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Jumat, 08 November 2013

One Room Challenge - The Glam Pad

Today for my One Room Challenge series I am featuring one of the linking party participants, Andrea from The Glam Pad. A girl after my own heart, she has created an incredible Chinoiserie powder room on a budget. The room includes "faux de Gournay" hand painted silk wallpaper she commissioned in China, a Sherle Wagner marble sink retailing at over $22,000 she got on Craigslist for $250, faucet, sconces, and chandelier from eBay, and a DIY mirror.

The result is a Moet & Chandon Chinoiserie gem on a Bud Light Lowe's budget. This room points out two important interior design truths.

First, that money is no substitute for taste and style. If you have a good eye, you can walk into HomeGoods or a thrift store or stalk Etsy and eBay and walk away with beautiful things for pennies.

Second, hiring an interior designer is no guarantee of a beautiful home. There are lots of interior designers out there with no talent whatsoever. I think you are either born with the talent or you are not. Style is not something you learn. Did you know that Miles Redd, Charlotte Moss, Darryl Carter, and Mary McDonald do not have degrees in interior design? Darryl Carter graduated from Georgetown Law School!

At any rate, I digress. I just found it interesting that in the One Room Challenge and with the One Room Challenge Linking Participants, almost every one of my favorites was done by a "non-professional."

This amazing powder room is such a perfect example of this. Pop over to The Glam Pad to read all the details and to follow the transformation from start to finish. If you missed my laundry room reveal, you can find it here. It too was done on a budget with (I think) a great result.

Kamis, 30 Mei 2013

A Gorgeous Chinoiserie Powder Room

Having grown up in Lake Forest, Illinois, its great homes are still to me the most beautiful anywhere. The stage for the 15th biennial Lake Forest Showhouse was an Italian Renaissance 15,000 square foot estate designed in 1916 by famed architect David Adler.

Interior designer Shelley Johnstone Paschke designed the lounge and powder room. The lounge walls are lacquered in Farrow and Ball Saxon Green and are trimmed in gold. The ceiling is painted in faux malachite. Note the ivory silk curtains trimmed in Samuel and Sons Greek key, the Oscar de la Renta Zeus chair with tiger silk velvet, the sisal carpet, rustic baskets, lucite console, and antique Chinese export jars.

In the powder room area, she has papered the walls in Farrow & Ball Acanthus. I love the lucite stand with the blue and white Chinese jar and the starburst chandelier. All in all, a wonderful mix of many of my favorite elements.

Photos courtesy of Veranda.

Selasa, 19 Maret 2013

One Room Challenge - The Reveal & a Surprise Giveaway

I am so happy with how my little powder room turned out. It was a disaster before. (See below). Now it is a serene little Chinoiserie gem just across from my home office. Keep in mind that this room is very tiny, barely measuring 3 feet by 6 feet and I did it on the super cheap, shopping my own house for the accessories. My favorite touch was draping two very ugly walls with Ralph Lauren duvets from HomeGoods that I simply shirred on tension rods. (Wallpaper was impossible with paneled walls, plumbing access panels, and a host of other uglies.)

Thanks so much to Linda of My Crafty Home Life (who is apparently now operating under the alias Calling It Home so beware!) for inviting me. Click on the navy ORC button in my sidebar to revisit all my posts if you would like to see the process from start to finish.

And the special surprise I mentioned in yesterday's sneak peek is this - I have a great little giveaway to celebrate the end of another successful One Room Challenge. I am giving away a brand new unopened faux bamboo brushed nickel towel rack that I didn't end up using in my powder room and two gorgeous Fromental hand painted on silk Chinoiserie wallpaper swatches from my stash that would be gorgeous framed for a powder room, a gallery wall, or anywhere you like. Just leave a comment by 11:59 PM Eastern Time tonight (March 20, 2013) to be entered and I will announce the winner tomorrow.

Faux bamboo towel rack

Fromental swatches

The Charlotte Moss powder room that inspired me

My inspiration board

What I started with - yikes!

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And now ........................................

A gallery wall with art by Kerry Steele, The Pink Pagoda, and two framed Fromental wallpaper swatches

Two ugly walls were draped with Ralph Lauren St. Honore duvets from HomeGoods - a lovely Chinoiserie toile

An antique Art Deco watercolor and gouache Chinoiserie painting with its original Greek key frame

A pair of gray ginger jars was a great find at Marshalls

My black toilet paper has created quite a stir

Here you see how I shirred the duvet on a tension rod - so easy!

There are many special touches - a pink limited edition de Gournay diffuser, gray marble foo dogs, a hand painted Chinoiserie candle, Chinoiserie soap

The gray linen relaxed roman shade was fabricated by Grace at Etsy store Ideal Window Fashions

A close-up of the gray and white Chinoiserie toile

Charlotte Moss votives in the window

The faux bamboo faucet

A high gloss black wooden toilet seat jazzes up a dull white toilet

Fromental wallpaper framed in the gallery wall

Hand embroidered on silk Fromental wallpaper framed in the gallery wall

A hand painted French Chinoiserie candle and gray marble foo dogs in a metal toile tray

The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray, the sink is Kohler, the mirror is Pottery Barn, the sconces are Resoration Hardware

A Chinoiserie toile wastebasket

Emilio Pucci slippers on a sisal rug banded in gray from Pottery Barn

A silver Chinese Chippendale toast rack holds monogrammed guest towels

A parting shot

Please leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway and then visit the reveals of the rest of the participants. Mine was by far the worst before!

One Room Challenge - Reveal Sneak Peek

Tomorrow is the grand finale of the One Room Challenge - The Reveal. You won't want to miss the transformation of my powder room from ugly duckling to Chinoiserie swan AND a special surprise.

Rabu, 13 Maret 2013

One Room Challenge - Week 6 - Finishing Touches

A silver Chinese Chippendale toast rack holds monogrammed guest towels

I am getting down to the short stokes with my One Room Challenge powder room. My drapery installer arrives shortly to hang the roman shade and I have another piece or two of art to hang.

I have shot instagrams of lots of details in the room. For me, interior design is all about the details. That's where I put my money and my attention. Next week you will see them all put together in the big reveal.