly one amazing fellow!!!

Operación : un hogar más agradable

¿ Qué tal la vuelta después de las vacaciones ? Muchas ya de nosotras trabajando e intentando normalizar nuestra vida de nuevo.
Por eso, como cada miércoles de los meses pasados, vuelve esta sección dedicada a aquellas cosas que vamos haciendo para conseguir hacer de nuestro hogar el mejor lugar para los nuestros.

Podía haber titulado este artículo "Pajaritos, Pajaritos"Animan un rincón de mi casa que ha ido cambiando a lo largo del verano y del que ya os contaré cada miércoles.
Encontré el patrón aquí junto a otras ideas y tutos interesantes.
Fue imposible resistirse y dar salida a esos retalitos de patch que van quedando.

¿ Cuál es tu favorito ?

Un pajarito

Pájaro 1

Dos pajaritos

Pájaro 2

Tres pajaritos

Pájaro 3

Cuatro pajaritos

Pájaro 4

Cinco pajaritos

Pájaro 5

....... Y ahora todos juntitos.......

Están sujetos con hilo de nylon transparente al techo y bailotean todos juntos cuando les da algo de aire. No se escapan a la mirada de cualquiera que entra en esta parte de la casa.
¿ Te animas ? Son facilísimos de hacer .
Hasta el próximo miércoles.

I had never heard of Stephen Elrod, the Creative Director of Lee Jofa, until recently but then he seemed to be popping up everywhere! His beach house was featured in the June/July 2008 issue of Domino and then his New York apartment was published in the September 2008 issue of Traditional Home. I have been buying and enjoying Traditional Home lately since there aren't that many shelter magazines left! Anyway, as I've stated before, I love to see how people decorate multiple homes and it seems that Mr. Elrod has done a lovely job with both!

I'll fill in the details later but I am off to The Bachelor Pad to work on some things and then to prepare for an installation on work project on Thursday. Ciao for now!

Seems I'm not the only one who loves white dresses. If you want to read a really funny recap of last night's season premier of Gossip Girl, check out New York magazine's Daily Intel. Make sure you read what they had to say about The Tins too! XOXO!

Usually by this time of the year, I'm officially over summer and ready to break out my fall clothes but not this year! Maybe because I spent so much time working or maybe because I don't know what I will wear when I put away my white dresses and my white Goyard bag! Of course, it stays warm through October so it's not exactly fall weather right now anyway and since rules are meant to be broken I will probably throw on a white dress tomorrow. I might make a concession and carry a brown handbag though. I have put away anything linen or very summery but will definitely not be putting away my white jeans for a few more weeks.

The Sartorialist photographed fashion editor Giovanna during fashion week last fall and she clearly doesn't subscribe to the "no white after Labor Day rule" but she is Italian so perhaps they don't have that fashion rule since Labor Day is an American holiday! What about you? Will you wear white after Labor Day?

I work on a lot of very expensive homes at work but they have nothing on this cute little beach cottage in the Hamptons owned by Lezlie Klotz. It was featured in the July 2008 issue of House Beautiful magazine and I fell in love with it the minute I saw it since it's exactly how I would want my beach house to look and feel. It's simply perfect!

"A yellow-cab-colored surfboard makes a curiously good match for an antique painted chest that belonged to Klotz's grandmother. Portrait of Show Business, Klotz's childhood pony, by Edith Diehl."

"Jonathan Adler needlepoint pillows pop on a sofa and a striped club chair, both designed by Steven Gambrel. The Italian caned chair was Leslie Klotz's grandmother's, and the curtains are by her late mother, interior designer Patricia Hopkins Klotz. The Lucite coffee table, bench, and side table holding the glass ball lamp are antiques show finds. The blue lamp is by Christopher Spitzmiller."

"Seahorses from an garden antiques store are the wow factor in the dining room of a Hamptons cottage. Louis XVI–style dining chairs are covered in a jaunty shade of chartreuse leather, and backed in a coral and white print. The table is from Liza Sherman Antiques."

There is nothing I love more than art in a kitchen!

"In redoing the kitchen, Klotz "imagined I could actually cook. Then I tried to create a kitchen that an actual cook would want to cook in. And believe it or not, now I do cook. It was like my own personal Field of Dreams." Hanging lights from Rejuvenation."

In a guest room, the red painted headboards perfectly match the red toile lamp.

"In the sitting area adjacent to a guest room, wide-planked wainscoting in white and a deep navy wall create a graphic sense of spaciousness."

This bedroom is my favorite and would be the most perfect place to rest after a long day at the beach! "Klotz found the quilt at a Brimfield summer antiques show and the accent pillow in Venice. Lamp by Christopher Spitzmiller. Wall color is Spring Mint and trim is Light Touch, both by Benjamin Moore."