Tiny (adorable) pineapple plant brought home!

Posted on 06/07/2013 by Ada

As I was standing in line at Trader Joe’s I spotted it …….

It was the cutest (4″ tall) pineapple plant that I had EVER seen. Not that you see that many (any?) for sell or planted in NYC. I want one (there was a row of 4)!!!! But my brain shoved my heart and reasoning barged in …. “pineapple are for the tropics” not our (nowadays) crazy new york weather. So, I left the store and didn’t buy it, going home empty handed (umm, besides the 2 grocery filled bags) …..

…. my heart felt a lil empty and my hubby’s ear was getting an earful hearing over and over and over again:

“Wasn’t that the CUTEST thing you EVER saw”

“OMG, I can’t BELIEVE they are selling them!”

… 5 hours later (midnight, maybe) .. “I wonder how the pineapple is still there”.

Finally I (maybe, hubby too) couldn’t take it anymore,  I.had.to.have.it! We went back, as I chanted “if it is not there, it wasn’t meant to me”. I walked (zooooomed, like this)  to the back and spotted 2 (phew!) …..

… yeaaah! My heart SMILED! There was an elderly woman in front of me on the line who started chatting w/me smitten by the plant (back off lady! I thought). She then insisted that I get on line before her (aaaaaw, how sweet; esp since she had like 50 items and I had 1). I thanked her a million times (before, during, and after checkout). Then calmly walked to the car like this.  It’s finally home:

We (hubby) planted it outside in our herb garden – it’s looking very devenir. I’m planning on bringing it inside our home in the cold weather. Oh, did you see the tree that followed me (sort of) home?

Bottom line, the pineapple plant may not grow much (um, or at all), bunnies may approach it for breakfast (visualize them with forks + knives), and we may never get to eat it ….. but what matters is that I find it sooo adorable that it makes my heart smile every time I see the unexpected element (of a tropical plant in NY) <– and that, my friends, makes it all worth it!!! Psst, cost – $12.99 of awesomeness!

What are your plans for the weekend? Stay tuned for upcoming posts … our helicopter ride in Hawaii (to the volcanoes), estate sale at a mansion in New York, and some other stuff that I can’t remember right now.

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The tree that followed me home (sort-of)

Posted on 06/06/2013 by Ada

Look who followed me home …… I named it Oscar.

Yep, Oscar is a tree branch. Approx. 4 feet long. Spotted during my morning walk when I tripped over it (not really, but sounds exciting huh). I spotted a stack of tree branches, looks like they had fallen from the storm or trimmed by the landscapers (which they do when branches get too large around here). So, I looked left … looked right …. no one around … grab it and raaaaan. Ok, no running, only internally. I wandered what people would think ….

Did she climb a tree to get that? 

Why is that crazy lady walking around with a tree in her hand? 

Is that ADA? I was wearing sunglasses (ahem, a disguise). 

But, who caaares what they may think. It’s FREE decor baby! Wooohoooooooo! And I had the perfect vase to place (shove) it in.

Add water ….

Trim branches ….

Place … admire … and wonder how long before hubby realizes that there is a tree on our mantle.

I’ve been wanting to get (for the past 1, 2, okay 3 months!!) large artificial leaves to place in my newest fave ceramic white vase …..

(psst, vase is from west elm). I had planned to go to Jo-Anns and hoped that they had what I envisioned.

 … but isn’t it beautiful that sometimes what we desire comes to us in unexpected ways … and free! If you want to bring a bit of the “outdoors” inside your home stalk keep your eyes open … a tree may just follow you home. Stay tuned … I will be posting pics of the helicopter ride hubby and I took in Hawaii (it was AWESOME) … and more pics of my client’s (Isela’s) living room transformation to spectacularness!

[Update: it took hubby less than 10 minutes to notice Oscar ... not bad] 

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Isela’s living room design concept (before pics)

Posted on 06/05/2013 by Ada

It’s scribble design ideas time! Today’s a peek of the design ideas I concocted in my lab (office) for my client Isela who hired me to transform her Brooklyn living room to …. spectacular (seriously, it turned out spectacular … and I am not just saying that bec I designed it … ok, maybe. Fine, you be the judge!) She purchased the apt and was ready to say bye bye to her college-like furniture items.

We added a larger .. cooler … L-shape sofa. Took about 6 weeks to deliver, EEK! But, worth the wait to get the beautiful fabric that flowed oooh so elegantly with the rest of the items we were going to incorporate.

