I recently posted this dining room photo from House Beautiful and thought I would post it again for this post. I have always loved bell jar pendants for their simplicity, lightness and versatility. They are equally at home in a dining room, kitchen, entry way or hallway.
(1 – House Beautiful; 2,3,4,5 - Style at Home; 6 – Better Homes and Garden)
(Hopefully these scanned images come across OK.)
It looks right at home in our foyer.
There was just one problem with updating the foyer light.
I love the fixture itself and knew that with just a little transformation it could look fresh and new.
I've used them before on our master bedroom chandelier. 
It's a simple fix. Simply pull off the old socket cover and replace it with the new---but first measure the length of the existing covers to be sure they'll fit.
There were two reasons I was excited to receive my March House Beautiful in the mail yesterday. First of all, I usually receive my US subscriptions weeks after they have been on the newsstands, so to receive a March issue in January made me smile. The second reason was the issue was all about the colour BLUE, which is a favourite colour to use when decorating not just my own home, but clients’ homes as well. Erin of House of Turquoise gets a mention in editor in chief Stephen Drucker’s column. Way to go Erin!
I love the use of blue in this dining room especially the slipcover fabric on the chairs – Jasper’s Indian Flower in Blue.
Gorgeous glass tile described by designer Marshall Watson as “periwinkle verging on cobalt.” It’s a kitchen in Fire Island, New York which is 5 miles out in the ocean so careful consideration had to be given to the building materials. For example, the walls are all wood (not drywall) which breathes and bends in a storm. That’s what I love about this magazine – the insight from designers as to the design choices they made.
Great idea – 1” x 6” blue glass tiles lining the perimeter of the bathroom near the ceiling. Love the mix with the 12” square wall tiles and the hexagon floor tiles.
This room has three things I love – round mirrors, branches and subtle wallpaper (see earlier posts).
Although I don’t think I would personally do a patterned sofa and rug, there’s something about this room that says come on in, sit and stay a while. An artist painted the nautical chart of Long Island in the “map room” – how unique is that?
I love the bookcase painted in Farrow and Ball’s Down Pipe which looks very gray on the paint chip but quite blue in this photo.
Now that I have done yellow and blue posts, I think red will be next, don’t you?
Every time I see it it makes me smile. The only problem is that I don't see it that often since it's downstairs at the end of the hallway.
to make this.
Now I can display an aged sheet music collage wherever I'd like.
And for now I'd like it in my dining room surrounded by mercury glass and real and electric candles.
It is a place where laughter abounds,
I stood in awe as I thought of how
This is the same room I pass through dozens of times each day
It seems that I get so busy with the day to day that
So when those occasional glimpses occur I try to take it all in, 
For I am truly blessed.
It’s a rainy, grey day here, so I thought I would brighten things up and what better way to do that than by decorating with the colour yellow. Here comes the sun…
(1,2 – Canadian House and Home; 3 – Domino; 4,5 – House to Home; 6 – Sarah Richardson; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 – House Beautiful; 12, 13, 14, 15 – Martha Stewart; 16 - via Black, White and Yellow)
