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At home in her lovely garden with Landscape-Architect, Bunny Guinness,...

We are currently in the middle of refreshing our garden.  I want it to look neat and lovely from the windows, with a small raised bed for a kitchen garden, flowers of course for vases, and a stylish...

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Summer Time and the Living is Easy

🌞This reminds me of the first Summer in a new town, riding my bike with my brother to my aunt's to swim in the pool, with grilled cheese sandwiches and homemade lemonade with a sprig of...

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Brooke and Steve Giannetti's New Book PATINA LIVING - Intentional Living:...

There is beauty in the everyday, in the items we touch and use on a daily basis.  How we live, better yet how we decide to live, with beauty and inspiration is tactile, sound, color and light.  Once we...

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Design Inspiration: A Normandy Vacation Home of Peter Copping in Pictures

🌿🍃There are days where I want to be inspired by photos of beautiful homes and decide how to incorporate this look or this feel into my own home.  Many times it will inspire me to get rid of or move...

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Designing a Beautiful 1940's Cottage - Hanna Seabrook Founder of Gadabout:...

When Charleston-based couple Hanna and Nelson Seabrook had three weeks to find and buy their first home, after Nelson landed a job in Louisville, Kentucky, they found a house with the "most potential"....

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A Room with a Jaw-Dropping View: Aerin Lauder's Gorgeous Modern Apartment in...

"We stayed at the Plaza Athénée hotel..." the article begins with style icon Aerin Lauder recounting her first visit to Paris as a five-year-old with her Grandmother Estée Lauder in 1975, "I was...

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Designer Caroline Gidiere's Alabama Georgian Home - A Garden Inside and Out

My love of Georgian homes started when I was young at the home of my mother's friend.  The perfect proportions and the symmetry is always so pleasing; nothing seems "out of sorts" as my mom used to...

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California Designer Mark D. Sikes 'MORE BEAUTIFUL' new furniture line with...

Spring is a time of renewal, beauty, and inspiration.  You only need to look at the new Mark D. Sikes collection for CHADDOCK to see that living beautifully and being inspired just got easier.  His...

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Weekend Chic: You're Invited Classic Elegant Entertaining - A Must Have New...

~The Essentials~"For me, the joy of entertaining is in the details: coordinating the colors, selecting the china, choosing the linens, and having it all come to fruition seamlessly.  No detail is too...

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PD Book Club: Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth's New Book "Through A Designer's...

 "So much of design is finding the delicate balance among all the various parts of a vignette, a corner, a room, or a home.  The calculus of what stands out, what remains quiet, and what harmonizes in...

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My Fall Inspiration Go-To Instagram Account: Sarah Patrick @Sarahkjp

The smell of crisp air ... long walks chatting all the way ...Hometown bicycle rides to see the changing leaves ...wrapped in blankets for just five minutes moreafter watching the harvest moon rise ......

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You're Invited: Spring is Here, Join us on Portobello Design Instagram

 Step into Spring with Garden Inspiration 🌷Isn't this so lovely!  This is the Old Parsonage and Potager in Dorset by @mccormickcharliePhotography from the ever-talented @clivenicholsBoth are...

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On The Coffee Table: MILIEU Spring

 Spring has arrived after a long winter.  For me, I was in much need of some inspiration...One of my favorite sources is MILIEU Magazine; with famed designers Pamela Pierce and Shannon Bowers as...

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Charlotte Moss and House Beautiful's Robert Rufino Video: How To Arrange...

 Living Beautifully - The Art of Arranging Flowers  In celebration of her forthcoming book Charlotte Moss: Flowers, which will be released April 6th, we are showcasing just a few stunning bouquets from...

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Weekend Chic: AERIN Springtime Entertaining

 SPRING ENTERTAINING AT HOMEIn Spring it was common for my mom to place a table underneath a large tree in the garden and our family would gather for a lunch or early dinner she had prepared.  She...

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April Book Club: Designer Melanie Turner's New Book - Inviting Interiors

 "Any traditional design elements, such as the sparkling crystal chandelier and scenic wallpaper, are juxtaposed with contemporary touches.  Amethyst-crystal lamps and dining chairs upholstered in a...

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NEW BOOK: Visions of Home: Timeless Designs, Modern Sensibility By Architect...

It's no surprise that Atlanta-based architect Andrew Cogar and partners of Historical Concepts created another beautiful book.  Visions of Home: Timeless Design, Modern Sensibility is gorgeous, and a...

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April Book Club - HOUSES: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Gorgeous New Book!

 I learned the love of blueprints from my dad; as a child I would wait patiently for him to finish, to ask him if he had an extra so I could color them, and of course add my own designs.  Even though...

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Patina Homes: Steve Giannetti and Brooke Giannetti

Everyone who has followed Steve and Brooke Giannetti has been inspired by their design style, a beautiful paradox of vintage modernity with a curated color palette of neutral tones, often accented by...

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Autumn's Melody - Peter Pennoyer Architects: City | Country

 Autumn's melody brings us the fall publishing season and an early highlight for us is Peter Pennoyer Architects breathtaking new book "City and Country".  The "City" features residences designed with...

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