What is classic design? It is certainly not white walls, with white furniture, bare floors and a bright yellow urn for a pop of color. It is not dark brown walls with hot pink accents, nor is it nuclear green or pink walls with zebra prints. And it ain’t (excuse me) your grandma’s home décor either. So just what is classic design from a Southern girl’s point of view?
Where I come from, “GRITS” stands for “Girls Raised in the South”. I grew up surrounded by classic design. It was a warm, rich and comfortable motif that bespoke of tradition, heritage, family and meaning. It felt warm and safe. It w Read more…
Here are a retro home design, an elegant and cozy nostalgic home. This retro home design is belong to senior designer Charlotte Adrian. This lovely nostalgic home is designed to create an atmosphere for nostalgia. The interior design is quite simple, with few but powerful decorative pieces. A striking element was the number of items of porcelain that can be seen throughout the house. Of course, the designer and also in this case the owner has a special affinity for this particular type of decoration. Among other elements, and particular pieces of furniture, we can mention the Cadovious rosewood wall unit in the dining room.
A beautiful coffee table book is like a fantastic piece of artfor the fraction of the price. For typically under $100, you can get decor for your yes, coffee table, but also for a desk, dresser, ottoman, mantle, even stacked artfully on the floor.
I spent a few minutes the other night browsing the Home and Garden section on Amazon, and here are some of my latest picks. With the holidays rapidly approaching, coffee table books never fail as a go-to gift.
I am so excited to say that I recently have been featured in a coffee table book myself, entitled Chicago Spaces, by the editors of Chicago Home + Garden and with a forward by Nate Berkus.
Looking for inspiration for your Thanksgiving table? The folks at Sawbridge Studios in Winnetka designed this pretty one based on foundation pieces they carry. They started with hand-forged iron candlesticks by Vermont-based artisan Stephen Bronstein, then bought the pheasant feathers at a local craft store, and wound wired grapevine around them all. They used grapevine balls from the same crafts store and laced Simon Pearce’s flatware through it. Dish towels in a woodland pattern/color scheme serve as oversized napkins that allow for the long “waterfall” effect—filling up the setting where the flatware traditionally sits. The dinne
Designer Maxim Vaslyaev used bugs called Pteleobius to create this beautiful Pteleobius Lamp. These bugs eat crust and leave these fanciful ornaments. The designer also used a fluorescent lamp; he additionally highlighted the unusual pattern made by the bugs. When the lamp is on, the cut I the tube falls on the base and creates a pleasant shade. The materials used are wood, steel and lamp. You can easily change the lamp if needed and the asymmetry allows by one turn get a new view. Modern, cool object, it’s not only a lamp but also an installation that combines high technologies and beauty of nature.