Tag Archives: Jeffrey King

September 28, 2011 · 10:26 am

Montage: 54 Kitchen Banquettes

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: 43 Kid Rooms

Following up on Friday’s post about Susanna Salk’s upcoming book Room for Children: Stylish Spaces for Sleep and Play (Rizzoli), I’ve curated some of my favorite images of spaces for kids. At the end of the post, I’ve included links to my previous kid room posts. Definitely inspires me to at least clean up, if not redecorate.

Philip Gorrivan

via Apartment Therapy

Atticus & Milo

Jeffrey King

Amie Weitzman

Sixx Design

Bolig Magasinet

unidentified

Lisa Mahar

Steven Gambrel

via Apartment Therapy

via Desire to Inspire

Marjorie Skouras

Hamilton Design Associates

Steven Gambrel

via Apartment Therapy

Bonesteel Trout Hall

Robyn Karp

Brad Ford

Amie Weitzman

Amanda Nisbet | Photographer Louis Lemaire

Katie Lydon | via Desire to Inspire

Unidentified | Elle Decor

Digs by Katie | Unidentified

Beach Studios | Country Living

via Desire to Inspire | Katrine Martensen-Larsen

Stylist Leslie Siegel | unidentified

Sixx Design | Sixx Design

Delphine & Reed Krakoff | Fawn Galli in Domino

ARA Design Studio | via Alkemie blog

via Apartment Therapy | Scott Sanders

For more gorgeous rooms for babies and kids, have a look at my past Montages:

* Nurseries *
* Bunk Beds *
* Two Beds, One Room *
* Bed Curtains & Canopies *
* Sweet Dreams in Pink Bedrooms *

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Tagged as Amanda Nisbet, Amie Weitzman, Ara Design, baby room decor, baby rooms, Beach Studios, Bonesteel Trout Hall, Brad Ford, children's rooms, chilren's bedrooms, Digs by Katie, Fawn Galli, Hamilton Design, Jeffrey King, Katie Lydon, Katrine Martensen-Larsen, kids rooms, Laura Smera, Lisa Mahar, Louis Lemaire, Marjorie Skouras, nurseries, Patrice Bevan Cowans, Philip Gorrivan, playrooms, Reed Krakoff, Robyn Karp, S.R. Gambrel, Scott Sanders, Sixx Design, Steven Gambrel, stylist Leslie Siegel

April 9, 2009 · 10:58 pm

Montage: Orange Aid

ven though it will probably rain, we are going to the Cape this weekend. Despite the dreary weather, when you step into (or even just glimpse) my younger son’s bedroom, you can’t help but feel invigorated. In celebration of his favorite color, today’s post is all about orange.

The color’s made quite a comeback since the ’70s. (We had an orange and white shiny vinyl booth in our kitchen when I was in elementary school, to match the orange and gold oversize plaid wallpaper. Wish I had photos!) In the ’80s, orange was seen only in Burger Kings. (The color supposedly incites hunger.) These days, orange is considered hip, and is especially popular for kid’s rooms.

I wasn’t being purposefully trendy. My son declared orange his fave shade when he was about three and grabbed an orange mug in a housewares shop, and wouldn’t let go. I don’t know how long it will last (he’s seven now), but in the meantime, it’s definitely his signature shade.

Here are a handful of other spaces outfitted in orange:

Photos: Sara Story Design; Jeffrey King; Cookie; Skona Hem; Coddington Design; Flickr-Spring Globe; Wendy Blount; InSpace; Desire to Inpsire; Living at Home; Cookie; M. Design; Mark Roshams; Flickr-Spring Globe; unidentified source; Frillie Designs; Flickr-iancr; Kumler residence; Flickr-Moakidi; Flickr-The One and Only Jet Guer; Shoot Factory; Domino; unidentified source; stylist Selina Lake; Jamie Bush; Cookie; Remodelista; Viceroy Hotel Palm Springs; Cookie; Tia Zoldan; Sara Bengur Interiors; Flickr-magicmikas; Donna Griffith; Marie Claire Maison; Flickr-unidentified.