One of my clients has me stumped and this doesn’t happen often. She saw this fabric on Brisbane designer Anna Spiro’s blog and fell in love. But for the life of me I cannot find the source. I even emailed the source did not get a response. So, please…..I am sure someone out there knows this lovely fabric?
Does this fabric come to mind?
Pretty Please?
Southern Accents, Summer 2008
Lynn Morgan Design
Timeless, no?
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Bear Hill Interiors
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Lynn Morgan Design
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Pat Healing (HB Home) by Maura McEvoy
Like it?
I was in the Fabricut showroom last week and ran across this fabric. Funny enough, I had a swatch of it from a retail chain sitting in my purse from a while back. I am thinking it is going to be used in our guest room. It is available in navy (azure) and aqua.
When I first saw this fabric it reminded me of this Manuel Canovas fabric (Pali), that is far more expensive. I know the scale is different but at first glance…there was just something that reminded me of this.
Here is the Manuel Canovas Pali fabric used in a Dallas home. Love the fabric mixed with Quadrille and Matouk linens.
photo by Stephen Karlisch
Irrespective of any resemblance, I really like the Fabricut version. Especially at the price point. What do you think?
Our builder called on Thursday and the Bianco Macabus quartzite had arrived into the stone yard. She wanted to go out and look at it alone just to make sure that the slabs were wide enough for our kitchen. The island will be something like 9 ft. across and we don’t want a seam on the island. She then sent me some texts with photos from the yard….which ended in a flurry of back and forth and my ultimately meeting her out there later in the day.
We went through many of the slabs (we need 3) and these were the two we liked best. This stone is coming from Brazil at the moment.
The veining is darker than in some of the countertops I’ve been able to see in person. And, there are some blue/grey spots whereas in a previous slab there were some rust stains. I swear, making this decision is really hard…..you have to live with the decision for so long! I went back and looked at the marble while we were there. Going with marble would be more budget friendly and I know I like the look….but I really just do not want to deal with the upkeep. At all. In fact, last week I was making a favorite weeknight dish and my husband walked by me in the kitchen and smirked…..you won’t be making that dish ever again if you go with marble (the dish has like 5 lemons and juice was squirting all over the place!)
Anyhow, I was able to find a few more images of this type of stone in actual kitchens. Looking at a slab straight on vs. envisioning it down on a countertop is so hard. Or, for me it is. This photo, while in a much more modern kitchen than mine will be, is how I expect our slabs to look in terms of amount of veining and tone of the veins.
Susan Moon Design
And here is a kitchen example that seems to have much more subtle veining.
Janine Rosenblum Interiors
Here is another image of a kitchen with these countertops. It really is amazing to me how this stone can go modern, traditional, rustic, etc. depending on its surroundings.
House Beautiful via here
And finally, here are a couple of images our builder sent me of these contertops in a spec house she had done several years ago.
We have one other lot of this stone to go look at. It looks a bit different to me based on the photo I’ve seen (see below). The only drawback here is that the island may need to be shortened if we use these slabs as there would have to be a seam under current plans. And we don’t want that at all.
So, there you have it. I just love this stone so much. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be able to report back that I made a decisions and that the stone has been purchased. Fingers crossed!
I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent considering lighting for the kitchen island and for over the table. One fixture that is in the running is Circa lighting’s Vendome chandelier (designed by Thomas O’Brien).
I always appreciate finding images of a piece in use to help me visualize how it might look in my own space. So, I was thrilled to see it over on the blog of talented designer, Rachel Halvorson, earlier this week.
I love that this fixture is simple and elegant while staying relatively budget friendly. Do you like it?
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Isler Homes
