Living Outside THE City

So now that we’re officially leaving NYC and moving to Charleston, I’m going to have to change a couple of things – specifically in the world of blog inspiration I will have to change my access to some of my favorite interiors magazines. Most of you know that in THE city, magazines come out a day earlier than they do anywhere else, so if you want to be the first to see it, best to buy it and not have a subscription. So when it comes to House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Vanity Fair, Vogue etc. etc. best to just go to your magazine guy and buy it the day it comes out. For my other favorite magazines, which are all from overseas, I had this amazing magazine store in SoHo which always stocked Marie Claire Maison, Elle Decoration UK, and Vogue Living Australia, so I would pop in and buy all of those every month. I can’t get these magazines in Charleston, so it looks like subscriptions for me! However, one thing I can get in Charleston, which I have been consistently surprised with of late, is Country Living. 

 These minimalist interiors almost have the feel of many of the interiors I love in the foreign publications! And this is in a former blacksmith shop in the countryside outside of NYC.

Although I will be sad to leave my little magazine bodegas with Marie Claire Maison at my fingertips, and resign myself to waiting for the mailman, Charleston definitely has some good magazines to offer … and plus, its Charleston. 

Images courtesy of Country Living

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Moving

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  • June 28, 2012

Moving never gets any easier. Growing up, we moved a fair amount, I attended two different colleges as well as studying abroad, and I have lived in three cities since finishing BC five years ago. I should be an old pro – but it really never gets easier. Its not the packing, or the wrapping, or the tossing out – its the emotional part that gets to me. Even though these apartments or houses we occupy are just spaces, they become part of our lives … they become home. And that is something that you  just can’t shake very easily. You feel like you are leaving a member of the family behind when you walk out of your house or apartment for the last time, turn off the lights and lock the door. You never fail to feel like you’re forgetting something, even though the space is completely empty. To the outside viewer the space is completely empty, but to you it is filled with the memories of your time there. 
But you know what they say –  when one door closes, another door opens … 
Photos taken by the author and Taylor Lorenz

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Oh What a Beautiful Morning

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  • June 27, 2012

It is an absolutely stunning morning here in Charleston, and I’m thinking about sneaking off to the beach. Just wanted to post some pictures of outdoor things that make me happy, and make me think of summer, as well as Benjamin Moore’s Caribbean Blue Water – great color. 


Images courtesy of Marie Claire Maison, Gil Schaefer and Benjamin Moore

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