Black and White

These days I am la-la-loving good ole' black and white rooms: so effortlessly classy, so impossibly chic, so French.

A design caveat: be careful with your prints and textures when working in a black and white palette or your room could end up looking like the Happy Days set or conversely a bordello. Images borrowed from JillVanTosh,CandiceOlsen,SimonKelly,AngusFergusonViaBrightBazaar & StephenShubalViaHouseBeautiful.

Words to Live by

Take a Little Trip: Yosemite

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir, Scottish naturalist, among the first to explore Yosemite

Words defy Yosemite. No matter how I try, I cannot find any fitting descriptors to convey the magnitude of Half Dome or the adrenaline rush produced by standing before a 2,500 foot tall waterfall. Last weekend, I had the great pleasure of visiting the Yosemite for the first time. This visit will be indelibly marked on my travel memory.