Windsor Smith

I wanted to share some of the beautiful work from California based designer, Windsor Smith. She is known to mix antiques with modern elements. Windsor Smith even designed the Veranda showhouse (which also featured works of other designers) that was purchased by Gwneth Paltrow, who we know has impeccable taste. You can bring a little Windsor Smith into your home as she has a fabric line with Kravat, her own home line and Room in a Box design service.

Benjamin Moore's Galveston Gray kitchen complete with LaCornue stove and gorgeous marble farmhouse sink.

Contemporary sofa in a traditional style room

Way to break up a large living room into seperate spaces. Notice the horse in the rigth hand door :)

A room with a patterned floor offers variation against the hardwoods

Herringbone patterned floor and love the framed intaglios

Color coordinated books for the library

Large ottoman is the center focal point of the room and the double sided sofa makes two seating areas.

Exotic touch mixed with the modern with the marrakech type shape of the side tables to the pagoda style  light in the kitchen.

Detail in the styling

Marble and pink feminine bathroom

Antique silver mirrors paired with calcutta marble. Scalloped mirror from Windsor Smith.

Neutral and symmetric bathroom

Hallway styling with Hermes orange boxes and beautiful staged bar

Chic mudrooms

Tartan and wood gives these rooms a masculine feel.

The most glamourous stable I have ever seen.

Relaxed Casey Key Florida Home

Coastal Living featured this beach house in Casey Key Florida that was designed for a carefree and relaxed environment for family and friends. With four children and 3 dogs under one roof, this home was designed to withstand abuses that come with lots of energy. Lots of white is throughout the house with pops of blue help keep this house looking clean and orderly.

Vintage furniture with chipped pieces and allowing her children to ride their skateboards on the new hardwoods help keep this house low maintenance with a "put up your feet" kind of feel. 

White denim slipcovers on the sofa make it easy and carefree where they can be washed in a little bleach every 3 weeks. Sofa from Posh on Palm and slipcovers by Rachel Ashwell. 

The cabinet's blue paint matches Benjamin Moore's Blue Allure allows the white dishes to pop.

The kitchen was gutted with colors to match the rest of the house with white cabinetry and stainless steel appliances as well as the touch of blue.

Custom made benches for the Restoration Hardware teak table make it easier for more people to sit and gather at the table.

The owner's love of antiques continued throughout in the master bedroom. 

An outdoor face lift of sage green was given to the previous gray cedar siding giving the home a Key West feel. 

The previous bath was tiny, so during the renovation they used space from the screened in porch to extend the bath to allow room for free standing tub. 

Sophisticated Redesign

Trad Home featured this 70's Nashville house remodeled by R. Higgins Interiors with no more shag carpeting, pine walls or avocado colored kitchen. The walls were kept more neutral with a pale blue color that matched the ceilings, while the dining room was painted a dark bronze that matched all the painted doors.

Traditional style with solid glass coffee table to add a little modern touch

Love how the curtains are together in the corner and then separate opposite directions

The walls in this den were upholstered to hide the dated pine walls. Look at the trophy display in the bookcase.

What a great picture gallery hallway 

old bronzed lacquered walls are offset by a pop of color from the curtains. The white bamboo type chairs make this room more casual

Neutral toned kitchen. Love the mini sink on the island. 

Curtains were chosen to match the color of the blue ceiling

Here the walls and the ceiling are the same color and a darker shade of blue was chosen as the trim. By the way, how many pillows do you count?

The beautiful exterior and landscaping of this Williamsburg style brick house

Ferns

Ferns can be found all over in your interiors, from vintage framed prints (My fave!), to fabrics, or even using the fern leaf in a vase, on a table setting or using fern colored paints for your rooms! 

Celerie Kemble

Phoebe Howard

Great fern fabric on these chairs VT Interiors

Pressed fern prints with instructions for DIY here from Design Sponge

Fern wall corner from Country Home

Set of framed botanical prints from pixiepixels at Etsy

CRLaine footstool in fern print

Simple and easy to do table setting using fern leaf tied to napkin with some grass

Fern Terrarium from Etsy, but can be a DIY.

Pretty Green Paints: 

Green Fiddlehead MS267 from Martha Stewart paints

Pea Green 33 by Farrow & Ball

Striped Walls

I checked out the blog of a new visitor of mine today, Vanessa at Design Dreams Japan and saw that she painted her walls with bold stripes.... a feat I admire! I first read about this DIY tutorial about 2 years ago at Young House Love. I went out and bought the frog tape, already had the paint, but still have not attempted the striped walls look. They look great and I think it would look great in one of my bathrooms in neutral colors. Have you tried striping your walls yet? What 2 colors would you or did you choose?

Vanessa's striped walls from Design Dreams Japan. 

Young House Love bathroom painted in stripes with directions

More great striped walls as inspiration: 

Neutral striped walls in bedroom from Coastal Living

Gray stripes outlined in neutral color from Spearmint Decor

Great bedroom from Meg Braff with Quadrille's Paradise background fabric and vertical striped walls

Navy and white striped walls make give this hallway dramatic from Apartment Therapy

Red & white striped walls accented with black & white chevron drapes from Blount Design

Striped walls in the mudroom above the beadboard from Spearmint Decor

Or, you can put stripes below the chair rail from The Happy Home

Striped walls made from Electrical Tape from High Heeled Foot in the Door

Or you can take this painting technique and apply it to your floors: 

Green and white striped painted floors from Apartment Therapy