Summer love

(Via Le Love)

Lonny

Designer Michelle Adams of Rubbie Green and her business partner Patrick Cline are starting a new online magazine, Lonny, filled with decorating and lifestyle inspiration. They'll round up the best editors, designers, artists and bloggers and will premiere the first issue this September.

Obviously this is an effort to fill the void that Domino has left us and I couldn't be happier about it. It will be interesting to see who and what is featured.

BFF's

I love getting texts like this from by best friend in Raleigh:

just found a pottery barn AND west elm oulet. 3 hours away. come visit.

Haha.

Happy 4th

Treat Me Like Your Mother

Jack never ceases to amaze me.

Live from the Basement.

Short film trailer.

Jimmy Fallon on 7.17.09

7.30.09 can't get here soon enough.

(Photos by Grant Gee)

Blah beige

I've never been a fan of white/beige interiors. I find them boring, unwelcoming and definitely not inspiring. I'm learning everyday more and more why I do and don't like different styles and I think I figured out why I don't care for the all white or beige look.

Yes, they look clean but I think they can also look stark. Designer Stephen Knollenberg has done a lot of white interiors but they don't bother me as much as others. I think it's because he always has a little something to contrast the white. The wicker wingback chair averts your eye from all the monotone colors, the industrial metal barstools in the kitchen give it some spark, and the zebra stool is a nice pattern to throw into the mix. It's just nice to have something to help your eyes not glaze over with "blah everything's white or beige."

I guess I just like the unexpected or having a wow factor in a home.

(Via Desire to Inspire)

Everyone needs some red in their lives.

(Via Desire to Inspire and Miles Redd)

Madison Avenue

I've been re-watching Season 1 of Mad Men and falling in love with the show all over again.

It's so good, so well done. I think anyone that watches it wishes they would have lived in the 50's (Well, except for the fact that all the men cheated on their wives and the women got NO respect in the workplace. I can't imagine working back then, an office would have been hell.) But there's still something kind of appealing to living in the 50's to me. I love hearing my grandmothers talk about going downtown to shop in "real" department stores and seeing pictures of old, classic cars. Things just seemed so much more original back then.


A Continuous Lean did a post on old Miller High Life ads which I found to be a bit ironic since I've been watching so much Mad Men.


Love the one with the man burning his mortgage. This was an actual event that used to happen. I'd never heard of it until I googled it and found this:

Back in the 50's, 60's and 70's homeowners actually worked and saved to pay off their mortgage. After making their last payment the new real homeowners would invite the neighbors over, ceremonially burn their mortgage papers in the trash can and then unveil the deed to their home and proceed to have a cookout!


I wonder what the "Champagne" of beers in 2009 would be?

Pour that over here

I'm loving these wedding photos by British photographer Marianne Taylor.





I especially love this one:


(Via Style Me Pretty)

Sixx Design

The husband and wife team that make up Sixx Design (you know, the Manhattanites with the seven kids and this book) have put their unbelievable West Village townhouse for sale.

Check it out here:



(Via Daily Intel)