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Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Nathan Turner @ Pottery Barn {a book signing}


If there is one thing I love it is a good design book and meeting the designer/author is always a great way to spend an evening!  Nathan Turner is signing copies of his first book Nathan Turner's American Style at Pottery Barn in Beverly Hills on Thursday evening.  

Also in the coming weeks look for an interview here on the blog with Nathan about the book and a giveaway for greige readers.


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Easy Living...





Some days I feel like we could use a bit of easy living.  Time to relax and read a good book, wear comfortable clothes and just be ourselves with friends and family.  I know I know it is still only Thursday but with Spring break around here it is so hard to work!  

Onto the weekend...
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Teen Bedroom design


 




I have had the pleasure of working with one of my clients on a bedroom for her 16 year old daughter.  It is really fun to see her inspiration and what she wants to do with her space.  

I wanted her to have something fun and functional with a little bit of spice to keep it interesting for her.  I suggested a large leaning bulletin board and a lot of smaller photo/art frames, as well a bright splashes of color in the rug and pillows.  

It is always nice to do something a little different!

If you are interested in our online design services you can check out some of my other projects here.


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Details of a well lived life...




Some days are more reflective than others.  The past two days have been so beautiful here at home that sitting inside working at my computer seems like a crime during the day.  I have been day dreaming and thinking a lot.  

I found something that is so fun here on Kimberly's blog.  Something I love.  I am a list maker and this seems like the best kind of list - a Life List.  Aside from making this my new before bed project I have been thinking about how we need to get back to basics here at home (my home) we need to entertain more, visit with friends more, spend more time together just playing and laughing.  I have been thinking about friends and how easy it is to make new friends and how we can loose track of old friends.  In the world of blogging and design a friend can easily be a reader, a client, a fellow designer or a vendor, each is still a friend with which a wonderful common interest is shared.  So to those of you that I am lucky enough to call friend I am saying thank you for all you do for me and for making each day special.  

Have a wonderful Wednesday... and I promise to not be soooo sappy tomorrow!  

image via pinterest from OKL


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Dreaming {by invitation}




Dreams are such a fun thing.  I have so many but there is one that keeps jumping out at me.  I think it maybe more of a wish than a dream but I am truly not sure what the difference is any more.

 I dream of having a wonderful place in France to spend time in with my family, when I say time I mean real time where we eat together outside, we cook together, take hikes and walks and learn about the surrounding areas.  A home base to travel to new worlds together, just us, just for fun!


This beautiful home would be filled with my favorite of all favorites!  Astier de Villatte dishes and furnishings mixed with amazing French finds from Brocantes and local artisans.  Things would be striped down and natural just like the surroundings and the food.  It would be amazing we would cook and read.


We would ride bikes around just so we could see everything and stop anywhere. 


Eating outside as often as possible would be the norm..


My mind might even be free enough to have time to create some new classics based on old methods.


 

I would have the time and patience to learn how to draw and possibly paint.



A girl can dream right!

What about you what do you dream about?



Please take a minute to stop by and see everyone who participated today!!

MARSHA HARRIS

TISH JETT

YVONNE PRATT

CHARLOTTA WARD

GREET LEFEVRE

CATHERINE ROBINSON

ANNIE BOUTERSE

COTY FARQUHAR

DEBORAH PETERSON

DUSTJACKET ATTIC, Debra

TINA

MONA THOMPSON

FIFI FLOWERS

JACQUELINE MUMFORD

KARIN JANSKY

VICKI ARCHER

CECILIA GONZALEZ

RENEE GRANIER & ANGELA FOSTER

LISA

FRANCINE GARDNER

CHRISTINA FLUEGGE

STACEY BEWKES

LEANN SHULTZ

LENE


SHARI MILLER


SHARON SANTONI

KAREN MALAN
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Also don't miss your chance to enter our giveaway!! 
 
images via bippity boppity boo, roost, french house, pinterest and the chair artwork is a piece made for greige/mysparrow by Patricia at PVE


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Shopping on La Cienega: Maison au Natural No. 819


Love the hanging baskets!

This reminds me of the shop he had at South Coast Plaza so long ago.

 Love the pup!





My love for the vintage framed flags never ends!




Design details are so important to a shop and to your home.
Little collections make everything seem so much more interesting.





Astier de Villatte and vintage subway signs- yes please!







I am totally loving those lights!



I recently had a chance to do a little shopping in LA. 
I visited La Cienega for an event and had a little time to spare so I was able to stop by some of the fantastic shops.  Everyone was very sweet and welcoming and the displays and pieces were absolutely wonderful.  Each shop is unique and full of great inspiration.  
As you know I am a big fan of Dan Marty and when I walked into his newest shop for the first time it was just as I had imagined, creative and full of the most wonderful things!  

Visit the shop:

Maison Au Naturel
9AM - 5PM Monday-Friday, 11AM - 4PM Saturday
(310) 657-1002
819 La Cienega Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

See my other posts on Dan here and here.

Also the Lovely Angela and Renee over at Under Spanish Moss were kind enough to interview me over lunch a little while back.  Check it out here!!

images by christina for greige
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Guest bath and a bit of My Paris...



These are a couple of my favorite images from my last trip to Paris.. I am so excited to be going back...More about that to come this week!

Now onto business... Here is a peek at my guest bath idea board. I made this last week and it is funny because it has already had some changes. I found the perfect little dresser piece to replace the open bamboo style piece on here while I was at the flea market. I was so amazed to find exactly what I had wanted. Now it just has to be refinished and installed. I am keeping my fingers crossed that my vision is going to work!

What do you think?  This is just a shell really - there are some missing details but when it comes to my house I am a little more design as you go.


Also, don't miss your chance to win from Shabby Apple!!



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Online design for the kitchen nook and bath





Here is a little sneak peek at some lifestyle boards.  More to come...

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greige on lifestyle..



I thought it might be appropriate to share some of my work with you... I am so happy that so many of you have joined me on my little quest to show you all how much I love design. Here is a little "lifestyle" board that I put together with a few of my favorite things. What do you think?

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Swedish style... simple.



This amazing interior makes me feel so relaxed. The layering of texture and wood with all of the white. What a great calm relaxing palette...





images from Martha Stewart

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