home design: July 2012

Luxe Lodge

Black stained oak chest, hair on hide bench, cozy fabrics and wallcoverings,wool throw blankets and a bowl full of antlers... It's 100 degrees in Austin right now, but now I'm dreaming of fall. Check out this latest ad from Schumacher. Luxe Lodge Fall 2012. The mirror and lamps are their newest introductio...

Refreshed life

We all have refreshed our lives, through travels, experiences, some good, some not so good and learned a lot along the way.Our boy is back home since Wednesday, four weeks of camp and sick in the end, so we picked him up a few days earlier and he has been sleeping and eating, in that or the reverse order since then!So tropical....in New OrleansWe...

Reese Witherspoon’s home in Ojai, California

from the current issue of Elle De...

Simply summer

Summer window with garden flowersThe summer heat invites us to enjoy simple pleasures. Party decorationsSitting by the water and just enjoying the breeze, summer evenings with friends and candle lit dinners with flowers picked from the garden, bike rides under tall shady trees, watching the birds and the bees, busily following their...

New York on a hot day

Second Ave near Houston, looking northMy husband and I spend a few hours walking and enjoying New York City. Childless for time being, we do things, we haven't done in years. Going out without limitations, spontaneous trips on the weekend, long summer evenings doing sweet nothings in the garden...The gondola from Roosevelt Island arrivesIn...