Lifestyle Brand & Interior Designer
Lovely Darlene at Fieldstone Hill Design invited me to do a NURSERY DESIGN for fun blog series for her newborn baby girl. (Congratulations Darlene!)
I believe in a few things regarding nurseries….
1) The design is just as much for the mom
2) Minimalism is a no, no
3) Use things that the baby can grow up with – hence no expensive redesign necessary in two years.
You can visit Darlene’s blog and check it out along with other cool mood boards here: A Girl's Nursery Design.
There are so many changes going on around here my head is spinning. You might have noticed no new design personalities have gone on to LiveLikeYou for a few months. That is because we’re redesigning the site. We want a faster platform and a more simplified approach to finding looks that works for you. I’m sure some of you are business owners yourself so you know when you start a business — where you started is not always where you end up! What took me by surprise was the popularity of my own designed items so I want to expand them and show them in a better way.
In the meanwhile I’ve been playing around with companion products and how to create different bedrooms using the same items. You can 3-4 of the same items yet have an extremely different look to a room. And sometimes if you just changing the wall color you have a completely different look. Sleep Like YOU
This spring we have been going full speed designing a few homes with my firm Marmalade Inc. I often like to present a design client with a couple of options for some of the rooms. Different color schemes, or pieces, or simply a slightly different vibe. It’s just to make sure that when they/we settle on something it’s what they really love the most. Because let’s face it, we’re in business to make people happy right? I generally make mood boards, to go with images and fabrics, as it seems to be an easy way to share a “look”.
I thought I would start sharing more of what I’m working on. Here is a bedroom design for a couple in NYC, except this is design option they didn’t choose. Get the look
Okay, our new Hawaii Regency look is on LiveLikeYou! Hop over and have a look! Luke said…. Mom, you should say “Go on staycation with Aloha Chic” so we used it, and he’s now the new head of marketing at 1o. THANK YOU LILY for working so hard and getting it done, and THANK YOU ALOHA CHIC IS HERE & GIVEAWAY!
So it’s time again…for a new look on Live Like You. I’ve been looking forward to this one. ALOHA CHIC launches next Thursday March 15th! It’s making me realize that if you mix HOLLYWOOD REGENCY with a COLORFUL HAWAIIAN ISLAND LOOK you get HAWAIIAN REGENCY?
I love tropical islands, I love color, I love Hollywood Regency, I love Lily Pulitzer, I love surfing, I love Katherine Rally fabrics, I love Lily Pulitzer, and I love the retro vibe of Florence Broadhurst. All of the above inspires me. A lot.
Really my next house might just be Aloha Chic. A new look….Hawaiian Regency?
I don’t know about you but if I don’t get enough sleep I can’t function. Not sure if it’s parenting and early school mornings that has made me so interested in getting enough sleep!!
Perhaps the bedroom, and the huge amount of hours we spend in our bedrooms is the reason why they are perhaps my favorite rooms to design. Since I have my own very small budding bedding line, I thought I would help out with some ideas on how you could style your bedroom using the KEY BEDDING in different colors. Remember you can use it as a guide, get a couple of new items, and be creative with mixing in vintage items to keep the budget down. But here are a few styles to steal! STEAL THIS STYLE! Key Bedding 5 ways
So the new look is finally here! The Recessionista personality is imagined as a fashionable woman on a budget. Living in a glam and stylish apartment in a city somewhere. Being a Recessionista doesn’t mean she would go out and buy every single item as inexpensive as she can. She knows great style only comes when you mix it up. She throws in a couple of designer items, a few vintage pieces and the rest is great style for less. And she shops only after she’s shopped her own home, to see what she can reinvent! RECESSIONISTA IS HERE!
Stylish girl/blogger Chassity from Look Linger Love is having what you could call “nursery- moodboard- off” that I was happy to participate in. I created one that is a little nursery man cave that I call “Chic Little Mountain Man”. Thought I would share….also hop over there and see all the great nursery designs. A little man cave nursery
I was a bad last night. I promised myself to go to bed early, since I get up at 6am I have a no computer after 10pm rule. Well I broke it…As I was browsing through some of the fantastic online magazines, Lonny, Rue and I started playing a game that I often see other bloggers do. But I added a twist. Can I recreate these rooms using only LiveLikeYou as my source? I got totally hooked, and of course had to give myself some artistic license…
Allow me to play…This chic bedroom.. RECREATE THAT ROOM!
So excited to launch THE HAMPTONS today. It’s perhaps one of my favorite looks, because it’s an American classic with a twist. A look I personally never will get tired of!! It allows the summer to stay in your home all year around. It can feel like a sunny day at the beach yet feel right for a rainy fall day. I don’t know about you but I never get tired of red, white and blue…
This launch e-mail just went out today! Hop over to LiveLikeYou for a visit! THE HAMPTON'S LOOK IS LIVE!