Back on the Market in Greenwich

A few months ago, before she recently resigned her latest gig at Fox to stay home with her kids, college classmate Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her husband Tim put their Greenwich, CT colonial (which they just bought three years ago) on the market.  It's listed for just under $5MM, if you're game.  Remember when I posted the crazy before pictures?  They did some redecorating, and as promised here are the afters...  My favorite room is definitely the dining (nice rug repurpose from the old city place btw).

 

No word on where they are relocating for their new (presumably simpler) life with their school aged kids. (Turns out the winner was Nashville)

The kids' big kid rooms

So this post is a little late since the kids moved to twin beds a year and a half ago.  Oh well... (fyi, their rooms never look like this in real life)

I used butterfly/flower/bird prints from an old Cavallini (flora and fauna) calendar and IKEA frames to create the montage over Mari's bed. We got her shams and bolster cover on our last trip to India two years ago (from Fabindia), which started the room in raspberry and marigold.  I then added a pink throw and pom pom pillow (far left) from last spring's Lilly Pulitzer for Target collection and my mom made another pillow cover (with a different animal on each side) from this amazing John Robshaw Mahout fabric (discovered here).  Her bed is the Astoria gold metal bed from Land of Nod (we are lucky to have their only outlet store nearby).  Rug is Garnet Hill and art is by my aunt, Michelle Montjoy.  She decided she's ready to try a high bed, so we're adding the box spring (which was too high when we bought it) back soon.

I found some cute bedding for him at Garnet Hill (which had a great pop-up store in Bridgehampton, NY this summer), including these Bainbridge shams and their coordinating car cases and navy dot flannel sheets that you can't see here.  The Ikat pillows (another on bench) are from the Jayson Home & Garden flea market.  The pair of oar pillows were impulse buys from Joanns.  Bed knobs from Anthropologie (similar ones now at Homegoods). His daybed is a Hemnes from IKEA.  His rug is from Dash & Albert and madras quilt from PBK, both carry overs from his nursery.  Mural map is from Nat Geo. Both of their bed covers are from Homegoods (M:Artisan De luxe and A: Cynthia Rowley). Some items not mentioned were noted here, here, here, and here.  I've been collecting more vintage wooden tennis racquets, so I'm ready for a larger installation when/if we ever move and he has more wall space.

The Old Crew

One of the most fun things about scouring around the design world is finding new (to me) people and things, but maybe even more fun is coming across old to me people who you haven't run into in a very long time.

A friend of mine from my college rowing days is now an interior designer (after giving up a lucrative career in big law), and I happily came across her again recently (via Houzz and House & Home).  Breeze is super talented (obviously) and I was so happy to see her gorgeous interiors.  This project in DC, was one of my faves.  So yummy...

Transitional Living Room by Malibu Interior Designers & Decorators BGDB Interior Design

Transitional Dining Room by Malibu Interior Designers & Decorators BGDB Interior Design

And speaking of crew, I'm also finally reading the book, The Boys in the Boat, which is the story of the US men's crew team who beat the Nazi German team to win the gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.  It's a great story and currently being made into a movie.  Can't wait to see it!

Accidental decor project

A few weeks ago while the kids were at school, I went to our local Goodwill store to raid their kids' shoes.  A colleague of DH's is traveling to Honduras for Engineers without Borders (yes, that's a thing) and she said the kids there are always in need of shoes, and I found exactly what I was looking for.  Coincidentally the kids' shoes were right next to the athletic equipment, and some vintage wooden tennis racquets caught my eye. 

I had previous pinned this pic (from Lonny, design by J+G Design) as a cute, but not a planned, idea for a kid's room (though this is a SoHo "bachelor pad").

So I decided to pick up the racquets ($10 for all four, which is nuts given what I've found they go for on CL and eBay) and did a mini 1/4 installation in Alistair's room.  Mine is offset to accommodate the top one with a shorter handle.  He walked in the first time he saw them he said "WOW!".  I guess that is all you can ask for, right? ;)

Last week was spring break and as it goes around here, the kids both fell sick.  Some weird on again off again week long puking virus, that hopefully has left for good.  My kids are awesome in their own bed sleepers, but somehow the floor looked better to him last week.  Poor little guy.

