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Design Crush: Nam Dang-Mitchell

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

I am traveling in the big city today for work/ book shenanigans but I wanted to be sure to throw a little inspiration your way! On the train down here I was totally enamored with the cover story in the new Canadian House & Home magazine on designer Nam Dang-Mitchell’s showhouse project. So stunning, and made me SO glad I ended up ordering the Arteriors sputnik for my dining room!

This nursery? I die. So fantastic.

I love that her blog is simply collages of what she’s inspired by in categories. So clever. So beautiful.

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I Want to Go to There: Londolozi

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

I came across this absolutely drop dread South African game reserve, Londolozi, in this month’s O Magazine and I now have a new goal in life: going HERE. Not only is going on a safari my top top top travel wishlist item, but the design of this resort is beyond my wildest (pun intended) imagination. I am so inspired by the interior spaces as much as I am the exterior landscape!

Stop it. Stop it right now with this bathtub scenario. A glass of wine and Ryan Gosling rubbing your shoulders and asking you how your day was and the most perfect moment the earth could conjure up will have just happened.

Modern plus rustic equals fabulous.

HI BABY ELEPHANT!!!!

Drapes over a tub? Why not. This is heaven after all.

Do you think he’d rip my face off if I snuggled him and put him in bed with me?

Dig this look? Here ya go!

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Instagram Crush: Erica Cook/ Moth Design

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

There are so many vehicles in which to obsess over/gather inspiration from other people’s lives these days- Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and my personal favorite- Instagram (follow me- @elementstyle). Those dang filters do make everyone and everything look so much better- but some people’s pictures just scream “MY LIFE IS GORGEOUS!” filter or not. The numero uno person on my feed like that is Erica Cook of Moth Design (@ecmoth). Girl has insane style- like hit you over the head it’s so good style. Here’s a sampling of the images that make me walk into street signs.