Current light fixtures HAD TO GO .. blue pendants were toooo small for the space ….. track light simply looked awkward … and did you see the round UFO light fixture?  <- disclosure … client completely agrees with my description.

Here’s a peek at the Design Presentation Board that I showed to my client for her approval. Check out the gorgeous white capiz shell pendant light fixture on the right side …

There was a bit of prep work before we could start having the furniture delivered … plaster, sand, prime … painting party!

Everything perfectly timed – thanks to the project management skills of a gorgeous interior decorator (that’s me … blush blush), and her amazing assistant (Evelisa extraordinaire), contractors (thanks Unal, Murat, Danny … you guys are ROCKSTARS!), and my beautiful client Isela who trusted that we would get it done oooh so perfectly for her. Time to play with plaster …

Walls …. prep .. prep … prep ….

TV mounted to wall was a PAIN in the buttocks to do! Um, not that I actually did the installation (haha), but I do empathize when I see my contractors built up a sweat …. the wall was hollow to hold the tv’s swivel arm bracket that my client purchased (BRACKET was more heavy than the TV .. eek!). Problem solving …. contractors opened the wall …. placed wood studs … and voila … magic… I told you they are superstars!

Installation …. curtain rods up (on VERY high ceiling – thank goodness for the invention of ladders!)

Here’s a peek at the furniture we added ..

we ended up replacing the butterfly chair with a gorgeous round backed arm chair maintaining the design goal of mixing masculine + feminine elements.

Did you notice the unfinished doors? …. they didn’t stay like that for long … thankfully client gave me the thumbs up to paint paint paint them! Here’s a peek on how paint starts turning the room to spectacular …..

The dining chairs shown above (with me!) were from my client’s roof patio, placed so Isela could use them temporarily until the gorgeous rustic wood chairs arrived. I hope you are excited to see the final reveal next week! Stay tuned tomorrow to see the  tree branch that followed me (sort of) home and became decor for my mantle … it looks beautiful in it’s new home.

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Why I am not a chef: Potato Yogurt Bacon Salad

Posted on 06/04/2013 by Ada

I have been wanting to eat more yogurt. But there is a little catch – I hate the taste of yogurt (blah, gross). But, white reading Real Simple mag, a recipe caught my eye. It had yogurt WITH bacon. Bacon, whaaaaa? ……….. halleluya! The recipe is called the “Bacon, Potato, and Watercress Salad”. Hmm, why does the name looks like a list of ingredients. I ponder, then move on determined to make the dish.

Here’s a peek at the recipe (bottom right side) on my fridge … looks good, right?

Below are the ingredients …. my confusion ….and the reality (of why I am not a chef):

30 minutes …. took me 60 minutes to make this “side dish”. (pizza would had been quicker).

New potatoes …… what the heck is “NEW” potatoes? Does the market sell “OLD” potatoes? Is “NEW” a brand?  

Bacon …. nice reminder on why I am even attempting to make this recipe. 

1 tablespoon instructions … of lemon juice ONLY. NOT including salt, and pepper. More on ‘that’ discovery later. 

Supermarket didn’t have watercress or chives …. why are SUPERmarkets called SUPER when they don’t carry these ingredients. I ended up getting spinach (instead of watercress) and leeks (instead of chives). Is it almost the same? Who knows .. it’s not like I can eat the paper recipe and taste the difference. 

Ok, enough rant …. here’s what ended up happening.

Ingredient …… lemon (2 tbsp):

I use actual ‘tablespoons’ to measure. 

Squuuuuezzzeee .. darn, this is harder than I thought…. squeeeeze …. tablespoon almoooost full. Squirt … droplet floating towards my eye (picture the Matrix movie). Oooouch, my effing left EYE. WTFreak, how did that squirt manage to reach MY eye and miss the large spoon? I think it had something to do with taking this CLOSE-UP pic. Next time I will use my zoom less. 

Thank goodness I am by the kitchen sink (rinse my eye w/water … BUT for some reason our kitchen faucet loves to disgust it’s ‘cold’ self with hot water first (on our to fix it …. probably never) … so I wait until it turns cold (about freaking time .. eyeball wants to pop out) . aaaaaah, relief. Until this ….

Ingredient: ……. chives leeks (2 Tbsp)

(Mr “suuuuper”market didn’t have any chives so I used leeks instead.

As I was washing the leeks, one of the ends did a somersault and DIRT (not clean water, but DIRT) flew into my RIGHT eye.

