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I am sorry for the short post, but there is no heat in my apartment, and typing with my chilled fingers has proven harder than I imagined! So I leave you with this beautiful picture of Van Cortlandt House Museum. Built in 1748, this Georgian House is located in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, and is open to the public. Check their website for eighteenth-century holiday themed events. On a cold night like this, I would love to be inside a house as warm and inviting and this one.

Furthermore, cozying up to a fire in a fireplace as beautiful as this one, at Gracie Mansion, sounds like the perfect cure for a winter chill. Although a townhouse on the Upper East Side is lovely, with fireplaces this beautiful and interiors by Jamie Drake, I often wonder why Bloomberg doesn’t live at Gracie!

Photos courtesy of the Historic House Trust of New York City

I have decided that Wednesdays are a good day for my weekly post, “Cheap and Chic of the Week.” Every week I will scour the web, and the stores, for the one thing that I think deserves the title, “Cheap and Chic of the Week.” For my inaugural post, I want to talk about zebra. If the infiltration of Osa Johnson’s I Married Adventure into every designer living room isn’t enough of an indication, zebra has been quite the craze. Although I’m sure there are those critics out there who feel that zebra is “over,” I say that a little zebra can always go a long way! Now I am not advocating that one “deck the halls” with zebra, cheetah, and leopard; but just a small hit of zebra in any room can exclaim, “I’m into adventure!”–and give that room the edge that it was looking for.

This week, the “Cheap and Chic of the Week” is at Urban Outfitters. It is a small, cotton, 5×7 zebra rug, at a cost of only $68! This is definitely a worthwhile purchase, which will add a hit of adventure to any room–big or small.

About a year ago, I purchased a similar throw rug from Urban Outfitters, and it was a staple of my apartment in NYC under a CB2 lucite coffee table, and has become the focal point for my tiny Philadelphia studio. I purchased a brown and white 3 x 5 version for $11 (!)–and I am still kicking myself that I didn’t buy them for friends, neighbors, relatives, strangers and a few extra for myself.

Lacquered Life Philadelphia Studio

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Grant Gibson‘s San Fransisco Apartment … Rental!

Baby it’s Cold Outside!

Cheap and Chic of the Week: Zebra