Tuesday Tip {Inspiration Boards}

Making an inspiration board is such a great idea to help collect, organize, and analyze your ideas and thoughts before designing a space or home. The best an easiest way to make one is to first, grab a bunch of thumb tacks and a cork board. Next, gather magazine articles and clippings of rooms you like, pictures of pieces of furniture and accessories you like, paint samples and fabric swatches you like, and everything else that gives you inspiration. Then, try and find a common theme between all your pictures and items you found. Themes may include colors, design styles or periods, fabric patterns, finish options (metals, wood), shapes (circular, straight or angular), or any other common themes you may find. Last, design and decorate and enjoy!! I am in the process of making my own inspiration board to use when I hopefully get my own place after I graduate, I will keep you posted on my progress, meanwhile, enjoy the inspirational, inspiration boards.

Made By Girl

Made By Girl

MA Belle

Lonny Magazine

Canadian House & Home

Country Living

Coco + Kelly

Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy

Luck of the Irish

For last minute St. Patty's day outfit ideas, here are some cute pieces I found that can be found pretty easily at a mall.

Closet Couture

Closet inspiration, love a closet that is boho chic, but organization is always nice. Oh to dream...

Canadian House and Home

Canadian House and Home

Canadian House and Home

Canadian House and Home

Apartment Therapy

Flickr

Black, White, and Yellow all over

A black & white color scheme in a space is a very polished and sophisticated look, but at times this color scheme may become monotonous and somewhat too formal. A great complimentary color for that timeless color scheme is yellow. Yellow paired with black and white give a playful and contemporary quiet sophistication to a room. Pairing items in odd numbers, or better yet threes, is more appealing to the eye, so giving a black & white room a splash off yellow (or another color depending of your taste) will add interest and style to a space, but make sure there is thought in the placement, just not "there." I love black, white, and yellow together because to me it gives off a almost new age-retro feeling with a pop of sunshine, very refreshing and always a crowd pleaser. But caveat emptor, one must be fully committed to this color scheme and look and love it dearly before applying it, because of it's borderline trendy look, you might be "over it" before you know it!

Apartment Therapy

Domino

Homes & Gardens

Ideal Home

Mary McDonald

Apartment Therapy

Country Living

Country Living

No need to fear, a Domino Magazine clone is here!!

To all of you who were and still are obsessed with the amazing magazine Domino,and just haven't been the same since, I believe I have found a solution-Lonny Magazine. Lonny magazine is a digital magazine that has the same style, flair, wit, and genius that Domino Magazine had. Lonny Magazine was launched by fabulous New-York based Rubie Green designer Michelle Adams, and the talented photographer Patrick Cline. Lonny Magazine currently has 2 editions out, and they are both nearly 200 pages!!! Enjoy some eye candy from Lonny Magazine, a.k.a my new obsession.

Love the cane headboard, and the mis-matched nightstands, and the fabulous glass lamp bases!

The Lamp with the metal base on a french inspired bedside chest is a great mixture of different elements and style.

A great aspect of Lonny Magazine is the tips from the designer or decorator from the editorials

Great tips for pieces to change or make a room. Love the mixture of the French sofa with the white lacquered side tables, so refreshing to see this again!

What I Love Now

Inside Avenue is a website for fresh + modern home furnishings. Inside Avenue's products come from many trade-only vendors, that they willingly supply to the public. Inside Avenue also works with many residential and commercial design companies with ordering luxury furnishings for their projects. Inside Avenue's products they display on their website is the epitome of the type of design characteristics I love. I am very obsessed with inside Avenue and go peruse the website constantly planning and decorating my dream home. The furnishings on the website are chic and classy with a modern twist on traditional favorites. One design style I have become very drawn to is Hollywood Regency. Hollywood regency style started with decorators like Dorothy Draper and Elsie De Wolfe where the term coffee table soon turned in to cocktail table. Now Hollywood Regency is sleek and glamorous and two designers who show two different interpretations of the style is Jan Showers and Kelly Wearstler. One great things about Inside Avenue's website is that they separate items into categories according to their style like Chic & Glamorous, Hollywood Regency, Classy & Traditional, etc.

Here is my current Inside Avenue wishlist!

Twig Side Table

White Peonies-Classic flowers to soften any room.

A precious tufted ottoman that can be used as a cocktail table in any room with the help of a white lacquered tray to keep the eclectic, mixed style look.

An occasional chair with a tufted back and nailhead details that will add a formal touch with a little edge and masculinity to any chic space.

I love when damask is done in a light metallic gold on a neutral linen background. It is so chic and adds interest with the mixture of textures brightness.

A white ceramic garden stool is the perfect accessory for any sun room or veranda to be used as a plant stand or a spot to rest your iced tea.

A gorgeous wool tufted rug with a slate blue background and a foliage vine floral design.

Last but not least is the metal sunburst or starburst radial mirror. The essential piece to any Hollywood Regency room.

Alluring or fascinating attractiveness.

an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness;

alluring or fascinating attractiveness.

That is how Mr. Webster defines glamour. Today I received an absolutely fabulous book [bible], for Christmas: Jan Shower's Glamorous Rooms. With an endearing foreword by Michael Kors, another icon in the world of great style. Kors describes Glamorous Rooms as a book "full of the kind of chic, timeless elegance that will endure for years to come." Jan Showers ASID has been practicing Interior Design for over 25 years in which her interiors have been featured in various noteworthy design publications including Traditional Home, Elle Decor, Southern Accents, etc. Jan currently resides in Dallas, Texas where she lives with her husband James and owns her own firm Jan Showers & Associates. She also designs a line of custom furniture, lighting, and accessories that can be featured on her website. Below are a couple of glamorous interiors I have found very fascinatingly attractive...

Library

1930s ebonized chairs sit in front of an eglomise reproduction mirrored desk with a Lucite and sycamore lamp.

Formal Dining Room

A pair of frosted Venini chandeliers hang over this custom mahogany dining table with bronze details. Below it lies a gorgeous custom designed, hand-knotted Patterson, Flynn & Martin wool rug. The hand-painted wall covering is from Fromental.

Formal Living Room

These Maison Jansen vermeil lamps make a space feel fresh and au courant, and mixing silver and gold is always a good idea.

Entry Hall

Create an aura of glamour with some or all of these classic design elements; warm silver-leaf tea paper on the walls, a fabulous Murano-glass lamp, and gilded mirrors.

Bedroom

This custom Billy Haines-style bed in warm silver leaf is balanced by a pair of ivory lacquered commodes with white ceramic lamps and gold-leaf wood soleil mirror from the 1940s.