After strangling the leeks for attacking my ‘good eye’ (and my left eye still recuperation from the lemon attack), I proceeded to chop it (aggressively) into small peaces.

I then remember that I have the potatoes boiling MORE than I was suppose to (20 minutes extra). Guess I spent too much time strangling the leeks. Now its close to being qualified as ‘mashed potatoes’.

Ingredient: ….. “NEW” potatoes (1 1/2 lbs).

What’s this “pound” stuff? Why can’t they just say 2 or 4 potatoes. Who the eff has a scale in their home? Oh yeah, real chefs. And that the heck is that disgusting white foamy thing in the water? Maybe the potatoes I purchased aren’t “new”.

Ingredients ………. pepper and salt.

A tablespoon of pepper .. yep, I followed what I “thought” was the correct measurement. How on earth do I squeeze peppers into the measuring spoons.  I will use a dish .. twist twist twist .. that looks like a tablespoon amount ‘to me’. What on earth is that sizzling noise? Must be outside (maybe the sprinkler). 

A whole tablespoon of salt seems like a lot so I will add half. I finally decide to use my measuring thinga-ma-gig:

Then I see …. read the mixing instructions … which call for 3/4 salt + 1/4 pepper. What? I thought it was 1 tablespoon. Ok, u be the judge. Here’s my case. I look at the step-by-step- ingredients and ‘read it’ as requiring 1 tablespoon of each ……

Note to self – “read the entire recipe’ before I begin prep work. 

What on earth is that sizzling noise? The sprinkler still? 

Yikes, the BACON is burning toasting! 

Ingredient ….. bacon (YUM!)

Another clue that I am NOT a chef –> are all the knife marks on the pan.  Thanks to hubby for enlightening me to use a cutting board and not cut meat while it is ON the pan sizzling.

Bacon crispy, I ninja chopped it with a knife ……. not! It was a pain to chop (perhaps bec it was on a plate, not a chopping board … but hey, at least I am not cutting it on the pan, right! Baby steps people). Cave-woman technique ….  muuuuuch easier to use my hands to tear-it-to-pieces (yes, I had a rough day at work).

Ingredient … plain lowfat yogurt. 

Time to whisk all the ingredients in a bowl (I use my cereal bowl) and use a spoon instead of a whisk.  Hey, why dirty more utensils, right?!

Ingredient ……. watercress spinach.

I almost forgot the spinach … this time I did use a knife to cut the leaves (maybe). 

I took my clear bowl and thought about adding the dressing  to the bottom of it before I added the main contents. Good Idea.

I forgot about it. So, dressing PLOPPED on top of it:

And this is how it turned out? … delicious!

How is this suppose to be a ‘side dish’?  After all my sorting (ingredients), chopping (by hand), injuries (my eyeballs), slicing (yes, I eventually used a knife not just my cave-woman fingers), mixing (drenching) the dressing ….. conclusion: this is a ‘main meal’ NOT a “side dish” (for me).

What I learned …. I need more practice reading/cooking recipes, I should befriend our cutting board, I tend to whisper curses when cooking a new recipe, I should wear goggles when handling lemons, it’s okay not to ‘follow the rules’ in recipe (as in life we learn from our mistakes), I had a FUN time “trying to be a chef”.

It really reaaaaally turned out delicious. I like yogurt after all (wohoooo). Time to enjoy it my creation . . .

Do you have an EASY fun side dish that you recommend? Emphasis on easy. Stay tuned tomorrow … a peek at another one of my interior design projects (some behind-the-scenes action shots). CZU74MZZRX6B

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House we rented in Hawaii {Big Island}

Posted on 06/03/2013 by Ada

Ready for the tour of our (I wish) house in The Big Island, Hawaii? I’ve said it before, here (Rome, Italy) and here (Barcelona Spain), and I will say it again – I LOVE vacation home rentals … they always make me feel so “at home”. Since resorts/hotels usually have pools, a ‘pool’ (aka: let’s escape from the heat) area was def on our checklist when looking for a house, and we found it ….

Dontcha love the dark color entry door below?

I love the handsome man unlocking the door. In Hawaii, we celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary. 4 years of fun exciting travels together (along with the everyday funny craziness that fills our life). This house in the following photos are filled with a mix of beautiful unique eclectic furniture items, oh-so-cool accessories, and me popping my head into the photo to me immortalized in them (vaca’s go to quickly, it’s my glimpse of memory). Ready for wowness? Like .. this hair … I mean chair (typo was too funny to delete).

