Kate Spade has black interior doors in her New York apartment. And she's from Kansas City. So that makes us....different in almost every way.
This little
Dessin Fournir number caught my eye a couple of years ago. I have a guideline that I follow before I bring new pieces into the house. If I would totally lose it if the boys ruin it, then it's not invited. (Don't bring up the Fornasetti tables; rules were made to be broken.) So, the jazzy Rateau Coffee Table with the iron base/silver leaf finish with Macasser ebony top with gold and silver leaf decoration was not to be.
But there was this quirky little shop in Brookside that carried iron tables that you could tile. Cheap. So I bought the base, gold leafed it and tiled the top with a really great, and indestructible
Bisazza tile.
Here is a vintage image of
Nina Campbell's bathroom. I could not get over the tortoise wallpaper. It's especially lovely here as it makes you feel like you are in a rare box. With a little ivory trim. (Look closely, that might be
Girl About Town, Rita Konig in the snap on the wall.)
Before we moved into the dream house, we had the luxury of getting the downstairs walls painted and papered before we moved in. I'm not sure Mr. Blandings felt like paying two mortgages was a luxury, but it worked for me. The house has a lot of color, certainly, and even I could see it needed a bit of a neutral somewhere. The dining room is almost perfectly square and a bit dark. Even though it has a south exposure, we have a very large crab apple right in front of the window.
When the sample was laying out, the elder Mr. Blandings pointed out to me that my choice was, well, brown. I told him it reminded me of David Hicks. You should only copy from the best.