Thinking About Spring

So we are still in the dead of winter here in Montreal and yet I can not stop thinking about spring. Oh my how I long for warmer weather and brighter days!

I have been looking at lovely homes to keep up my spirits and fell on this sweet place. I love this light and bright little home with the blue touches throughout. It features all of the elements I love including several collections and a mix of white with various tones of wood. The kitchen is always my favourite spot, here with open shelves and a beautiful deep farmhouse sink.

Enjoy!

Trudy

Photos from Light Locations

Dorm Decor

We moved my daughter into her dorm room at college this week and of course how she was going to decorate her new room was very important to her and to me as well. She looked for inspiration months in advance and we ended up buying a lot of things for her room at West Elm. There are a lot of rules around what you can and can't do so it makes it rather difficult to add decor...no nails in the wall or anything that can make marks...no painting or real changes to the structure of the room. We moved around the furniture as best we could and added pictures to the walls with washi tape and frames that were placed on the wall with a special velcro that can be removed without damaging the walls (we will see if that is true in about 8 months). 

Here are a few ideas that can be adapted to dorm rooms....and my daughters room at the bottom. It still needs a few more pillows but we will add those soon....

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, A Delightsome Life, The Dedicated House, The Charm of Home

Check out how to do this wall mural here..

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Domaine Home, HGTV, ref-lin.tumblr.com, hannasinspo.com, Vintage Revivals, 

White in New York

I have been in New York since last week and I have seen so many wonderful things from white decor to white clothing and ceramics. The two stores I loved the most were Club Monaco and ABC Carpet and Home where many of these pictures were taken. In ABC they have the most amazing selection of white couches and beds I was in total heaven! The same with the ceramics....so many amazing artists are carried at ABC. The Club Monaco on Fifth avenue is the flagship store and is in a wonderful historic building with a florist shop attached, The Strand bookstore and a gorgeous coffee shop called Toby's Estate Coffee...all open to each other so you can move from one area to the other. 

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, A Delightsome Life, The Dedicated House, The Charm of Home

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

Stunning Lake Retreat

Oh this is one of those homes where I need to go through each picture to check every detail! Love, love, love....The mix of rustic yet completely elegant style is something I adore and yet it is not so easy to do well in a home. This is the home of artist Dawn Raulet Hall that I found in Atlanta Homes and you can see that she has an artists eye for detail...check out the living room! An antique red trimmed love-seat mixed with raw stump tables, a twig rocking chair and a beautiful sculpture...who would have thought it could look this good?

The log canopy bed is just gorgeous and what about the bunk room!! Oh this house is very swoon worthy for sure....

Photography: Mali Azima

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, A Delightsome Life, The Dedicated House, The Charm of Home

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

Photography Mali Azima

Natural Home

This house in Sonoma has the most wonderful natural elements....stone fireplace, wood walls and vintage wood furniture. Super modern with tall windows and and a superb open kitchen all in greys, taupe and white. The best part is the amazing covered table outdoors with the big stone fireplace that repeats the same stone as the one in the living room. Also love the mirrored shelves in the bathroom giving the room reflection and space...beautiful!

Photos: DAVID TSAY

linking with: A Delightsome Life, My Romantic Home

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

 

via: House Beautiful

Designer: Windsor Smith

I have been doing research for a design project I am working on and I had the idea to go and look at the website of Windsor Smith for inspiration. Well I certainly went to the right place! This designer has really incredible taste and creates the most chic, yet livable rooms. Really an outstanding talent...I could live in most of the homes she designs and feel really comfortable. What I like is that she can design in many styles, traditional, eclectic or classic but manages to keep her own signature running through her work. She keeps a nice mix of modern mixed with antique or vintage and even her most classic homes never look stuffy. Take a look at a few of her wonderful rooms here many from here own home...

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Windsor Smith Home

Layers of Style

Very often I see a single picture of a house on Pinterest and think....oh this is so good the rest of the house must be amazing...Well this home was one I wished I could see the rest of and here it is! Such fantastic details and so well styled because it is the home of the wonderful interior stylist Johanna Flyckt Gashi from Hus and Hem. So many things to love in this cottage because there are layers and layers of incredible vintage accessories....like the locker in the office with a vintage style chair and lamp. The living room with the layers of great pillows and funky lamps and what about that kitchen! Layers of dishes, lamps and fun writing on the blackboard. This is seriously a great home.

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Amazing photos: Lina Östling (check her site it is so great!)

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Hus and Hem

Beautiful Apartment in Spain

This apartment shown on Rue Daily today (photos by: Eric Cuvillier and Adria Goulais) is so gorgeous with the most amazing tile! I am in Mexico on vacation this week and I ate at a wonderful restaurant last night with the same type of tile. It gives so much warmth to a space and is such a great contrast to the white walls. I have also seen similar tile in black and white and would love to do a wall in this as well...wouldn't that be a wonderful accent in a bathroom or entry? Hope you are having a great weekend! 

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via Rue Magazine

Country Home with Sarah Richardson

I used to watch Sarah Richardson on HGTV all the time and I always loved the homes she redid. They all had something similar about them that is so easy to live in and yet so beautifully done. She loves to put a lot of seating into her homes and she makes them comfortable, cozy and ready for guests. I really like this open plan space with the kitchen and living room together with all of these wonderful pale sea tones....but the rooms I like best of Sarah are the bathrooms. She does the best bathrooms, always in grey marble and chandeliers and lots of bright chrome and mirrors. Just what I want!!

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

Via:sarahrichardsondesign.com

Photography by Stacey Brandford

Home on the Lake

This gorgeous home is on Lake Como in Italy and oh that is one place I would love to go. First of all George Clooney has a home nearby and well a little star spotting would be fun, but really if this home is any indication of what the other homes in the area look like it must be beautiful. What I really like is the mix of styles in this home which is elegant in its architecture but rustic in the decor. I always find it so interesting to put together designs that we don't think could work together but actually they often have great impact and are really creative if we just give it a try. Hope you have a super weekend!

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via Elle Decor