Showing posts with label Apartment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apartment. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Apartment Update

Renting a two bedroom apartment definitely has it's pros and cons. On one hand I can vacuum the entire apartment while leaving the vacuum plugged into one outlet, on the other hand there isn't much leeway on re doing areas of the house. Some people do small things like update their throw pillows every few years, or they have major projects on their to do list that they may not get to for several years. I however have nothing that needs to be done, or frankly that I want to have done, so I was kind of excited when my Noir dining room chair seats started splitting at the seams. I should have been annoyed that our chairs were not holding up well, especially since the Mr. and I rarely ever sit down to actually eat in the "dining room,"  but instead I was excited. It gave me an excuse to do a project, and I had the chairs reupholstered, well part of them anyway... Surprise surprise I decided to use a Cowtan and Tout animal print!



 Another update- Hank is huge!












Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday Favs


Remember when my sweet Mama got me the knock-off version of the Oly Studio Pipa cocktail table for Christmas 2011? I posted about it here, and to this day we always regretted getting the smaller table and giving the big one to a client. Mom and I have been hunting Home Goods stores weekly (Mom almost drove out of state when a store in Delaware had one, but the fools wouldn't take a credit card over the phone to reserve it, thats how insane we are) so when the bigger version didn't turn up, I bit the bullet and ordered the real deal last summer at Market. Seven months later I finally got the call that the table was ready! I had the whole thing planned out, I pushed some of the furniture to the outside of the living room to make it feel bigger so when the new much larger table arrived the Mr. wouldn't even notice the ol switcharo. No such luck. The table was delivered last Friday and when he got home from work the first thing he said was Woo did you carry that up all by yourself?? Then proceeded to ask me why we needed two versions of the same table. Technically if if you look closely they are not exactly the same table, not just in size but color and texture. Enough of a difference to spend the extra mullah on one vs the other? Probably not, but I have been eyeing this puppy for years and I don't regret it for a second. Plus, as I pointed out to him, the odds of us having a living room big enough to fit the 42" table in, in our first home some day is probably slim to none, so I need to keep the smaller version just in case. Personally I think he is lucky to have a wife who plans ahead...









Old 


New

Just to give you an idea of how much bigger the new table is, the same books are on here as there were on the 32" version above. The Vera Wang book is now under the gray and white box (Henry) and the doggie book is under the novel and the shell. 






Wednesday, September 12, 2012

White Collar

Don't judge, but I love this show. Growing up I used to watch Matlock and Murder She Wrote with Grandma Lizzie so I'm a sucker for mystery slash law and order type sitcoms. Check out this NYC pad and tell me you wouldn't watch it just for the scenery ... the good looking cast doesn't hurt either. 
























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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Mix and Chic Apartment Feature

Jessie from Mix and Chic featured our apartment on her lovely blog today! I am always in awe of Jessie and how frequent and detailed her posts are. As most bloggers know, it is not easy to produce daily content filled with gobs of eye candy and personal commentary that is fresh and new to your readers. The only theory I can come up with is that she must never sleep! Head on over to Mix and Chic to see the apartment, and while my fabulous Haute Indoor Couture followers will recognize the subtle changes in the pad, for those of you who are just stopping by, I thought I would share them with you.


The drapes here I love, but I ended up moving them into the Living Room add
 a little color in there. The mix matched bed side tables drove me crazy which led 
to my corbel night stand project


My Pottery Barn Peyton drapes from the Living Room have been repurposed
 here after my seamstress added 24" of  Burlap to the bottom of each panel. 
Small detail big impact. 


Notice my two different drapery rods?? I waited for-ev-er for the second bamboo rod! 
 Also the new seat cushion on the sofa arrived a few months after this photo was taken. 
Apartment wall color is Benjamin Moore White Ice OC 58


Personally I feel like the room is so much brighter after moving the
 shield into Henry's room. 

Henry's Room when Henry isn't actually sleeping...

 This is what the room usually looks like, and yes that is a sheet covering the sofa,
 which is on top of a white cotton duck slip cover which protects the vintage 1930's 
plaid sofa.The coffee table is courtesy of my Mama, best Christmas Present ever! 




Thanks for featuring us Jessie!