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May 19, 2009 · 1:16 am

Get the Look: Wallpaper in Ocean Hues

Ok, all of you sea and sky lovers, get yourself a wall of wonderful blues and greens in the most amazing patterns . . .

Anderson Jazz Colelction Ogee Damask; Walnut Woodstock; Timorous Beasties; Tres Tintas Barcelona Amapola; Graham and Brown Monsoon Amelie; Graham and Brown Julien Macdonald Dazzle; Graham and Brown Basso and Brooke Chinoiserie; Graham and Brown Basso and Brooke Chain; Sandberg Marlene; Sandberg Neo; Sandberg Kaj; Sandberg Ebba; Sandberg Dino; Sandberg Claudia; Cavern Home Casa; Anderson Jazz Collection Star Flower; Walnut Wallpaper; Bodrum Eyes at Design Your Wall; Sum Underwater Bamboo; Studio Printworkds Recessed by Given Campbell; Flavor Paper Aster Space Palm; Flavor Paper Farmer’s Market; Cavern Home Navajo; Tres Tintas Barcelona Lineas; Second Hand Rose Flock 132; Second Hand Rose Novelty W-16; Second Hand Rose Mylar K-208; Designer’s Guild Kashima; Flavor Paper Sharp Descent; Flavor Paper Onda.

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Tagged as Anderson wallpaper, aqua wallpaper, blue wallpaper, cavern wallpaper, designers guild, DesignYourWall.com, Given Campbell, green wallpaper, osborne & little adara, Recessed squares wallpaper, robin's egg wallpaper, Sandberg wallpaper, Studio Printworks, sum wallpaper, Timorous Beasties, Tres Tintas Barcelona, turquoise wallpaper, Walnut Wallpaper

May 18, 2009 · 8:30 am

ARTmonday: Grace Hopkins-Lisle

Grace Hopkins-Lisle is an artist who grew up in NYC and is now based in Portland, Maine, with her husband, artist Andrew Lisle and her sweet little girl Gigi. Grace shows her work in galleries all over the Northeast. I discovered her work in Cape Cod. Her father, artist Budd Hopkins, is a longtime friend of my in-laws. (I’ll do a post on Budd at some point too.)

Grace characterizes her work as abstract photo-paintings. I have included a sampling of her photos from 2005 to the present , so you can their progression. This is how she describes the evolution: ” In the past few years I have been getting closer to my subject matter and minimizing the number of objects in my pictures, essentially zeroing in on what really interests me and excluding everything else.”

2009 South Beach

2009 Europe

2008 Michigan

2008 Maine

2008 Las Vegas

2007 Belize

2006 St. Maarten

2006 Curacao

2005 California

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Tagged as Andrew Lisle, Budd Hopkins, Grace Hopkins-Lisle

May 15, 2009 · 2:00 am

Montage: Colors of Sea and Sky

This weekend we’re heading out to Truro on the Cape. It’s finally warmed up, probably even out there. Might this weekend bring the first beach day of the season for us? To get me in the mood, I’ve compiled this collection of rooms inspired by ocean hues and summer skies. And they just happen to be my most favorite colors…

Photos: House Beautiful, House Beautiful, unidentified, Jonathan Adler in Elle Decor, Domino, Domino, Domino, Domino, Domino, Domino, Domino, Jordan Craig via Desire to Inspire, unidentified, The Rug Company, photographer Eric Roth, Marie Claire Maison, Katie Ridder, Living Etc., unidentified, unidentified, Style Court, Skona Hem, Skona Hem,, Sandberg Wallpaper, photographer Justin Bernhaut, Ami McKay, Osborne & Little Wallpaper, Skona Hem, House of Turquoise, Anderson Wallpaper, Jonathan Adler, Kim Coleman, Skona Hem, unidentified Coddington Design, M. Design, Kelley Proxmire, unidentified, Jamie Drake, Studio B Five, Pariscope Design at Kip’s Bay Showhouse, Suzanne Kasler in Southern Accents, Galo Verdesoto, Keith House at Graeme Park via House of Turquoise, Katz residence.

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Tagged as acqua rooms, blue and green rooms, ocean colored rooms, ocean hued rooms, robin's egg blue rooms, turquoise rooms

May 14, 2009 · 5:29 am

Shopping Trip: Brimfield Antique Show

Yesterday I went to Brimfield for the first time! Luckily, I met up with Jill Goldberg with the impeccable taste from Hudson, who pointed me in the right direction. It runs to the end of the week if you have a chance to visit. (And it’s back again in July.) It was a quick 90-minute drive from Boston. Here are some things that caught my eye:

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Tagged as advertising posters, american flags, animal skulls, antique canoes, antlers, apothecary bottles, architectural salvage, bakelite jewelry, balloon mold, batik woodcuts, bird cages, bird houses, botanical drawings, Brimfield, buttons, cartography, carved doors, chenille bedspreads, copper cups, dooknobs, garden buddhas, garden furniture, horns, Hudson, jadeite, Jill Goldberg, life magazine, mercury bottles, oars, oilcloth, old instruments, oriental rugs, paddles, sea sponges, silver, silvered glass, snowshoes, spice jars, sports memorbilia, sports pennants, vintage linens, vintage postcards

May 13, 2009 · 1:05 am

Get the Look: Your Backyard, A Resort

As summer approaches I am busily searching for a cute, friendly sitter to hang out with my boys at the beach all day while I lounge around indoors writing my blog. (Interested? They’re a bit of a handful . . . ) Last summer I spent my days ensconced in my pure white room, looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean. This year, perhaps I should venture outdoors a bit more. Would help if I had a breezy cabana of sorts. These lounging luxuries are way out of my price range (and probably yours), but it’s nice to daydream.