White Harmony...

I love this gorgeous home in the South of France!  

The white walls keep in harmony the unmatched furniture and eclectic genre throughout the home.

Notice how each light fixture and heirloom piece is the show stopper:

all images via Living Agency

Homes in the South of France remind me to keep things relaxed.  Forget the perfect - over thought furniture and fabrics.  We need to let our hearts be our real guide by embracing what we truly love.  When we do this - we can celebrate the imperfect and embrace creativity! 

Wishing you a wonderful week!

The Unexpected...

I love to be pleasantly shocked when I walk into a room.  I love how overlooked, unexpected objects have a chance to become the show-stopper!  

One of my favorite things to do is hit the Midway Mercantile shop looking for that specific what-if piece; this then helps me to create a space that goes against the traditional/specific vignette scheme.  

Below are beautiful rooms full of life, comfort, style and organic simplicity:

all images via

Have a wonderful weekend!

Scandinavian Design... A Favorite!

I have always been drawn to Scandinavian design!  The Scandinavian's have taken a sophisticated, European, non-hard-edged approach to design.  I love the perfect combination of old and new:

... simple, soothing and clean

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Juxtaposing Rough And Refined

I know I have blogged about Darryl Carter before, but I can't help but go off on some of my favorite designers!  Darryl gets it; his design is based on minimalism - stripping away all unnecessary embellishment (loud colors, busy patterns) to focus attention on carefully curated pieces.

How sad to have beautiful antiques throughout your home, but you can't see them because there is too much going on.

This is a huge reason why I love the monochromatic!  

Darryl says, "White rooms make old things seem more current."  He goes on to say, "White rooms are more complex than they appear because there are no distractions.  Every choice becomes critical."

I love Darryl's 19th-century Virginia home.  He perfectly balances the rough and refined, creating the perfect juxtaposition of texture and atmosphere!

I love how Rosy Strazzeri-Fridman puts it: "It's not that I have an aversion to color - it's just that I have more of an affinity for the monochromatic.  For me, people are color, flowers are color, food is color... and all of this is my canvas."

... amen girl!

A Charming Grey Cottage

I absolutely love this charming home!  

All the colors are soothing and peaceful!  The white walls lend the perfect canvas for the subtle hints of grey... sigh.

They say when you paint a room white, you have the perfect canvas for anything!

"White is not a mere absence of color, it is a shining and affirmative thing: as fierce as red, as definite as black."

-G.K. Chesterton, English philosopher

Hope you are all having a wonderful New Year!