I’m always a sucker for art and fabrics with dark backgrounds. Don’t you just love these two images of Paris one hundred years ago? via Vintage Printables (which means you can download and print them for free!)
I’m always a sucker for art and fabrics with dark backgrounds. Don’t you just love these two images of Paris one hundred years ago?
It’s a snow day here in New York. I took a quick trip (well, not so quick actually – it took us an hour and a half to get home in the snow!) up to the huge Target in the Bronx last night and it feels so good to have a full pantry and all…
It’s a snow day here in New York. I took a quick trip (well, not so quick actually – it took us an hour and a half to get home in the snow!) up to the huge Target in the Bronx last night and it feels so good to have a full pantry and all the essentials here. Today I’m getting organized and cleaning the house up a little.
I think I’m ready to sell another round of fabric. Would you be interested in that? I’m constantly buying up fabrics for client projects or my own rooms. Many of these don’t get actually used, and I don’t really want to keep storing it all. (though, it’s tempting)
I need to take an inventory, but I know I have 10 yards of midnight and 6 yards of citrine imperial trellis up for sale. The price is $65/yard (retails for $180). Payment via paypal only. Shipping costs will depend on the yardage purchased.
Update: These yardages have been sold, but keep an eye out for more fabrics soon. Thanks for all the inquiries!
Email me at jenny @jennykomenda.com
It’s a snow day here in New York. I took a quick trip (well, not so quick actually – it took us an hour and a half to get home in the snow!) up to the huge Target in the Bronx last night and it feels so good to have a full pantry and all…
It’s a snow day here in New York. I took a quick trip (well, not so quick actually – it took us an hour and a half to get home in the snow!) up to the huge Target in the Bronx last night and it feels so good to have a full pantry and all the essentials here. Today I’m getting organized and cleaning the house up a little.
I think I’m ready to sell another round of fabric. Would you be interested in that? I’m constantly buying up fabrics for client projects or my own rooms. Many of these don’t get actually used, and I don’t really want to keep storing it all. (though, it’s tempting)
I need to take an inventory, but I know I have 10 yards of midnight and 6 yards of citrine imperial trellis up for sale. The price is $65/yard (retails for $180). Payment via paypal only. Shipping costs will depend on the yardage purchased.
Update: These yardages have been sold, but keep an eye out for more fabrics soon. Thanks for all the inquiries!
Email me at jenny @jennykomenda.com
These two images make me want to go clean out M&J Trimming and then come home and hot glue silk (like the yellow) or grosgrain (like the black) ribbon to every edge and corner of every wall in my house. Nuevo Estillo Martha Stewart Living
These two images make me want to go clean out M&J Trimming and then come home and hot glue silk (like the yellow) or grosgrain (like the black) ribbon to every edge and corner of every wall in my house.
Martha Stewart Living
Exciting news! I will soon be in the possession of 4 hand-painted Chinese wallpaper panels that look strikingly similar to the paper Barrie Benson used in this dining room featured in Domino. I need to start brainstorming ideas for mounting the panels as a series. I really like the way Barrie framed hers. I think…
Exciting news! I will soon be in the possession of 4 hand-painted Chinese wallpaper panels that look strikingly similar to the paper Barrie Benson used in this dining room featured in Domino.
I need to start brainstorming ideas for mounting the panels as a series. I really like the way Barrie framed hers. I think this is such a modern way to display a pretty traditional paper.
The only trick is, I don’t want to paper my walls with the panels, and I don’t want to use really heavy sheets of wood for mounting. And thin wood or composite will bow. Any ideas for mounting these 3×8′ panels all together? I promise to share more details on the paper when it gets here, which should be soon.
Like I mentioned before, in the survey (which is still open for responses in case you haven’t had time yet) many of you asked me to share the process of decorating my apartment. I promise, there’s not much to share at this point. I sold almost everything that was in current rotation before we left…
Like I mentioned before, in the survey (which is still open for responses in case you haven’t had time yet) many of you asked me to share the process of decorating my apartment. I promise, there’s not much to share at this point. I sold almost everything that was in current rotation before we left Delaware. So our current apartment is pretty full (read: slightly overflowing) of vintage pieces that need major TLC and other sort of mismatched items. I’m SO ready to get moving on my own house though, that I’m committing myself to at least one home project a week. The plan is to share these with you every Friday. I know you’re just as happy to see the process as seeing the pretty ‘after’ images, so thanks for hanging in there with me while I show you my less-than-perfect spaces.
