a house tour.

i hope that you all enjoyed your holiday yesterday! as the hectic holiday pace is coming to a slow down, i thought it might be fun to take a house tour today. simple, easy on the eyes, interior design...

the home belongs to fiona richardson, it is in australia and was featured in april on the design files. between the rich tones throughout & many of the large and weighty lamps, chunky floor plants, and well placed furniture, the home is grounded and still. (and many of fiona's pieces have been found, from salvage and repurposed!...talented!)

but then you find exciting nooks with daring wallpapered walls by fornasetti which i love because every home (and commercial space!) needs a bit of the unexpected, that wow factor, at least in my opinion...

the post about fiona's home is super informative too, full of links to fabric choices and paint colors she selected, read more here. and have a great apres christmas day!

hi...

wow, i feel like the last few days are a mix of quiet moments sprinkled in with run, run, RUN...

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but that's probably true of all of you? i spent the day in boston yesterday, picked up my son from college, he bought a new hat, i bought presents and drank coffee here, one of my favorite boston stops. the city actually seemed calm and strangely quiet, a gift to me that day!

i'm looking forward to 2015, to taking chances, to new challenges, to new starts, to lots of things i'll talk about here soon. i hope that you are gearing up for an amazing christmas! enjoy...

simply styled christmas decor.

happy monday friends, and the countdown to christmas begins...

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i've been taking a walk in the early evening just about every night. i love it because homes, decorated for christmas, look different and so beautiful in the evening. i wonder how they are decorated inside when the outside is so perfectly executed style-wise.

simple christmas styling is my preferred look, hints of greens, minimalistic and quiet (especially with the hectic of christmas everywhere!). i like these random spaces this morning...just saying. enjoy your day!

have a fun weekend!

i'm officially in the christmas spirit (it took a while!), are you?

(via pinterest but i forget where!)

i think just beginning on shopping got me there! and i'm trying to have fun doing it! tomorrow i'm heading to boston to pop into a favorite store or two, (stopping in between for amazing coffee and later...wine!) then picking my son up to come home for the holiday break from college. might have to top it all off with my favorite pizza joint, why not?

i hope that you are having a fun christmas~y weekend friends! enjoy...

last minute love from the fresh exchange.

i recently stumbled upon the fresh exchange. and what i love about sites like this, besides the fact that they write a super creative and visually decadent blog, they shop and find great product, for me, for you! like some of these beauties below...

if i had some last minute wishes for christmas (and i'm talking for ME!) it would be few select items from the fresh exchange. those boots!! enjoy...

8 pins.

random pins i'm loving today...

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from color palette combinations, to fashion, to shapes, (etsy love!) to patterns and vacation inspiration, just 8 random pins that get me going today. enjoy!

hatch, in gold.

this jewelry line offered up by a variety of designers through hatch is both lovely and slightly edgy, which i love...

beautiful gold gift ideas or just plain cover yourself in all of it for the holidays! enjoy...

cool lamp.

this monday morning, i'm drawn to the very sleek industrial composition of this "osux" lamp offered up by the spanish design company, squadone.

squadone, whose logo reads "work for money, design for love" states that the idea behind the osux lamp is to "enhance the cable as a conduit of lighting." the shade is constructed from anodized spun aluminum and the base is powder coated steel, in black.

somehow, amongst all of the steel and aluminum and void of much color, the pop of the deep red cord offers both a softness to the design and a flirty feminine element to it too. the lines are modern yet evoke tradition to me, work and play rolled into one design. i love that! enjoy...& happy monday, another fresh start to a brand new week!

a sunday hello...

i hope that you're enjoying a quiet & peaceful sunday morning...

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i just got back from an almost 2 hour spectacular sunrise walk. i can walk to the ocean in about 10 minutes, i'm lucky. the river and bay, that lead out the ocean near me are very alive with the tide changes, going in or out, the area is powerful and alive.

this was my second walk in a weeks time that there has been a seal pup swimming around in the marsh, right were the tide shows you the way, depending on the time of day. seals are not often seen inside a bay that is inside of a harbor and then inside a marsh like this. this guy seemed very content to be different thank you very much. i could have stared at him for hours, but it was crisp and cold out. i'm home sipping coffee with cinnamon. a good morning to you too! enjoy...

p.s. new music under my likes & listens (folk).

happy weekend!

happy friday friends! i've had one of "those" weeks...

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so, needless to say, i'm desperate for the weekend, for quiet time, for poking in stores for presents, for stopping and sipping wine, for just looking around me at night at all of the holiday lights.

i hope that your weekend is amazing and everything that you want it to be! enjoy!!

the prettiest chair, maybe ever.

finnish artist and designer riku tuppela has created this doppio cafe chair, in ash wood & copper. just look at it...

riku describes the copper element to his design as "warping reflections of its surroundings" and "creating new visual spaces inside itself." pretty darn special.

i LOVE the combination of the two mediums, the incredible rawness of one medium and the worked and polished result of another, and the overall simple design, lovely and quiet.

i found riku on behance, it doesn't seem he has another site of his own. but his contact info is there, if you like these doppio chairs as much as i do...enjoy!