When a magazine shoot takes place at your house, particularly a national magazine shoot, you might think the place is just photographed just like it is. Well it’s not exactly so… It kind of feels like moving day…as items are switched out and moved around. Here is a little behind the scenes in the livingBehind the scenes!
My design advice in HOF!
Hope you had a great July 4th weekend! Perhaps you’re in the mood for some suggestions on how to create a cool interior on a budget? Check out my article DESIGN LIKE A RECESSIONISTA in the latest issue of HOUSE OF FIFTY! Thank You Janelle for letting me contribute! You can check out the newREAD MORE My design advice in HOF! →
Does your home feel like you?
The article in Svenska Dagbladet came out yesterday. I added the link here, but I know most of you won’t be able to read it. It talks about my belief that your home affects you deeply –ignoring your home is ignoring yourself. What you surround yourself with, will affect you daily. If your possessions you choose to surround yourself with indeed is “the outward manifestation of your innermost feelings” like Carl Jung said, then look around you. Does your home feel like you?
Photographer Staffan Lowstedt from Svenska Dagsbladet took some really colorful, fun pictures of our house, and I guess it feels fairly true to who I am and the place we are at right now in life.
We’ve lived through a lot lately. I want to be fearless, care free and happy, and I’m hoping my home can help!READ MORE Does your home feel like you? →
Our home on Swedish buses!
Got some cool things to share. First up some fun news. (I hope it’s okay I write this now a week early) The shoot for Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden’s largest newspaper is coming out soon in the first issue of their magazine. Starting next week some pictures they took of our house, will be on theREAD MORE Our home on Swedish buses! →
Inside a Swedish newspaper shoot
Svenska Dagbladet the Stockholm newspaper is here shooting a story. My talented stylist/journalist friend Jennifer Jansch is in town for two days with photographer Staffan Lowstedt. Let me tell you…it gives a you a really good reason to clean and neaten up your home.
It’s funny how shoots work. Jennifer and I took turns taking Iphone pics. Here is a picture they were shooting of me in my still unfinished office….READ MORE Inside a Swedish newspaper shoot →
Living in Color
Thank You for all your kind comments and e-mails. This has been a rough week to say the least, and I hope the most difficult week Luke will ever experience in his lifetime. He handled the week like a brave young man even writing and giving his own beautiful (and funny) eulogy to his dad. READ MORE Living in Color →
Key Bedding in HOF and peek at new design…
Hope you all had a great Halloween. I’m currently working double time gearing up for our annual Knock Out Abuse event next week. It’s like a meteor coming towards you, as soon as I’ve read fifty e-mails, another fifty is in your mailbox. It goes off one week from tomorrow and after that I willREAD MORE Key Bedding in HOF and peek at new design… →
Interview & New Office
Yesterday was a fun day! Adorable writer/producer/mom/girl about town Susanna Quinn had been sent the LiveLikeYou site by a friend, and sent me the nicest e-mail and said she loved it. She didn’t stop there, she mentioned it to Capitol File and, today she came to my house to do an interview and story for the magazine. You rock Susanna!!
So we shared some stories, some design talk and photographer Joshua Cogan came to shoot us. Can’t wait to see the article!!READ MORE Interview & New Office →
NATE BERKUS had me at hello
I was so excited to get call from the producers (who are all awesome) and be invited on the Nate Berkus show last week! Having been an actor, it was really fun but also a bit scary to be invited on a TV show, because this time I had to just be…what…MYSELF??!! But what couldREAD MORE NATE BERKUS had me at hello →
Thank You TRAD HOME and LONNY!!!
Had a TV shoot yesterday which I will update you on soon, very soon…In the meantime….…I can’t tell you how fun it was to arrive back after a long day up in New York and see LiveLikeYou featured in Lonny and Traditional Home’s new online magazine TRAD HOME!!!!!!!!!! And none the less in a featureREAD MORE Thank You TRAD HOME and LONNY!!! →