Showing posts with label favorite designers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label favorite designers. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Versatile Blogger Award and My Favorite Images



Julie and Danni of TGInteriors blog passed the Versatile Blogger award to me and 14 other fabulous blogs.  I want to thank them for this and use this opportunity to let them know that I'm having trouble posting comments on their blog! When I try to use my Google account, it comes up saying I can't access my account, even though I can use it on any other blog for some reason.  I don't know what's wrong, but since I'm having a problem posting a  thank you or any other comment on their blog, I want to let them know this publicly..... THANK YOU, LADIES!  Everyone should visit their blog for some beautiful design inspiration.

If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or why I can't seem to post, let me know please!  This is so frustrating!


Now, as part of the award, I must list 15 blogs that I enjoy.  There's so many and some of my faves I've mentioned in the Stylish Blog award I received HERE.  Here's some other great blogs that I read and think you should check out as well.


Now, for seven things about me, also dictated by the award, you can read them HERE in the Stylish Blog award post.

 On this post I thought I'd share 7 of my all time favorite images of interiors.  These are all rooms that made me stop and take a breath and just marvel in the things that were done right on these projects.  These are images where the final feel or ambience of the room speaks to me in an extraordinary way.  It was not about individual elements, but how the designers or "conductors" of these symphonies pulled it all together to create beautiful visual music.  Enjoy!



Jamie Drake - House Beautiful, May 2001

This is just drop dead gorgeous.  My #1 All Time Favorite.  The color, the drama, the ottoman and the draperies to the sky...I love it.  Do you see the date, 2001?  How timeless is this?  This is what it's all about.



Thomas Jayne - Architectural Digest, July 2011

Such gorgeous, traditional architectural features and then that colorful parsons table. It just brings it all right up to today.



Abby Rizor - House Beautiful, September 2008

An incredible ambience is created  here....I can just feel the breeze.




Victoria Pearson - House Beautiful, August 2008

The art is the star here.  I love that it's oversized and not centered in the room.




Jeffrey Bilhuber - House Beautiful, September 2008

What a great mix of furnishings and lovely color palette.  Love the boxy shapes and those horn cups on the mantel!





Jay Griffith - House Beautiful, June 2008

The instruments on the mantel are just perfect.  Great shapes and materials laid together to form a brilliant impromptu collage.  Can't you just see a great party here with someone picking up that guitar and playing all night?  I love the mix of mid-century modern with the Morroccan table.





Kelly Van Patter, House Beautiful, June 2009

I've always loved this Crate and Barrel table.  What a perfect setting for it. The contrast to the painted wood paneling really sets it off.  Those white ostrich eggs and the antlers...just the right touch of nature.

There are so many more. I'm a bit obsessed with interiors!  As I should be since I do this for a living. 

I'm doing a photo shoot of a project this week, can't wait.  It's a whole house remodel project I worked on for over 1 1/2 years. I'll share some later this week!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Barry Dixon in Houston



Barry Dixon in Houston

Spring Market at the Houston Decorative Center was interesting, particularly because one of my favorite designers spoke in one of the showrooms. His book is shown in the photo above. He was introducing his new fabric collection for Vervain...beautiful!

This is the second time I've heard one of his talks on design and the inspiration for his work. There wasn't even standing room left. I guess many of the designers there knew what I did, that Barry Dixon is a verbose, passionate, talent who can make even the most jaded designer love their work again and remember why they went into this field. By the end of the talk, we were all nodding our heads and felt encouraged and excited about design. Just hearing him speak about the thought process behind some of his work and the way he marries the client's personality and taste with a site location and a structure made all of us identify with our passion for this business and drool with the possibility of having a client trust us the way Barry's clients obviously trust him. We all left feeling hopeful and optimistic again that good design is important and somewhere out there are people who appreciate that.

Check out Barry Dixon's fabric line at http://www.vervain.com/
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