Valentine's Day and a Mansion

I'm enjoying some of the flowers I purchased for my photo shoots last Friday. Can't wait to get those images! These really cheer me up on my bathroom vanity.  I guess I got my roses a little early for Valentine's???  

I was at a party this weekend and in this lovely home were lots of really personal touches and collections.  This was so sweet, I asked if I could snap a pic to share here.

Family wedding invitations of several generations in lovely frames mounted in a small hallway. 
Happy Valentine's Day!


This was on the local news last night! You have to see! A tour of this palatial estate in The Woodlands.

http://curbed.com/archives/2011/01/27/columned-colossus-proves-everything-bigger-in-texas.php

Anyone want to buy and let me help bring it up to date with a great remodel?????  :)

How Do You Hang Your Art?

Randomly? 

Elle Decor

Gwynn Griffith - Elle Decor

Tom Scheerer - Elle Decor

Richard Lambertson, John Truex - Architectural Digest

William F. Rawley - Elle Decor

More of a casual, eclectic, collected kind of vibe.  Add one at any time.  Take one away and only you would miss it. It's definitely about the collection.  You're saying that you like this subject matter or color or artist or whatever so much that you've bought it over and over again in many sizes, shapes, forms.  Almost as research..... or obsession?  Definitely passion.  It says something about YOU. That is what your interiors should do by the way.



Or do you prefer your art all in a row?

Jay and Yvonne Fielden - Elle Decor

Phoebe Howard

Dransfield and Ross - Elle Decor

Jacqueline Derry Segura - House Beautiful

Elaine Griffin - Elle Decor



Barry Dixon - Traditional Home



More formal, more controlled, more purposeful.  You've thought very hard about the overall look rather than the individual pieces.  Take one away and and the rest are nothing.  It's really kind of about the grid or mass the collection creates on the wall rather than the individual pieces of art.

The wonderful thing about design is that there are very, very few rules. (Don't let anyone tell you the opposite!)  It all depends on the look you want to create! 

And that's where the fun lies.