Modern House Minimalist Design

We had one full day in Rio (Wednesday) and it was... (surprise!) grey. So we lay on the beach for 20 minutes with the wind blustering about and the wild waves hurling flecks of saltwater our way and decided to make our way to the Botanical Gardens. Which, it turns out, are pretty cool. See below. Thursday dawned bright and sunny, but unfortunately we had a lunch to make and then a

As you may or may not have heard, we spent two days in Paraty and the first of those sitting in the hostel looking wistfully out at the rain, fingers crossed for a rainless tomorrow. To our great delight, tomorrow was mostly rainless, if one of the wettest (yet paradoxically dryest - the whole town awoke to find itself without running water (!) apparently due to rain (?)) rainless days

COAT J.Crew | SWEATER Gap | SCARF J.Crew | SKIRT Charlotte Russe | TIGHTS Danskin | BOOTS André Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  The leaves are falling here in the 16th arrondissement. Knowing that we'd be busy cooking today, the Irishman and I marched up the avenue last Saturday to take some pictures by the Arc de Triomphe.  Coincidentally, we also live just across the

Hi and happy Tuesday! Hard to believe Thanksgiving is just two short days away! The most delicious day of the year is near...... I will be on a little hiatus for Thanksgiving....headed to my sisters beach house for  Thanksgiving by the beach. It will be a first and I am looking forward, the stretchy pants are at the ready.... With the chaos of Hurricane Sandy, somehow this post got lost in the shuffle. I cannot in good consciousness usher out fall without a proper goodbye (it is after all my favorite season). In case you missed my post on a perfect fall day yesterday, click here to have a look!  I started having fun taking pictures of the fall foliage at its peak or near peak both around here and in my travels. They were too pretty to not share and while I know that the last gloriously colored leaf has fallen, I want to say goodbye to fall with a tribute post to fall and all its glory. A short post (for me) but a pretty one especially if like me, you love fall! Enjoy..........

  Curling up with a good book having a cup of tea, gathering around the fireplace with friends, preparing a good meal for your family,… enjoy whatever you do this weekend!   Source A Perfect Gray   Source Inspired Design   Source Providence Ltd. Design via FB   Source Belgian Magazine Classic Najaar 2012 Photo credit Jonah Samyn   I wish everyone of you a relaxing weekend! xx Greet

  Curling up with a good book having a cup of tea, gathering around the fireplace with friends, preparing a good meal for your family,… enjoy whatever you do this weekend!   Source A Perfect Gray   Source Inspired Design   Source Providence Ltd. Design via FB   Source Belgian Magazine Classic Najaar 2012 Photo credit Jonah Samyn   I wish everyone of you a relaxing weekend! xx Greet

On him:  SUIT Marco Belli | SHIRT Steven Bee | TIE Virtuose |  On her: BLAZER Zara | DRESS Comptoir des Cotonniers | NECKLACE similar available here |   SHOES Nine West | SUNGLASSES Italian market I'm in a bit of a sweater slump this week, so here are some pictures of the Irishman and me at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse races in October! The girls were out and proud in my

So, in France, everybody gets the day off for Toussaint, All Saints' Day, which is, of course, awesome when you're nursing a Halloween hangover. It's a little bit frustrating though when you think about how hung up the country is on being laïc (one of those French words without a good English equivalent, basically means religion-free). But I digress. The suave prince charming I live with

Some nights, when we can't get "Suits" to stream properly on the sub-par Parisian Internet or when we feel overfed or just for the hell of it, the talented engineer (who now moonlights as a photographer) and I take walks. Or, on nights where we have to get a blog post up pronto and he really wants to take pics at the Mercedes-Benz showroom, we take the métro and then walk.

I had hoped to have our 2012 Thanksgiving Download Collection available tonight. I finally got everything photographed but still don't have it all sized and uploaded yet because I've had a sick little one so I'm a wee bit behind. I am hoping to get it finished up here late tonight and have it available tomorrow. In the meantime though I thought I would show you a tiny sneak peek. I hope you all are having a wonderful Monday!

Here are the last two projects from New Hampshire.  The original plan was to place the table that we showed you last week on this wall here in the kitchen. It looked great here but poked out just a bit further than was ideal so while I was home we hunted through some of their old pieces in the basement to see if there was anything that might work in this space. At first it didn't seem like there was anything that would work but then I noticed an old desk that my mom had bought years ago for either $25 or $35 at a consignment shop. It was in great shape but not so appealing to look at. After having the boys lug it upstairs to see how it looked we realized that not only was it the perfect size, it was also functional. My parents had a similar desk in their last kitchen and it's so nice having a place to store pens, mail, stamps and all those little things that want to be handy but don't want cluttering up your counters. So, after a quick coat of Kingsport Gray which they ha...