HELLO again and Happy New Year! After unintentionally taking off more time than had planned (and missing two Weekend Links in the process), it’s good to be back. Did stop in briefly on New Year’s Day to share my resolutions for 2024, but other than that, for the most part of the past four or so weeks, we’ve been on holiday, which is extremely rare.
TODAY'A DECOR inspiration comes by way of a 1970s bungalow belonging to Belgian architect Bart America. Located in Bolderberg, Belgium, close to the Dutch and German border, America describes the home he shares with his partner Arnold-Juergen, a Pomeranian named Pia, and Hungarian Vizsla named Raio with three words: “mid-century, transparency and tranquillity” ...
IF YOU'RE wondering how we came across the work of Gregory Mellor, it is through the Bobbejaanskloof Private Nature Reserve in South Africa that we featured here last week. The Cape Town-based designer was behind that wonderfully decorated travel resort and you may see similarities to this home in the Karoo, a semi-desert natural region of South Africa ...
THE FIRST THING that caught my eye in this charming Swedish kitchen was the glass-front cabinets, which reminded me of those old barrister bookcases sometimes repurposed in décor for storing/displaying shoes. The kitchen belongs to two Berliners, Laura Muthesius, a food stylist, and Nora Eisermann, a photographer, who always dreamed of owning a home in Sweden.
OUR LIVING ROOM in the English countryside has those charming wood ceiling beams that you would expect in a cottage in the countryside. And since moving here, my décor tastes have moved, understandably, in the direction of farmhouse and countryside styles...
A LOVE OF LIGHT and bright French-inspired interiors is being challenged by this dark and cosy four bedroom, three bathroom house...
AND IT WOULD APPEAR that the entire city is trimmed in fairy lights, there is skating and mulled wine and...
[Slideshow — if slides do not advance, click here] This week’s 30 Images of Inspiration is double the inspiration as the regular...
[slideshow — if gallery does not advance, click here] WE CHOSE OUR TREE today, and it is utterly perfect. However, since...
AUTUMN IS SUCH A BITTERSWEET time—the days are shorter and darker and there is wind and rain and overcast skies and the promise of winter.
MANY WILL HAVE CAUGHT a glimpse of J.Crew’s Creative Director, Jenna Lyons’, former Park Slope brownstone [above], for it was...
. . . winter seems to have arrived late this, and despite the days becoming noticeably longer everyday, everywhere...
. . . happened upon mimi thorisson’s wonderful food blog, manger, quite by accident on instagram, and immediately fell in...
. . . hello! it’s lovely to see you again; the week has only just begun, and already, it feels as if it were getting away . . .