Tuesday Ten {11.24.15}

Here are my FAVORITE links that I couldn't wait to share with you this week!

1. Zucchini Carrot Muffins. The PERFECT make ahead breakfast for Thanksgiving morning.

I make them every year.

2. Simple Yet Beautiful Thanksgiving Table, Studio McGee.

  

3. Tudor Home Tour: Normandie Heights Honeypie.

4. Spaghetti Squash with Kale.

5. 6 Glorious Ways to Use Garlands.

6. Julia Child's Provence home for sale. If I could have a wish come true, this little escape might be what I'd wish for. SERIOUSLY.

7. Browned Butter Pecan Pie: from Sinclair and Moore. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING they do is spectacular. This is now my go to Pecan Pie recipe.

8. Fireside Winter Warmers: A fun little playlist via Anthropologie.

9. Decorating with Metallics: Caitlin Wilson Design.

10.  DIY Williams Sonoma Home Scent.

House Guests in the Movies {Oscar Edition Roundup: Volume 2)

It's Oscar Weekend!!!

I thought it would be fun to celebrate by rounding up some of my favorite movie houses for us to tour! This list could easily be 20, 50, 100 houses long...but we'll keep it to my Top 20 where the house is another character, if you will. I'll be sharing 10 Movie houses today here, in Vol. 2.  Yesterday I shared Ten of my favorites here. 

These movies weren't all nominated for the Academy Awards,  some of them I had forgotten about until I started thinking about the actual homes where the movies were filmed. 

This will become a regular Commona My House feature...I'll be sharing movie and television series home tours, including more historical locations, each month!!!

So...Let's go on a home tour!!!

(Just click on each movie title and you'll link to the home tours).

1. Atonement. Stokesay Court, the vast Victorian House and Estate, was the Primary exterior and interior filming site. It's architectural and design details are considered to be of the loveliest in England, with period interior wall papers being copyied and mass produced. The house has a fascinating past...and has been lovingly restored partly due to the opportunity that Atonement brought with it. It has had extensive upgrades since filming. In the vein of what Downton Abbey is to Highclere Castle, the movie Atonement helped to put Stokesay on the map as a 'must see' gem.
This is a MUST READ, chariming article in the NY Times  about the current owners and the "Other Atonement Love Story".

House Guests in the Movies {Oscar Addition Roundup: VOLUME 1}

It's Oscar Weekend!!!

I thought it would be fun to celebrate by rounding up some of my favorite movie houses for us to tour! This list could easily be 20, 50, 100 houses long...but we'll keep it to my Top 20 where the house is another character, if you will. I'll be sharing 10 Movie houses today here, in Vol. 1, and 10 more tomorrow in Vol. 2!!!

These movies weren't all nominated, some of them I had forgotten about until I started thinking about the actual homes where the movies were filmed. 

This will become a regular Commona My House feature...I'll be sharing movie and television series home tours, including more historical locations, each month!!!

So...Let's go on a home tour!!!

(Just click on each movie title and you'll link to the home tours)

1. Father of the Bride The epitome of the American Colonial, located in Alhambra, CA. This home was for sale in 2011, swans not included.

Tour the home through the movie scenes

Throwback Thursday: House Guests {The Haskins' Home, a Contemporary and Refined Classic Charmer}

Last Summer I shared this House Tour with you.
It was part of the Utah Valley Parade of Homes Tour.
It's so good that we are going to re-run this classic today for Throwback Thursday!!!

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Shut the front door. It's a beautiful front door.
Welcome to this brand spanking new home. But it has the warmth, charm and character of a 100 year old house.  The architects of this Millhaven home, as well as the designers, Caitlin Creer Interiors and Alice Lane Home Collection, skillfully combine classic elements with fresh accessories and colors. It's not TRADITIONAL, it's not CONTEMPORARY..it's what I would call a CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC.

So, how do I define a CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC? CLASSIC major components, like marble, hardwoods, subway tile and other historical architectural elements, fixtures, lighting elements, woodwork, and furniture styles, etc. Infused with hints of CONTEMPORARY accessories such as pillows, rugs, fabrics, art work and other decorative items. Also, and this is a MAJOR tip when trying to achieve this look: TRADITIONAL PATTERNS in CONTEMPORARY PALETTES (new and simpler colorways). These formulas keep interiors fresh and light.
Can you spy Traditional staples like Quatrefoil? Ginger Jars and Glass Knobs?
Be sure to scroll through all the pictures (from the incredibly talented Cristi of Haya Papaya Photography) ...I've saved the exterior for last ;)

Teen Girl Room {The Audrey Room REVEAL}

Several months back, I shared my E-Design for a client in Florida who requested "an airy, maybe pink, maybe orange, maybe purple, maybe white and gold, fun and quirky yet grown up, Audrey Hepburn sort of room" for her 14 year old. I interpreted this as "SUGAR, SPICE & KILIM".  It's light and breezy, bohemian yet elegant, and most importantly, still fun and not stuffy....because, after all, this room is for a teen girl, right?!

