Real Simple-1st dibs- August 2009

Thanks so much to Real Simple for mentioning one of my favorite online sources in the latest August issue. It is just hot off the press and I just picked it up on the news stand with my Saturday latte...

The article is all about online sources and I mentioned that I love shopping on 1stdibs and that I log on many times a day and purchase for all of my clients. You can find anything on 1stdibs- traditional- modern- and the time it saves and being able to source items world wide with the click of a button has changed the way I design and every designer out there. Also a fan of 1st dibs is one of my favorite designers Darryl Carter (who's work I swoon over and is so high on my list to meet someday)- who is also mentioned as a fan.

I think that it is one of the GREATEST online tools and Michael Bruno (the founder) is just a genius to have come up with this idea years ago when no one else was was even thinking of such things. If you have been living under a rock and never checked out 1stdibs.com- stop reading this and log on ASAP!

Thanks to Real Simple and to 1stdibs for being such a great cutting edge source!

Who's the most stylish San Franciscan?

7x7 Magazine has nominated Suzanna and myself as two of the the most stylish people (as a pair) for the 2009 Style Council!

There are over 80 people on the list right now and you can vote to help us be selected to be in a spread in the 7x7 Magazine fashion issue. We are #28 on the list- Vote for us! Voting ends July 15th (oh and you can vote more than once (so keep entering #28) and you don't have to sign up for daily emails- share with all of your friends)

Link here:
The 2009 Style Council: Who's the Most Stylish San Franciscan?

Thanks for voting!

Sari you were not there!

NY was PERFECT this weekend.
The weather couldn't have been better. Warm but not humid at all.
It was the kind of weekend that would want to make you fall in love with NY and want to move there (but I know from living there these perfect NY days are rare and to me the weather is too extreme for me!)

Saturday early evening wedding at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
The event was lovely and I was just in love with all of the colorful sari's and the marigolds and fresh summer colors.
A great 4th of July weekend.

What did you do?

Uncle Grant's weekend

Flying to NYC in the morning for a world record fast weekend for a wedding but thought a few photos of my adorable godson Elliot (14 months now) would be a fun post for to start the weekend off. Elliot was in town last weekend and Uncle Grant got a spend a great time babysitting! More photos of Elliot to come as well in August when I go to see him in Portland for a weekend.

Happy 4th of July weekend to everyone!
I am taking my laptop with me and I plan on writing up a few blog posts that I am excited to share next week.

Kitchen project update 1

So I mentioned a week ago that we had started on an exciting project on a new kitchen project in SF. I have received a lot of emails from people out there wanting to know more and see more- so I have decided to share this adventure.
It is a wonderful house designed by Julia Morgan and we are working on the new kitchen. It is going to be a traditional kitchen with pretty clean lines- touches of being modern- with the hardware on the cabinets and stainless steel appliances. It is about 300 square feet of space. Our office does a lot of kitchen and bathroom design and we are working with our favorite contractor on the project who is also building all of the cabinets as well for the project (all custom made and hand sprayed cabinets).

We started off with one design and since the past week my office and I have totally re-designed the whole space as once the space was gutted the client and I decided that we wanted to make their dream kitchen instead of just a remodel. So now everything is moving around and it should be fabulous. We are now doing a center island as well as a custom banquet. Today we decided that should replace the French doors and make them even taller to allow more light to come into the space. We are also going to replace all of the wood flooring with oak flooring to match the rest of the house and stick with the Julia Morgan history.

All of the appliances are picked and and we have been shopping for the marble counter tops (Sara- my senior designer at my office- who is the lead on all of our kitchen and bathroom projects- is in the photo looking to make sure that there are no cracks or flaws- we like to be super careful with these details)
and are busy selecting the hardware as well.

I will try to keep updating with more photos as we progress. Our estimate is 3 months for the project- so stay tuned!

Rats it's only Wednesday!

Is it just me or is this week going on and on and on?

Xmas in June...

Friday felt like Xmas to me.

Why you ask?

A little box arrived from my good friend and blogger Heather Clawson who writes the wildly popular Habitually Chic in New York.
I was so excited all day to open it and then to find out that it was one of my favorite smells that I had just posted on last week.
Heather is a mind reader and just the sweetest. Thank you for the belated birthday gift Heather- which also felt like Xmas in June to me too! Thank you thank you- see you 4th of July weekend!

PS. This is a greatest as they are 3 little bottles and great to pack away for weekend and not to have to travel with a huge bottle. I might have to put one in my car too!