Things I’m Loving

June 8th, 2012

Happy Friday!  I’m headed over to the ASID Showcase Home for the last weekend of tours. I can’t believe how the past month has flown by!  I really appreciate everyone who has taken the time to tour the house and support our organization as well as the charities that benefit from this event.

I wanted to start your Friday off right with some beautiful things that have caught my eye recently.

First, I watched a marathon of Kitchen Cousins on HGTV recently(one of the few shows on that network I can stand because they do real construction with real budgets and show their problem solving in action. Though I don’t understand clients letting them pick the backsplash with no input.)  I’m impressed with their building knowledge, creative reuse of historic building materials, and well designed kitchens.

I like this kitchen they did for one of the designer’s parents.  They completely flipped the layout of the kitchen, opened up the traffic flow, and utilized a lovely mix of materials. The tobacco stained upper cabinets are lovely.  Mixed with the white lacquer lower cabinets and a handmade Moroccan backsplash, it’s a modern yet eclectic mix. My husband dug the wall graphic on the far wall.

The fact that they do the majority of their work in Hoboken,  NJ (just across the river from Manhattan) makes the show extra special to me since my aunt lived there for decades and I’d spend my breaks during college hanging out with her there. (I went to Vassar College, which is 1.5 hrs north of the city, up the Hudson River.)

These orange accessories would fit in lovely with the concept I developed for my deck (see the post here).  And the nautical hook, blanket and basket seem so perfect for a Cape Cod retreat I can dream of having (though the commute there is rough on summer weekends – round-about anyone?)

This kitchen has a lovely mix of classic white cabinetry and well worn vintage details and an abundance of natural light. The designer really played with scale (the etageres on the back counter, the chandelier) in a unique way that really takes this room beyond the typical.

The color palette, fabric selections, paneling, wall color and high ceilings in this room are so different than anything I’ve seen in a while, and that’s so refreshing!  Look how the designers mixed mid-century armchairs with a Jansen style daybed, French iron side tables and Murano glass lamps with a bone inlay table. What an inviting solarium (though I think any solarium would be lovely with all that light spilling in)!  The rest of this D.C. town house is equally well designed, so check it out if you have access to a copy of the May issue of House Beautiful. Or just click through to the article on HB’s website. The kitchen backsplash is amazingly transformative.

Finally, as promised a few weeks ago, here is the page featuring Fox Interiors in the new Mercury Mosaics catalog!  For more about this local company, see this blog post and their website.

That’s all for this week, or this post would be a mile long.  Next week I’ll share a soon-to-be completed bathroom project that’s ALMOST done and looking fabulous.

 

Photos:

1. Bruncon.com – Brunelleschi Construction

2, 3, 4. House Beautiful May 2012

5. Mercury Mosaics 2012 catalog

 

 

 

 

Tags: Brunelleschi Construction, Cape Cod, House Beautiful, interior design, Kitchen, Kitchen Cousins, living room, Mercury Mosaics, nautical, orange, solarium, vintage, white

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