Chicken Soup For The Home

“It is not richness of furniture or fabrics that ultimately gives rooms their animation or their drama; it’s the people who inhabit them and the lives they live in them.” – David Easton, Timeless Elegance: The Houses of David Easton

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Valentine’s Day: Highlighting Brooke Shields New York Living Room

Brooke Shields New York Home Living Roon

Have you seen the March 2012 edition of Architectural Digest? I received mine in the mail a few weeks ago, and I am so glad that yes March’s edition came out in the beginning of February. Anytime I think of Valentine’s Day, my mind immediately drives right to this photo of Brooke Shield’s Living Room in her New York Home.  All I could see from my first gaze was the heart shaped image flanked by portraits of her two daughters and I was immediately taken.

The living room features Louis XVI–style armchairs, a French Empire commode, and a 1970s Lucite-base cocktail table. A Keith Haring painting (a gift from the artist) and portraits by Will Cotton of Shields’s two daughters hang on walls painted in Benjamin Moore’s Chelsea Gray.  This room speaks romance, love, family, and cherished moments to me.

Brooke Shields has packed more professional accomplishment into her 40-some-odd years than many people twice her age, but the role closest to her heart is a passionate homebody, so evident in this article published by Architectural Digest.  Pick up a copy of AD’s March issue to see more photos and to read the complete story of her renovation. In the meantime, click here for a sneak peek inside Shields’s Manhattan residence.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your loved ones!!

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Chicken Soup For The Home

“I choose life, knowing it will perish. I choose love, knowing it may not last. This why I love stone and steel and wood and thatch. Together, they are a marriage of the permanent and the perishable. There is a tender realism in their choice.” – Bobby McAlpine, The Home within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms

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Chicken Soup For The Home

“Entry points are not just front doorways. The experience of a house can change at every turn of a corridor, at the top of a stairway, or at the approach to another level. The key aspect is the visual enticement of the visitor. The goal is to tell a style story from start to finish.” – Nancy Corzine, Nancy Corzine: Glamour at Home

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Chicken Soup For The Home

“The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.” – Deborah Needleman, The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate & Live Well

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Chicken Soup For The Home

“In life as in design, it is not perfection you should be after. There’s beauty in the faded and worn, the well loved, and the sentimental…After all, life has seams. Your home should be like a loosely woven fabric of desires, memories, practical, notions, and even compromises.” – Celerie Kemble

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Benjamin Moore Reveals Its Color Palette For 2012

Pantone’s 2012 Color of the Year has been making the rounds on various websites and was even featured on Yahoo! homepage at one point. It’s a vibrant orange-red called “Tangerine Tango.”

But Pantone is not the only company with a color forecast for next year. This past fall, Benjamin Moore revealed its palette for 2012, which features colors that seem reflective of the uncertainty still lingering in the country as it struggles to recover and of perhaps the desire for comfort and the familiar in these troubling times. Read More

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Dance into the New Year with this Vivacious and Appealing Reddish Orange

The 2011 color of the year, PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle, encouraged us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. Tangerine Tango, a spirited reddish orange, continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward.

“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline  rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.” Read More

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Chicken Soup For The Home

“Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!” – Van Day Truex, Interiors

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Its Christmas Eve…Are You Lighting Your Menorah?

I must admit, it is a pleasure when Hanukkah and Christmas overlap.  I so enjoy sharing Hanukkah with all my non-jewish friends and family.  And my girls, a bit confused about Hanukkah gifts under the Christmas tree, find it fabulous of course.  Who would not want to spend all day and night on Christmas opening gifts.

First, Santa comes to our house, then Santa goes to Grandma’s house, and then Hanukkah after sundown.  Can’t beat that!!  Tonight on Christmas Eve, I will be lighting my menorah with my family, getting the girls snug in their beds, and putting on my Santa hat!!  This is always the most peaceful night of the holidays for me after all the hustle and bustle is over…and I am going to welcome it!!!  I hope yours is just as pleasurable!!

Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a very Happy Holiday!!!  I leave you with some very unusual Menorah’s…Art at its best!!!

Artist: Jenna Goldberg

 Artist: Lisa Slovis

Artist: Alicia Kelemen

Artist: Lisa Slovis

 Artist: Bandhu Scott Dunham

Artist: Joel and Candace Bless

Artist: Lisa Slovis

Artist: Joel and Candace Bless

All the menorah’s can be found by visiting Artful Home.

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