Black and White for E - One

Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend. My niece is heading off to prep school in a month and she's decided to decorate her dorm room in black and white. She's a young teenager, and she has great style and intelligence. I've created this first moodboard for her based on this beautiful image...Her room will certainly be a lot smaller than this one, with a twin bed, bureau, desk and roommate provided! I mostly concentrated on bedding, throw pillows and a few accessories. This bed image is from West Elm, to show my sister and niece how the parachute duvet cover looks. It's feminine but sophisticated, I think. Click on the moodboard to enlarge and see the details more clearly...
Here's where you can find the: corwin and mociun pillows, tulip chair from Target, west elm organic cotton blanket, west elm parachute duvet cover, PB Teen task lamp, Format desk accessories from CB2, Jonathan Adler hugs pillow, black sheepskin pillow from overstock.com, tin mug from hindsvik on etsy, zebra print rug from amazon, cable knit pillow from a crooked sixpense on etsy, and three choices for a colorful print: sailboat print from mengseldesign on etsy, wishbone chair print from treasury designs on etsy, love print from Jennifer Ramos on etsy.
I hope to put together a few more black and white with pops of color boards this week, so stay tuned!

top image from The Beautiful Soup.

Camping

Did I tell you we went camping last weekend? This time, we went with friends and my boy was thrilled!What fun we had!

Random 1st Dibs

These varied pieces, from 1st Dibs' new listings today, caught my eye...(it says "this painting is meant to be displayed above the bed in the guestroom")This last one is a 19th century Japanese "treasure house" door, from an outbuilding that housed treasures in case of fire. And I love it.

So Pretty

especially on a hot day...The cool blue-white and the lack of clutter soothe me.
The Vedbaek House by Norm Architects, found thanks to Remodelista.

Globes

My little one will go to kindergarten at the end of August. My heart constricts a bit as I write that. It goes so fast. I don't know... perhaps I'm looking for distractions from the fact that we're entering this phase, but I've been looking at globes for him. Sort of a big boy, but cool and fun for all of us, acquisition. Everyone needs a globe, right? I've seen a lot of them lately, and I like what I see...You?

Globes from Present and Correct, the always beautiful Solid Frog, Etsy, SF Gate, Bliss, Design Sponge, and lovelydesign on flickr via Pinterest.

Bunk Bed Inspiration

My child is reaching sleep over age (aaaaak! I will discourage this as long as possible!) I've been noticing a lot of fun bunk beds, though, which might mean I'm warming to the idea of caring for someone else's child for sixteen hours or so... Images from: Eve Robinson Associates, Birch and Lily, Bloesem, My Scandinavian Retreat, and Emma.

Beautiful Weekend

I hope you have a glorious weekend! Wherever you are, I hope you are able to enjoy the great outdoors over the next couple of days...and I'll see you next week. Thank you so much for visiting me here.

A Few Objects I'm Loving

Happy Friday! These have been in my inspiration folder. I thought I'd show them to you...
Elephant mugs for pre-order at Jonathan Adler, weathervane from an auction earlier this month, black globe seen here, wire basket available at Piou's adorable new shop Neest.

East

Hello. I've been away...I was back East this past week for some family time. This included a memorial service for my aunt, my father's sister, and a funeral for sweet Yvette, who helped my mother throughout our lives. It was good to be with family -- I do not see them often enough. While photos were mostly inappropriate, there were times when it was fine to capture the beauty...Thankfully, there was also time to visit the shore and sail...Each of these places is part of my history, and quite meaningful to me. I hadn't been to New York in almost ten years, and it was a whirlwind visit, but a lovely one thanks to family (especially my sister who hosted all of us). I'm glad to be home, but hope to go back before too much time passes to spend time with family again, and to show my husband and son these places where I grew up.

Beautiful Weekend!

Where ever you are, I hope your weekend is as beautiful as this! Thanks so much for visiting me this week. And Happy Independence Day to the Americans, too!amazing image via walking around where the sidewalk begins