Saturday, September 29, 2012

We've been invaded by Faeries!



You never know what happens in this place........
Beadboard seems to have been invaded by autumnal Faeries! 
This one fancied the colors of our knitwear.
(maybe because it reflected her own ensemble)




This is what caught her eye...... She is well behaved, but the others!!!!!


It's crazy, these little beauties loved the peacocks......

And you know, these fuchsia peacocks look great with bronzy pink faeries.  They all seem to get along.



Even the teeny birds on the napkin rings......



The little acorn fairies in the burlap were fun, but

Their red headed brothers were into everything.
They Like Herve Gambs!!!!!!(good taste)


These Leprechaun like ones were riding chickens, and got the acorn ones to hop on a few too!!!!!!!!




This one fancied the yellow orchids in the Arte Italica Pitcher.


OOPS! Got stuck! Inside a lantern.....
What is  this Night at the Museum??????

Looks like sis is coming to the rescue....(Hey look at those two in the background to the left on the etagere. They are high fiving each other, do you think they locked the latch?)
One more piece of knitwear..... There was a faerie on it.... Hummm..
Who's in charge here this Fall?????????

Oh no!  HIM??????????
If you are in the area for antiques week, stop by for a glass of wine we will be open til 9 through Friday nite.....And maybe you can see these characters in action;)


We had something to do with this.

This home is for sale...... It is only two years old......


Located in the Memorial Area of Houston it is amazing....


No detail left unattended.


Designed by my good friend Jon D. Bartell of Jon Bartell Designs, it reflects part of his versitility and amazing talent..... This is the rotunda like window in the entryway......


When I first saw this I felt like I should KNEEL.



Very French in style but with middle Eastern touches, it is spectacular.





A little library off the main living room.


This first floor is so open.......



Even with huge open rooms cozy corners are present.




JD  designed this kitchen the base which you can't see how gorgeous the base was  but was grey blue to go with the Breakfast room chandelier .



Made of Murano Glass to reflect the mosaic in the pool outside, it started off at the top as an azure blue and faded into white....
THIS was my favorite thing in the house.....



Powder room.   Where's the Powder?



Fountain outside near the pool....


This was going TO the pool........So. How am I connected with this....????  JD and I work together of some projects I fill in with some accessories,bedding etc.... in this case all the dinnerware came from Beadboard....... The Pictures are on KHOU  TV, Houston. JD came in today to consult on another project we are working on together....
Oh and these pics are the tip of the iceberg,,,, I went all through this house....... You can have it for a pittance 14.9 Mill.
Listed by Martha Turner Properties.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Sneek Peek? Windows Around the Bath....

New home great bath great view, but for WHOM?????




This is the Master Bath under construction..... Ok, West facing,
Neighbors, Fence, but there is a privacy issue.....
What do we do about window treatments????????
There are 8 small windows and a long one.  All of them have beautiful deep insets like crown moulding..... Cover it all up??? (if we did an inside mount of fabric inside those smaller windows it would have looked like eight Hankies hanging around the tub.) I don't think so. NO.

Soooo... We Etched the windows and WOW...... Knew immediately we made the right choice........ 
The Light combined with the privacy was perfect.

The lines and the center pyramid shaped glass perfectly complimented the Master Bath.....


Even on the longer window.....



There is a diamond pattern in the tile in the bathroom so we decided to emulate that...... What we didn't expect was that with the Western exposure the light would stream in at the end of the day in lines and the center Pyramid shaped pieces of glass would act as prisms.


I love how this turned out.....So did the builder. His reaction was WOW too!   This was before move in......I think Etching is something most designers don't consider and I hadn't done it before,  but I am doing more investigating......Look for more in upcoming posts.......Etching was done by Dauphin Sales and Art Glass Houston.......They also do fabulous mirrors........Thanks to my client
who went with the idea and let me post this..xo