Stripes and Chinoiserie - Budget Pick & Inspiration Boards

I love combining stripes and Chinoiserie. Stripes, with their masculine, nautical, crisp, geometric boldness serve as the perfect counterpoint to the often more feminine and pretty side of Chinoiserie. I especially like using striped rugs.

A wonderful and budget friendly striped rug is the Ikea Stockholm Rand shown below and the same style rug above (Madeline Weinrib's Buche rug is very similar). This style rug is all the rage in shelter mags and with good reason. It is a show stopper. It is fantastic layered with a zebra rug above.

I have included inspiration boards of mine combining Chinoiserie and various striped rugs as well as rooms by other interior designers combining them. I am very tempted to purchase the Ikea Rand for my own home, switching out the antique Persian rug for it in the summer. I lived in a great house in Georgetown during law school where the owners took up all the Oriental rugs in the summer, replacing them with jute and sea grass, and they covered all the furniture with white slipcovers. Such a great summer look.

Happy Memorial Day - Stripes & Chinoiserie Inspiration Boards

A living room in Nantucket

Happy Memorial Day and a thank you for all the sacrifices the men and women of the Armed Forces make every day, to those who have served and especially to those who have died protecting this wonderful country.

I love stripes and I love combining stripes and Chinoiserie. Here are eleven inspiration boards and my Pinterest board with dozens of spaces to inspire you. A Chinoiserie Chic tip - stripes add a fresh, clean, bold, geometric, and masculine edge to a room with Chinoiserie, keeping it more gender neutral.

A red, white, and blue backyard

 A chic bar vignette

A red, white, and blue boy's bedroom

A navy blue bedroom

A man can have a canopy bed

An office

An entryway

A girl's bedroom

A red, white, and blue entryway

A red, white, and blue nursery

The Chinoiserie Chic Fantasy House Tour & Last Day for Giveaway

The Pagoda

Last week, I did a series of inspiration boards for my fantasy Chinoiserie Chic house and posted about my dream Chinoiserie house called the Pagoda currently on the market just outside of London. I thought it would be fun to put these all together for a little tour. Today is the last day to enter my giveaway here. Tomorrow will be the announcement of the winner and another fabulous giveaway announcement you will not want to miss.

Backyard of the Pagoda

The entryway

The living room

The dining room

The office

The master bedroom

The nursery

Celebration Week - New Inspiration Boards and a Mary McDonald Dollhouse

My four year blogiversary is this coming Saturday. This week I will be creating a new fantasy inspiration board each day, with the announcement of my giveaway on Friday.

Today I have created a really chic and glamorous unisex nursery. The wallpaper is Scalamandre Zebras in a beautiful purple, great for either a boy or a girl. The crib is the first ever entirely acrylic crib available at The Well Appointed House as is the Dorothy Draper style changing table and dresser. The dragon lamp is Jonathan Adler. The chandelier is by Marjorie Skouras. The Crate and Barrel Tess chair is in a deep purple called grape. A large abstract by artist Kerry Steele is the perfect finishing touch. I love the idea of original art in the nursery. This room can easily become a guest bedroom or an office down the road it is so ultra sophisticated.

If you missed yesterday's post, below is my fantasy dining room and my virtual makeover of the backyard at the Chinese Village House.

Have you seen that twenty interior designers including Mary McDonald decorated dollhouses for a charitable event? Here are her three rooms via A Lovely Being. You can see all the dollhouses here.

For those of you new to Chinoiserie Chic who missed my Chinoiserie Chic I'm a Giant Challenge Dollhouse and my Dragon Dollhouse, here are the links to my reveals - click on the captions for the links. I created two Chinoiserie dollhouses and twelve rooms all filled with Chinoiserie!

The I'm a Giant Challenge Dollhouse

The Dragon Dollhouse

9 Palm Beach Chic Inspiration Boards

Living Room

 With the passing of Lilly Pulitzer this past week, Palm Beach style has been very much in the news. I think you will see interior designers feature the Palm Beach look in the next year in homage to her. Coincidentally, I have been doing guest posts over at The Glam Pad the past 2 months featuring my virtual makeover of the historic Chinese Village House in Coral Gables currently on the market. Here are the 8 rooms I have done inspiration boards on to date all in Palm Beach Chic.

Head over to The Glam Pad to see today's 9th board - the upstairs landing and hall. For each inspiration board, you can click on the caption to be linked to the original post for details on the room. BTW, I did the porch with furniture from the Lilly Pulitzer home collection.

Watercolor of Chinese Village House by Laura Mullaney

Entryway

Dining Room

Kitchen

Porch

Master Bedroom

Guest Bedroom

Home Office