is anyone else so happy it's friday!!  we are heading to a music festival with the kiddos which should be interesting to say the least :)  i hope y'all have a wonderful weekend!!

*images courtesy of modern hepburn, anetteshus, philip gorrivan 

i am thinking for our new house that i want to use pale, neutral colors....much like what's going on in these images....but don't hold me to it....i change my mind almost everyday :)  i hope y'all had a wonderful weekend.  i went camping....and survived!!

if you need me, i'm be surrounded by boxes and packing paper.....my house is complete chaos and i've having a hard time focusing!!

good morning...i've been traveling a lot lately and i always find myself hooked to oprah radio.  do y'all ever listen to it?  it plays her old shows....and it's good stuff.  but beware, on one road trip i found myself crying like 4 separate times....gets a little awkward when i have to answer the phone and i am be sobbing!!  i swear, every time i get home from a trip, i have some life revelation due to oprah!!  

i don't think i ever shared with y'all the completed kitchen i designed for clients on sullivan's island.  it was a new construction and the homeowners wanted something a little more modern feeling even though they live at the beach.  i love how this guy turned out!!
i also thought it would be fun to share the clients' last home that i designed to show how we changed up the style a little.  the previous home had much more of a coastal feeling.....which i love equally :)

*images Shannon Darby Design, bottom BHG/ Shannon Darby Design

 

i wish i was daring enough to do a dark exterior.....i think it would be really cool.  i just tend to lean on the safe side....but part of me really wants to take that leap......

*images courtesy of breakfast in the morning, the inspired room, design sponge, house beautiful, brooks ballard, the stroller coaster

so a lot is going on at our casa....we have officially sold our house and are in the process of building.  the kicker is our new house will take 6 months....we get to stay in our home until june, then we will be homeless....i've got a lot to figure out in the next month!!

it's impossible for me to sit at the computer and not listen to music.  tonight i discovered my "new band"...i'm sure you have heard of them b/c they play one of their songs nonstop on the radio...the lumineers.  but you really need to listen to their other music...starting w/ classy girls, big parade, and morning song.  i just bought the whole album b/c it's good....like friday night w/ a glass of wine and pinterest good.....

 

lately, i have been drawn to details...mostly in upholstery, pillow designs, and window treatments.  things that take an ordinary piece to the next level.  most of them are really simple: adding a contrast color for cording or as a banding on a solid upholstery piece,  using a mini flange (i love it w/ ruffle pleat corners) on pillows or chair cushions, adding a stripe (or pattern) fabric banding to simple roman shades or down the leading edge of panels give an extra oomph, or simply using another fabric on the backs of chairs adds an element of surprise to any space.   simple details like these make all the difference in the world!!  try one next time your thinking of updating a piece!!!

*images courtesy of mark d. sikes, kc interiors, palmer weiss, knight moves, maddie's nest, cote de texas, interior canvas, one kings lane, elle decor