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Montage: 34 Rooms with Love

StyleCarrot — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:02:48 +0000

The web has been littered with hearts and such since the beginning of the month. I was going to hold this post until next week, but I figured I’d join the party early. These rooms all spell love, literally. Well, there’s one amour.

Twine | photographer Armelle Habib

achitects Elding Oscarson | Liz Caan

via Mak & Jill | Cath Kitson in Lonny

photographer Marjon Hoogervorst | photographer Lisa Cohen

Norske Interiorblogger

via The Aestate | Norske Interiorblogger

Diane Bergeron | unidentified

via The Aestate | stylist Selina Lake

unidentified | Flickr – Dottie Angel

photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes
stylist Heather Nette King photographed by Armelle Habib

via Apartment Therapy

Flickr – royaltygirl

via Flickr – Laura Smera

Flickr – Iro {ivy style33}

via Funky Bear Decor

via Pinterest

architect William T. Georgis

via Inspace Locations

Robyn Karp

photographer Douglas Friedman

Found Associates

Anna Beth Chao

via Design Public

via Where the Sidewalk Begins

stylist Heather Nette King

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Montage: 32 Rooms with Bar Carts and Bars

StyleCarrot — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:02:37 +0000

Somebody I know is having a birthday soon, and I know he’d really like to set up a bar. Here’s some inspiration. If he’s lucky, I may just get my act together and start the process. I know the perfect spot for it.

via Apartment Therapy

M. Design

Miles Redd

Commune Design

Architect Diego Revollo

Ron Marvin Design on Lonny

Ron Marvin Design

Grant K. Gibson

via {this is glamourous}

Rue Magazine | Society Social

via The Glitter Guide | via My Cup of Te

Society Social

Lonny

Joe Nye

via Pinterest

Photographer Magdalena Bjornsdotter | via Walking Around Where the Sidewalk Begins

via My Cup of Te | Lonny

via Everything Fabulous | via The Aestate

Kelly Wearstler

via Design Attractor

The Novogratz

Aerin Lauder’s NYC apartment by Jacques Grange

via Just a Modern Guy

via Belle Vivir

Domino

unidentified

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34 Buddhas in Decor

StyleCarrot — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:02:17 +0000

I still haven’t tried yoga. Too peaceful. I did however just sign up for a modern dance class at Boston University. The teacher is amazing, and I’m trying my best to blend with the thirty plus twenty-year-old girls (and boy). Anyway, yoga and prancing aside, I do appreciate the serenity of a Buddha. When I lived in NYC, the Buddha room at the Met Museum was one of my favorite places for decompressing. Buddha heads (ad sometimes bodies) are popular adornments in homes in search of zen.

Photographer Francis Smith

Antonio Martins

Bolig Magasinet

Christopher Noto in Architectural Digest

via Desire to Inspire

Photographer Joe Schmelzer

unidentified | Photographer Kelly Ishikawa

Kelly Behun

David Kaplan | Cobbold Du Pont

via Desire to Inspire

Coburn Architecture

via Decoration Empire

Photographer Julien Oppenheim | Domino

via Design Attractor | via Desire to Inspire

Madeleine Weinrib in Elle Decor | Thad Hayes

Antonio Martins

Skona Hem | White Webb

Dovecote boutique in Westport, CT

unidentified

Skona Hem

Donna Karan

via Desire to Inspire

Fawn Galli | Walter Studio

Liz Levin

Photographer Ellen McDermott | Ken Fulk

Piper Perabo’s house by Garance Dore

Go Shopping: Get the Look: Buddhas

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Montage: 45 Rooms with Sideboards

StyleCarrot — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:02:42 +0000

I’ve been really interested in sideboards lately, especially Danish modern ones. While my first inclination for a sideboard is to skip the furniture altogether and build one in, the pieces are actually quite good looking, useful, and can be gotten at a good deal, particularly on eBay. It’s quite the grown up piece of furniture—a sideboard implies you have a second set of fancy dishes to store or highball glasses. And then there’s the need to artfully arrange a display on top, and hang a mirror or artwork. If you have a dining room, or a spacious living room that needs filler, definitely consider one. Here are a bunch of ideas on how to incorporate a sideboard into your decor.

