girl meets glamour

I think blue is one of the easiest colors to work with, I mean it pretty much goes with everything...but one of my all time favorite combos is pairing this color with red! One minute it's super sophisticated the next is simple and sweet. Here are some examples I found of these colors, that I thought I'd share with you...

So I spend the weekend unloading boxes, breaking down boxes, painting a few chairs from ebay (below), and playing around a bit with some of my unknowns...


which is this pair of chairs that I'm still trying to figure out what fabrics I like with them...unfortunately one of the chairs has an area of torn fabric so they have to be reupholstered, I guess that's what you get when you go ebay.

So, I'm toying with keeping the chair color still a pale yellow or maybe going wild with Alan Campbell's Zig Zag print in Brown...oh, and I purchased some ikat fabric from UzbekAlive shown above too, which I think will make some great lumbar pillows...

Hot off the press...Patterson, Flynn & Martin, a boutique floorcovering company based out of New York, has just launched a new website featuring all they have to offer, in a searchable format!!
I swear this is the future, having everything accessible at the click of a mouse, no more product binders taking up library space!

I was really impressed with the website and their products of course and here's just a few that caught my eye that I thought I'd share with you...


Oh and maybe you know that Kelly Wearstler designs rugs for PFM as well, shown above is one of them called Emerald Cut...


But there are so many more to choose from and patterns that offer various colorways as well!!!

Yup and I'm pretty fond of him thus far, and thought you ought to know! I'm thinking he is just what I needed for my house and that's probably I why I didn't bat an eye when I bought him a week ago in a little boutique.

Funny, right as I saw him I thought of blogger Courtney and her love for elephants too!

and it's true in many ways, but it's what's on the inside that really counts when it comes you home....but you knew that already I'm sure!! But, when opening up my favorite magazines this month, I found this to be true in one particular way especially...Kitchen cabinets with colorful insides!!!


In House Beautiful, I feel in love with this coastal home...but the Kitchen especially, with it's white cabinets and aquamarine interior, adding depth and punch to the owner's collection of white dishes. I have a tall built-in cabinet in my Kitchen with glass, that I was planning on doing the same thing too!


Then this crimson red, which screams out against a once plain set of white cabinets in the Kitchen of designer Michael Bastian featured in Domino, caught my eye. Filled with with a "high-low cache of dollar-store champagne glasses, hand-me-down fine china and Tiffany candlesticks", a background that can make even missed matched collections come together!


Text exert from Alison Griffin/Domino Magazine