My New Orleans
03/01/2021
This powder room features an antique Trumeau mirror, Melange Sconces by Kelly Wearstler, linens from Sophisticated Thread and a window shade in Ventaglio Crocus fabric by Designers Guild made by Renée LeJeune Designs.
This powder room features an antique Trumeau mirror, Melange Sconces by Kelly Wearstler, linens from Sophisticated Thread and a window shade in Ventaglio Crocus fabric by Designers Guild made by Renée LeJeune Designs.
The homeowners used furniture they already owned for the outdoor area, with new Monte Carlo by Maverick fans to help cool the space.
The homeowners used furniture they already owned for the outdoor area, with new Monte Carlo by Maverick fans to help cool the space.
The Slow Evolution of Paint
As manufacturers tinker with chemistry to improve durability, ease of application, and hide, the distinction between water- and oil-based paints is blurred for the better.
Synopsis: The basic building blocks of paint haven’t changed in decades, but residential paint has undergone some changes. Contributing writer Scott Gibson researches what’s new in paint, describing the increased durability of low-VOC products and the improvements made to water-based paints. The article includes interior and exterior paint recommendations from professionals, and a list of new hybrid water-based alkyd paints and specialty problem-solving paints.
Responding to wartime shortages of basic raw materials, Sherwin-Williams managed to produce the nation’s first water-based house paint in 1941. Consumers snapped up 10 million gallons of Kem-Tone in the first three years of production, according to an account by the American Chemical Society. Industry chemists ever sinc
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Palm Beach decorating: A toast to a happy yellow for the New Year
Here’s a room scheme for the New Year using Pantone’s colors of the year for 2021 “Ultimate Gray” and “Illuminating,” a bright yellow.
Carleton Varney
Well, 2021 is here. And aren’t we glad?
Everyone has surely been awaiting its arrival, happy to say goodbye to 2020, when the world endured such disquieting and difficult circumstances. COVID, COVID, COVID that was rightly on everyone’s mind, with cases increasing, deaths rising and lockdowns and quarantines happening all over the world.
We’re not out of the woods yet, by any means keep those masks on and social distancing in place! But with the news of two vaccines being distributed, I’m looking for sunshine in 2021.
A Houston Family Home Combines Warm Comfort With a Modern Edge
See how Chandos updated the house to suit both its owners.
By Alia Akkam JULIE SOEFER
Since 2010, a Houston couple had happily lived and raised a brood of four kids in their renovated 1960s ranch-style house in the Memorial Villages. But, “over time we simply needed more closet and bathroom space to accommodate our growing children, explains one of the owners. So, when the lot directly next to them became available, we jumped at the opportunity to be able to design a custom home where we could stay put in our neighborhood, they explain.
Patrick Cline
If it was up to Alison Chemla, the new salon for her jewelry brand Alison Lou, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, would have had minimalist white walls with furniture to match the better to show off her whimsical, colorful gems. But when the maximalist interior designer Sasha Bikoff is your best friend, quiet understatement is not an option.
“Sasha loves jewelry, and she is very
extra
above at right), who met the
ELLE DecorA-List designer when they were teenagers growing up in New York. “When she said, ‘Let’s do gold wallpaper,’ I told her she was insane and I wouldn’t do it. But she slowly pushed me. Now I have gold walls and her Disco Dots rug.