The chair reminds me of the furniture in the Amalfi castle that we stayed in 2011 (see video here). I hadn’t seen the video in a while …. I love how my curly hair looks back then. Hmm, maybe I should rock bangs again .. or not). See my smile below (ear to ear) .. it was genuinely plastered on my face as we did the walk through for the first time of the house. Yes, we get to see photos of the place, but nothing compares to seeing it IN PERSON.

For this view, I took the picture of the mirror so you could see what was behind me …. bookcase with so many books, artifacts, games; a few different lounge areas; work desk (HA! like that was going to happen on our vaca! “work’ banned):

We ended contributing to the bookcase .. added a book hubby had finished reading on the plane.

Isn’t it pretty? No, not my feet? But the “curved” arm of the chair, the upholstery, and the rug … comfy!

The house has 3 bedrooms (no, we didn’t need that much room, but with the great price and did I mention – the pool - we just couldn’t resist). 2 lounge (living room) areas, lanai (patio),  2 bathrooms (with ceiling windows (awesome!), unique furniture, toiletries, and then the “are you sure we are not staying at a relatives house? … they had beach towels, several sunblocks/tanning lotions, 3 bicycles, boogie boards, life-vests, snorkel gear…. and we were welcomes with a basket of pineapple, bananas, and papaya (which we devoured the next day!). The kitchen was hooked up with spices, plates, pots/pans, microwave, dishwasher, and it was awesome going shopping for groceries (yep, like a regular Hawaiian) to fill up “our” fridge.

We save a lot of money cooking (as we relax) at ‘home’ from a loooong day of snorkeling ventures and site seeing.

Aren’t the GINORMOUS windows amazing looking? The window/sliding doors behind the dining table leads to the pool .

My FAVORITE fruit, called pitaya, discovered at a farmers market in Hilo.

Ready to see the main bedroom? .. with floor to ceiling windows + doors:

Has your jaw dropped yet? .. seeing the detail of the bedframe.

 A beautiful dark wood bed frame color against the crisp white linens – heavenly!

When we arrived (late evening) it was raining … but that didn’t damper our vaca enthusiasm. We did find it hysterical that we kept hearing “it hardly ever rains in the Big Island” and yet we were baptized with it (aaaaall good).

Since there were 2 bathroom, we each got to have our own (makes getting ready in the morn much faaaaster) … I chose this one:

Oh, did I mention that they also have a washer + dryer (yep, just like in aunties house):

Hubby had a blast cannon-balling into the pool, while I chillaxed on the lounge chair working on my tan.

So nice to brunch by the pool.

Oh, and we had company …. geico, oh wait that is the car insurance …. ‘geckos’ constantly visited us … they are sooo cute!

“You looking at me? Get my good side for your blog”.

I was smitten by the view through the huge wide windows …. of all the lush trees (and of hubby of course).

Hubby cooked (he’s the chef in our marriage) and I set the table (while taking tons of photos but of course!).

A typical breakfast before we ventured out the door. 

Oh, here’s a peek at one of the other rooms .. this one faced the front of the house; when it rained it was sooooo relaxing listening to the rain drops and birds singing.  Did you spot the bird finial on the curtain rod? 

The entrance to the house …. thanks for joining us in the tour. The adjacent garage housed our rental car .. we got a convertible car to make loading the boogie boards + more easier to do. The garage also held the bicycles, large beach coolers, and other stuff that I forgot about already.

Did you enjoy the tour? We rented the house via VRBO. House you stayed at a rental during your vaca get-a-ways? Who did you use? Do gecko’s freak you out … or do you find them ADORABLE as I do. Coming up this week … my attempt at following a recipe (for potato bacon salad … with no smoke alarm yelling at me), and another behind-the-scenes peek at one of my interior designs.

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Nicole’s Living Room Presentation Board

Posted on 05/31/2013 by Ada

Here’s a peek at the presentation boards I created for Nicole to show her the design I had created for her.  I knew she was going to LOVE the sexy stiletto illustration (simple print that draws forth an emotion .. like “watch out, sexy girl in the hoooouzz”).

I looooove when the designs I concoct in my brain is brought to life mmwaaahaha (Frankendesigner?!). Ok, not catchy. Don’t call me that. We didn’t use all the items I presented (in case u r wondering “where the heck is that red chair” in the design.

