Nesting

2013 has been cray so far, and doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon — trip after trip, event after event, wedding after wedding — so much fun, so lovely being able to see friends and family so frequently.  But also a small, old womanish part of me is craving a quiet, lazy string of weekends back to back when I can focus on finishing some of the as-yet-incompletely-decorated rooms in our home.  Some things that have been cloying for my attention lately:

First, don’t even know where this BRIGHT coral/orange chair (CB2, $149) would go in my apartment, but I think it would be such an unexpected color and modern shape in our digs, sitting casually in one of our rooms.  Maybe in my lavender office, as a nice contrast?  Or with this neon pink embroidered pillow ($38)?!

Kind of amazing with this striped and pom-pommed rug ($59) —

I know it’s from the kids section, but it is just so amazing.  And you could trim the poms if they aren’t your dish — and the stripes would be oh-so-fab.  In the same color family, I saw this flamingo serving platter ($59) and just about fell out my chair.  It is too perfect.  I think I might actually mount it on a wall and use it for wall decor — so in loves.

I’ve also been looking for an aqua/teal accent piece for one of our bookshelves — I have a bunch of books with aqua spines and I think it would be the perfect balance to the case.  These Swing Design lacquer boxes ($130 for set of 2) seem like the ideal solution.

That Hermes orange color is winning, eh?  I like them stacked one atop the other.  Perfecto.  (And P.S., West Elm has a small lacquer box in a fabulous, unexpected shade of yellow on sale for $15 right now — if only I decorated with more yellow.)  These would also look lovely stacked atop a desk, alongside some lovely ladylike desktop accessories, like these winning boxes of note cards ($22 each):

Especially with these personalized pencils (LOVE — $15/set):

Perhaps with this framed watercolor of a flamenco dancer overhead (Fairysomnia, $155 — and it’s ORIGINAL!) or this fashion print (Blonde Lasagna, $25):

Or maybe an entire new set of desktop necessities in a BRIGHT, punchy color ($49 for set — scissors, stapler, pens, and tape dispenser)!

And you know my thing about pens — I pretty much need to order a couple dozen in bright colors ($12 per dozen) and to group them together in a pretty desktop bouquet.

Perfect for using with my Maybook notebook ($20-$23, depending on the book type you pick — you can pick a wedding journal, graph paper, a calendar, a bump book — whatever you want!):

I’m now particularly enamored of this funky zebra pattern of theirs:

And…I’ve been enamored of the idea of adding a ceramic garden stool to our home for some time now.  I’m thinking it may work best in our guest bedroom, which is outfitted in navy, blue, and coral and has a bunch of great art of collected for the past six months.  So I know that this yellow color ($139) doesn’t exactly GO, but isn’t it the sunniest, cheeriest little thang you’ve ever seen?!  Also nice in white.  The detailing is fab — adds a little whimsy to any room.

Our master bathroom has something of an undersea theme — we have an amazing oversized chart with corals/seaweeds on it that was printed on a canvas scroll — and the walls are mint/seafoam.  So when I saw these darling watercolor-esque coral prints from Driftwood Interiors ($25 each) in this cheery ruby color, I knew they needed to hang above our towel rack to complete the look.

I’m thinking about hanging them in mirrored frames ($29-$69) to really reflect the light in the bathroom.  It will look great with this hardcover book on coral ($23), which I first saw in the beautiful Ralph Lauren store in NYC as a prop in one of their amazing bedrooms and just snagged and will stack beneath some vases in one of the windowsills of our bathroom.

I have one piece of coral already on a tray in between our sinks (and I hang my current favorite piece of jewelry on it), alongside a small jewelry dish and a favorite candle du jour), but would it be overkill to also snap up these cheerily colored ones ($29-$59)?!  Hmm.

(And P.S. – this bathroom mat, if its dimsensions made sense in our bathroom, would have been a great complement.  It didn’t, though — we have a double sink and I needed two twin mats to live happily so that both of our feet could be warm in the morning while getting ready.  That marble floor is BRUTAL on cold Chicago mornings.)  Anyway — that’s all she wrote for today!  What do you have your eye on for your house?!