Ellen Hamilton

Photographer Peter Margonelli

via The Brick House

via Desire to Inspire

Amy Lau

unknown

Photographer Moris Moreno

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design

Celerie Kemble

via New York Times

Brad Ford

Light Locations

Domino

FC Studio Architecture + Interiors

Carrier & Co.

Oak Management via Desire to Inspire

Fernlund + Logan Architects

unknown

Fernlund + Logan Architects

Fifth Season Design

Julia Buckingham Edelmann – Buckingham Interiors + Design

BDDW Furniture | Angela Adams

via The Aestate | Photographer Hotze Eisma

unknown (via Pinterest) | Photographer Justin Bernhaut

Photographer Mark Roshams | Photographer Kelly Ishikawa

Photographer Jeltje Janmaat | Emma’s Design Blog

Stylist Sally Conran | Photographer Prue Roscoe

Fenton & Fenton | Elle Decor South Africa

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design | unknown

Mercedes Pérez de Castro

Metropolitan Home – Kelly Wearstler

Geoffrey De Sousa

Photographer Bob O’Connor

via Design Traveler

via Emma’s Design Blog

Metropolitan Home

unknown (via Pinterest)

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41 (More) Rooms with Poufs

StyleCarrot — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:02:33 +0000

My pouf post, 34 Rooms with Poufs, has proven the most popular on the site. So, seeing as the trend is still going strong, I’ve curated a whole new batch of interiors featuring Moroccan leather, knitted, and even wicker poufs, plus a couple of bean bag varieties.

Daniel Pafford in Lonny

Lindsay Bentis in Boston Home

via Bo-Laget

via Decorpad

Photographer Simon Upton in Elle Decor

Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living

Jonathan Adler

CB2

Desire to Inspire

The Parker Palm Springs, Jonathan Adler

Alexandra Angle

via A Piece of Toast

via Pinterest

via The Aestate

Cebula Design

Domino

Jayne Wunder

via Decorpad

Adore Home Magazine | Jeffers Design Group

Ana Ros | via Jokemijn

via Designhund | via Desire to Inspire

via The Aestate | Zid Zid Kids

via The Aestate | via Design Sponge

Amanda Nisbet | Apartment Therapy

Heart Home Magazine | House Beautiful

Finnian’s Moon Interiors | via Mugutu

via Zay and Zo | photographer Anna G. Tufvesson

Lee Ann Thornton | Stylist Selina Lake

American Fashion Designers at Home book | Angie Hranowsky

Looking for a pouf?
Get the Look: 31 Poufs
Get the Look: 25 (More) Poufs

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Montage: 36 Interiors with Nudes

StyleCarrot — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:02:26 +0000

After admiring a collection of nude drawings above the bed in a cottage we once rented on Cape Cod, my husband and I decided to acquire some for our own art collection, to add to the handful that we had collected over the years. I’ve recently snapped up a few on eBay; the prices are great. You can get lovely sketches for very little money—under $20 even. They look beautiful with simple frames or ornate ones, in groups or on their own.

Christina Halscov

Painting by Francine Turk

Paintings by Joan McD Miller

Buckingham Interior Design

Carrier & Co.

Drawing by sculptor Chaim Gross on my mantle.

DNA Gallery, Provincetown (back office)

via Roseland Green

Welhil Interiors

Apartment Therapy Boston

Trine Thorsen | Sibella Court

Ryan Korban | Stylist Johanna Flickt

Justine Hugh-Jones (painting by Robert Malherbe) | via Lindsey Adelman

Justine Hugh-Jones | Melanie Coddington

Grant K. Gibson

Gideon Mendelson | via Design Attractor

Grant K. Gibson | Charles Spada

Jarlath Mellot | Melanie Coddington

Elizabeth Martin | Eddie Lee

Matter & Order (Nude by Austin Eddy)

unknown (via aestate)

Ryan Korban | Brooke Giannetti

Stylist Johanna Flickt | Carrier & Co. photographed by Habitually Chic

Photographer Simon Eldon (nude by Lucie Bennett)

For more photos and tips on using nudes in décor, see “The Nude: Rooms in a State of Undress,” an article I wrote for The Inside Source.

