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Master Bedroom

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Iggy is so bored with me futzing around in the bedroom. I’m boring myself.

I can’t figure the stupid thing out. I think it needs a DRAMATIC change, although this room has come a long way from red, blue, and green enamel.

OK, here is WAY more photos than you could ever want or need to see. I’m totally, insanely, documenting every inch and angle so that I can somehow unravel the mystery of making it rad.


I retract the whole entering the bedroom contest thing. Not going to do it.

Maybe it all just needs a hell of an editing, or fresh eyes, or like an explosion of glitter and shit. That painting above the bed has got to go, the kilim is too small, the vignette is awful, the mirror has to go, the nightstands need styling, and there needs to be like a wow moment or something. I’m dreaming of dark walls, but that may have to be reserved for the guest bedroom. I think I need to stop working on our master bedroom for awhile and move on to a new project.

Blech. I’m like in the rutiest of ruts. Jeff Lewis help me. Make it bland but high end! Oh god, I’m watching too much Bravo.

Bedroom

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Ronda from All the Best emailed me to invite me to enter a contest she was putting together that pitted bedroom against bedroom, by amateur and designer alike. This Best Bedroom Decorating Contest judges include: Ronda Carman, Michael Devine, Amanda Nesbit, Todd Romano, Nathan Turner, Kelly Wearstler and Vicente Wolf.

If Vincente Wolf and Kelly Wearstler just somehow got the urge to hire me to go around the world sourcing vintage, whats the harm in entering? A girl can unreasonably dream, right?

I thought first off JEEEZ, I’m not going to be able to compete against real designers with real budgets with my shitty Ikea sheets and tiny little bedroom. I mean, I could really be embarrassed….

You know what, FUCK IT. I ‘m going to try to enter my little bedroom, but I’m going to pull things from every other room that I LOVE LOVE LOVE and design my bedroom with shit around the house. I thought it could be fun, like my house is a store and I’ll just go shopping. Oh god isn’t that like a horrible show on HGTV? Redesign or something…

My bedroom is at the mid point of redesign. It’s not that much different, not really finished though…

Any suggestions about how real designers make things look fancy? Oh man, I want to be fancy real bad.

You should enter to! Come on, look at the cool judges and fancy prizes. You know your stuff would be better than all the stuff on Design Star or even most the things on Top Design. I do miss hearing Jonathan Adler awkwardly say “See you later decorator”.

Winner!

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

It’s gotta be that LEATHER y’all.

Medium Brown Leather reigns supreme. I knew it all along.

Maybe a more caramel colored sling was what I wanted originally, but these babies are going to patina nicely and they are soooo very well made.

Thank you Circa50. They are the loveliest.

Oh, and if you are ever in Manchester Center, Vermont be sure to visit the Circa50 store. Looks like it’s in a pretty wicked shopping area. (I didn’t know that Dansk had retail locations…awesome)

Anyone sick of seeing my living room yet? Too bad!