Posts Tagged ‘fabric’
Friday Family-Friendly Find: Marimekko Coated Cotton Fabric
If you read – and enjoyed – this past Tuesday’s post, then this one will be right up your alley! Marimekko epitomizes the color and pattern-happy side of Scandinavian modern. In researching my blog post, I was reminded of a very cool product they offer – coated cotton fabric. Many of its most popular designs…
Read MoreTrending: Colorful, Patternful, Scandinavian Modern-Inspired Textiles & Wallcoverings
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past ~10 years, you’ve surely noticed the influence of Scandinavian modern design on the interiors of today. Clean lines, varied textures, warm materials, connection with nature, intentional coziness, and what I like to call the ‘bathed in white’ aesthetic, are its hallmarks. If I were to…
Read MoreAppliances and Adornments for The Morning Kitchen
It really takes a village to bring a show house room to fruition. I’ve been blogging a lot lately about some of the ‘villagers’ that helped to create The Morning Kitchen, which I designed with Dianne Aucello of Edesia Kitchen & Bath Studio. Today I wanted to devote some time to two distinct sides of…
Read MoreFriday Family-Friendly Find: Schumacher High Performance Silk Velvet
If there are two words in the world of decorating more diametrically opposed than “performance” and “silk,” I challenge you to come up with them. In fact, silk is so fraught with issues – lack of abrasion resistance, brittleness/deterioration when exposed to sunlight, vulnerability to ‘water stains,’ and extremely difficult to clean, just to name…
Read MoreFriday Family-Friendly Find: Villa Nova EasyClean Fabrics
Hello there, and Happy Friday! I know I’ve been talking turkey on textiles for the past couple of weeks, so I just figured I’d keep on the theme with today’s (is it National Fabric Performance Awareness Month??). While at the Boston Design Center this week, a window display at the Romo showroom stopped me in my…
Read MoreThe Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing of the Textile Industry
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time, but a recent conversation with a rep for a big fabric company (which and whom shall remain nameless) convinced me that I should just go for it. I’m calling you out, textile industry, for seducing unsuspecting consumers with lusciously soft and lustrous fabrics and…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge Week 4: That Fabric!
Here we are, it’s week 4 of the One Room Challenge! If you’re just visiting for the first time this week, welcome and thanks! I’m on a journey with over 200 other guest participants transforming a room in six short weeks (and 20 featured design bloggers who post their updates on Wednesdays). I’ve been turning an…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 6: Manbrary Reveal
I’m so pleased and proud to announce that the Manbrary is now officially open for business. It was a close one, but thanks to more than a few exceptional vendors and partners, I finished on time to reveal it to you today! We made a HUGE leap forward from last week. My husband and I…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 5: The Final Sprint
Last time I took the One Room Challenge, back in the spring of this year, I had finished before the end of Week 5, and dedicated that week’s post to a “behind the scenes” of my photo shoot for the Week 6 reveal. I was done, in just about four weeks. This round looks a little…
Read MoreOne Room Challenge – Week 4: Injury to Insult
I had a long post planned for this week’s One Room Challenge update, but a nasty little virus visited me on Wednesday morning (and not a respiratory one…), and resigned me to the fetal position for the vast majority of the day. I’m almost horizontal as I write this, while I have a brief break in the…
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