Posts tagged as "Personalised decor"

Posted by the trend stalker on 12th March 2012

Décor notes from Bennie Boekwurm

This trend stalker remembers once reading a decorator recounting how a client wanted a large bookcase in her lounge, filled only with peach- and apricot-coloured books to match the suite and other décor. To this day, I don’t know which aspect horrifies me more. That the client actually had an apricot leather suite. That the [...]

Posted by the trend stalker on 24th February 2012

Do come on in

While I absolutely adore the maisonette that hubby and I have just moved into, one aspect hasn’t endeared itself to me at all: the front door. It’s a beautiful old wooden door, probably original to the house, with stained glass surrounds and wonderful brass knobs. But it doesn’t open! The owner, who lived there for [...]

Posted by the trend stalker on 12th December 2011

MAKING MEMORIES, NOT CLUTTER

eclectic living room design If I kept all the keepsakes I’ve collected over the years my house would be covered in them. There would be piles of tickets and passes (movies, concerts and flights), a bag full of I [heart] whatever t-shirts, stickers and pins about things I didn’t really heart. I’d be under so [...]

Posted by the trend stalker on 10th June 2011

The trick to well-travelled decor

True story: a friend of mine knew Danny K before he was Danny K. Well, maybe not so much “knew” as “met”. She was doing marketing in the security industry and attended a neighbourhood safety meeting hosted by his mom, Pam Koppel. The point of the story is that the family home made more of [...]

Posted by the trend stalker on 8th June 2011

Coming out of the closet: Dress your nest

Ever notice how some people feel really “at home” in their homes? Almost like their surroundings were tailor-made just for them? Well, that’s probably because they were – with the emphasis on “tailor-made”. These canny fashionistas have realised that the colors that look good on them also look good around them and they dress their [...]