Your home is a representation of you and should be decorated as such. If you haven’t already taken the Myers Briggs personality quiz, we suggest taking it. It will help you know yourself better, making your home decor a more direct reflection of you. Knowing your personality type and the style that reflects it, can help one make more cognizant…
You know it’s spring when those long, lovely tulip stems start peeking out of the ground! There are more than 1,000 different tulip species, and each of them brings its own touch of charm to springtime. In fact, so many species exist that scientists have grouped them into 15 main categories of tulip types, just to keep them in order!…
It’s officially Fall, which means that you can finally justify the scarves you have been wearing for the past week, and also: it’s time for fall weddings! It’s the magical season where the leaves are changing and the air is getting a bit more crisp and cool, so it’s no coincidence that some of the most unforgettable weddings happen during…
Women’s Equality Day, which celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote, takes place today, August 26th! There are many ways in which to celebrate this occasion, and the most obvious is being active toward the issues that women are still facing, such as wage equality, representation in technical fields, visibility in leadership roles…
From classic color combinations (hello, blue and white!) to funky, brightly-hued furniture, expect to see throwback styles and serious color on people’s porches this summer. 1. Indoor Living, Outside Good Southerners know this is nothing new, simply an approach to life, but it looks like the rest of the nation has finally caught on: bringing the outdoors in, and the…
June is here, which means summer has officially arrived, bringing with it longer days, overflowing gardens – and the start of wedding season. If you’re throwing a warm weather wedding this month, be sure to take advantage of the many bright, luscious summer flowers that are bursting into bloom. From roses to peonies, there’s no shortage of stunning flowers to…
Teaming up with the UK’s garden retailer, Dobbies, author and stylist Selina Lake has shown just how many different floral arrangements can be created in the home using a selection of spring and summer blooms. With flowers including royal wedding favourites, peonies, foxgloves and roses, as well as eucalyptus, astrantia and white wax flowers, you can create a wonderful floral…
Whether you call them buttonholes or boutonnieres, lapel flowers were, once, a common site on men’s suits and tuxedos, however, just about the only place we see them these days is at a wedding. Though traditionally worn by the men in the bridal party, these days, they can be worn by both sexes and, sometimes, they don’t even contain flowers!
Decorating with flowers is the easiest and most impactful way to brighten a room. I’m a little obsessed with flowers. Every time I do a photo shoot of my house, the first thing I do is get flowers. Okay, I should say after I clean my house then I get flowers. So a clean house and flowers are really the…