a perfect gray

where do you spend your decorating dollar?

all these awesome antique french chests are from 1st Dibs

Something old and french has my eye right now. No, not a bottle of wine. A chest for my bedroom. I found an awesome one in a local shop over the weekend but the price tag knocked the wind out of me. I think I could furnish a room or two for the price of that one piece.

That got me thinking...where do we put our large decorating dollars? rugs? art? case pieces? You know me...I delight in a bargain. But are there times when you just gotta go for it...?

a moody wednesday

via pinterest

I'm such a fan of light interiors, but isn't this room (and gray sofa) so cozy?

gray and brass

via cote de texas

a yummy combination of gray cabinetry and brass fixtures in this butler's pantry

how's that for a monday?

vintage dress forms

I love old, worn, beat-up dress forms.

black and white - it maketh me happy

black and white

you can't beat it

horizon gray

"The color I find most beautiful and chic is gray. But it's very hard to procure that perfect, soft, luminescent, silvery gray shade you see in gunmetal, silver, zinc, or pewter. To try to get that color in a surface that's nonreflective and doesn't have a three-dimensional quality is the challenge. I often try a dozen samples just to find one gray. But if it's simplicity you crave, there's a divine gray that almost always works: Benjamin Moore's Horizon. If a friend calls me and says, 'Help! What do I do?' I reply, 'Paint the walls Horizon and the trim white.' Think of a gray suit with a white shirt. It's a nice clean story, and you can go in a hundred different directions with the tie." —STEVEN GAMBREL

image and quote from house beautiful