No office? No problem.

“…a command center for job searches, freelance work and escapist surfing. Not that a home office is always a four-walled container for an elaborate work station and built-ins, more often, in fact, it’s nothing more than a desk, or a desk-substitute.” -New York Times

An elegant and whimsical piece, this table is sure to suit all your web-browsing, letter-typing, hard-working habits!

Industrial Revolution

With it’s economically appropriate price and lime-green finish, this metal masterpiece is sure to make any dull work space POP!  CB2-$149.00

A  Personal Favorite

The sawhorse desk is classic yet modern, laid-back yet professional. With plenty of working space and additional storage provided this desk suits as a personal favorite for my architecture needs!

Go for the laid back look at ballard designs or for a more professional and modern feel, check out west elm.

Pattern Your World

Wallpaper is making its BIG comeback!

Whether it’s displayed from head-to-toe on your bathroom walls or hung in a frame, wallpaper is here to stay!
So, try a new approach to wallpaper, frame it! Update your old, tired furniture with color and pattern! Try covering the tops of tables, nightstands, or even frame out a head board, as seen done here by the infamous Martha Stewart!

DIY art just became simple and oh so chic!

My favorite sources:
http://kichiinc.com/paper.html
http://rollout.ca/artistseries.html http://www.grahambrown.com/us/store/designers.html
http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/home.php?cat=419

Obsession Number One: IKAT

What’s not to love about this fabulous fashion forward print! It’s a style of weaving that uses a resist dying process, very similar to tie-dye. And who doesn’t love tie-dye?

Ikat is so chic that it can be seen sitting on your love seat in more ways than one. Try this Asos dress for example or Nate Berkus’ Patmos sequined Ikat pillow. Both under $50 and sure to spruce up any room!

….so go ahead: ikat your world!

For more great finds, check out:

http://search.anthropologie.com/?q=ikat
http://www.michaelkors.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod2980004&cmCat=search
http://www.wshome.com/srch/index.cfm?words=ikat
www.westelm.com key word: ikat

The Dress Studio and Grandma’s Old Velvet Chairs

Hello There,

Above is a dress studio I designed! I wish it was some place real, but for now its just some place I escape too. I do that often, design spaces that I want to live in, work in, play in. I find myself dreaming up places and spaces in my head. Designing them from head to toe. Modern, classic, yet very chic! I like an eclectic feel, a homey feel, lived-in, yet natural and raw all at the same time. Is that even possible? Well sure it is, if that’s what makes your home a home to you. My ideas go running through my head all day long. So now I am putting them on paper! Well ‘online paper’ that is.

I love to design and create spaces! It’s my passion, it’s what makes me tick. To constantly be re-inventing myself and my ideas and putting them on paper or in an actual home, space, or building. To be innovative and expressive through design and fashion all at the same time, what more could I ask for. Is it possible to love both and incorporate both?
Well as so eloquently put sitting in her little black dress, smoking a cigarette, in all her elegance and fashion wisdom: “Fashion is Architecture: it’s all a matter of proportions.” -Coco Chanel.

So I will attempt to bring you both. Fashion and Architecture! What is in, What is out, and What is most definatley out! How to be inspired by both fashion and architecture and to constantly be daring and try new things. New ideas, new patterns, new prints, new colors! Lets not forget the past either, as they say: “history will repeat itself.” So why not tie in a little of the past, who ever said grandma’s old green velvet ‘late late late-century’ chairs couldn’t be re-done and made beautiful with a little re-touching and some updated fabrics and trims?