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Montage: 43 Rooms with Floor Lamps

StyleCarrot — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:02:23 +0000

For years now I’ve shunned the floor lamp. Although my earliest memories of the floor lamp is the groovy arc of the ’70s (that will get its own montage post later), more recently it’s the ugly black halogen floor lamp with brass trim and glass shade of the late ’80s / early ’90s, that haunts me. Too many associations of bad ’80s furniture and Jennifer Convertibles sofas post-college graduation. Of course, that was decades ago at this point, and it’s time to get over it.

The floor lamps of today are super chic, though like most styles, they reference the past. I particularly love the ’50s Italian styles in bright color metals or plain black. Simple contemporary designs with oversize shades work for me too. I actually just ordered a simple floor lamp for our newly designed family room. We’ll see how it works out once it arrives. (Unfortunately a vintage piece from 1st Dibs was hardly in the budget; alas a style on sale at OLighting must suffice.)

Photographer Bruno Suet
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Brides
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Brad Ford | Brad Ford—Lonny
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Brad Ford
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Betsy Brown Interiors—House Beautiful
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Photographer Hallie Burton | Photographer Philip Sinden—Elle Decor Spain
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House to Home
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Light Locations
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Elle Decor | Erin Martin Design
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Photographer Brian Park
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Photographer Erik Johnson | unidentified
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Wendy Blount
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via Design Attractor
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Photographer Moris Moreno
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Photographer Per Magnus Persson
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Michele Bonan—Lonny
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FC Studi o Architecture + Interiors
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Domino
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Moises Esquenaz
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Mark Tuckey Furniture Design | Country Living
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Studio AV
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Kelly Hoppen | Skona Hem
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Jessica Helgerson
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Rod Mickley Interiors | Photographer Simon Watson
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Photographer Patric Johansson | Photographer Tim Griffith—New York Times
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Hotel Skeppsholmen | Marie Olsson Nylander
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Michele Bonan—Lonny
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Spruce Design + Decor | Photographer Peter Margonelli
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Paul Caddel—Lonny | Christian Leone—Lonny
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Photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes
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Photographer Prue Ruscoe
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Montage: 54 Kitchen Banquettes

StyleCarrot — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:26:22 +0000

Our Boston condo is under renovation. One of the features we are adding is a banquette adjacent to the kitchen area. It seems to me that there’s been a proliferation of built-in seating recently. Unlike the booths of the ’70s (I grew up with an orange and white vinyl booth in a kitchen with oversize floral wallpaper that had a gold, brown, and orange plaid border), today’s specimens are sophisticated and sleek.

Ours will be U-shaped (not ideal, but we’re dealing with a tight space), with a pale blue and taupe chevron upholstered seat-back and pale blue faux leather seat cushion. The custom table has a walnut herringbone-pattern top on a restaurant supply style stainless base. I’ll post a photo when it’s complete. (If I’m not dead first.)

In the meantime, here are 54 very fabulous banquettes. In addition, check out my piece “The Haute Seat,” in last Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine.

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Montage: 33 Polka Dot Rooms

StyleCarrot — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:49:08 +0000

Kate Winslet in Stella McCartney

Polka dots are having a moment. Fall runways were filled with oversize dots by designers Diane von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Marni, Colette Dinnigan, Lanvin, and L.A.M.B. Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johannson, and Olivia Palermo have adopted the look on the red carpet, but it was Kate Winslet’s turn in Stella McCartney’s stunning “Lucia” dress that sealed the trend’s fate.

As for interiors, while polka dot bedding and rugs, especially for kids, have been in vogue for a while, we’re starting to see more sophisticated dot schemes. Here’s a sampling of 33 polka dot rooms.

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Montage: 16 Butterfly Rooms

StyleCarrot — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:06:26 +0000

It’s wet and rainy in Boston. When I was in NYC last week, it was wet and rainy there too. For a final touch of beautiful days, I thought I’d break out the butterflies. I’ll start with everyone’s favorite . . .

Domino

Kara Mann

photographer Chris Court

Quarto & Sala

Fawn Galli

Stylist Selina Lake Elle Interiors Norway

Turner Pock

Domino

Viva Terra

Better Homes & Gardens

Absolutely Beautiful Things

Stephanie Sabbe Lee Essex Doyle

Madewell in Boston

John Jame

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