Sculptural Function

I really love the new pieces by Stephen Antonson at West Elm. My favorite is definitely the sculptural ledge. It's a nice little decorative surprise for a wall shelf.

{photos from west elm}

Purple Power

Lyla's favorite color is purple. It's funny because, while I've never disliked purple, it's never been a favorite color of mine. Don't get me wrong I like it, but Lyla loves it. So I bought her all purple bedding and accent pillows.

I went with Serena & Lily's Delphine Duvet (It's on sale right now!) and their Heather Bloom pillow as the base.

I bought the purple Pillow Pal by Blabla (we've been fans of them for a long time). It's super cute.

Possibly one of my favorite purchases for Lyla recently was the purple robot pillow. Leading up to Christmas, all Lyla wanted was a robot. I'm not sure where she got that from but she told everyone she wanted Santa to bring her a robot. The last thing I wanted to buy her was some cheap, plastic, annoying thing that makes noise, lights up and will break after a week. So I started researching robots and found this wonderful brand called Kauzbots. Every robot has a cause and dedicates 10% of the sales price to their particular cause. Kourage, the purple robot, supports childhood cancer. Lyla loves it, and it's absolutely adorable and comes with a little pink heart that fits in it's back pocket. I highly recommend these robots, they are a great price with a great cause. A wonderful gift for future occasions.

{photos top to bottom}
top two photos from serena and lily
pillow pal from land of nod
robot from kauzbots

Mirror, Mirror

I've always loved Jonathan Adler's apple mirror. I think I'm finally going to buy it for Lyla's bathroom. It's such a fun and colorful piece.


And speaking of mirrors, I recently bought this one from Jayson Home and Garden. It's quite lovely and I was sold on it's hanging attachment.




However I have to say my favorite mirror right now is this one by Grain, but it is very much out of price range.

photos top to bottom:
{apple mirror by jonathan adler}
{freeman mirror by jayson home and garden}
{bound mirror by grain design via remodelista}

Colorful Living

This is how I want our apartment to look and feel. While we don't have all of the lovely period details of this fancy home, we do have the potential for color. The pattern, color, and overall fun feeling of this apartment is just pure gorgeousness.

{via curbed}

Wonderfully White

I often admire homes with beautifully painted dark rooms and heavily patterned wallpapered walls. The rooms always look so sophisticated & together. But for me I love white. But white alone is boring, and we tend to fill up our walls with lots of colorful artwork, books, etc. When I saw this home shot by Patric Johansson, I kept going back to it and thinking how beautiful it was. White, clean, yet colorful and organized. Exactly what I strive for in our home.

Back when we were renovating our apt. I tested out 5 different whites for our walls! And not just on one wall, I literally painted each wall throughout the rooms to see how each white looked with that particular room's natural light. It was an arduous (but worth it) process. I ended up going with a greyish white (Ben Moore - Winter White) for most of our walls, and for trim and ceilings I went with Ben Moore - Simply White. The two look beautiful together. I definitely tend to lean more towards the greyish/blue whites than the yellowish whites. When I'm ready, I look forward to showing you photos of our apt.

{all photos by patric johansson via desire to inspire}

Happy Home

Everything about this home makes me happy. The interior design and lifestyle of Alexandra Angle is soft, colorful, happy and welcoming. The pops of color they've used in this Fire Island home might be some of my favorite color usage and product placement I've seen to date. The rainbow hanging chair is incredible and I love how they painted the ceiling a sky blue while keeping the wood beams white.

{photos from alexandra angle interior design via remodelista}

Feather Love

I've been considering one of these mobiles for a while now... We desperately need something behind the wall of our bed and I'm not really interested in going the headboard route or big photo route (the latter which my husband wants). I really want something light, romantic and pretty. A feather mobile would be perfect, I think.

{photos from after all}

Dreamy

Um, this is someone's home, and a lucky someone that is. Can you imagine living here?! We are overloaded with beautiful homes on the blog circuit, but this one in particular might be the most beautiful I've ever seen. I love all of the white. A lot of times church to home renovations are dark and woodsy, but this is just perfection. And it's for sale. I won't even go there with the cost.

{photos from freshome}

Inspired Color & Placement

The photographs by Tara Donne are nothing short of eye candy to gaze at this lovely Tuesday morning. I can't believe summer is over - where has the time gone?

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend!

{photographs by tara donne}

Brilliant Finds

Vintage French hat hook from the 1950's - AMAZING.

My friend Ben's apartment is in the latest issue of Lonny. We used to work together at Jonathan Adler; he's the curator of all JA stores and he clearly knows what he's doing. Ben is just as lovely, charming and full of personality as his apartment reflects. And did I mention stylish and smells good? Whenever I mention Ben, Patrick always asks, "The guy that smells good, right?"

Ben was also my karaoke partner in singing "Island's in the Stream" by (the best music duo ever) Dolly and Kenny. It was the first and last time I will ever do karaoke. And lucky me, Patrick has it all on video...

{photos from lonny mag}

Inspiration & Beyond

Oh dear, where has The Society been all of my life. You know when you see something that really inspires you and you can actually feel it? Well, needless to say, that's exactly how I felt when I came across stylist Sibella Court's site. Take a look, I guarantee you will be just as inspired.

Oh and she recently came out with a book. Patrick, if you are reading this, Valentines Day is right around the corner.

My husband says he reads my blog, but I don't think he does - this will be a sneaky little test...


Have a lovely weekend!

{photos from the society via style-files}

New Year, New Journey

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I have to admit, I have been a very bad blogger lately (thank you for being so patient.) My husband and I were lucky to take some time off over the holiday season and enjoy Lyla Belle's first Christmas here in Brooklyn. It was lovely!

Lots of things happening in 2010 for me both personally and professionally. We are in the process of buying an apt. (fingers crossed) and I have been in major interior design research mode. We will be doing a little bit of renovating and I'll be sure to let you in on all of the exciting decisions I'll be making.

To break it down simply, the last couple of years have gone like this:
2008 - Wedding !
2009 - Baby !
and now 2010 - Home !

I'll also be updating Thoughtful Day soon with all of the work I've done over the last 8 months. I have to admit, 2009 was one busy year, and it FLEW by. I'm so very thankful for all of the lovely support I've had from all of you.

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Now to these beautiful images!

These photos are the work of stylist Finola Inger. Her balance of color, pattern and texture is just brilliant. I dream of capturing her romantic essence in some type of livable way for our new home.

{photos from finola inger}