Round Top

I didn't go to Round Top this year (it's been unbearably hot!), but I did go a year and a half ago with my co-hort and kindred spirit Katie. I never posted pictures so I thought I would now. Tis the season.

I wore boots hoping for fall weather 

(dont worry- I switched to some heinously ugly flip flops later.)

Here's me and kindred Katie

Katie, obliging me by posing on an orange velvet sofa.

Some pretty linen pieces...

Some pretty concrete planters

Raw fig pizza! I brought some raw vegan lunch fixin's. No meat on a stick for us!

Katie hunting for goods in one of the tents.

Me, squinting in the sweltering sun, in some Saarinen tulip chairs (hello, ugly flip flops and ponytail).

Cool signage

More fun junk!

We saw lots of Airstreams! 

I guess some people were parking out there for the week! How cool!

I'm a sucker for letters and metal/industrial pieces!

Cool lights.

Clutter- the booth I wanted to visit most!

Due to excessive sweating and walking in the sweltering August sun, we called it quits around 4pm. We headed back to the parking lot only to find Katie's car was missing- it had been towed! Two kind ladies, who had saves their own car from a similar fate, volunteered to help us (one of the ladies threw herself on her car as the tow truck man was hooking her car to his big mean hook). They drove us faaaaar away to where Katie's car was impounded. Instead of pay over $200 to the towing co, Katie turned on the water works and gave such a great performance, which convinced the man to give her back her car for cheap.

It was a Fun day! Completely exhausting and we didn't find anything we could live without, but fun nonetheless.

Anyone else got any good stories from Round Top?

Dark and Moody

 Love some dark and moody interiors, don't you? This dark wallcovering makes a dramatic background. And check out that entry table- so unique!

This dining room is so fun! Love those vintage chairs, and that funky light fixture! I would add more art, though.

I still love the idea of crazy wallpaper in a powder bath. Where else can you get away with that much pattern?!

The chandelier in here is so great. And so is that big teak coffee table! 

I just love this photo- masculine and vintage.

The marble fireplace surround works so well with all these funky pieces. What a fun home! Rue Magazine did it again. Love it.

xoxo, 

 

Outdoor Lovelies

I just LOVE Houston's spring weather this year!

Besides having LOTS of outdoor patio meals and cappuccino's, I spent a lot of this beautiful weekend picnic-ing with friends! We spent Friday night at Discovery Green and Sunday night at Miller Outdoor Theatre to see Matisyahu. Best weekend I've had in a long time. And so much time outside!

I think everyone is loving this weather, Houston and beyond? Or maybe I'm just really aware of it since it's been so rainy and gray this winter. 

So of course I'm noticing all the cool indoor outdoor furniture and it seems EVERY company is jumping on the outdoor furniture bandwagon- including West Elm! They usually have great accessories and a cool piece of furniture here and there, but they have recently updated their inventory and catalog and it's goooood lookin'!

That chair, those pots, and those succulents!

This space is just great. How about that red little table?!

I want to hang out here with friends and drink wine and make a few s'mores.

Chic lay-out loungers. Armed with some tanning oil, I could spend the whole summer on this thing.

Wire lanterns. Sculptural, modern, and just plain cool. I want 'em.

Evening dinner party? yes.

Great job on the indoor-outdoor, West Elm.


xoxo,


 

Drumroll please....

After years of hard study, testing, and gaining work experience with other licensed designers, I have earned my own interior design license!




Words cannot express my excitement....


- SG

Fabulous Outdoors

The weather is warming up significantly AND it's still muggy from all the recent rain... must be spring in Houston! Not my favorite season here. At least I've got a fun outdoor patio to design today. Between Michael Taylor pieces and Janus et Cie, I've got a lot of eye candy in front of me. Here are some of my fave. Janus pieces. The catalog photos are just so pretty, I had to share.

That gorgeously contemporary house doesn't make a bad backdrop for the furniture, does it? 

Now let's pretend we live in sunny Los Angeles and can live outdoors all year long, lounging on such pretty pieces, sipping sparkly cocktails.... that is, unless you do live in sunny Los Angeles, in which case, I'm horrifically jealous and might even hate you (just a teency bit). ;)

xoxo,

 

Design on a Dime... errr, Nickel?

Most of you know of my obsessive love of apartment therapy- it truly knows no bounds.

Just had to share this great article about working with whatcha got! Listen, people, I know most of us don't have wads of cash to throw at our abodes, but having a lovely, comfortable, good-lookin' home is important! So try some of these tips for making some changes with what you have.

photo from Elle Decor via AT; interior decorator Georgia Tapert.

xoxo,

 

Sexy Lighting Apparatus

So um, yah, I didn't realize I just posted my 300th blog post yesterday! What in the world?!?!?! Happy blog-birthday to me? Weird. 

Anyway, I came across Apparatus via Scout Design, a super cool design due in NYC who I met last year while working for Julie. Remind me to tell y'all more about that trip and my semi-stalking Nate Berkus. Callie, of Scout Design, is a good ol' Texas girl, from Fredricksberg, apparently. But I digress (this rabbit-trailing of my stories is making me sound more and more like my sweet grandmother who is constantly weaving together long threads of stories tied together that don't really relate. It's genetic, I guess)....

So yah, I was checking out Scout Design's cool blog and saw these incredible INCREDIBLE light fixtures. This chandelier is so so yummy. Mid Century meets industrial, right? It would work in almost any interior.

 I mean....

Cool, sconces. Grasspaper doesn't hurt either. ;)

Hanging industrial chain light w/exposed bulbs? yes.

New take on a Hollywood mirror bathroom sconce- so interesting.

The piece de resistance- come on y'all, this stuff is crazy gorgeous! Just look at that chandelier! And do those guys know how to style or what. That marblized wall finish is incredible paired with the linear rug. I love this.

That art is so cool too!

Gallery lighting, updated and reinterpreted- genius.

Anyway, the two dudes behind Apparatus, are pretty hip. Check out this cool Q&A blogged over here. And get yo'self some sexy lighting apparatus... or apparati? Does it matter? No. Cuz this stuff is so good-looking.



xoxo