This Eclectic Teen Girl Room is one of the most popular rooms I've ever designed.  Meeting client expectations and having happy clients is what I shoot for, but I loved (fell hard for) this room, too. And it wasn't just popular with me...it was a huge hit with Commona My House readers, with PB TEEN, who shared it on their Instagram account,  and guess what? It was something my 12 year old daughter went BANANAS over. 

So, now it's August and my daughter's 13th birthday is almost upon us. Her room was ready for some freshening up...the dusty yellow paint that we inherited when we moved in a year ago was showing its age...and age spots (there were lighter shades of pale all around the room, causing me to wonder if it had been touched up with a different shade of paint at some point or maybe some parts of the room had gotten 2 coats and maybe some hadn't).  It was time for an update, as even a maintenance issue. The yellow was pale, yet it made the room shrink.

I didn't need very much convincing to jump on board with a modified SUGAR SPICE & KILIM plan for my daughter's room. New furniture was out of the question. Our budget was literally, thousands of dollars less than my E-Client's budget. In fact, I really didn't have a budget. Let's say, I wanted to only  spend under $50 and use/re-use/recycle what I already owned. I also thought that we could get the foundations of the room down and then add other elements (funky chair, brass bed) when the time is right in the future.

SO with paint and several DIYs we planned:

THE AUDREY ROOM. 

The pink paint color in the pictures varies depending on whether the chandelier is on or not. I didn't use filters in these pictures. I painted the window wall pink as seen here.

Remember that vintage mirror? Here it is in it's second life as a Chalkboard Headboard.

This "Sabrina" poster was a huge inspiration for the room. The gold backdrop, elegant Audrey, the touch of pink and black...yup, my daughter's favorite movie is "Sabrina" so we started here.

We had a crummy white stool from Target (bought for under $10 about 5 years ago). I'll be sharing how I transformed it from Crummy to Chic in a How To Post next Monday!

We'll be watching for a Brass Headboard (or look alike) in the future, but for now, the bed is complete with the Chalkboard Headboard and a hoard of pillows :)



Teen Girls have clutter. I've seen a few of these in Blogland and thought I'd give it a go!
I'll be sharing details on what and how this came to be on Monday, as well.

This fabulous gold Chanel quote was a special touch in the room
Made by my friend Lara at Hapagirl! scroll down to see how you can have one of your own!

I had this chandelier tucked away for several months. Given to me as payment, I was waiting for just right client to use it, and alas, it found its home here!

I couldn't do an AUDREY ROOM without sneaking in some Holly Golightly.

Yes, that is an imperfectly made bed. I asked the 12 year old to make it herself. She lives in this room.
She thought she did a good job, and I do too.  This isn't perfect. But I think it's perfectly imperfect :)

Yup, a real 12 year old girl lives here. Those are her not so perfect and quite well used ballet shoes. And that is an imperfectly made bed...I asked her to make it herself. This room isn't staged just for the photos, this is her real stuff. And that is my real life way of decorating. You should love what you have in your rooms. Don't just put "stuff" on a shelf...put things that mean something and speak to you. That's how I feel, anyway. Otherwise "stuff" is just "stuff". And that is hard to have your home feel like home if you're just surrounded by stuff that doesn't speak to you. Just sayin'.

If you'd like to see how I made the Chalkboard, go here.

Come back on Monday and I'll be sharing the tutorials for
the Audrey Shag Bench


the Metal Memory Board



Sources

and Styling Tips for Reusing What you Already Have.

Now, I couldn't share this today without including some lucky reader in some way!!!

I will be giving away a little AUDREY ROOM Prize Pack to one lucky reader next week.
The Prize Pack includes a few touches from around the room:

Chalkboard Labels, Gold Striped Notepad, Gold Foil Print from Hapagirl,

JCrew Jewelry Tray, Cents of Style Necklace and Earring Set.

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