Tag Archives: S.R. Gambrel

July 4, 2012 · 4:31 pm

Montage: 28 Red, White, and Blue Rooms

Red, white, and blue can be intensely patriotic, or just another well-devised scheme. Both work today—Happy Fourth!

Joe Serrins – Photographer William Waldron – Elle Decor

Fox Hotel, Copenhagen

Lisa Sherry – Lonny

Healing Barsanti 

Roger Davies – Rebecca Ascher – Elle Decor

Elle Decor

Ellen Hamilton

Nick Olsen – Lonny

Liz Caan

Jonathan Adler

Lindsey Coral Harper

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Sara Gilbane – Domino

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Michele Bonan – Lonny

Photographer Gemma Comas

Cath Kidston – Lonny

Light Locations

Atlanta Homes

Meredith Heron

Catalano Architects – SLC Interiors – Photographer Gordon Beal

David Cafiero –  Lonny

Photographer Stellan Herner

Miles Redd

John Douglas Eason

Country Living

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S.R. Gambrel

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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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March 30, 2010 · 2:01 am

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

Amie Weitzman

Sixx Design

Bolig Magasinet

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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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October 10, 2009 · 8:12 pm

Montage: X-Stools

As I may have mentioned, I’m in the midst of redecorating my bedroom and the room formerly known as the playroom. (Once kids are 8 they don’t need toys anymore, right?) This weekend the floors on our the main level are being refinished. The paint colors are chosen and the main pieces of furniture ordered. There are even a few key accessories waiting patiently to be placed. But I still need a couple of medium-sized items, like side tables and poufs or ottomans. I snagged three microsuede storage cubes at Target for $17.99 last week, in my exact colors (turquoise, violet, chartreuse).  Super cute and totally cheap. (Plus, the Star Wars costumes all fit inside one. Take that Vader.) To accompany the bedroom sofa, I’m debating between two of the same cubes in charcoal, a metallic silver leather pouf, or two X-stools covered in crisp white cotton duck, just like the sofa. An X-stool is incredibly practical  – it’s an extra seat, an ottoman, or topped with a tray, a side table. It’s also one of the earliest forms of furniture. In addition to its versatility and portability, I love its symmetry. It works in pretty much every room, and never fails to look great, and sometimes even pulls together an otherwise faltering space. Have a look at these rooms to see what I mean.

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Photos: Tripod Agency; House Beautiful; Pamplemousse; I On Design; Greg Natale Design; Michael Cebula; Meg Braff; Nate Berkus; Jessica Lagrange Interiors in Traditional Home; Reed Krakoff in Elle Decor; photographer Mark Lund; S.R. Gambrel; Emily Summer Design Associates; Jonathan Adler; Amanda Nisbet; unidentified; photographer Peter Vitale; Moris Moreno Photography; Ken Fulk; Moris Moreno Photography; David Lawrence in House Beautiful; Domino; Kwinter & Co.; Domino; Frank Roop; Scott Currie in Elle Decor; Janine Carendi of Area; Lori Graham; Reed Krakoff; Kara Mann Design; Point Click Home; Walker-Warner Architects; Pamplemousse; Paul Whicheloe; Marshall Watson in House Beautiful; House Beautiful; Todd Romano; Janine Carendi of Area; Billy Joel’s home in Domino; Domino; David Jiminez; Elle Decor; Cookie; Apartment Therapy; Charles de Lisle Workshop; Nicole Hollis.

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September 21, 2009 · 9:21 pm

Montage: 45 Rooms with Patterned Rugs

I’ve been looking at a lot of rugs lately. I’m intent on reclaiming my kids’ playroom as a family space that all can enjoy, rather than a pigpen covered in LEGOS. (Does anyone really need an entire city space, complete with bay window, dedicated to primary colored plastic bricks?) As I was contemplating the best way to replace the dot marker and glitter stained sensible wool sisal (not that you could see it under the aforementioned LEGOS), my editor at the Globe asked me to put together a spread of colorful floor coverings (“Step On It“). Finally, I’d be paid to research redecorating my own house!

Like many a rug researcher before me, I fell hard for Madeline Weinrib Tibetan wools. And, the one I oh-so coveted, Lavender Chime, popped up on One King’s Lane for half price! Not so fast, it was still $4,000. (“Are you kidding me?” my husband not so gently asked. “You seriously want to put a $4,000 rug in a room where we’re going to watch movies and eat popcorn?”) Okay, not so much. On to plan B. Drag said husband to Crate & Barrel for an afternoon of rug and sofa shopping. That’ll teach him!

Anyway, here is an array of rooms using amazing patterned rugs. I love the way it punches up the space, with hardly any effort. There are two rooms with the Madeline Weinrib Black and White Endless. How many can you find with The Rug Company Swirl by Paul Smith?

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Photos: Jackie Caradonio; Jordi Vayreda; M. Design; photographer Mark Lund; Tripod Agency; Flickr-Spring Globe; Hotel Frank in San Francisco; Moises Esquenzi in House Beautiful; photographer Mark Lund; Doug Meyer in Metropolitan Home; Desire to Inspire; Nancy Leib in Metropolitan Home; S.R. Gambrel; Mae Brunken Designs; Sixx Design; photographer Paul Costello; JFS Design; photographer Lisa Cohen; Spazio Rossi; Greg Natale Design; Living Etc.; Living Etc.; Alan Higgs Architects; photographer Jordi Canosa; Furbish Design; Stephanie Odegard in Metropolitan Home; Bolig Magasinet; Living Etc.; Fun on the Floor; Australian Vogue Living; Canadian House & Home; 315 Thomas blog via Made by Girl; stylist Paul Joseph Hopper; Living Etc.; unidentified; Flickr-iancr; photographer Jan Baldwin; photographer Stellan Herner; Studio Cerri & Associati; Matt Eastwood via Desire to Inspire; Pappas Miron; photographer Erik Johnson; Greg Natale Design; Laura Smera; architect Stephen Chung.

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