Nolen Before/After Bathroom

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Recycled glass wall vase and sculptural flowers create an artistic focal point.

New Artwork

New sculpture arrived from Artistic Alchemy.
I now have another choice/look to go with the new credenza from Chair-ished.
What do you think?

Arhaus

Recycled Treasures-This distinctive collection of “green” goods combines high style with earth-friendly practices to deliver fresh, fabulous fashion for your home. Artisan-designed and completely crafted by hand, each piece is inspired by rescued scrap materials destined for landfills, such as newspaper, old glass bottles and copper pieces. Recycled, repurposed and revitalized, these cast-offs are granted new life, transformed into distinctively different pieces that infuse your home with the spirit and energy of an “old soul”.

Speranza Before/After Wall Display

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Speranza Before/After Bedroom

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Chair-ished again

Picked up my new credenza from a funky new store called Chair-ished again. The store creates one of a kind furniture and accessories from old materials, truly recycling new life into found objects. This cabinet started life in a doctor's office. With the addition of a steel top and toe kick and decorative punch work on the doors, this piece is eclectic. More info on this store as it become available.
UPDATE

Unfortunately this store is now closed.

Citrus Topiary

Citrus Topiaries are the hot trend for next Christmas, 2008. A festive twist on the traditional decor that will look fresh for the entire winter season.

New Use for Antique Ornaments

Antique Christmas ornaments can add an Old World or vintage touch to your holiday décor. Begin a collection of antique ornaments and look for pieces throughout the year. If you have treasured antique Christmas ornaments and are wary of placing them on the tree, you may want to showcase them on tiered glass cake plates and other glass containers and candlesticks.

Atomic Age Christmas

For the Boys during WWII

Vintage Carolers

Deco Christmas

Eclectic

adj.: decorating using more than one design style, borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them.

Arabesque

adj: style using flowers, foliage, or fruit creating an intricate pattern of interlaced lines.

Salute to the Big Easy

St Louis Cathedral, the heart of the French Quarter

Distinctive wrought iron balconies of the French Quarter

Shotgun style house

Faux Bois

adjective:"false wood" in French. The look of wood or wood grain- in textiles, paper products, furniture, and accessories- has been popular throughout the history of interior design. The style has a resurgence in popularity in part due to the green movement. It is a way to bring the feel and the look of nature to any interior.

Mondrian

Despite being well-known, often-parodied and even trivialized, Piet Mondrian's paintings exhibit a complexity that belies their apparent simplicity.

Typical of his art are compositions employing only vertical and horizontal lines at 90° angles and using only the primary colors and sometimes grays or black against a white background. Sensuality, three-dimensionality, and representation are utterly eliminated from his works, as is the curved line. Within these restrictions, his paintings are executed with consummate perfection of design and craft.

Mondrian inspired dress

Mondrian inspired building in Austin, Texas

Nautilus

noun: marine creatures whose bony structure of the body is externalized as a shell. The shell’s outer layer is a matte white, while the inner layer is a striking white with iridescence.The nautilus shell presents one of the finest natural examples of a logarithmic spiral.The shell is internally divided into chambers.The last fully open chamber, also the largest one, is used as the living chamber.

Thai one on

Thai style blends a sense of balance, harmony and serenity to a space, which is kept simple and uncluttered. There is an emphasis on hand crafts and the use of natural elements.

Deco(r)

Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture and interior design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, and the graphic arts. Its popularity peaked during the Roaring Twenties. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, and ultra modern as well.
The Art Deco style celebrates the Machine Age through explicit use of man-made materials, particularly glass and stainless steel. It was strongly adopted in the United States during the Great Depression for its practicality and simplicity.