If It Isn't Fabulous, It's Meaningless

Letting go........This is an example of the freedom in DesignHutton Wilkinsonexperiences everyday of his life.*check out the conch shell wall planters, I have never seen anything more faboo!Have you?Click on these images and look closely at his every little detail.It is not home design, it's a 'living stage design.'What could be better?I am not sure there is anything better than beauty.My life is

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Let John Saladino Transport You Too!

Always...It is in the details.I tore this room's picture out of a magazine, and have had it for years and years.It is as timeless today as it was stunning, when it was first published.I would still love to live in it.His work transports me to another place and time.Look at the fabulous dutch door.Perfect for your horse. He can peek his head in to wake you.A personal dream of mine.The work around

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OH SUSANNAH, DON"T YOU CRY FOR ME...FOR I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE....

suzani'sThe reason for the title is to help you memory challenged gals out there remember the pattern name.Suzani.I am challenged daily with remembering names.For instance, there is a woman that I regularly see, she doesn't look like her name.Do you know what I mean ? Every time I would run into her I would call her by the wrong name. The same wrong name every time.Debbie.Her name is 'Diane.' But

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What Do You Say?

Do you think this was a good a good choice for a lamp on this table? Do you like the black table in this room?*meow meow, where's my bowl of milk?Sorry so short tonight , gotta go to work very early for a whole house installation tomorrow.This house and these people are why I went into the business.I love doing homes, particularly when most of it arrives all at one time.It is so exciting!!!

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Feed Your Faith And Your Fear Will Starve To Death

It will be a cold day in hell when I wake up fearless.I struggle with fear.Fear of the unknown.Fear of not making my sales numbers at work, and then what will happen?What will happen if I lose my job?The economy is weak and people are not beating furniture showroom doors down to buy design services and furniture.Yesterday I was on an emotional roller-coaster.I had  meetings with two clients who

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From This.....

TO THIS !!!!"Howard Slatkin, an interior designer with rarefied tastes—every inch of his apartment has been as custom-designed as a couture dress.""Slatkin says, describing the 6,000-square-foot residence on Fifth Avenue he created for himself in the mid-nineties by joining two apartments, then demolishing every room so he could start from scratch. The process took three years.""The building is a

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A Black Parrot in Rockland Maine

There are not a bazillion stores to choose from in Maine for clothes or anything else, so only the strong survive!The Black Parrot in Rockland Maine is a definite  stop every time I visit.Here I am wearing one of their hats.Very Annie Hall.Don't you think ?This shop has EVERYTHING.Marimekko Accessories, which I adore since I first moved to Manhattan and stumbled upon their old shop off 5th

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A Fully Restored 'Gypsy's Wagon'

This is the real thing !!!It was brought over from Europe and is on loan to the Owls Head Transportation Museum, in Owls Head Maine.It is just down the street from where my Mom lives. She has tried to get me to go there for years, and finally yesterday I agreed. What a great place! I love mechanical things.What I mean is 'gears and wheels.'I will post the rest of the museum. It is filled with

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Laurel Hill

Cindy Rinfret's  Laurel HillCindy Rinfret, proprietor of Rinfret, Ltd., has been creating iconic interior design and defining true ‘Greenwich Style’ for nearly 17 years. With an array of high-profile clients, her portfolio includes eleven homes for Tommy Hilfiger, and several stately Georgian Mansions.About her home 'Laurel Hill' ,she says:“This is a wonderful process for every designer to

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Tommy's Old Place

"Stone Hill is the eleventh residence that upscale interior designer Cindy Rinfret has decorated forTommy Hilfiger. The world renowned fashion designer’s home on Round Hill Road in Greenwich stands as an example of true Fairfield County grandeur."I came across this and fell completely for it. As it happens, this is the home of Tommy Hilfiger.And from what I can gather he did not do his own

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Anytime at all....

 I am missing NYC.I am missing Carnegie Hill around 94th and Madison. It gets very quite there after 6pm. Just like it is quiet in the morning until about 7:45 am during the week.During the weekend it is a perfect neighborhood. It is. It is quiet there, maybe just kinda' sleepy and very relaxed.People are walking their dogs, taking their kids to the park.Some just gettng the morning paper and a

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I Am Just Not Feeling It

FOR HIM !!Sure, he had a beautiful wife, and a baby on the way. It was a brutal murder, by someone who"I won't even mention the idiots name."It was clearly a horrible tragedy.This is the home that Sharon and Roman were living in when the murders took place.No one has ever moved in it since.* Candice Bergen lived there before they did.The day after the murders.And here he is after his arrest when

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Garbo's Closet

"Mauritz Stiller who brought then-19-year-old Greta Gustafson to the United States in 1925. A three-time Oscar nominee, Garbo was given a special 1954 Academy Award for her “unforgettable screen performances.”*Of her legendary desire for privacy, she remarked in a 1928 interview—one of the few she ever granted—“I wanted to be alone, even as a child. I used to go to a corner and think... Thinking

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Innocent Again

Yom Kippur known as the Day of Atonement and it is the holiest day of the year for JewsSo, I am thinking WHITE.*White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry,

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Satisfaction

The best way to poison (your enemy) of all is living well. Doing better than you did yesterday. Killing with kindness. But, genuine kindness.Yesterday I wrote the biggest sale of the day, $19,000,00 in window treatments and bedding.This is a tiny amount compared to what I used to sell in my own design practice.This Is My Specialty.Selling DESIGN - something that exist only in my head, And will

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No Floor Fights For Me

I have shared on my blog that working in design is my life, but have I shared that doing design in the world of retail is hell ?I am working for a huge design & furniture company in Florida. The company is great, though their technology (computers etc) is like working for The Flintstones. I am not kidding.The rules in retail are as follows in most showrooms;When a person walks into a showroom,

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And A Good Time Was Had For All

That is, for anyone who ever has been to Tavern On The Green.Any time of day or night. It was beautiful and special.Especially if you were young when you went there.It was a shiny, glittering fairyland.Taking a small child (or just about anyone else) there during the Christmas season is sure to get some eye popping giant smiles!!And a lot of 'OOOHS and AHHHS'.(www.nycgovparks.org)I always thought

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Happy Rosh Hashanah

Happy (Jewish) New Year !!According to the Jewish calendar, the year is 5769.According to the Chinese calendar, the year is 4706.This means that the Jewswent without Chinese food for 1,063 years!!!This period was known as the Dark Ages. HA Ha HA!!!It is tradition to eat sweets on Rosh Hashanah so that the coming year may be sweet as well.I am Jewish, but I am 'Jewish Lite.'

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Dexter's New Digs

This is a story about a boy growing up in Miami, he was adopted by a cop who found him at a crime scene. The 'crime scene' was a bloody mess where his mother had been killed with a chain saw by an evil man that she had 'informed' on to the police. The officer who's 'RAT' she was, was the very cop who found the boy sitting in his mothers blood for days. So......the cop adopted the little boy. The

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Starting Over In 1979

It was 1979 and I was living and working in Manhattan.My childhood idol was Candice Bergen. (The only person that I wanted to look and be like as a kid)She was filming a movie with Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh. I was working in the same building that they were filming the movie, and it was a thrill for me to see C.B. over and over for weeks.BTW, this is a hilarious film, and I believe it is

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