July 2009

Moving! Fresh start! New place to decorate!
I am determined to show that apartment living can be stylish and you can make an apartment your home. To be quite honest, after owning a few houses, the apartment living hasn’t been an easy transition for me (who loves tearing down carpet and painting walls and redoing [...]

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Yellow is one of the trendy colors of the summer and doesn’t it instantly bring the sunshine in?
Here is some eye candy and ideas how you can decorate with yellow!

Get it now!

Marimekko Tamara bedding

IKEA Hemnes linen cabinet

Accent pillow from Target

Eames Lounge Chair by Herman Miller

Puzzotto Ottoman

Muuto pendant
Photos: designage.wordpress.com
elaineperlov.blogspot.com
Ideal Home Magazine

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And the skies opened up.
The Scandinavian design skies that is.
I visited the Scandinavian Grace store in Catskills, in Shokan, New York. It’s a good two hour drive from the city in the weekend traffic, but it’s worth it, just for a fun shopping trip and a Sunday drive. The Scandinavian flags welcomed me [...]

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This Wednesday July 8th at 2EST, I will be hosting live Snazl-show about creating a spa at your home.
If you are not familiar with Snazl yet - sign up today and check it out. It is like YouTube and Ustream combined, but better - video and picture sharing on real time from multiple [...]

Last week I featured some cool products to bring the trendy aqua to your home, more this week!
1. Paint is always a great way to get a new look fast and inexpensively - these colors are from Behr paints. How about painting one wall or furniture? 2. Speaking of furniture.. this custom made hutch [...]

Happy 4th of July!
And believe it or not, but nothing red, white and blue here to see (well, here if you must).
Instead I wanted to show you these awesome framed pictures I created at the Alphabet Photography site. I first learned about Alphabet Photography while reading an interview of the the owner [...]

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I love the coastal style decorating combined with Scandinavian design. I shared some coastal decorating ideas a while ago, and today I wanted to share some nautical accent pillows. These are just too cute not to feature!

The nautical flags freshen any room, this pillow is by GANT. The (2.) whale, (4.) [...]

Some eye candy from Italian Di Liddo & Perego, children’s modern furniture manufacturer. Unfortunately the furniture isn’t available in the US, but I wanted to share these photos of inspiration with you. My only question remains… how do you get to keep any kids’ rooms this clean? Not buy any toys for them? Ever?

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