We went to Lake Geneva last weekend and upon leaving the Grand Geneva, Marielle threw what amounts to a tantrum for her.  She wouldn't get off the lobby floor.  Might as well take a pic then.

Work is underway on their big kid rooms, I can't believe how big they are getting.  I'm buying 3Ts (to wear now!?), they are all signed up for summer camp, preschools for fall, and we're already looking at three year old programs.  Slow down kiddos...

A Peaceable Kingdom

As I've mentioned before, I try to keep my posts with tons of interior design pics pulled from magazines/the internet to a minimum.  I just don't find them very original.  The posts, not the pics.  I make exceptions for friends, people I've gone to school with, or otherwise find worthy of breaking my rule. 

Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler was a year ahead of me in college (her father is literally a sugar daddy, and an old friend of my ex's family), and her family's weekend home on Long Island has just been featured in Vogue, so I thought I'd share.  It would have been nice to see more of the inside, instead of just the descriptions in the article, but such is Vogue.  Enjoy...

Hamptons Designer Showhouse 2013

Since it is closing today, I figured it was time to finally post about the Hamptons Designer Show house.  I had wanted to go the last time we were in the Hamptons, but we didn't have a lot of extra time and I felt like a heel leaving DH to fend for himself.  This time, since everyone could/needed to nap and I could run up there and no one would really miss me, I went for it. 

It was a very nice house, as they always are, spec houses that always sell for big money.  But unlike most parade/tour homes, where it is really about the house (and the builder), or like the recent green home tour I went on in Chicago (which was all about the ways to build/live green), this was really all about the designers.

They chose designers for each individual space, some 30 in all, and they all seemingly work in a vacuum, so nothing really goes together, which makes for an odd compilation in general.  The point of these homes is to get the designers publicity and new clients, and to benefit Southampton Hospital, which I understand and support.  But that is my main complaint that it isn't really about the entire presentation, just each room to themselves.  I wondered if they pulled each and every thing out when they sell it, and I guess they have a charity auction at the end of the summer to get rid of the furnishings.

Anywho, I brought my big camera along but left it in the car, so these are all just iPhone pics.

I have to say that I thought the outdoor spaces were the real stars of the house.  That and the master suite (and maybe the butler's pantry) are all that were really notable in my opinion.  The house was a traditional Hamptons shingle style house on a deep interior lot, just outside of Sag Harbor.

Some shots from around the side porch...  So colonial, love it!

The backyard had a large pool and terraced tennis court beyond it and that hedge row...  (rough living, right?)

From the tennis court, looking back at the house

A bit overdone, but I loved this one too... (the curtained one off to the right, from above)

And the porches off the back...

And then inside... the butler's pantry, which is really all about that Scalamandre zebra wallpaper

I liked that they had double machines in the 2nd floor laundry room (the only one), but the room was so small.  But I guess that's either the maid's problem or you just send out the stuff when you live in a 7BD/7+BA in the Hamptons, eh?

Loved the master, though I didn't take that many good pics.  It was designed by society designer Celerie Kemble, and she did a very nice job.  Loved the custom bed linens...

Can we agree that every master bathroom should have his and hers WCs?  Brilliant.

The master bath was amazing, if a bit overdone.  Does it really need to be the size of a ballroom?  The suite also had an office and two sitting rooms, in addition to a double sided fireplace.

Loved the mosaic floor work

The kitchen was meh.  I'm not sure how they get away with making it so small in a house this big.

Informal eating room off of the keeping room/kitchen

Most of the other bedrooms (7 total, all en suite, 5 up, 1 main, 1 down) and living/dining rooms were not very interesting, but I liked that they had two story entry and living room.  Since we have these too, I'm partial...  Au revoir!