Home Decor Envy: Marble Kitchen Island

If you are looking to make an elegant statement to your kitchen, consider adding a marble island that can brighten and at the same time bring a unique and cool aesthetic to your space! And if you are not yet ready for such a big change, then you can take a few small steps by adding marble accessories like the ones below to your kitchen! For more images from the spaces we love, check our Pinterest board "Great Interiors"! 

Home Decor Envy: Brass Stools for the Kitchen

Photo: Architectural Digest 

"Step inside John Legend and ChrissyTeigen's New York Home"

I know what you are thinking: you too have to have these art deco brass stools for your kitchen, living room, bedroom or office! These gorgeous pieces are designed by Anna Karlin and can be customized according to your own needs. 

Marble in the Kitchen

I'm currently going through a serious "I-love-marble" phase...

Home Decor Envy: The Marble Kitchen

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this kitchen. Designed by Joseph Dirand. Check the rest of the amazing house here. 

Home Decor Envy: Restrained Glamour

Source: Elle Decor Magazine 

A couple that moved back to New York after their children left for college worked with William Sofield for two years on renovating a 1920s three-level maisonette with views on the East River. But it turned out that renovating this "palatial" space was quite a challenge that kept the well-known architect and designer awake at nights puzzling over the apartment's configuration: "Over the decades, it had been divided into smaller units, then reconsolidated. When the couple purchased it, the layout of the spaces offered a lot of drama, but not much delight. “It had been opened up almost in a loftlike manner, which actually made it enormously difficult to use,” says Sofield. “There were extreme changes of scale. The large rooms felt desolate, and the small rooms oppressive.” But for Sofield - who is known for his ability to reinterpret modernism - every problem has a solution. He found that the best decision was to erect back the walls which made the space feel much larger. As for the house's decor, antiques and items from famous designers were picked mainly from Paris, giving a sense of restricted glamour to every room. More photos here. 

Selections from the Curiosity Shoppe for Target

1. Salad Servers, 2. Salad Plates (set of four), 3. Chalkboard, 4. Novelty Mugs (set of four), 
5. Oven Mitt and Pot Holder

Following my previous post on the Curiosity Shoppe's line for Target, here are my (five) selections. Yes, I know there's a place for all of the line's products in my home, but my wallet strongly disagrees. That's why I'm limiting myself to five fab items which cost less than $100. Not bad, don't you think?

In Love with a Victorian Home in London

Source: House to Home

I'm totally in love with this amazing four-storey Victorian terraced house in West London. It is spacious, it is full of art and has a great mix of classical and retro elements in every room. AND it has an innovative Bulthaup storage system, which creates a multifunctional space that when opened up it becomes a working kitchen and when it is closed the room can go back to being an entertaining space. Genius!

Tiles in the Kitchen

Source: Architectural Digest

Turns out putting tiles in the kitchen doesn't look tacky at all! And I love the suede covered stools!

A Grey Apartment

Tamara Magel's style has been described as mod and and exotic with international influences. And this is evident in the gray apartment you see in the photos where contemporary furniture is surrounded by mod accessories, with a few ethnic touches found here and there. If you love Magel's work, check out her own  eclectic products on her website!

Home Decor Envy: Gray Kitchen with Neon Yellow Details

Source: Apartment Therapy

One more space with gray walls, but decorated this time with a couple of neon details that brighten up the space and give it a cool contemporary twist!

How To Do: Colour Blocking for Your Home

Source: House to Home

This Victorian end-of-terrace villa in north London is the perfect example of how to implement the latest trend of colour blocking in your home without the guidance of a decorator! The home owners have followed three simple rules for this: they've chosen to keep their walls white, the furniture minimal and to decorate their space using a few modern accessories in two contrasting colour, tomato red and mustard yellow. Colourblocking can be as simple as that!

Home Decor Envy: Gourmet Kitchen

I fell in love with this kitchen's tiles, colour and lighting... A gorgeous room from Structures Building Company.

My Favorite Elle Decor Rooms for 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, the editors of Elle Decor magazine asked design insiders to share the rooms that left a lasting impression on them this year. Thirty rooms got the highest number of votes and you can see and be inspired from them by visiting the magazine's website. Here you can see my selections, the five rooms that have stolen my heart!

Two Pies in One (Pie Pan)

...with the Split Decision Pie Pan, a simple yet innovative product which you can find at The Spoon Sisters (retail price: $18)! It 's perfect for the indicisive ones or for those families who can't make a unanimous decision when it comes to baking their Sunday pie! This ingenious pan includes two inserts for creating either a traditional full size pie, or two halves. Make two sweet halves at once - apple or blueberry - or make one savory and one sweet. After all, why would you bake one pie when you can have two at the same time?