So, for our first project, why not start with the entry?
We live in a sort of industrial building that’s zoned for live/work (great for taxes and getting commercial address shipping rates!). It’s definitely not a luxury building with a fancy lobby (though I do like the art installation in our lobby). And we don’t have a doorman – that’s what that telecom thing is on the wall next to the door. It’s how we buzz visitors in.
The last tenant owned a real estate brokerage firm that had only five or six employees that worked here during the day and then he slept here at night. You can see the end of one of his conference tables in this shot. This is the beforest of before shots – from the first walk through.
Remember this dresser that I’m using as a console? I found it right before we left Delaware. It was $20 at Canterbury Antiques. It was not cute in its before state – it was that nasty yellowy cream that they loved to use on bedroom sets in the 50’s and 60’s.
Sadly, it sat untouched in our entry for the first couple of months. Finally, at Christmas time, I busted out the paint quarts already in my stash and decided on this pretty emerald green color. I thought it was Ralph Lauren, but it’s actually a Behr color, called Billiards Table. It’s really pretty. One of my new favorite colors.
If you remember from my post about our floor plan, there is a wall of windows on one side of our apartment and that’s all we’ve got for natural light. So it’s pretty dark up here by the entry at most times of the day. It was really hard to get a shot of the newly painted console that reflects the true color. This one is the closest to real life.
Do you know what I recently started using and loving? Ralph Lauren Regent Metallic paints. I had a quart of Parlor Gold (a really bright gold color) and used a damp rag to sort of wipe on a bit of the gold paint on the hardware, just to brighten things up. I also touched up the giant wall mirror, which I got at Brimfield a couple years ago for $50.
You can see one of my vintage pieces in need of help there to the left. It’s a really pretty wing back chair (it looks a lot like this one) that I need to reupholster. Today I was trying out Kelly Wearstler’s Katana and I think I like it.
My favorite painting is hung above the chair. Around the corner I put up a couple of these Anthropologie hooks that I got on sale.
The leopard rug is the newest addition to the space. I LOVE it. It’s from Ballard and its indoor/outdoor.
Things about the entry that need to change:
– The lamp needs a new harp so that the shade fits right. It’s too low right now. (PS I got this Blanc de Chine lamp for $1 at Spence’s Flea Market in Dover! The shade is a pretty gray burlap, I got it at Target a couple months ago)
– I bought that artwork with the coral matting at a great store in Williamsburg called Junk. That store needs it’s own post. It’s really amazing. Back to the artwork though, I mostly bought it for the mat and the frame. It was like $8 or something so I didn’t feel guilty. I think I’m going to take the watercolor out and replace it with something more modern and with different colors.
– Maybe switch up the boxes on the tabletop for something different. At the very least I might paint the woven box.
– Tomorrow I’m going to Target and hope to pick up one of these great copper boot trays in the Smith and Hawken aisle.
– All of our tall umbrellas broke. I need to get a couple more for our monogrammed umbrella stand.
– We need a fun overhead light fixture. Probably a flush mount, since the huge dining room chandelier will be less than 10 feet from the entry. (ah, city living!) I wish my budget could expand to fit this Visual Comfort star light.
– I’m considering wallpaper. I’d have to get creative about how and where to stop the paper, since I wouldn’t want to do the entire north wall, which runs the length of the apartment.
I’ve been on the look out for the perfect container to use as a mold for this project. I really want to copy Lindsay from Everything LEB and make one of these beautiful papier mache trays. Here’s Lindsay’s tutorial. She used Martha Stewart’s Araucana Tea lightened with white for the turquoise outside and a gold…
I’ve been on the look out for the perfect container to use as a mold for this project. I really want to copy Lindsay from Everything LEB and make one of these beautiful papier mache trays.
Here’s Lindsay’s tutorial.
She used Martha Stewart’s Araucana Tea lightened with white for the turquoise outside and a gold spray paint from Krylon for the interior (but she and I agree that the best spray paint is not Krylon. My hands-down favorite line is Rustoleum, especially for metallics).
