Apartment Living is Next....

It's Monday.... welcome back! This has been such a chaotic & busy weekend to say the least. With strangers coming by my home & seeing all the pretty pieces of decor (I purchased) slowly disappear.

However, one must do what they have to do to move cross country right? For now I have a few things left for sale, you can see in this post. 

I've been looking for inspiration all over on how to decorate a small place & even though books like "Big Book of Small, Cool Places" are great, I can't help but look at more. This home in particular is a small place in NYC that has a lot of style. In fact it's already inspiring me for my newest venture: APARTMENT LIVING.

One of my favorite features of this apartment is the TALL chevron wall!! It's making me think of possibly painting a wall in the new place in a darker color, like black.

Any of you ever paint your walls in a rental?!?!? We were told we could paint walls as long as we painted it back to its original color before moving out. 

I'm just glad I have that option because adding color to a wall in a small apartment gives it more interest.

-all images via apartment therapy

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Home Styling by Ana Antunes...

Ana Antunes is a decorator who creates a variety of home styling for her clients. She used to be a TV producer and decided that this new career (Decorator) was what made her truly happy.
 

She's the decorator on the only home makeover show in Lisbon, Portugal, which both her & her husband are producers of as well. She seems to have a very bright career ahead of her. I happen to love her work & how she adds bold colors & patterns!

You can see more of her work on her Ana Antunes home Styling.

What do you think of her home styling?

-images via ana antunes home styling

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Inspiration: Urban Outfitters

Images from Urban Outfitters

I like to be really efficient with finding inspiration for new designs and colors, so while I'm shopping/walking/driving/sleeping/cooking/eating/working out/showering, I take mental or physical notes of textures, colors, shapes and ideas that inspire me.

Remember the bubble skirt? That shape stuck with me forever, but I never liked it as a skirt. Though I still liked the shape of the bubble, so I made a mental note of it.

One day in my junior year of college, I was eating pot stickers and the pleats of the pot sticker intrigued me. I originally sketched a silhouette for a bag after the yummy dumpling. But, something was missing. It wasn't complete. The bottom was boring and flat.  At this point, my brain parses through nodes of memory where all the texture/shape mental notes are stored and out came that bubble skirt I remember loving.

That's how the Ruched Bag was born --which then reduced in size to the perfect-for-storing-everything-but-not-your-entire-life Baby Ruche Bag. 

Interesting to look back in hindsight on how things are created and what inspires them to be.

While internet shopping, I made some notes on colors and textures that spoke to me. I decided to share this inspiration with you so that in a few months or years, you'll see some of these colors and textures in my shop, and you'll be like, "Hey! I know how she came up with that! I saw it on  her blog!"

Feel special now?

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More Inspiration...(Via Made By Girl)

I really believe that large & colorful art really makes a BIG difference in a space. For my GUEST BEDROOM I'll probably be painting something to give it a personal touch. I found inspiration in several places today...

images via skona hem, mix'r, hus & hem

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Favorite images from my favorite blogs

A little eye candy for you. Hang in there - the holiday is almost here!

via Grey Likes Weddings

The above image=heaven
via Souvenirs of a Girl

via My Romantic Home

This bed is soooo pretty.

via Homebug

This actually really makes me yearn for summer evenings.
via A Fanciful Twist

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for your weekend....

Its nice that Friday is here and some of us may get to relax and enjoy the weekend. While you're out with family, friends or your significant other, look around at life and take everything in. Talk to people that you normally wouldn't talk to, smile and say thank you to those around you. Be grateful. You are still here. Able to take in all the inspiration that surrounds you....

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INSPIRATION.........

Even though this is something I don't normally post, I was inspired. I'm watching the Chris Cornell live concert on Msn.com right now and I'm enjoying it so much! I was inspired to put this little collage together about things I really like. Of course, I had to include the amazing Chris Cornell into the mess of pics. I put this together quick while I watched the concert. :)

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