If you haven't had a chance to decorate your home for fall and are looking for ideas, you have come to the right place. In today's blog post, I will be sharing lots of fall decor inspiration to get you motivated. There are many spaces inside and outside your home that...
Hi guys! Do you feel ready for fall? I sure do! October is officially here in all manner of ways. There's been that first crispness in the air, the leaves are beginning to turn, and I am buying pumpkins by the armload! I'm still trying to decide which way to go with...
Flowering Window Boxes of Charleston | my favorite home in Charleston | Hi everyone! I am dusting off this previously published post because I was looking for some inspiration for flower boxes (I will share my secret reason later). The post below is one I wrote after...
"I believe that to be a really great lifestyle brand you have to have a two-way relationship with your customer, and I felt the best way to do that was to open up my home to the One Kings Lane community." — Debbie Propst, President of One Kings Lane As a lover...
Charleston's Most Beautiful Home During my recent Charleston getaway, I fell in love with so many aspects of this picturesque city. The most famed architecture can be found south of Broad Street. It is a harmonious blend of brick, stucco and wood featuring arched...
a simple way to pick paint colorPicking the right paint color for your walls can be a daunting and expensive process. When faced with redecorating a room in our home I start in the usual places. I search online, browse through interior design books and magazines and...
Shade Loving Plants and Flowers | my two front door urns planted with kong salmon pink coleus, sweet potato vine and xtreme orange impatiens | Got shade? I absolutely love living in a neighborhood that has a lot of mature trees. The trees provide a wonderful canopy of...
Affordable Outdoor Lighting Getting our deck ready every summer is a labor of love. There is a lot of bleaching, scrubbing and power washing involved - but it is totally worth all the elbow grease. As soon as everything has been cleaned and the cushions get put out, I...
Summer Inspired Deck | my pumpkin pie on the deck enjoying some lemonade | My entire family and I spent our free time last weekend getting the house ready for summer. We started by power washing our home then we swept cobwebs, cleaned windows, scrubbed away mildew,...
Near & Far Aid 2016 House Tour The Near & Far Aid 2016 House Tour is one of the Connecticut Events that holds a special place in my heart because it resonates with two interests in my life: the importance of community volunteerism and my love of interior...
Colonial Connecticut Home The Washington, Connecticut, home of designer Philip Gorrivan; his wife, Lisa Rossi, and their two children. The house, which was built in 1840, was moved to its current location in 1955. Colonial Connecticut Home Elle Decor is among the top...
I know. GORGEOUS, right. Just look at the window treatment with the pom-pom fringe, isn't that fabric to die for? With all the lovely snow this weekend, our pace at home slowed down considerably. Sports events were cancelled and no one wanted to be on the road which...
A home at night with mini lights in the boxwoods, and coordinating bows. Simple and elegant. Happy Friday...and where the heck did this week go? It flew by! It must be the time of year, everyone is bustling about getting ready for the Holidays and it feels a bit like...
CT in Style - Spotlight on Connecticut Architects Today, we're going on a virtual tour of a beautiful Greenwich, CT home designed by Connecticut Architect Douglas VanderHorn. I absolutely love the look of this newly built waterfront home that reminds me of traditional...
Connecticut in Style, a Connecticut-based lifestyle blog - summer patio inspiration One of my dearest friends happens to be a naturally gifted designer. Her entire home is gorgeous, inside and out - and she is teased mercilessly about how clean it always is. I don't...
Sometimes I want to retreat. I fantasize about spending a night in a tree house with an elevation that would give me a new perspective both literally and figuratively. I'd kiss my husband and children goodbye and hoist a bag over my shoulder that I had filled with all...
Patio - Connecticut in Style Lifestyle Blog - Sarah O'Brien I feel like a bear emerging from hibernation. After the longest and coldest New England winter I can remember, I've been immersing myself in warm and sunny weather for the past 4 weeks - and it has...
Near and Far Aid Designer House Tour Friday can't come soon enough. On Friday, a group of friends and I will partake in one of the most popular CT events of the year, the Near and Far Aid Designer House Tour. We get to go inside six of the chicest homes in...
Celebrated interior designer, Celerie Kemble's Dominican Republic vacation home is so idyllic. It is filled with natural sun light however, there's another intangible quality about the house that makes it feel so light that it is about to float away. Below is an...
Connecticut in Style Editor's Event Pick SHOP. BE INSPIRED. CELEBRATE DESIGN. Architectural Digest Home Design Show 2015 - Connecticut in Style I'm especially looking forward to this week because on Thursday, March 19th I am attending the 14th Annual Architectural...
Robert A. Cardello Architects is among the foremost architect firms in Connecticut. Helmed by Robert Cardello, the firm develops both commercial and residential projects, and specializes in fine home design, including renovations and new construction. While Robert...