September 2015

I am so excited that Rejuvenation is coming to town. Founded by Jim Kelly [1977] while living in Portland...... in 2011 the company joined the Williams and Sonoma brand.

Atlanta is their 6th retail store and it just gives me one more place to source!

I got my invite to the opening party yesterday at the same time I was sourcing some brackets for a client. Serendipity right?

First I found some awesome hardware! Maybe they will give RH a run for their money and actually have the product.....just saying.

These were the brackets I was sourcing. In brass. I mean....#ohhellyeah

Some great wallpaper....you see that graphite one with the gold dots on it? Hold on to your hats sister cause I am in love.

And isn't it about time somebody invented a cute extension cord?

This container for wood by the fireplace.

These lights....

Some pretty darn good galvanized garden containers.

The barn door AND the hardware!

Who doesn't need some outdoor lights a la "Parenthood"

Great floor mats

I posted this because I got a little crazy when I saw these 2 colors together....

It's fall and I want to paint everything this color right now....

Farrow and Ball Babouche

And last we have these great door knockers....

I can't wait to see the showroom.

I think we have 86 days until Christmas! WTH.....

I am so frustrated with my computer since I updated to Yosemite. I can't drag any photos. AND.....every time I add an image to the album I have to restart the darn thing to get them to show up. Why couldn't I just leave well enough alone.

Wish I could unring that bell.

Shafrustrated

I just got back from Boulder, Co where I spent 3 days staging a house for my stepdaughter and her husband. Greg has been renovating homes for about 10 years on and off and we had a little over 48 hours to get this one ready for an open house on Sunday.....

If only I had the before images this post would be even better but unfortunately all I have are the ones I took upon arrival.

I have to tell you I did not think we could pull it together. Boulder only has one Homegoods...one Pier 1....and one World Market. The closest West Elm..... Pottery Barn and Ikea are an hour away. I knew that might ~~be impossible~~ present a challenge.

First up was the fact that the West Elm sofa we had ordered a month ago was not going to arrive. Yes....the quick ship "be there in 1-3 weeks" was already into the 4th week and they weren't exactly sure where it was.

So with that in mind I snapped a few shots and we headed out to look for a sofa stand in.

We stopped first a this great little design store called Lola Gray.

While they had fabulous things a sofa there would have blown the entire budget:)

Moving on....

Score. Pier 1 had one on the floor that they would sell and it was close to the same color as the ordered one. So we picked up a few things and headed next door to HomeGoods for no less that 30 or so pillows. After all.....if you hire me you get pillows right?

Here is where we started. The 2 chairs, rug and coffee table [I think] came from Ikea. They were purchased for the last home we did. Rug was definitely too small.