Late night decor delights..

I have a host of new pics of projects I worked on during turkey downtime that I'm going to put up on Sunday. In the meantime I just wanted to post a couple pointers for the decorating-challenged out there. One is sure to give your interior and injection of inspiration..

1) The Cottage House- Frankly I never wanted to tell anyone about this place because the deals are too damn good! However my lovely friend/client who works for Yelp already went ahed and let the cat out of the bag after I let her in on it. So caution be damned! Open only one weekend a month, the deals here are ridiculous, and each display room found in the South Minneapolis house is changed out monthly by a local designer to fit the current month's theme.

2) Read any and every book by Kelly Wearstler. I have Hue and Modern Glamour; The Art of Unexpected Style on my wish list.

3) Watch Reality T.V. guilt-free! Hunt down the show "Nine By Design" on Bravo. Absolutely fascinating to see this artistic couple balance a successful design practice and raising all them 'chitlins!' The best part though is getting to see there projects from inception through completion. Always makes me feel as though living authentically and with passion can still be done in the midst of numerous responsibilities and a sizeable dash of chaos.

4) The only kind of prize I ever brought home as a kid was for coloring, and I've been obsessed ever since. Check out this link to see some fab Dorothy Draper retro interior paint colors..http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/painting-fixing-repair/dorothy-draper-paint-chips-from-benjamin-moore-063964.

Cheers!
F