Je T'aime Paris....

This Parisian home is right up my ally- plenty of color, vintage furniture, and an incredible view of my favorite city. Yes, thank you, I'll move right in!

Hello yummy teal wall!

 What great colors on that shelving unit! And I love that tufted grey banquette seating paired with the natural wood table and chairs. And what cool pendant lights!

Such great wallpaper. With this paper and the big library downstairs, I think it's safe to say the people who live here are bibliophiles.

 I do NOT hate this view. 

Bonjou, Tour Eiffel!

(Photos and article can be found here.)

xoxo,

 

Bar Cart Fever

Clearly, I'm becoming obsessed. Joanna from A Cup of Joe has a LOVELY home, designed by Jenny of Little Green Notebook! Two of my favorite blogs colliding in real life to create a fabulous design- bliss, I tell you. 

Check out the home tour, here. (Don't miss the story about the bar cart!!!)

xoxo, 

 

Granny Chic

I am just SO busy lately. Sorry to neglecting the blog. We've finally moved in to our new place and I LOVE it. The tenant before us had a case of serious dwelling neglect so I've also been SUPER busy painting everything! I have the most wonderful color scheme going on. And providentially, have found almost every can of paint on sale (I love you, Home Depot paint rejects shelf!). I am going for a recycled, vintage, granny-chic, bright colors kind of look in the new place. Here are some of my inspiration paint swatches... so far:

So this fits right in. I want to make one! Get some molding scraps, broken ornate garage sale find frames, etc, and spray them all a nice burnished gold before mounting them on the real mirror frame. Wouldn't it be a super fast and easy DIY project? I think so.

I saw this on Design*Sponge today and developed a crush. Most decidedly AGAINST the antler head trend, I couldn't help but like this rhino bust. Is that weird? Sometimes, I cannot explain why I am attracted to some things... (like rompers or harem pants) and this is a prime example:

I kind of want him.



xoxo,

 

I want that dog

And that sofa.... there's something delicious about a tufted crushed velvet sofa, don't you think? I think the color works really well against that seafoam green wall color. The textural artwork above is fantastic too.

(My grandma has a sofa REALLY similar to this one in gold. As the firstborn grandchild, I have dibs on it whenever she decides to replace it. YES!)

(photo from designsponge)

Oh, it's vintage

This week, I moved my grandparents out of their home of 26 years and into an awesome assisted living home near my parents. Really, this new place is cool- they answer the phone with "cruiseship on land."

During the move, grandma told me to take whatever I wanted from the old house and boy did I find some gems!



Vintage suede and leather boots (with fur lining) in my size! who knew my huge foot genes came from grandma! ;)


Smith Corona typewriter. I think it's from the '60's... not a Valentine or anything, but still pretty neat.



Mink stole- don't get upset people, it's vintage, before PETA was even around. No red paint please.
My grandma is so cute. When talking about the mink stole, she said, "well, I used to be kind of stylish." KIND OF???! I'd say, VERY stylish. ;)

~ Stephanie
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