I’m going to make a bunch of these to have on hand for hostess gifts. Pretty dishes and trays are so fun to put on just about any flat surface. Use them to corral soap dispensers at the sink, jewelry, house keys, candy, business cards, loose change, remote controls, paper clips, hair ties, perfumes…
Thank you all so, SO much for your responses to my little survey. If you haven’t taken it yet, I’d really love your help. I want to make sure I’m capturing a good sample of my readers. The feedback so far has been amazingly helpful as I’m organizing what to say at Alt. CLICK HERE…
Thank you all so, SO much for your responses to my little survey. If you haven’t taken it yet, I’d really love your help. I want to make sure I’m capturing a good sample of my readers. The feedback so far has been amazingly helpful as I’m organizing what to say at Alt.
Also, the overwhelming response to the last question – which asked for constructive criticism about my blog and how it can be better – was that you readers want more photos of my home and my projects again. I hear you! And truthfully, I feel the same way. I know the reason many of you started reading LGN was because of the project sharing. Those projects led to successes in my design business, and I feel as a result of that, I’ve been less available to focus on sharing with you readers.
Part of my resolution list this year is to get back to basics and focus more energy on original content. So, I guess that’s my long-winded way of saying – thanks for hanging in there! Great posts are on the way! Promise.
ANYWAY! Let’s talk lighting. This was a fun sight for me last week as I rounded the corner to the lighting department in Home Depot.
I’m a sucker for round chandeliers. This one comes in two sizes 21″ and 14″. So pretty in an entry, a dressing room or a fancy powder bath! Not cheap at $300 and $400 each, but also not too crazy.
Hi friends! 2011 has started out with a bang for me. If the past four days are any indication of what the rest of this year will be like, I think the major descriptive words will end up being ‘Crazy’ and ‘Exciting’. How is the first week of the year going for you? This month,…
Hi friends!
2011 has started out with a bang for me. If the past four days are any indication of what the rest of this year will be like, I think the major descriptive words will end up being ‘Crazy’ and ‘Exciting’. How is the first week of the year going for you?
This month, I’m flying to SLC to be a speaker and attendee at Alt Design Summit. I am really excited to meet more blog friends and to get to talk with all of them about blogging communities.
Here’s where I could REALLY use your help, dear readers. I would be eternally grateful if each and every one of you could take just a few minutes to answer this survey here about my blog. It’s completely anonymous and mostly multiple choice. Pretty please, help a blog sister out?
Here’s to a crazy, exciting and AMAZING year of decorating adventures together! Can’t wait to share with you in 2011! Hugs and kisses all around.
Still thinking about this gorgeous upholstery… via Style Court These are some recent favorite dot patterns with a bit of leopard print flair at different price points. Brunchwig and Fils Les Touches Waverly Blackbird Premier Prints
Still thinking about this gorgeous upholstery…
These are some recent favorite dot patterns with a bit of leopard print flair at different price points.
Brunchwig and Fils Les Touches
First off, Jennifer from Rambling Renovators asked me to participate in her blog series called Great Reads. It’s an awesome round up of lots of bloggers’ favorite post of 2010. Click here to see what post I chose. Secondly, couldn’t you die over this IKEA hack (also posted on IKEA Hacker)? It’s just some upholstery…
First off, Jennifer from Rambling Renovators asked me to participate in her blog series called Great Reads. It’s an awesome round up of lots of bloggers’ favorite post of 2010. Click here to see what post I chose.
Secondly, couldn’t you die over this IKEA hack (also posted on IKEA Hacker)?
It’s just some upholstery nails tacked into an IKEA Besta console ($125)!
This was the inspiration piece, the Visconti cabinet from Bungalow 5 (retails for about $2300).
Such a statement piece! Love it.
Thanks to Jennifer from Rambling Renovators for the heads up on this project. She found it from Anne-Marie at 10 Rooms.
I got this J.Crew ad in my email a week or two ago. Couldn’t you just eat up all the color?! I’m using similar colors in our new place. Lots of grays, blacks and navy (and of course white – the floors and walls) and then really fun pops of color – persimmon red, raspberry,…
I got this J.Crew ad in my email a week or two ago. Couldn’t you just eat up all the color?! I’m using similar colors in our new place. Lots of grays, blacks and navy (and of course white – the floors and walls) and then really fun pops of color – persimmon red, raspberry, violet, orange, emerald green, mustard yellow, lime… sort of sounds more like a grocery store than a living room.
Anyway, speaking of colorful, I stumbled across these amazingly bright and beautiful consoles on Overstock and I had to share.
A pair of this chest would be great as night stands.
I’m absolutely dying over the green one! A little bit of fluorescent color in a room feels so modern and fresh.