Here’s the furniture placement layout that I created … everything in it’s own special place for a lovely floooow (flow defined as: not bumping into furniture):

We used carpet TILES, which arrive in 19.7″ squares. Cue contractor. Cut cut cut tiles in half for a horizontal (slim) design. Now, if only my jeans could fit me so slim-ly <- I’m working on it (hence, ZUMBA class tonight .. err, maybe).

I love how the foyer welcomes my client with a color that she LOVES. If home would speak I think it would say … “welcome home. close the door, take off your shoes and forget about any craziness that you had at work or running into that crazy neighbor of yours. you are home now. hug” 

Should I be worried that I am animating a home to ‘speak’? Hmm, keep an eye on me. Heading out today for my onsite ideas consult in Manhattan and the dreaded (almost canceled bec I’m a chicken to “change”) dentist appointment. Wish me luck. Other presentation boards here: Bill’s bedroom, Cathy + Charles dining room, how I prep them. Photos of the house we rented in Hawaii coming soon. Maybe tomorrow, or this weekend …. or in “June” (yeah, that’s a safer deadline .. sometime in June). Have pity, I have to sit at the dreaded dentist chair.

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Nicole’s red-tacular living room!

Posted on 05/30/2013 by Ada

Welcome to the design I created for my client Nicole (last week I featured her cowgirl shabby chic bedroom design. For her design, we rolled out the red carpet …. ok, not exactly red … it’s orange-striped-carpet tiles! Stripes for the entry way (foyer coolness), then we extended the tan color into the home office + dining space. Yep, it’s another 3 in 1 design (office, dining, and living room).

From the pic below, the only thing that wasn’t new is the sofa + artwork behind it ….

We kept the ooh so pretty floral (aka: makes-me-want-to-pack-my-bags-for-a-tropical-vaca) chair. Oh, yeah .. I forgot that I just came back from vaca (stress level came back so I am up for another vaca STAT!). Did you spot the cute model strutting his handsome self?

Below are some ‘before’ peek-a-boos of the apt. We kept (1) sofa, (2) floral chair, (3) dining table, (4) dining chairs, (5) window blinds (same money!), and (6) relocated the TV stand to the bedroom (see it here).

Bye bye coffee table, area rug, pillows . . .

Hellooooo colors. Hello elegant glass coffee table, suave tv console, awesome bookcase, radiant rug, and AMAZING artwork. Why amazing? It’s ‘meaningful’ artwork that my client loooves:

Mixing old art  (like my client’s awesome equestrian medal) and photos with new ones. When I spotted the 2 horse prints, I KNEW Nicole was going to looooove them (she does … wohoooo!):

Here’s an overview photo … … helloooo color! Check out how the height of the photo/art wall gallery (left side of the room) balances the height of the black book shelves (right side of the room). All schemed into my master plan. Oh and did you spot “IT” yet? The real lasso (thanks to ebay!) mounted to the kitchen wall:

Because Nicole was keeping the dark red sofa, it was important to bring visual height into the space … cue in: floating wall shelves up up uuup high. And aren’t the vintage stools adorbs? The open legged design was a MUST so it wouldn’t feel/look heavy/bulky in the room. Extra seating woohooooooo!

That floral chair! Where’s my vacation bag?! 

I have an onsite design consultation tomorrow afternoon after my dentist (eeek!) appointment, but will try to post the design presentation boards for this project. So, what is your fave item in the living/dining/office space? Did you see a mayor difference in swapping/replacing furniture items?  My fave ‘element’ of the design was merging old with new furniture items.  Like, I LOVE how I was able to find a swing arm lamp with an awesome RED SHADE that matches the red sofa = looks custom without the ‘expensive’ (“omg, feeling faint seeing the price tag”) dollar amount. If you haven’t see the bedroom design, here a peek below and you can see more pics of it here.

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Living room sneak peek

Posted on 05/29/2013 by Ada

 

What a cRaZy busy week. Have you had those days … “blink” and its already night-time? Or the it-should-take-me-just-5-minutes, but instead it takes 45 min. Urgh! Ok. .. breath in and out … hummm <- rock that meditation to get me back to sanity. Tomorrow I will post the living room reveal for my client Nicole (psst … there is a horse lasso involved!). In the meantime, have you seen the bedroom (shabby-chic cowgirl design) reveal? Mosey on over there to check it out.

