Do You Hang High or Do You Hang Low?

One great idea in design is

a writing desk on one side

of the bed instead of a coordinating nightstand.

Who really needs 'matchie-matchie' anyway?

Matching is for the 'anybodies' of this world.

Because anybody can do it.

Right?

And besides it gives you more room for more 'stuff.'

I have a writing desk next to my bed that doubles as a night stand.

Now I would never do it any other way.

Everything to me is super.

Except,

the hanging pendant shade

over the middle of the bed.

It disturbs me.

Just wait till next week... 

and I might show you what really disturbs me.

LOL

I would rather see a contemporary swing arm lamp

peeking out through the draped wall

on the readers side of the bed..

This room is really nice.

I guess it is the black.

I love black.

The greek key, the zebra, it is all very sharp.

Grrrrrreat settee and console.

What do you think of these actual windows???

I would have loved to see the home.

This wild white chair ( I believe) is from

Century Furniture's Oscar de la Renta Collection.

Look behind the curtains 

next to the mirrored mantel.

* I did a post on the two chairs in the forefront.

A few of Dorothy Draper's favorites.

This designer has featured designer shoes

in designer boxes

with designer labels behind these designer draperies.

Clever.

I think......?

I hope this is the sitting room in a bedroom.

Sublime.

No?

Love these dining ( wing ) chairs.

The velvet is one of my all time favorite colors.

A sable taupe.

I LOVE ART HUNG IN THIS WAY!!!

( i say this room is truly DIVINE )

Would you hang your art as low as this?

If not why?

*What do you 'likie' in this post?

It is almost our NEW YEAR.

tic toc tic toc tic toc

What will you be doing?

*My design tip regarding this post;

If you do use a writing desk for a night stand

remember that it will be desk or dining height, approx 29-30 " high.

It you use a different height for your night stand

and you are using matching lamps in the room,

they will still be different heights when you look at the room.

That bothers me, so make sure to get the pieces to be very close in height.

Stay within an inch or two (at the very most) as I have done in my own home.

OR....you can use a task lamp on the desk ( there are some gorgeous ones),

and a lamp that makes a statement on the night stand.

This is a sharp and sophisticated look.

*as featured in Traditional Home Magazine
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Merry Christmas, Keep Your Expectaions Low, And Vent On Your Blog

by  AmoLaZucca  on YouTube 

The title of this post might have been

"What A Drag Clean Up Is After Christmas",

until I fell upon the first photo in this post.

It had a link to the song which I have put right under her picture.

The music is beautiful....

and the message slapped me in the face.

I needed it.

I can get to feeling sorry for myself.

I can bitch and moan.

And then something or someone reminds me.... 

how fortunate some of us are to have a turkey to cook for our families.

I have had some pretty crummy Holiday Seasons....

but it is my nature to.

The holidays get me to feeling 'raw'.

Yesterday I was driving with my top down,

it was a gorgeous day in sunny Boca Raton

 and I just started crying.

I am no Hallmark Card kid from a Hallmark Card family.

(Who is?)

It was something 

related to my expectations.

 It was a little thing that always happens

between my daughter and myself.

It is always the same old thing....

So why do I continually

expect a different outcome

the next time the same issue comes up?

There is a saying;

The definition of insanity is

 "Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results"

But I do.

I think I keep hoping things will be different.

I need to keep the focus on myself.

On my issues, on who I am, and what my actions are.

I need to lower my expectations.

And just love her....and let her go.

I don't mean let her go like

I don't care what she does or who she is,

but accept her for who she is.

(And lower my expectations)

Usually when I am having any kind of problem

it stems from how, and from where I am viewing the issue.

There are more people in this country

that are homeless and losing their homes than will be 'made public.'

They are not dealing with cleaning up after xmas.

They are not putting away all the precious xmas ornaments.

They are not dealing with all the garbage

from the xmas packages being gleefully torn open

last night or this morning.

They had no xmas dinner to clean up,

no xmas morning breakfast dishes to load in the dishwasher.

They gave their children nothing.

Maybe they found something in the garbage

that they cleaned up and wrapped in a shopping bag for their child.

Or if they were lucky....

they got something from " Toys For Tots'.

Think about that.

I need to.

I was able to do what I needed to this year.

I need to have gratitude.

It is so easy to forget what we do have in our lives.

Even if we do have 

THE LUXURY of cleaning up after xmas.

