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Big Advice About Paint
My May House Beautiful is here. "The Big Advice Issue". Though I've paged through it only briefly, I've seen enough to know that it delivers what it promises. All the inspiration we've come to expect...
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Local Color : Garden Events
I spent a day this weekend at The Huntington again. With my daughter this time. She has a paper on 19th Century art due this week so we took our time with the exhibits before making the rounds through...
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Green House
For Earth Day, a little green house that seems to grow right out of the ground. A vine-covered metal framework in the classic shape of every child's first drawing of home, this small structure is in...
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Daisy Fresh
The daisy, birth flower for the month of April, has long been celebrated in art and poetry for its simple beauty. Poets like Chaucer, Phoebe Cary and James Montgomery used the flower to symbolically...
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Notes From A Show House
Fresh from my visit to the 2010 Pasadena Showcase House of Design, here is what I learned...1. I can love a really large space and a really small space for exactly the same reasons. The Drawing Room,...
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One Show House, Two Kitchens : Part 1
Two small photos of the kitchen, in the official Showcase program, were the only ones I was allowed to take away from my tour of the estate and grounds. No photography permitted. As two simply weren't...
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One Show House, Two Kitchens : Part 2
Here's where my last post left us... inside the renovated kitchen of The Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts. I found two new photos to show you. Above is the view looking over the island toward the...
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Creative Art Idea from the Show House
In this post, the last one about the Pasadena Showcase House (I promise!), I attempt to illustrate a creative DIY art idea I saw on my recent tour... STEP ONE: Get your hands on a great big oil...
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Another Layered Art Idea
While writing my last post, I searched high and low for other examples of layered framed art so that I could better illustrate the concept for you. Interestingly, the only images I found were these...
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Happy Mother's Day
to my mom, to your mom,to you and to me.I know you have seen this painting in a variety of forms, probably hundreds of times. Reproduced not only as a print, but on mugs and postcards and magnets. It...
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Stop That Jumping and Get to Work !
Hope you moms out there enjoyed your day yesterday, because all too soon it's back to business as usual. Today isClean Up Your Room Day!Those naughty kids of yours should be making their beds, not...
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Behind Your Books Looks
I'm currently working with a client whose built-in, family room bookcases need a makeover. Her exisiting situation is something like the pic you see above. Warm golden wood, closed cabinets on the...
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Other Ways to Decorate with Books
In my last post about backing your bookcase, you saw books in their natural environment. Lined up, stacked, contained and confined. That doesn't sound so great though, does it? If you love your books...
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Books and Chairs : Two Great Things that Look Great Together
Chairs. Love them.Books. Can't live without them.Put the two together in a beautifully styled photograph in your glossy book or magazine and you'll stop me in my tracks.I know. It's weird that I should...
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This Woman's Day
I wish I was having this woman's day. Warmed by the sun, cooled by the ocean breeze. Deeply engrossed in a compelling story. Free to put the book down and simply sit and watch the sailboats dance by....
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May Flowers, Green Weekend
The delicate, sweetly-fragranced lily of the valley is the traditional birthday flower for those of us born in the month of May. Its botanical name, majalis, even means "that which belongs to May". A...
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The New Navy
In 1944, the Electric Machinery and Equipment Company (Emeco) and the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) collaborated with US Navy engineers to design a seaworthy chair for military use.The resulting...
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How the Navy Introduced Me to Designer Lee Ann Thornton
While researching my last post, looking for images of Navy chairs, I discovered this kitchen nook designed by Greenwich Connecticut-based designer Lee Ann Thornton.I also discovered that I love her...
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Summer-Fresh Fish Shacks
Last year, on the Friday before Father's Day, I wrote this post about my husband's Father's Day tradition: he treats himself and his dad to a big ol' pile of the fresh New England seafoods they love—as...
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Pretty Things from the Sea
I spied these unique, sea-inspired accessories in a catalog that I had never seen before and was intrigued enough to share them with you.What do you think? Sea anything you like?atwestend.com
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Crazy Daze of Summer
Chaos still reigns at my house, this first week of summer being perhaps the busiest since it all began. I am working crazy long hours at a job that is ending. Ironic, no? College Girl is still here and...
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The Softer Side of Outdoor Decor
"Mom. Look at this picture.""Oh! Look how cute you all are! Where is this? Santa Cruz?""Yeah. We were walking down to the beach.""You have such a beautiful smile. I wish you'd stand up straight...
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New Art Arrangement Over My Sofa
This vintage print has hung over my living room sofa for about a year now. I found it in an antiques and collectibles co-op in Bakersfield, CA that occupies an old Woolworth's department store—a great...
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Artist in Residence
Late one recent evening, my husband and I arrived home from a party to find an artist busily at work in our kitchen. Painting this as a gift for a friend:She had been inspired by this vintage motto...
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I START MY NEW JOB TODAY !
Bright and early this Monday morning, my life will take a dramatic turn. For the first time in years, I will climb into my car and drive to work. (as opposed to walking across the hallway from my...
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