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I got bored....

I decided I didn't like where the living room was because it wasn't very intimate and when you entered the apartment, you walked directly into the Living space. So, I decided to switch the living room and the dining room. The new dining room would serve as a foyer area instead of a dining room with the removal of the dining chairs from the table, therefore acting as a central hall area or a foyer.

I wanted the new living room to feel like a cozy, dark library or den. I wanted it to have both traditional and modern elements.....I choose a dark tabacco for the walls and wanted the draperies to pull from that as well, thus creating a continuous flow through out the space. Making it a more inviting and warmer space to be in. 

 The Before, very traditional and spare.

The After, Much cozier and inviting.... :-)

My favorite meal! ;-)

Kelly Wearstler has an amazing line of home accessories available at Bergdorf Goodman that I would love to fill every available surface of my apartment with however, I'm not in a position (yet, lol) to pay $1795.00 for a 12" kaleidoscope.........So, I opt for the second option (not stealing one) but making one that looks like hers. I took some styrofoam balls, basic drink straws, forks, and gold paint and  decided to see what I could come up with!!

 $30 vs. $1795.oo   you choose!

How amazing is Kelly Wearstler!

Kelly Wearstler has an amazing sense of style, creativity, fashion and on top of it all this, this savy business lady knows how to market herself. She has her own fabric line with Schumacher Textiles, a line of china and stem wear with Pickard,  her own line of rugs with The Rug Company, a line of home accessories at Bergdorf Goodman, and has recently come out with her own line of jewelry and ready to wear fashion.

She says shes constantly thinking and evolving through her children's eyes and how they see the world and what inspires them. She enjoys painting with her boys because they have such a different outlook on the things around them and loves their creativity. 

Most of the fabrics from her ready to wear line are inspired by her fabric line and are hand painted with different dyes, paints and other concoctions that manipulate the fabric.

Recently she says she's been obsessed with stripes, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, chevron. Weather she's designing with them or wearing them, they're somewhere nearby!

Unpacking a new shipment of home accessories she recently designed, what better way to start your weekend!

One of my favorite things about her is her sense of originality and lack of fear to use something that is "correct" to the design world. I love her spaces because they're not predictable like some spaces designers creata today.......they always have a sense of fun and excitement to them and you're always left with wanting more.