better homes and gardens

August 25, 2011

BHG sep 11 cover
A few months ago I received a phone call from an editor at Better Homes and Gardens.  She mentioned an upcoming story on “Stylemakers at Home”.  As I listened I wondered why she was calling me about this feature?  She proceeded to tell me that they wanted me to be one of the Stylemakers featured.  My heart sped up a bit, certain that somehow they were confusing me with someone else.  I am a designer and a blogger, but mostly mother and wife, which doesn’t feel very stylish.  To think they were going to feature me alongside Monica Bhargava (senior exec at Pottery Barn) and the Novogratzs ( Nine By Design) was humbling.

I loved the journal/notebook format they used for the story.

BHG page 55

BHG 56 57

 

[above images used with permission from Better Homes and Gardens magazine, copyright 2011. Meredith Corporation.  All rights reserved.]

When they (editor, photographer, stylist) all zipped into my little town for the shoot I anticipated it being crazy and hectic.  It was quite the opposite… I had a relaxing, fun, and inspiring couple of days.  I know they usually work with big deal people and here they were sitting in my living room eating grilled cheese sandwiches and discussing designerly things with little ole me.  It was a humbling experience.  And it was a lot of fun.

It was so wonderful working with Michael Walters (stylist), Paige Porter Fischer (West Coast Editor), Joanna Linberg (Assistant Home Design Editor), and Rob Brinson (photographer- check out his house)… and my dear sister-in-law Leah (she penciled in my eyebrows and curled my hair) thank you all for making me feel comfortable.  I hope our paths cross again soon.

That little girl at my side, she is my pride and joy, her being in the final shot made me very happy.

 

And… I’ve answered a bunch of emails about my pink skirt… I ordered it from Anthropologie.  It’s on SALE now, of course.

anthropologie skirt

 

 

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Trad Home

April 12, 2011

Remember last month when I mentioned we had been tied up with a photo shoot? Well…

Meet Trad Home.  The love child of Traditional Home and Lonny.  The issue features Twenty New Trad Designers, one of which is little ole me.  And while we are on the uncomfortable subject of me talking about myself… there is a friendly competition too and I would love your vote.  Yes, it’s a process where you have to enter an email address and password, and your mailing address. And then you have to uncheck all the boxes where they want to mail you all sorts of stuff… but it only takes about 30 seconds.  You can vote once a day until the competition ends.

It was such a great experience working with photographer Colleen Duffley again.  And of course my sidekicks Allison Smith and Lauren Wilson, who were out in the woods cutting wax myrtles the day of the photo shoot.  Luckily we have workers’ comp in the event they had been attacked by a coyote.

I plan to blog in more detail on the photo shoot process… had to keep it hush, hush until now.  Headed to New York for the launch party later this week and couldn’t be more thrilled to meet the other twenty designers!

 

 

 

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Town & Country

October 27, 2010

Do you subscribe?  Have you seen it lately?  Stephen Drucker (previously the editor at House Beautiful) is now at Town & Country... and I think it shows.  Louisa (she’s one of those blue tags on our client map; and in the “out of town sneak peek” post she’s the mother of the golden retriever and the blue ottoman) emailed me a few weeks ago and said “have you seen November Town & Country?  Sloane’s Oscar de la Renta nursery fabric is in it!?”

Of course I scurried off to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy.  Here’s the spread… and yes, I photographed it… too big for the scanner.

That green patina’d lamp below is delicious…

The walls of the Library are upholstered in the Oscar de la Renta fabric I used in Sloane’s nursery.  The designer (Markham Roberts) calls it “chic soundproofing”, I’d say so. Here’s a close-up of the fabric (this image below is Sloane’s crib skirt… this is not from Town & Country, however if they wanted to come photograph it, they are more than welcome to do so.

I think t he kitchen was worthy of more coverage… sorry it’s a little blurry, it was a small photograph… small photographs are hard to photograph.

LOVE this shot of the children on that beautiful sofa reading their books.  And the large ticking stripe ottoman… and the lamps… it’s all so good.  I zoomed in for you…

Hey pretty girl, where’d you get your dress?  I sure do like it.

This house belongs to Cosima Von Bulow Pavoncelli and was designed by Markham Roberts, photographed by Francesco Lagnese. The article, by William Norwich, is as interesting as the interiors.

I’m drawn to this house because of the layers… layers and layers.  So hard to get a project to this point…  a point I call “finished”.  I guess a project is never truly finished, but this one looks complete.  You never know, the stylist might have added all the lifestyle stuff, but it sure doesn’t appear that way.  The home looks lived in, inviting, and like it is thoroughly enjoyed.

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