Gaga for Gambrel

Gambrel 4Good Morning Lacquered Lifers! Picking paint colors is one of my favorite things that I do for clients, and today I want to share with you one of my favorite interior designers who’s paint schemes are constantly inspiring me – Steven Gambrel. Gambrel does amazing things with paint … sometimes it is bold, and sometimes it is subtle, but what he does is never simple. It is not strange to see a Gambrel designed room with five different paint colors, and while that may sound busy, it rarely is. Gambrel’s colors are always working together to achieve the right balance in a given room, and often the color scheme is so beautiful that your brain doesn’t even compute that there is more than one wall color and one trim color at work. He also never misses an opportunity to paint a ceiling, a piece of a room that people often forget about. So here are a few of my favorite Gambrel paint schemes, perhaps we can turn it into a game – how many colors in each room? Gambrel 5 Gambrel 6 Gambrel Gambrel 2 Gambrel 3

photos via www.srgambrel.com

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The Pull of Jamaica

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  • November 4, 2014

IMG_4410Good Morning Lacquered Lifers … I need a vacation. It could be all the travel writing in T Magazine this weekend, or it could simply be that feeling I seem to get quarterly where I feel the pull of Jamaica. As most of you know, Mr. B and I have fallen in love with Jamaica … and the Jamaica Inn. Sun, sand, sea, planters punch, and croquet … what can I say? – it’s heaven. It has become almost of a tradition, heading down to Jamaica on our anniversary weekend in May, and the minute we leave I am looking forward to the following year’s trip. So today, because I’m missing Jamaica, and feeling like a Planters Punch, I’m sharing some pictures of my favorite place in the Caribbean, Jamaica Inn. For more beautiful photos of this special place, follow @thejamaicainn on InstagramIMG_4414 IMG_4417 IMG_4305 IMG_4308 IMG_4318 IMG_4323 IMG_4384 IMG_4388 IMG_4445

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Chewing on Mottahedeh’s Tobacco Leaf

IMG_3990Good Morning Lacquered Lifers! Today we’re going to spotlight on one of my favorite china patterns, Tobacco Leaf by Mottahedeh. This pattern has long been a favorite, and while I didn’t register for this pattern, it was definitely in the running. Honestly, I had gotten so excited about my own china patterns over last year, Herend Fish Scale and Meissen Ming Dragon, that I had almost forgotten my love of Tobacco Leaf … until I went to New Orleans this spring. It was in New Orleans that I popped into Leontine Linens, met the wonderful Jane Scott Hodges, and found myself starting right at the Tobacco Leaf pattern atop an extremely chic monogrammed placemat, and layered with an equally chic monogrammed napkin. See photo above. Tobacco 2The pattern, which was developed circa 1780, depicts a flowering tobacco leaf, which we all know was of extreme importance to colonial trade. Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.10 AMAs I said above, my love affair with Mottahedeh’s Tobacco Leaf was rekindled when I visited the Leontine Linens showroom, however, that fire was stoked when I received my copy of Jane Scott Hodges’ Linens for Every Room and Occasion and saw that Tobacco leaf is featured prominently throughout its pages. Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.16 AMScreen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.07 AMThe best part? Jane Scott has paired Tobacco Leaf with Herend  Fish Scale. And it looks fabulous. Uh oh – I see a collecting opportunity here. Tobacco Leaf Rim Soup Bowls here I come.

Photos by Lacquered Life & Via Linens for Every Room and Occasion & Scully & Scully

Mottahedeh Tobacco Leaf is available at Scully & Scully

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