girl meets glamour

In a 60's ranch style house, designer Molly Luetkemeyer transforms a home that hadn't been touched since it was built into a whole new world: "Paris in the 70's became the theme"...

With a bit of Hollywood Regency flair, here this Dining Room features a built in floating sideboard in a glossy orange and then the rest of the palette went from there...


Keeping the original marble fireplace in the Living Room, Molly reupholstered some of the existing vintage furniture left in the house, to make for a more stylish (less dated) vibe...



If you are not familiar with Molly or her company M.Design Interiors, above is an image from their office...um, can I work there!! But, you can check out the rest of their site for fun projects!

(Images vis California Home + Design/Sept. '08 and M.Design Interiors website)

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consider new ways of using it, to keep it fresh! I've read some great posts on zebra rugs and their use, and we've all seen this rug in different settings...what comes to mind is the zebra rug over seagrass combo (seen alot of that)...but check out this image I found in my files, of a different pairing...

Okay, not that kind...get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking design trick in the bedroom...a switch up if you will, by taking that plain old headboard you're so bored of looking at, and changing the style around by draping fun textiles over it!


A seersucker headboard just so-so...but not nearly as exciting when Lee Jofa creative director Stephen Elrod draped a Indian rug over it...a rug, what a great idea!!

A subtle touch can do the trick too, here coarsely woven antique hemp fabric is laid over a finer white linen headboard...for a more bold statement I could see a pale yellow being used as well!

This doesn't have to just work with fabric headboards, above is Seagrass headboard (which can be found at Pottery Barn), makes a great statement doesn't it!?!



And not only a bedroom trick, but works just the same on a sofa, one of my favorites above from the home of Amanda Peet featured in Domino...

and very worthy in my opinion, I'm just amazed at how many good finds on every website...

Love this new ottoman at Horchow...in a fun leather and nail head design...this site seems to get better and better, and did you see their new Chesterfield sofa...

Pieces, always getting new inventory, but how cute is this fiberglass side chair (pair) with the pink cushion!


CBell has some new items on their latest page, of them I love this mirrored desk...