ALL MY SOURCES + More photos from RUE: PART I.

Thank you all so much for your support and sweet comments! I was really nervous about putting myself out there like this.

I have to say, even though I blog daily I am nervous every time I hit publish. I am always worried and anxious about people’s reactions even though it may not seem like it! It took a lot for me to open up my house, and especially my family like this. If you are a blog regular you know I don’t usually post pictures of them (at least not head on) and that I rarely post pictures of myself. Having a huge part of your life on the internet, where anyone can poke fun at you, look at you and worse is scary… but also rewarding. Blogging really gave me courage and inspiration for a whole new life! Im so happy you all came along for the ride!

Anyway – I thought it would be cool to put ALL my ideas, inspirations and sources for everything in my apartment into a few posts for you all. I had to split it up, because, well ITS FREAKING LONG and exhausting! So this is Part One: Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen.

First up-

LIVING ROOM:

Backstory:

I moved in with no furniture AT ALL! Nada. Zip. Nothing. We were selling our first apartment the time and we left all the furniture there so that it would look staged for potential buyers. We moved in with a bed with wheels that wouldnt lock and (it rolled across the floor in the middle of the night) and a card table and folding chairs. Thats it. The apartment was also under construction at the time- we were extending the kitchen and building the lighting in the ceiling- and everything was chaos. Cookie was also only 3 months old! To top it off the first week we moved in, I sliced my finger in the kitchen, cutting a tendon and nerve and had to have surgery to repair it- leaving me in a cast for 8 weeks!  Even though it was hard in the beginning and this place felt nothing like a home, it was still so exciting to be building my first real home with my family.

Another View:

{Taken by me on the day of the shoot.}

ANYWAY,

The sources:

The sofa was a floor sample, Templeton Sofa from Jonathan Adler. I needed something ASAP, because we had nothing to sit on and I was THRILLED when they let me buy the store sample!

The white chairs were  the Circa chairs from Room and board but I cant find them anymore on their site.

The coffee table is from Clayton Gray Home. I had an ikea table there for about a year. Every time I replaced something ikea that I bought to use temporarily (some of it lasted 2 years!) it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders!

{ This is what the apartment looked like in 2009- Zebra hide is now moved to the den and is on top of a blue rag rug- the ikea lack table is gone. The white Norden Ikea dining table has been replaced by one from Julian Chichester and the kitchen pendants have been replaced by the Hicks Pendant from Circa Lighting. CRAZY!!! I want to puke on that orchid!}

{Taken by me, day of Rue shoot. Leather pillow is in my etsy shop!}

I found this gray chair in the garbage on Third Avenue!!!! I sat on it until my friend Sarah picked me up in her car and I had it reupholstered! The ottoman under the parsons console was with it. See the before and after of the “garbage chair” HERE. The striped chair I found on ebay and refinished and reupholstered. (I had to go pick it up from Port Authority and try to get it home myself… NOT EASY. Basically my husband doesnt really let me use Ebay anymore!)

The Kelly Wearstler Bengal Baazar pillows were made for me by Etsy Seller and my friend Melanie of Plum Cushion. (She also made the chair cushions on the lucite chairs, and the roll on the bed….)

Both end tables were random pick ups, one from Meccox Gardens, the round tobacco leaf table was from Space Interiors in NJ.

That parsons sofa table was from my husbands first apartment and was in storage in my mother in laws basement for the past 10 years!

The sculpture on the sofa table is a Shona Sculpture from The Hemingway African Art Gallery.

The Lamps are from Restoration Hardware. HERE.

The round shagreen mirror is from Made Goods.

The living room shades were made by The Shade Store. They are pleated roman in white silk dupioni.

The barcart is from this company Go Home, but I dont think its available to the public. I’m not sure!

The sideboard under the TV is vintage piece.

I had the lucite bench is custom made, based on a vintage design I found on 1st Dibs.

The  round sheepskin was made by ABC Carpet for my first apartment. (I move it around the apartment a lot.)

The walls are a custom blend of two Benjamin Moore metallic paints that I had applied in a strie. (50/50 White pearl and Silver.)

Dining room:

{Alternate Dining Room Shot… Taken by me.} I chose to include it so you could see the whole dining table, the chairs, the art and how they relate to the rest of the room. Those flowers in the corner are only there because this was after the shoot and I needed to put them somewhere. And although we put the candles on the table, they are never usually there. They are usually on the window sill, and the sculpture is usually on the dining table.}

The dining table is Julian Chichester.

The  dining chairs are Z chairs from Plexi-Craft (they were from my first apartment!) and the ikat cushions were made by Melanie of Plum Cushion (I provided the ikat).

I designed the subway tile style mirrored wall and had it made by a local mirror man.

Almost all the vases in the house are from Home Goods.

The Kitchen:

{We combined 2 apartments to make this one, and the kitchen actually ended where the wall with the painting is. We matched the existing cabinetry – which was brand new- and we changed the counter tops to marble. I got to use 2 ovens- which is HEAVEN to anyone who cooks and has people over- and we put in a 48″ side by side sub-zero. YAY for storage! In my first apartment  you couldnt open the dishwasher and stand in the kitchen at the same time! We also usually have a Biorb fishtank on the counter. You can see it in other photos.}

Pendants- Hicks Pendant Circa lighting.

Counter Stools were from Space Interiors, although I think there are similar ones on Z Gallerie.

The marble is Calcutta Gold.

The painting is by me and its in my etsy shop.

The horse painting is a picture I cut out of a book and pasted into a frame from Home Goods. In other words- my stupidest, easiest DIY EVER!!!

Ok… I think I am done with these rooms for now, if you see something that I havent linked to and are curious about it, email me! Also, ALL my paintings are for sale HERE. Seriously. (I would sell it right off the wall… I have to keep the flow going if I want to make new things, right? )

Dont forget to check out RUE (page 100) if you havent already seen it, as well as yesterday’s post for some behind the scenes shots and some outtakes!

Part 2 of sources will include Cookie’s Room, the den and master bedroom! Stay tuned!