My office is in our backhouse (upstairs over our detached garage) and consists of a large room, two walk-in closets, a little kitchenette and a full bathroom.  I feel like I want to be a bit more colorful in the space…..a little more daring then I’d be in the house.  However, there is a possibility that my step-son will move to the US for college and if so, he’d live back there most likely.  I hope this comes to fruition and it means I’ll have to search for alternative space—-but time will tell….we are working on the whole immigration stuff.  In the meantime, I just keep my inspiration file growing…..and try to keep moving forward inside the house!

I am loving the yellow cabinets in this showhouse featured in a 2011 issue of Style at Home.  Yellow paint can go so terribly wrong…..but here I love it.

Photographed by Michael Graydon for House and Home

Photographed by Michael Graydon for House and Home

I also love it in this San Francisco home…..from a real estate listing.

Truth be told, I don’t think I’ll be painting my cabinetry bright yellow…..or even going with yellow tile……I’ll probably leave the yellow in my life as it is.  Until I thought about it…..I didn’t realize how much I’d already used the color around the house!

Maddie and Harry’s Playroom….

(which has SOOO much more art hanging at the moment)…

Maddie’s Room…..

Outside at our house….

(before our stone walk was finished and the grass was fixed!)

Especially during winter months when the landscaping looks more bare, those yellow pots continue to make me smile.

What colors are you liking these days?

I saw this image over on Design Indulgence the other day.  Seriously, an entire wall covered in black and white Betwixt fabric?  Could there be anything more perfect?

Celerie Kemble

Makes me want to upholster some walls!

It is cold and blustery in Dallas today.  I stumbled on the below wallpaper and it made me smile.  Kinda granny, country and retro all at once….but I like it.

Brian Yates Pip Collection Wallpaper

My baby has Kindergarten round-up today.  She tours the school while I wait in line with every document I can find to prove we live in the school district and she can get a spot in the school that is within walking distance to our house.  In my 38 years, I’ve never lived in a place where there were good public schools before and it was a big part of why we bought where we did.  I feel blessed…..and sad that my baby will be in Kindergarten in August!

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She is really growing up…..so independent wanting to pick her own outfits and for the first time this year….having a very strong opinion on what we’ll do for her birthday. Much to my dismay she’s convinced us to have her party at a venue I detest more than any for birthdays. (She sees rooms of bouncing fun…..I see germs, ample opportunities for accidents and a complete inability to make it cute and girly.)  But hey, it’s her party, not mine, right?

Speaking of Maddie, did I ever mention her bedside lamps came in finally?  Excuse the photo I snapped on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago….but she’s sleeping as I type this and it is dark…..so this photo will have to do.

I am going to be selling those lamps (in tons of colors) in my online shop.  Pretty excited about getting them!  Still no promises on when the site will launch….but I am going to step on a limb and say within a month.  I think I need to get over my perfectionist tendencies, take a deep breath….and let it go….if I don’t, I may never launch and I might go broke in the process!  We are in that whole change order phase that is oh so fun!

And finally, another paper I am obsessed with…..in this particular colorway……but it is $$$$ (this is printed on grasscloth and sold by the yard) and for that reason, wish I’d never laid eyes on it!  (Or shared it with a new local client!)

Celerie Kemble / Schumacher Wallpaper

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

PS–My email notifications of comments aren’t showing up….which means I cannot email you back.  So, if you have commented recently with a comment or suggestion….thank you!  I am not ignoring the gesture….just don’t know how to reach you back!  Sorry!

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Cold and rainy here today.

These make me smile.

It also makes me smile that my kids slept in today!

Happy Thursday.

My kids love to read / be read to.  It’s why our playroom has an entire wall devoted to their books.  So, it won’t come as a surprise that I love this new paper from Penguin and Osborne & Little.

How fun would this paper be in a reading nook with a window seat?

It is cold and rainy here in Dallas. 

Wish I were curled up with my Book….

Instead of meeting with my accountant today.

Happy Tuesday!

Sorry to fall off the face of the earth last week.  The worst sinus infection ever, pink eye and a husband traveling most of the week made for one miserable mamma.  Still not feeling 100% and so over it!  So, instead of thinking about it and complaining….let me tell you what I am currently obsessing over.

Miles Redd, via House Beautiful

Miles Redd

Miles Redd, photographed by François Halard

I am obsessing over……

….the ruffles Miles Redd uses to take simple silk panels to a new level.

Love it!

You?