• Colour Rescue: Living Room Makeover at the Lake
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    Colour Rescue: Living Room Makeover at the Lake

    October 28, 2023 - By 

    If you have a stunning view, it makes sense to maximize it when laying out the room. This week we look at some specific challenges when decorating a room with a view. This weeks makeover is for my good friend Gail and her husband Casey. They built their lakeside retirement home in Cultus Lake with this spectacular view. After she purchased new sofas for the living room, she got stuck on how to finish and decorate the room. How to decorate a room with a view Here’s how it looked when they moved in. And here are her new sofas…

  • Introducing the Pantone Color for Fall 2023: Kate Spade Green
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    Introducing the Pantone Color for Fall 2023: Kate Spade Green

    October 27, 2023 - By 

    What if we told you that fashion greatly affects your mental health? The ideal opportunity to opt for a bright, positive, and dynamic shade as the cold months return. Identity card, history, meaning, fashion, and cultural impact, all about the “new” Pantone fall 2023 color which is not new, but which promises to be a flagship element of life and style this season! Pantone Fall Color 2023: We’re Going Green for the 30th Anniversary of Kate Spade New York! original collage/images pantone.com To celebrate its 30th anniversary on the fashion scene, the New York brand Kate Spade offers us, in…

  • Breaking News Bulletin – My Kitchen Installation is Underway! (2 parts)
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    Breaking News Bulletin – My Kitchen Installation is Underway! (2 parts)

    October 26, 2023 - By 

    Hi Everyone, there is a second part to this post, but since part 1 is so short, there’s no anchor link this time. Please scroll to here: ****************   Or, if you would like to see the progress of the kitchen installation in only two days, please start from the beginning. Dearest lovely readers. It has been over three years since I knew I was buying my new home in Boston. I bought it knowing full well that I had to change the kitchen and the spiral staircase. What I didn’t know was how long it would take me to…

  • Mavromac Presents The New Jane Churchill Collection
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    Mavromac Presents The New Jane Churchill Collection

    October 25, 2023 - By 

    Bring colour and style into your interior with the latest collections from Jane Churchill – now available from Mavrocmac. It’s about colour, energy and all the things you need to elevate your space. The Wilder collection takes an unashamedly decorative approach, with a diversity of inspiration ranging from Japanese cherry blossom to stylised zebra print and jungle motifs. The combination of embroidery and print is celebrated in the Wilder design, where fine stitched ikat pattern is overlaid onto a bold screen printed animal motif. Bukhara explores similar techniques but to wildly different effect, with an oversized floral motif detailed in…

  • Welcome Back to The Snug!
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    Welcome Back to The Snug!

    October 24, 2023 - By 

    This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. Please Read Our Disclosure Policy here Sources: Rattan Twin Bed // Floral Blanket on Bed (reversible) // Blue Gingham Ruffle Sham // Similar Whale Pillow // Striped Indoor/Outdoor Rug Welcome back to The Snug aka my office, our family room, guest room and future playroom for the grand littles. The first two years we lived here (which is the entire time we’ve lived here as we officially moved in two years ago this month), this room had to also be a holding place for furniture that would go elsewhere once the renovation was complete.…

  • Berlin Eyewear Boutique Miller & Marc Has Its Own Unique Outlook
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    Berlin Eyewear Boutique Miller & Marc Has Its Own Unique Outlook

    October 23, 2023 - By 

    A Berlin Eyewear Boutique with Its Own Unique Outlook Featuring a Mediterranean colour palette and brutalist-inspired forms, Miller & Marc balances escapism with local edge. More than just being fun eye candy, great glasses frames also manage to convey a deeper sense of one’s personality — and the same is true of thoughtful retail designs. For the new Berlin outpost of Spanish eyewear brand Miller & Marc, local studio Coordination pulled from both local vernacular and from its client’s Spanish heritage to deliver an expressive character study. Opened on a corner of Auguststrasse, a street in Berlin’s Mitte district that…