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Lazy Monday Lust List

Not sure if it’s the hazy, gloomy fog outside (*cough* – a perfect excuse to have a lazy day off)…  or the fact that the holiday rendered the streets of Chicago still and quiet today…  but I’m digging on all things muted, monochromatic, serene and achingly beautiful today.  First, turn on this jam…  Then, leisurely peruse the gorgeous pics below, starting with this vintage photo.

…and this Belgian style dining room: the palette of bleach blonde wood, the plummy-milk chocolatey linen on the dining chairs…  the candles reflected in the antiqued mirrors…  that LIGHT fixture…  the muddy-grey paint color on the walls.  Most of all – the weathered planked ceiling.  It’s perfectly moody but still manages to feel fresh and light.

This easy breezy outfit on an always effortlessly chic Rachel Bilson.  I’m 100% certain that floozy could walk into the most hopeless of closets and waltz out in some fabulous combination of something that no one else every would’ve thought to put together.

The Living Room of one of my favorite designers, Tia Zoldan.  The feature on her house from Cottage Living years & years ago inspired the decor for my first house.  Her newly decorated living room has me reeling and is currently serving as my screen saver.

This dreamy linen closet…

This gorgeous backless dress…

This sweet little reading nook…

And this gorgeous kitchen…  the paneled ceiling, the open shelving, the herbs, that delightful sideboard that they put on casters and repurposed as an island, and those pot lids on the wall (stellar Goodwill Hunting idea).  I’m speechless.

Happy Lazy Holiday Monday!  May you play catch up around the house, spoon a loved one to the tune of a TBS movie marathon, and catch up on some R&R…

xoxo,

*photo credits:  (1) Sacramento Street via Little Green Notebook (2) Coco Cozy (3) Pinterest (4) High Gloss (5) Lonny (6) Pinterest (7) Lonny (8) Pillar Box Post

Lust Is In The Air

Steph and I must be in heat or somethin’, because we’ve been unusually hot n’ bothered by lots of things lately.  And I’m not talking about the kind of hot n’ bothered one gets when they stumble upon 90s heartthrobs Mario Lopez and Antonio Sabato Jr. within 10 minutes of each other, as was the case yesterday (thank youuuuuuu, fine city of LA).

No, we’re talking design.  Food.  Clothes.  Bags.  People.  It’s just all so exciting and delicious!  So, as per usual, let’s regurge some of our fave things we done saw lately.

Lauren Merkin “Paige” bag

Blunt-yet-wispy face-framing bangs with the current du rigueur winter hair color (brunette)

I wanna make sweet love to these pants.  Where do I find them?!  PS, this is exactly what I look like when traveling.

Melly suede platform booties by Rosegold, currently only $100 on Gilt.  I’ve literally been looking for the perfect pair of suede grey booties since seeing Gwynnie sporting these Stella McCartney kicks a couple years ago:

A dreamy, classic-meets-beachy bathroom via Coastal Living.  The shutters: Perfection.  The woven rug/skirt fabric/mirror/sconces: I die.

ANI bikinis

I WILL find a way to make this my wedding dress.  Oscar de la Renta.

Who. makes. these. shoes.

Greige, velvety, tufted couch.  Via the appropriately named Greige

Perfectly beachy rustic pales for wedding table tops, via a teensy little Florida antiques shop near my parents’.

Lea Michele’s glam, ethereal, belted SAG Awards dress.  Mmmkay, maybe I’ll swap out that last dress for this ‘un.

These nails.

This bag is perfect for my international travel.  Because getting interrogated in Munich last month by the German police for carrying pepper spray in my bag wasn’t exciting enough.  I mean, who knew it was outlawed there?!

Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies.  THERE IS A GOD.

Happy lusting.

xoxo,