The Blue and White Bathroom

Summer Thornton

 

This wonderful blue and white bathroom features Gracie Studio's Indigo Garden wallpaper. It is from Summer Thornton's first and new book Wonderland.

This Basket is Having a Moment

Caroline Gidiere

This basket is having a moment for sure, but I think it's becoming a classic for beach house decor and beyond. I am thinking of getting one myself.

It can be used for anything you choose and never looks more chic to me than under a console table.

Use it for beach towels, media components, books, laundry, toys, blankets, shoes, pillows, in a mud room, dog toys - the list is endless. It is wonderful to add an organic and textural element to a spot. I love the way it pairs with Chinoiserie and with blue and white. Here are interior designers going mad over this "it" basket.

BTW, it looks like the Beachcomber from Pottery Barn. Other versions I have seen all look to me like cheap knockoffs.

Pottery Barn Beachcomber

A follower just emailed me that some of the baskets are from Mainly Baskets Home and are slightly different from the PB. They both come in various shapes and sizes.

Mainly Baskets Home

Mark Sikes

Shelley Johnstone Paschke

Summer Thornton

Scale

Fun House Furnishings

Scale always fascinates me in interior design. I am sure many of you will hate this as out of proportion. Others will see it as fun and modern. This massive basket with a tiny oomph console.

I love playing with scale in interior design. It always involves a bit of risk and daring. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.

Do you like this?

I think most people would prefer this Summer Thornton design below, including me.

Summer Thornton

The baskets are virtually identical and the lamps and Chinoiserie wallpaper are quite similar. The styling of the Summer Thornton is so much nicer though. In the Fun House Furnishings, the lamp cords are visible (at least hide them for the photo shoot), and I don't like that unfortunate little plant and those two white sticks - are those candlesticks without candles? I also think those lamps are anorexic and sort of creepy they are so tall (too tall) and skinny.

Chinoiserie Chic Trends 2018

Amanda Lindroth

Another design trend for 2018 will be using wood, but in unexpected places. Here Amanda Lindroth uses mahogany kitchen countertops in a Chinoiserie infused kitchen with palm wallpaper and elephant accessories. The simple organic element of wood is a wonderful contrast to Chinoiserie. Here is another beautiful example of wood kitchen countertops with blue and white Chinese porcelain.

Amie Corley

A wood beamed ceiling is a great juxtaposition in this living room filled with blue and white Chinese porcelain.

Summer Thornton