Safari Styles in Chic Design

Safari style rooms are so many things. The results can make you think you are on  Mount Kilimanjaro or they can be subtle accents that  simply reference rustic or exotic influences. The African influence can be found in  animal prints, carved wood,  pictures of  the wildlife,  art pieces, textiles, travel/touring gear like trunks...the possibilities of fusing the safari elements into modern or classical designs are huge! Wonderful.

I would LOVE to have this bathroom!

It breaks my heart every time I read National Geographic, and see how much the African continent has endured... So when I suggest Safari Style, I mean Safari with a Camera, and respect for the land and its people.

This is a style that should HONOR the beauty and wildlife of Africa.

 FAUX fur, FAUX ivory, FAUX anything-that-poachers-go-after is fine. 

 Real versions are, by definition, ugly and unacceptable. But you know that. 

 Have a beautiful day!
xo
Valerie




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In the Kitchen: Cabinets!

Here are My Favorite Kitchen Cabinet Ideas-- 

(It's too hard to pick just one.) The huge variety of materials and styles means

 that  with some smart planning, a new or renovated kitchen can have some 

unique, gorgeous storage.

First, the NO cabinet look:

Love the chairs and the dark wood lower cabinets above. 

 I just am crazy-in-love with the no-cabinet up-top look when there are some

 Amazing windows like these below. But notice the glass-front cabnets, the lower ones, the hardware...:

Gorgeous wood, sleek hardware:

Corrugated metal cabinets

Open shelves~

amazing wood~

                        Glass:

Love this!

Great hardware gives these standard white cabinets new, updated life:

Very modern chic:

Not just for the laundry room:

more great style and hardware:

I just love the simplicity, the faucets...all of it:

Wow. So many choices for paint and hardware,  so many easy ways (and so many major ways!) to make big changes...from removing cabinet doors to putting glass into the ones you have, painting them, removing the doors, to removing the entire cabinet...

I am in AWE of all kitchen designers!!!!!

Have a Wonderful Day!

xo

Valerie

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