{bits & pieces: mother’s day market event}

Lark Nest Design has all the details on the 2012 Mother’s Day Market. Here’s the link, follow it, if you want to treat yourself to a quickie get-away for Mother’s Day.

{bits & pieces: bossy color goes yellow}

 Annie Elliot, an interior designer in Washington DC, spent seven years waiting, and wanting, to fall in love with her living room. Benjamin Moore helped seal the deal with Sunrays 343.

You can read more about her yellow living room and entire home on her blog, Bossy Color. Check out what the living room looked like a year ago; it gives me hope, as my rooms are always evolving.

What do you think of Annie’s yellow living room?

Here’s what you can do to find the perfect colors for your home:

•  shop at Hirshfield’s
•  take advantage of Hirshfield’s infinite color knowledge
•  sample a color at home with the Hirshfield’s Big Swatch, color sample pints, quarts and selected 2oz. Benjamin Moore colors

Let Hirshfield’s help you fall in love with your home all over again.

{bits & pieces: orange cupboard}

I have pinned it, tweeted it (or tried to), and put it on Facebook. I’m in love with this orange cupboard from Lucy Interior Design, based here in Minneapolis. Imagine this same cupboard stained instead of painted. Yawn. I love what a coat of paint brings to the party.

{bits & pieces: and the winner is…rivets}

Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards
Category: Wallcovering
Rivets – Phillip Jeffries

Congratulations to Phillip Jeffries on their award and the recognition they received from the design community. Job well done.

Finalists were selected by qualified interior designers and architects via an online vote during a two-week period in October, and category winners were determined by a jury of leading architects and designers. The presentation of awards were Thursday, December 1, 2011. It is worth noting, Phillip Jeffries had two nominations up for the BOY Award: Rivets and Geology.

Rivets and Geology

Adding another dimension to wallcoverings is the RIVETS collection. Hand crafted by artisans, a raised relief pattern made with pearlized inks is hand applied to our natural Manila Hemp, Glazed Abaca, Linen and Jute wallcoverings to create the look and feel of authentic nail heads. Strong and bold, this pattern of 11.3” squares is available in nine unique color combinations that are truly riveting!

What do you think of the pattern? I would use the paper on a focal or accent wall in a dining room, living room, or bedroom.

  Hirshfield’s Design Resource carries the complete Phillip Jeffries line. You can also find Phillip Jeffries at some of our retail locations, but please call first and verify the books they have on hand.

Images: Phillip Jeffries, Phillip Jeffries, Tilton Fenwick, Tilton Fenwick, Kirsten Kelli, Phillip Jeffries, Phillip Jeffries

{bits & pieces: o’verlays}

Have you seen these very cool fretwork panels called O’verlays? Attach a fretwork panel and turn a plain piece of furniture into the focal point of any room. They are made of a lightweight composite and are paintable. They can be used on windows, doors, mirrors, furniture, and more.

To see more patterns and to read about this product go to O’verlays website.

{bits & pieces: ASID kitchen & bath tour 2011}

Fifteen fabulous remodels comprise this year’s ASID Kitchen and Bath Tour. Sneak a peek of each project in Metro magazine’s September issue then see them in person, September 10 and 11.

{bits & pieces: style at home high/low}

Thibaut

Cole & Son

Close up of Thibaut paper

This “high/low” post over at Style at Home caught my eye because I recognized the wallpapers. When a customer requests “bird wallpaper” these  two patterns are often pulled by the staff to show to the customer.  The papers have a lot in common; variety of color ways, quality paper, both good-looking patterns; the price point* is what sets them apart. Is it worth more money to the customer to have a more stylized, block or screen printed pattern shipped from the UK?  Or is the customer happy with the Thibaut paper, made in the states, less expensive, but less stylized pattern?

There is a $4,300 price difference between the two rooms. I know. Sometimes it’s hard to settle for the low, when the high is so perfect. Head on over to Style at Home for the breakdown. Would you settle for the “low” room?

Both “bird papers” are available at most Hirshfield’s retail locations, call first before making a special trip.

*The pricing on the wallcovering is misleading. The $250 bolt of Cole & Son is equal to a little more than a double roll of paper. It is priced at $250 a bolt, because you have to purchase in full bolts. The Thibaut paper is priced out per single roll at $84. A more “apple to apple” comparison would be $168 for a double roll of the Thibaut paper.

{bits & pieces: emmanuelle moureaux}

Banking never looked so good. I ran across Emmanuelle Moureaux’s work over at Black Eiffel, and tracked down more of her work at her website. Her use of color, along with such simple shapes, bowls me over.

{bits & pieces: apartment therapy and casey fritz reunited}

Reunited and it looks so good
Reunited ’cause we understood
There’s one perfect fit
And, sugar, this one is it
We both are so excited
‘Cause we’re reunited, hey, hey

 Remember this Minneapolis loft when it was featured last year in Apartment Therapy’s Loft Life Tour?

Play it forward,  and Casey is back with his new space which was featured last week in Apartment Therapy’s House Tour. Love, love, love, the Ralph Lauren paint colors he used in the space. Any thoughts?

{bits & pieces: 3rd annual bungalow blog tour}

Interested in bungalows? What is a bungalow? Maybe you are living in a bungalow and you don’t know it.

This year there are 10 bungalow blogs, or bungalow in spirit blogs, participating in the Bungalow Blog Tour. Here’s a link to start the tour at StuccoHouse right here in Minneapolis. To continue on this fun and informative tour just follow the links at the end of the posts. Enjoy!