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Hawaii | playing w/turtles, snorkeling, bumming

Posted on 05/24/2013 by Ada

Off to Hawaii we went – totally EXCITED to explore the Big Island. We rented a house by Keauhau Bay in the Kailua-Kona area (I will post pics of the house soon …maybe this week?). It was so awesome that the house was walking distance from the bay, it was nice taking a leisurely stroll to the bay area filled with black lava and white coral:

What did I soon discover? That flip flops are NOT The best shoes for an adventurous walk onto lava rocks/coral.

This was the walkway from the house to the bay (Isn’t it beautiful?):

This is MY type of vacation, sun tanning (all) stress away at my favorite beach …. Kahaluu Beach:

Simply relaxing by the beautiful water. Though, I dove (walked in tippy toe style) into the water when I saw that there were a few turtles chillaxing as well:  Oh, as for the snorkel gear … it was all provided to us courtesy of the rental house (most resorts you have to pay for them), they also had boogie boards, bikes .. oooh I digress! Did I MENTION the TURTLE?

Isn’t it ADORABLE? And how gorgeous is that clear water huh!!

We also visited Puuhonua o Honoaunau Park (also known as the Place of Refuge), here are some pics:

 

Look who we spotted here? Hmm, is this turtle following us? 

Next to the park is Honaunau Bay known for it’s beautiful snorkeling.

This is the spot that we entered … that’s right, this decorator hangs with the local Hawaiians (no, that is not hubby and i below):  Thank goodness that we had our snorkeling gear (and SUNBLOCK) so we could dive (flop) into the water.

Here I am in the water giving the Aloha hand sign to the fish:

There were several different schools of fish:

Then off we went to get some coffee from Kona Joe coffee plantation where they grow their coffee on a trellis from lava soil. Check out the sign below of their kids:

Coffee anyone? 

The scenery / plantation was breathtakingly beautiful: 

Here’s another view (including part of another town and the beautiful ocean):

Our next “What’s New” blog column will feature the rental house that we stayed in. Here’s a sneak peek if you want to look over my shoulder here:

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Eclectic cowgirl (yeehaw!) bedroom design

Posted on 05/22/2013 by Ada

Yeehaaaw <- can’t help saying it whenever I see a cowboy/girl hat! Today I’m featuring the design I created for my client Nicole who was an equestrian since she was young (photos + fab medals to prove it!). I remember in our consultation her eyes lighting up when we talked about her riding; which meant that I definitely needed to incorporate a dash (or splash) of equestrian flair within the designs (bedroom + living room) for her. I hope you love how we transformed her bedroom:

What was kept in the room / used in the design? Her bedframe, apothecary (moved from the living room …. it was begin used as a TV stand), small dresser, sunflower artwork, and window blinds).

I make it my job (psychologist hat on! Yes, biz owners wear many hats!) to analyze/read what my clients want within their style , some clients are strictly modern peeps, others like Nicole, love a mix of styles like …

 …. shabby chic (see mirrors, blue side table, etc.) and traditional (see bronze arm lamp, floral art), modern (see blue upholstered chair, plastic black chandelier, pillows), oriental (rug, her current apothecary cabinet). Then, I place my favorite hat on … my design cap … to make sure that all the items flow well together. Ready for a close up pic? See below. Dontcha love the distressed look on the white framed mirrors and the blue side table? The black undertones from the mirror frame flow oooh sooo nicely (if I do say so myself) with my client’s black bedframe):

Since I work on a budget it’s important to balance out what NEEDS to be incorporated into the design to maintain a cohesive flow and what can be left out. We didn’t add curtains (which I love adding to give visual height to a room), buuuuut instead we added wall decals … on the wall viewed as soon as you walk into the room (birdcage) and on the closet door. The birdcage decal design arrived with the birds INSIDE the cage, but I suggested that we place the birds outside the cage to show movement and romanticism (queue in Snow White singing – see video). Here are some more pics (and see who sneaked into the photoshoot lounging her cool self into the photos):

I’m not sure why I am so serious in this photo below; prob internal debating thinking … “should I place the cowgirl hat here or here or here; oooh it looks GREAT here!”.  Styling a room with details that my clients loooove (like the vintage keys + heart shaped horseshoe that I factored into this design for Nicole) is sooo much fun!

I hope you enjoyed today’s Behind the Scenes peek … bringing a lil country design style into a NYC home. Next week, I’ll share the living room design; it’s not too “cowgirl”-ish style design but we did add a real lasso (yes, lasso  … Ebay to the rescuuuuue!) into the design!. Hmmm, maybe one day I can get a real horse into a design. Maybe! What did you think of the design?

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