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I work on a lot of very expensive homes at work but they have nothing on this cute little beach cottage in the Hamptons owned by Lezlie Klotz. It was featured in the July 2008 issue of House Beautiful magazine and I fell in love with it the minute I saw it since it’s exactly how I would want my beach house to look and feel. It’s simply perfect!

“A yellow-cab-colored surfboard makes a curiously good match for an antique painted chest that belonged to Klotz’s grandmother. Portrait of Show Business, Klotz’s childhood pony, by Edith Diehl.”

“Jonathan Adler needlepoint pillows pop on a sofa and a striped club chair, both designed by Steven Gambrel. The Italian caned chair was Leslie Klotz’s grandmother’s, and the curtains are by her late mother, interior designer Patricia Hopkins Klotz. The Lucite coffee table, bench, and side table holding the glass ball lamp are antiques show finds. The blue lamp is by Christopher Spitzmiller.”

“Seahorses from an garden antiques store are the wow factor in the dining room of a Hamptons cottage. Louis XVI–style dining chairs are covered in a jaunty shade of chartreuse leather, and backed in a coral and white print. The table is from Liza Sherman Antiques.”

There is nothing I love more than art in a kitchen!

“In redoing the kitchen, Klotz “imagined I could actually cook. Then I tried to create a kitchen that an actual cook would want to cook in. And believe it or not, now I do cook. It was like my own personal Field of Dreams.” Hanging lights from Rejuvenation.”

In a guest room, the red painted headboards perfectly match the red toile lamp.

“In the sitting area adjacent to a guest room, wide-planked wainscoting in white and a deep navy wall create a graphic sense of spaciousness.”

This bedroom is my favorite and would be the most perfect place to rest after a long day at the beach! “Klotz found the quilt at a Brimfield summer antiques show and the accent pillow in Venice. Lamp by Christopher Spitzmiller. Wall color is Spring Mint and trim is Light Touch, both by Benjamin Moore.”

“An old birch bench holds books in a lavender guest bedroom.”

Big bold stripes were created in a bathroom with Benjamin Moore Apple Green and Decorator’s White paint.

I love how the seahorse became a running motif both inside and outside the house!

Photos by Laura Resen

OBJETIVO CUMPLIDO para este reto : TERMINADO EN AGOSTO

Se puede decir que ” el que la sigue la consigue “ ,pues eso y una gran alegría cuando he visto la colcha colgada , es lo que he pensado.
Realmente cuan

Otra vista desde el otro lado….

Los detalles…….

Como no me convencía ninguna de las telas que tenía para el borde, me acerqué a Dechado y ¡ qué casulidad ! le quedaba un resto de medio metro de lino en cuadritos rojos y grises , justo como el que empleé en gris y beige en el quilt.
Coser el lino como tela de borde es bastante latoso porque la presilla de la máquina va escurriendo la tela , asi que como no me va mucho lo de hilvanar ( soy más bien de coser diréctamente o con ayuda de alfileres ) tuve que colocar una ” ristra ” de alfileres uno seguido de otro, a un cm más o menos para la cosa fuera bien.

Esta vez intenté hacer otro tipo de esquina que ya había visto en este tipo de quilt.

…….Y tan feliz estaba que haciendo un poco de loca …… me vestí con él . A ver si sabes qué cara tengo , aunque no se me vea.

Ahí van los datos técnicos:

Medida-115 cm x 133cm
Telas _ Batista bordada de la tienda de retales de la ciudad, Lino en cuadritos( rojos y grises / beige y grises ) Fats de Bouts de Tissus

, Tela estampada en letras rojas de Yuwa.
Puntillas de algodón fino, picunela granate, cintas francesas en blanco y rojo
Piezas antiguas de ganchillo ( crochet )
Guata acrílica

Recuerda que si quieres saber qué patrón he utilizado y cuál es la composición de cada bloque, echa un vistazo en éste

artículo anterior.

….Y ahora encogiendo mis deditos , me doy unos besitos a cada una de mis mejillitas ¡¡¡¡PORQUE YO LO VALGO !!!!

Espero que la que se anime a hacer algo de este estilo , con su toque personal y telas al gusto , nos lo cuente y se anime a empezarlo ….¡¡¡¡ A por ello !!!

NOTA: Si quieres ver mejor los detalles y más grandes, pincha en mi album de flickr ( a la derecha en el índice ), sobre la foto del mosaico y allí elige la opción ver todos los tamaños .

Unlike most Americans, I will be laboring over the long Labor Day holiday weekend. I have a lot of irons in the fire so I need do some work and get myself organized. I’m a little bummed but I knew that forgoing vacations this summer might be necessary and if all goes well, I will be able to take some fabulous ones next year! What’s funny is that it feels like just yesterday that I posted some photos from the first Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine of the season and now summer is almost over! Times flies! So as a last hurrah, I’m posted photos from Hamptons Havens: The Best of Hamptons Cottages and Gardens published in 2005. The book contains a great mix of traditional and modern homes to die for as usual. Hope you enjoy your holiday weekend whatever you are doing…or not doing!

Even though so many New York based national shelter magazines are folding, it seems that there are amazing regional ones that are thriving. One of my new favorites is Florida Inside Out. I was flipping through the old January/February 2008 issue and came across so many beautiful images that I had to share. I especially loved the article about what Miami antiques dealers collect. Enjoy!

The top image and this one above are from Kaisa and Doug Levine’s historic 1929 Miami Beach home. The coffee table and console are from Williams Sonoma home. The art is by Karel Appel.

A 1970′s pottery lamp and studio pottery sit atop a George Nelson wooden cabinet in Miami Antiques deal Carlos Casteller’s home. His shop in Miami is called Art and Antiques but doesn’t seem to have a website yet.

I love this juxtaposition of objects in Miami shop owner Michael Contessa. The 1970′s sofa is by Milo Baughman and the Raindrop wall sculpture is by Curtis Jere. I think I might have to plan a trip to Miami just to check out his antiques!

A collection of German and French drawings from the 1920′s to 50′s hangs above a rare Dominique France chair from circa 1928 in the Miami home of Antiques dealer Regina Nuessle.

In the Miami home of Chicago based owners Marlene and David Green, a black wall displays a pair of stylized mirrors with gold leaf frames from Details at Home while the bed below was custom designed by Martial.