goosebumbs (4)

i love when i find a new (to me) designer. last week while i was making the rounds on all of my favorite blogs i stumbled upon tammy connor. oh my this woman is talented! i knew i had to include her in my goosebumps series. i spent time looking through her entire portfolio. i was so happy to see she had done a house in bucks county, pennsylvania...i grew up there! her style is beautiful and refined....but also very livable. here are a few of my favorites from her gallery.

if you have a moment go and look at tammy connors website...you will be glad you did!

jodie



color inspiration

while i was driving the kids to school the other day, i was admiring these....

my gloves... they were on at the time:)   i was thinking how pretty the colors are and how nice they would look together in a room.  take a closer look...orange, turquoise, hot pink.

so when i got home i decided to take a look on pinterest to see what i could find. look at this beautiful table setting!

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and this ...

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isnt this room fresh and inviting? there are all of the colors in my gloves, just interpreted in a different way. my point to all of this is that you can find color inspiration anywhere and everywhere you look.

 house beautiful has a page in each issue called "paint palette" where they show a photo of random objects (food, flowers, rocks etc...) and pull a color story from it. i love this feature. here is an example of it that i scanned in....

these colors are amazing together. i am not usually a purple gal...at all....but this combination works for me. i have been dreaming up a room using these colors. i will try to put it on an idea board and post it at some point.

so next time you are trying to decide on a paint or a fabric color, look around... your answer could be right in front of  you! or on you:)

jodie

goosebumps (3)

i know you all have been on the edge of your seats waiting for the third installment of this series:) so here you go! i mentioned suzanne kasler in an earlier post when i was talking about ballard designs. she is a designer that i absolutely love. i spent some time recently looking through her work. she has an amazing sense of style and proportion, right down the the last detail. all of suzanne's interiors are so refreshing. i selected a few (well, many) of my favorites.....enjoy.

if you have time...take a moment to look through the rest of her portfolio. you won't be disappointed. i love looking a other designers work for inspiration!

jodie

goosebumps (2)

well...here is it...the second addition of goosebumps. this whole house does it for me. when we were moving back to the states from italy 2 years ago i found this house in tradtional home. it is soooo pretty! i think this is when my love affair with orange began! there are just the perfect amount of subtle hints of it in this house. sit back and enjoy...because this is some serious eye candy.

i love the openess of this room...and all of the fabrics and textures. the windows and french door...i LOVE how they are trimmed out in black. this is a perfect blend of masculine and feminine style if you ask me.

i might actually cook if i had this kitchen!

look how they built these beds into the room. i love it! and what about those lanterns on the wall?

i could move right in. i was just re-reading my post and i decided that i say "love" a lot. i guess i am just really trying to get my feelings across....and this word seems to do it. oh well...at least i mean it when i say it:) 

happy weekend!

jodie

design style

my husband told me recently that someone asked him what my design style is. honestly, i couldnt give him and answer right away. i think that is a really hard question (for me anyway). dont get me wrong...i know what i like...but it is hard to describe. i am not one of those designers that people come to for a certain style. i think i was at one time because i worked for a company called french country living....so of course everyone i worked with was looking for that certain aesthetic.

now i am working for myself and my clients all want different things. my main goal when decorating is to bring their vision to life...whatever style it is. i honestly have never done anything uber modern...but i would love to. transitional is the farthest i have gone in that direction. i love the challenge of marrying my vision with my clients to come up with a design that makes us both happy. with that ,there are times that i concede and let things in a room that may not necessarily be my first choice. but it makes the client happy and honestly for me that is what really matters.

i have one client whose husband always wants to know our "theme"...what look are we going for in a room. for some reason this makes him feel better about it! so we have fun coming up with names for rooms that we are working on. their family room was "ralph laureny" and now we are working on the basement and and we came up with an "english pub" feel (see fabrics above).

here is a little sneak peak into the "ralph laureny" family room...

none of this rambling answers kevins original question.  first of all i like my designs to be cozy and comfortable. for me that is so important. i like rooms to look like they evolved over time...with lots of personal touches. i love neutrals with pops of color. i am a big fan of doing the larger upholstery pieces in a neutral tone and adding in color with rugs, soft treatments and accessories. and most of all a room just has to feel "right" to me....in proportion, style and function.like these rooms i found on pinterest. everything just works in this room(of course the orange accents sealed the deal for me!).

this entry way is the perfect combination of style and comfort...it is so welcoming to me.

so i am feeling pressure to use catchy phrase for my design style!  i really just want to answer "good" that my design style is "good design". however, that doesnt sound very catchy. how about "comfortable chic" or "casually elegant" or  "eclectic traditional" or...i could go on forever, so i will stop here!

how about you...whats your design style? any catchy phrases?

jodie