28 February 2008 – 9.14 am
if your mailbox caught the most recent catalog to arrive from j. crew, take a peek at the back cover…no, not at the gorgeous girl in the paisley blouse, silly…please notice the extremely cool traditional/modern stenciled walls behind her! you can also see just a snip of another finish below the woodwork. beautiful!
22 February 2008 – 5.20 am
mentioned previously, but worth repeating: mrs. jones totally hearts the talented ladies at a little english interiors. lovely gwen erb needed this mirror (perfect shape and size, wrong finish) to match wallpaper she’d chosen for a client’s powder room.
here it is, before and after, with a sample of the paper for you to see.
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21 February 2008 – 2.25 am
what a treat…new orleans for the long weekend. the little joneses soaked it all up: the WWII museum, the sculpture garden at the NOMA, streetcars, beignets, jambalaya, tarot card readers and mimes, gumbo, muffalettas, cemeteries, voodoo, zydeco music — they loved it all.
while my family hunted garden district ghosts (and found gelato instead), mrs. jones had 90 minutes for a [...]
16 February 2008 – 6.14 am
such a sad little postcard! another of mrs. jones’s favorite magazines, blueprint, is “ceasing publication”. it’s funny how the shelter publications circle of life works. because of a photograph in a blueprint last spring, i became a tiny bit obsessed with the “expedit” shelves from ikea. had to have them! since shipping would have cost twice the price of the [...]
13 February 2008 – 4.59 am
they liked new look of their kitchen cabinets, so my very kind clients asked me to stay and put a little glaze on their bathroom cabinets, too. they had recently installed beautiful granite countertops and good-looking hardware.
these began with plain white, glossy paint.
8 February 2008 – 7.58 am
for those needing to re-affirm that anything is possible: these kitchen cabinets are made of melamine foil (yes, that sythetic molded material that is wonderfully wipeable when you have small children, but…) my lovely clients were ready to update the kitchen with gorgeous granite and new appliances. enter the fabulous fausto saldana, mrs. jones’s favorite painter. in just [...]
1 February 2008 – 5.39 am
it’s just too thrilling…much sooner than anticipated, our local benjamin moore paint dealer, seabrook, is stocking the super new environmentally kind, high-performance paint line, aura. (and guess who has her hands on the new fan-deck with the 144 gorgeous new aura-exclusive “affinity” colors?) (thank you, seabrook becky, denise & susan!)
