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This week I received the Happy 101 Award from the lovely Victoria of the Art House Design blog!

She wrote me that my blog makes her happy every time she comes over! Isn’t that wonderful to hear?!

Victoria, you make me so HAPPY with this! I appreciate it a lot! Thank you so much!!!

For those who do not know Victoria’s beautiful and inspirational blog, please click on the header of her blog.

So Victoria asked me to tell about 10 things that make me happy.

Here I go!

1/My family : my husband Jan and my son Anthony make me happy.

I love raising my son into a good and respectful young man. He is 14 years old now and I know that time is going on so fast and that he is growing up so fast. I have to enjoy every moment with him!

My husband supports me in everything I do and together, we are managing our business in the best way possible.

Watching my husband being happy with his grandchildren makes me happy!

2/ Family reunions : I so love gathering with our family. Especially when Nele (my husband’s daughter) and her husband  

                                           with the 2 grandchildren come to visit us.

My husband and his daughter with the grandchildren Alexa and Tristan.

I especially love summer reunions. Here a family reunion at my sisters last summer.

3/ Flowers : I really love flowers and love to decorate with these beauties.

This is a rambler rose, named Kir Royal, at the back of our house.

I can’t imagine living without flowers! Every week I bring fresh flowers to decorate my home.

4/Decorating : it is a way of destressing to me.

Sometimes it happens that I decorate and redo that same corner twice a week. I can’t help!

5/Inviting friends : to prepare a good meal (I have to admit that my husband is the best cook at home.) and setting the table for

                                         friends and guests is making me happy.

My private cook!

6/France : going to France is making me so happy.

                      A city trip to Paris,  spending our holiday at the south of France, visiting the wine castles at Bordeaux,

                     a search for antiques at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue,….. I adore the French way of living. It makes me happy!

A few years ago at the Ritz in Paris.

A view from Eze Village on the Mediterranean Sea, I took 2 years ago.

Me in one of the antiques shops at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

7/ Castles : I love visiting castles. In Belgium there are a lot of beautiful castles to visit. Lucky me!

                        The interiors of them give me inspiration for my job!

                    The Castle of Beloeil.

8/Satisfied clients : one of the very important things in my life that really makes me happy and that gives me satisfaction!

9/ Reading books and magazines : mostly related to my job.

                                     It is relaxing reading a book or a magazine, in the evening, after a busy day of work.

10/ Blogging : It makes me so happy that I met all these wonderful people through blogging!!! Some of them became

                              very good friends! I am so thankful for that.

This is my home office, where I also spend a lot of time blogging.

So now it is my turn to tag 10 other bloggers with this HAPPY 101 Award !

I would love to hear from them the 10 things that make them happy.

1. Miss Baptista

2. Oakview Cottage

3. Malvini Puur

4. Toile de Jouy

5. Holding Court

6. French Kissed

7. Trouvais

8. Splendid Willow

9. Desde my Ventana

10. Céline Chollet Aquarelles

Have a wonderful weekend!

xx

Greet

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Muestra de aticos autenticos y muy interesantes, originales en su composicion, aprovechados en su maxima expresion.

Los aticos son espacios sumamente aprovechables a la hora de diseñar espacios en la vivienda, un sitio que en algunos paises de Mundo no suelen aprovecharse como espacios funcionales principales de una vivienda.

I’m heading down to Soho today to continue my carpet search but where I would really like to be is gallivanting around a pretty garden like Jennifer Garner. I’d also like to wearing the same pretty dresses while the pool boy brings me a glass of lemonade! What’s your weekend fantasy???

Photos by Patrick Demarchelier

I love myself a good fashion documentary and so of course I am dying to see Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston. It is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival Friday night and you know there will be just as many stars and fashionistas in the crowd as there will be in the film. As Halston once exclaimed, “you’re only as good as the people you dress,” and he dressed all the best in the 1970′s including Bianca Jagger, Liza Minelli, Elizabeth Taylor, and even Jackie Kennedy Onassis! I don’t know how he managed to design anything with all the time he spent at Studio 54 but as he also said, “party hard, live hard, and have the best life.” Unfortunately, all that hard partying caught up to him and cut short his reign as the Emperor of Style. Luckily, it looks like his legacy will live on in Ultrasuede. Bon Weekend!

Almost every one needs more storage in their bathroom. Perhaps we all need to get a bit more organized, but if you are clutter challenged like me, I wanted to show you some wonderful baths by designer, Molly Frey. You may remember a previous post on a fabulous coastal house by Molly here.

I love the bath above. Let’s take a look at some of the elements that make this bath fantastic. First, the overall design with the sink sitting upon an open turquoise glass tiled cabinet – a perfect spot for storing extra towels. The wall mirror is framed out with sconces adding the perfect lighting.

Of course Molly’s marble baths are what generally catch my eye. Here is lovely example that was published in Traditional Home Magazine. The middle cabinet is open – again a nice spot for baskets or extra towel storage. Notice that the cabinets have “feet” to give the sink base the illusion of free standing furniture. I also love the sconce in this bath.

Here is a more streamlined, contemporary feeling bath. Two small boxes topped with limestone add the additional storage here. By not putting small doors on these, the look stays very open and contemporary – Interesting!

A more traditional design also shows you some ways to increase storage. Here the cabinets flanking the pedestal sinks sit directly on the counters. Unlike a kitchen, counter space in the bath can be more narrow to support your toiletries. The small ledge behind the sinks also add a space for lotions and creams.
Here we see a shallow medicine cabinet with mirrored doors built into the design. Not only is this cabinet functional, it becomes a wonderful focal point. This bath also has “feet” on the cabinet base.
The final bath has this cute little cabinet on the left side. A great spot for a razor and shaving cream – or perhaps it hides electric outlets and a blow dryer.

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En el mercado existen cantidad de accesorios rusticos con aire marino para poder componer interiores en este estilo.

Estos interiores con accesorios son muy comunes en los pueblos de costa europeos sobre todo en Bretaña, Normandia y la Costa Azul francesa, asi como los pueblos marinos de Gran Bretaña.

Desde alli se transladan a America y se ubican principalmente en las casas de playa de Nueva Inglaterra y el Caribe Europeo.