Bye Bye Christmas.

Until Next Year.....

Love you guys....and you know who you are XXX's

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Wrapped In Christmas Lights

I started this post differently.

Everyone has done such fabulous posts during this Christmas season,

that it seemed there was nothing left to do.

All the Blogs are done up beautifully this time of year.

First I was going with the gorgeous red dress thing.

 Then I got bored collecting enough pictures for a post.....

So, because I love Christmas lights....

and the Christmas light tours are online are everywhere...

I came up with these shots.

This one is too cute.

This one is darling for young lovers at Christmas Time.

Adorable.

Dare I say , GEEKY ?

YIKES!!!!!

This is scary.

I wonder if this is supposed to be a 

' PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.'?

*This is one of my favorite Xmas  pics of all time.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

XXX's 

Which picture do you like best ?

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One Fabulous Sober House At Christmas

'

Pete Hathaway has turned his Litchfield County home into a luxurious sober house

"Mr. Hathaway, born Phillips Hathaway, a scion of an old Maryland family, was also emblematic of a time and place in Manhattan’s cultural history, a gatekeeper, as William Norwich, a contributing editor at Vogue, described him, to New York’s halls of power. “ ‘Everything discreetly for sale’ was how Pete operated when he became a big star at Sotheby’s,” said Mr. Norwich, who covered society news for The Daily News in the 1980s"

" Mr. Hathaway’s department at Sotheby’s was responsible for four or five huge sales each year, bringing in at least $20 million annually, he said, from blockbusters like the Versacesale  in 2001 (which brought $10 million for the contents of the murdered designer’s South Beach mansion) to the Duke and Duchess of Wndsor sale in 1998 (which brought over $23 million for the contents of their Paris villa, which had been bought by Mohamed al-Fayed in 1986)."

" Welcome to Mr. Hathaway’s “boutique three-quarter house,” as one friend described the facility that Mr. Hathaway, once a fixture of Manhattan’s social scene, has made of his home here. It’s a six-bed, men-only, “step down” retreat — that is, a residential treatment environment for those who have already completed a 28-day rehab program but, vulnerable to relapse, are encouraged to follow some sort of “stepped down” care. "

" Called Enterprise New Life, “it’s for men like me who aren’t ready to go home yet,” Mr. Hathaway said. The Wednesday dinner, to which Mr. Hathaway invites neighbors in recovery and even some “normies,” is its semi-public face. "

" This is a third act for Mr. Hathaway, who was for two decades a director of European furniture at Sotheby’s. Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate “extra man,” a skilled practitioner of “the night shift,” as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales. "

I say,  there comes a time in a rocovery that one has to view alcohol as poison.

The skull and cross bones speak volumes.

His home is obviously decorated with bits and pieces from Sothoby's and Christies.

Just imagine, everything has it's own little story.

A Recovering  man.

With a beautiful and safe place to RECOVER.

This is a recent article out off the N.Y.T.

I just feel that this is just 

so much of the Christmas Spirit.

( that's probably why the N.Y.T. did this article...ya' think?)

This is a cozy pile of patterns.

I would be very comfortable sharing my thoughts and feelings here.

Would You?

The NYT article:click here

Do you think we have enough good places for recovering alcoholics to heal ?
Each one of us has been touched by alcoholism in some way. Whether we realize it or not.
Sometimes it is a co-worker.....
Maybe someone close to you is suffering, or just can't stop drinking when they promise they will.
Maybe you wonder if you are an alcoholic.


This Season Is The hardest Time Of Year For Alcoholics and Recovering Alcoholics.


What are your thoughts on this subject?


After reading this article, and giving it some thought......
I would love to put a huge house together for young woman. 
A beautiful, safe, and loving place for young woman to start over.
How cool would it be if?....... 
WE became the traveling DESIGN BLOGGERS 
taking big old houses, giving them a makeover, (we would need a Huge GRANT of course) and turned them over to the community or town to use for their recovering drug addicts and alcoholics?What a great way to change a life for the better!!!

Oh Look!!!
It is the DESIGN BLOGGERS and their ' Hugh GRANT ' after a ribbon cutting at one of their finished community homes. The Press loves them!!!  

It would be a great thing to do. 
Just one little town at time.
And helping to change one persons 'path' at a time.


Merry Christmas to all my friends XXXX'x

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