Everygirl Home Tour

I just wanted to share this video home tour from the co-founder of Everygirl, Alaina Kaczmarski. This is a dream greystone located in Chicago. There are so many amazing features in this home so keep an eye out for these as you watch:

1. Front entry tile in black and white

2. The mirror over the fireplace and the crystal chandelier in the living room

3. The gorgeous wall of pictures beside the fireplace

4. The book shelves on the wall with the lamps over top in brass in the living room

5. The play of black and white flowing throughout the home moves from one room into the next

6. Two cute pups :)

7. The use of the black and white prints, photos and the black and white art throughout the home

8. The many gorgeous rugs in each room.

Let me know what you like best in this home tour. Checkout the photos here:

http://theeverygirl.com/alaina-kaczmarski-greystone-home-tour-before-after/

Enjoy!

Trudy

Pins of the Week: Christmas

My first Christmas post of the year with a few ideas for decorating the mantle and the tree. No I have not put up my tree yet and actually I have not done much thinking about it beyond these few pictures. I realized I had better get at it when I passed through Target the other day to pick up a couple of things and saw that the Christmas lights that I liked were out of stock! Now I am on the move to get ideas and I love what I see here. Isn't that a lovely simple table for Christmas. So Scandinavian in feeling...actually all the photos have a rather similar simple yet cozy feeling to them....check out my Christmas pins here on Pinterest.

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

Styling Pics

Habitually Chic

Awakened by Sunrise

Planete Deco

Dreamy Whites

Kara Rosenlund

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

Blue and White Obsession

I have a few pieces of blue and white porcelain in my home and I really love it. I think it goes with every decor and fits into a neutral colour scheme perfectly. This is the home and personal collection of Furlow Gatewood, who is a been an influential member of the design community for many years. These photos that House Beautiful featured are from the book One Man's Folly (by Julia Reed and published by Rizzoli) and feature much of his amazing collection of blue and white porcelain. Now this is a collection! I love the blue and white stool in the first photo and the stunning ginger jars in all shapes and sizes. Plates, candleholder and vases fill out the rest of the collection, all set in the most beautiful home. 

photography by Paul Costello and Rodney Collins

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

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: House Beautiful

photography by Paul Costello and Rodney Collins

Layered Home with Pottery Barn

This is the gorgeous home of Pottery Barn Executive VP Monica Bhargava. Layers of textiles and decor fill each room brought in from her travels around the world and of course from Pottery Barn! I find it such an original space! Great mix of caramel colour with black and white throughout the home creates a unified theme but an incredible mix of pictures, lamps and home accessories keeps the eye moving from table to table, couch to chair. I just love the mix of lamps used in one space..not small lamps..really great oversized lamps! Finally take a look at the layered rugs in each room....Monica is a brave mixer of prints....check the zebra rug over the Persian rug. Perfect!

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

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via: House Beautiful

photos: VICTORIA PEARSON - Check out her site as she shoots amazing interiors!

Interiors: House Plants

House plants have really come back into style as evidenced by what we see in these beautiful pictures. From succulents to Ficus trees there is such a variety of wonderful plants that work with the many different style of rooms. Personally I have just a few plants around my house as I am more of a fresh flower person. I don't have much of a green thumb...but I really would love to have one of these Fiddle Leaf Ficus plants (5th picture). Apparently they are very hardy plants and can withstand someone like me who tends to forget they have plants! They give the room a wonderful earthy almost exotic look don't you think...actually all of the plants do!

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

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via: Honestly WTF,  habituallychic.blogspot.com, thedesignfiles.ne

Vintage Home

This wonderful 1820's cottage was redone in natural colours and vintage and French finds. This home just brings out all of my love for worn painted furniture and rustic decor! I love the different shades of grey on the walls and the pale pastel colours used in touches throughout the home..... I seem to be having a thing for pastels this week...and what about the incredible beamed ceiling! Oh I could go on and on..the column in the living room and the statue beside makes such a great corner display. The ironstone bowls running down the dining room table and of course the chandelier....ah yes. Super styling everywhere you look, every table has a little vignette that is incredibly well done. At the end of it all is a little tea house, formally a chicken coup, that sits in the garden....just perfect.

 

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

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via: Better Homes and Gardens

Stylish in London

This Hamptons style home is in London and has so many great details to love. Really fun dining room with the heart back chairs for starters. I love the letters and numbers throughout the home especially in the kitchen with the shot of red in the "A", contrasting with the beautiful grey they have put on the cabinets! It is fun on the stairs as well with the numbers going up the stairs. I think I have mentioned before how I had done this in my own home but with wood numbers that were rather thick...well I kicked those numbers off the steps so many times I gave up and tore them all off. Too bad because it looks so good! Have a good weekend all!

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

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via: House to Home

Well Edited Home

This home, owned by magazine editor, author and fashion designer Laurann Claridge, is simply elegant. Loads of texture and shine, it feels like such a fantastic mix of antique and modern, traditional and fashionable...Loving all the white furniture of course and the funky little surprises throughout the space...ahhhh,  a sheep in the library perhaps? Great rug in living room and such a cute headboard made from a four paneled screen in the bedroom. All of this is from the Lonny Magazine archives. Take a look at some more homes from Lonny here and here...

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

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Interiors: Gorgeous Design

When you have incredible architecture with tall windows and beautiful moldings you could add just about anything to a room and it would look good...but when you add wonderful lighting and the most sophisticated furnishings it really becomes spectacular! Such a gorgeous room with a wonderful kitchen and dining room. Love the mesh Eames chairs and dark wood in the kitchen.....and yes I would love to have that closet please!! It looks so cool to have the single bulb in the kitchen which is such a contrast to the rest of the room. Love it...

 Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

 Linking with: Savvy Southern Style, No Minimalist Here, Timewashed, The 36th Avenue, A Delightsome Life, From My Front Porch to Yours, Shabby Art Boutique, French Country Cottage, Rooted in Thyme, Common Ground-Do, My Romantic Home, The Dedicated House, Mod Vintage Life, The Charm of Home, Redoux    

Beauty and Simplicity

It has been a rather difficult week in my life and when life events happen you usually take time to reflect on what is important. Living life with simplicity, an open heart and love around you is really all that matters.

The beauty and simplicity of this space really touched me and is especially meaningful at this time. It is lovely to see small collections in the home that are precious to the person living there and make a space special.

These images were taken by Mikkel Vang for Vogue LIving and it is worth going to see his website and some of the other wonderful images he has shot. A true talent for sure.

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

  Linking with: Savvy Southern Style, No Minimalist Here, Timewashed, The 36th Avenue, A Delightsome Life, From My Front Porch to Yours, Shabby Art Boutique, French Country Cottage, Rooted in Thyme, Common Ground-Do, My Romantic Home, The Dedicated House, Mod Vintage Life, The Charm of Home, Redoux