Black, White and Pastel

Love this look with the sharp contrast of black and white with the softness of pastel. Just a touch of pink or grey added into a black and white space or even when dressing up and outfit can change the whole look.  Don't you love these pastel dishes with the black bowls in the collection...really I just need to try this with a few pieces of my own ceramics collection.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!!

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home. A Delightsome Life

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx 

via:Found on 79ideas.org, Found on stylizimoblog.com, Found on cocolapinedesign.com, Found on remainsimple.tumblr.com, Found on seventeendoors.blogspot.fr, Found on sfgirlbybay.com

Victorian Modern

This Victorian home in London is all done up in tones of grey, white and taupe. Amazing mouldings and ceiling detail are what make this house so special but it's the mix with modern furnishings that really up the style factor.

Love the modern details in the kitchen with the lacquered white cabinets and the gorgeous antique windows. So pretty with the table in the eating nook and the modern lamp hanging from the ceiling.  

Hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day!

Photograph by James Merrell

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

 via house to home

Pins of the Week

I am starting a new Friday night series showing you my weekly favourites from Pinterest. I try to pin everyday and I pin everything from fashion and food to the best homes and decor ideas. So reviewing those for a Friday night feature will be great fun for me and you! This week I seem to have been on a black, white and camel pinning extravaganza...well to be honest I tend to pin these colours fairly often....but I found some really gorgeous homes and fashion ideas this week. Hope you all have a lovely weekend!!

Isn't this heart sweet! Love the mix of chairs!

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Camel and black look so good together!

Great picture wall!

Layers and layers of styling!

Tory Burch shoes! Love them..

Simple work space...lovely.

Wonderfully reflective floor in white..

Grey and white modern

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Found on toryburch.com, Found on welke.nl, Found on sfgirlbybay.com, Found on sfgirlbybay.com, Found on blissfulbblog.com

Designer: Windsor Smith

I have been doing research for a design project I am working on and I had the idea to go and look at the website of Windsor Smith for inspiration. Well I certainly went to the right place! This designer has really incredible taste and creates the most chic, yet livable rooms. Really an outstanding talent...I could live in most of the homes she designs and feel really comfortable. What I like is that she can design in many styles, traditional, eclectic or classic but manages to keep her own signature running through her work. She keeps a nice mix of modern mixed with antique or vintage and even her most classic homes never look stuffy. Take a look at a few of her wonderful rooms here many from here own home...

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Windsor Smith Home

Inspiration in White: Industrial Lighting

I was looking for a new light for my bedroom and I came across a great store with the most incredible industrial lighting. Really large vintage lamps that you would find in an old barn or warehouse. As I was looking through Pinterest tonight I saw the same kind of lighting in many kitchens and dining rooms. I just love the look and the impact of these large lights, usually in pairs, in stainless, grey and of course black. They give a great edge to any kitchen or dining room and work with many styles but are really perfect in a modern look....and off the subject of lights...what about that black Smeg fridge! Oh my....

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Found on laurenliess.com, Found on desiretoinspire.net, Found on desiretoinspire.net, Found on style-files.com, Found on contemporist.com

Living Lightly

I have an abundance of stuff in my home and I can not seem to change this...I try...really I do..but I just love to collect things and style things and it just accumulates. I wish I could change as I really love the look of the homes I post with great architecture and clean, simple lines in the home. Like this one I am showing you below...so beautiful and each piece that is shown in the home is really perfect in its place and you really see it..you look at each piece. 

This is the home of photographer Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen who is also a designer and architect and clearly super talented! A wonderful eye and a lot of restraint in design with a perfect eye for detail. 

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: More photos of this wonderful space here on Interior Magasinet

Photos: Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen

Hamptons Cottage

This is such a fresh summer cottage in the Hamptons, very light, bright and relaxed. I love the wood plank walls and the rough hewn beams. Great lighting throughout and big windows keep the indoors bright and allow for a wonderful view of the outdoors. Furnishings are modern and simple mixed with cheery textiles and pops of bright colours....and what about that gorgeous pool! Of course you need that at your summer place!

I am working on a video on how to style your coffee table and dressers and I think this one in the living room is well done! What do you think?

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

photos: Patrick Cline

via: Lonny

Domino Magazine: Colour Issue

The latest issue of Domino Magazine is all about colour and boy is it gorgeous! Of course, where there is colour there needs to be lots of white because colour always looks best against the crispness of white walls and fabrics. I love the way colour is used in these rooms...great wall art, bright printed cushions and rich carpets.

Super stylish rooms and accessories are featured throughout the magazine...as you know it is one of my favourites...and even better now you can download the new app! Yes, you can download the app onto your ipad and browse the articles and shop away...yes you can buy so much of what you see in the mag..on the website..just search in Domino Magazine in iTunes.

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Domino Magazine

Stylish Loft

This is the home of the East Village apartment of stylist Anthony D'Argenzio featured in Lonny Magazine. I love the sweet vintage furnishings mixed with great mid-century pieces. The apartment was completely renovated and recycled materials were used here and there....I am so loving the subway tiles... which I think are having a major comeback...especially since they take up the whole wall space. Of course the open shelving also looks so good. White washed brick and the pickled floors complete the wonderful look in this beautiful space.

Photographed by Emily Johnston

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

vai: Lonny

Naturally Modern

Another great spread in Vogue Living magazine featuring a converted 70's style home. Done with all natural materials the outdoors and indoors blend seamlessly with large open doors and windows. Lots of natural and stained woods are used in this stylish modern home, as well as concrete on the floors and stone in the bathroom. Don't you just love that bathroom sink!! Of course there is the amazing twig chandelier in the dining room...really so many fantastic elements in this house...

photos: SHANE BLUE

Linking with Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, My Romantic Home, Common Ground Do

Enjoy!

Trudy

xx

via: Vogue Living