A pair of pairs May 21, 2010

I read in my House Beautiful’s Big Advice issue that “one pair of pillows always looks skimpy. Use two pairs, in contrasting patterns, colors and textures.” My sofa was guilty of  said skimpyness, so I tried beefing it up. I really like these graphic orange patterned pillows I found at Neilson’s in Oxford. They were a good price and I love the color. But I’m worried the pattern on the pillows is too busy to go with the busy pattern on the sofa. I’m still deciding…what do you think?

ps: I’m going with larger photos from now on. The little ones made the details hard to see!

RIP Domino May 4, 2010

Ever since Domino magazine folded (a sad, sad day), I’ve been searching for something to replace it. Domino had the best ideas/inspiration of any shelter magazine I’ve read. And not oh-that’s-lovely-but-I-don’t-have-a-million-dollars ideas (do you hear me Architectural Digest?), but sweet!-I-think-I-could-totally-swing-that ideas. The only thing that comes close is Lonny, a new online magazine that (I believe) has a few old Domino editors on staff. Lonny is strictly online right now, which is sort of annoying if you’re the kind of person who likes to rip pages out of magazines for your idea file. But the cool thing about Lonny being an online only mag is that everything in it is linked – so if you see something you like, you can click right on it. Even the ad pages are linked to websites. That’s how I found Chairloom, which has lots of fun upholstery ideas, fabric brands and before and after photos.