Happy Friday! This week, you could win a custom piece of kid’s art from MadeByGirl. With over a dozen different designs for girls and boys, MadeByGirl’s prints highlight a child’s name in a colorful way.
Primary Colors (pictured) is one example of a print you could win, but there are also Jackson Blues and Jellybeans.
You can choose any color combination for the special kid in your life. For those of us without near-and-dear children, a pet, last name, or your own name could be featured. This is customized art, after all, so style it for your life!
For a chance to win, answer this week’s question before 12/11c, Monday, August 30.
This week’s question: Whose name would you feature in your art and why?
Kimberly Grigg is the principal designer and owner of Knotting Hills Interiors, based in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Kimberly earned her degree in business and interior design from Winthrop University. With her husband Roger she has six children — adopted, blended, and biological — and an assortment of pets. We love that volunteerism plays a significant role in her family’s life and that Kimberly makes a yearly to-do list of 50 things that make a difference.
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Joshua Foss, known best to HGTV fans as the green contestant from the second season of HGTV Design Star, is the principal designer for Thrive Design Studio. Thrive focuses on sustainable design and also helps businesses create sustainable business strategies.
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I have a lot of childhood memories of balloons. Every Valentine’s Day, my dad would send a balloon bouquet to the school’s office for me; when my great-grandma died, my family tied “we miss you” notes to the end of balloons and let them float away; I had a balloon party when I was 8 — it was the best kind of madness. Decorating with balloons brings back childhood fun and imagination.
Jordan Ferney
Pickle gives you the step-by-step to creating your own balloon globe lampshade.
Decor8 shows paper balloons and hot air balloons that could be used to decorate a kid’s bedroom.
This balloon chair shown on décorpad could look regal or downright villainous.
Etsy has hot air balloon decals for wall art here and here.
Apartment therapy shows a quirky balloon lamp.
Look at oh, hello friend’s balloon photo roundup.
Jordan Ferney shows the cutest balloons I’ve ever seen.
DecorPad is a community-oriented blog where members upload home decor photos and viewers look through the projects. Members can also create a design library to stash their favorite projects for later inspiration.
3 Gorgeous Rooms After the Jump
For more than 20 years, Susan Anthony has worked as an interior designer for homes, offices and medical facilities. She and her partner, Maureen Wright, take on projects like the Acorn Cottage through their design firm, Anthony Wright Interiors. The Acorn Cottage is different than Susan’s other projects, though — she has to live in it every day.
How the Cottage Got Its Name
This summer, we’ve been seeing taxidermy-inspired style everywhere.
design*sponge’s crumpled-paper moose bust
More faux fixtures include:
stephmodo designs a boy’s room complete with plush tiger bust.
Semigloss Chic layers photos, magazines cut-outs, frames and atelier antlers for a mixed-media collage (third pic).
Speaking of atelier antlers, remember Suzanne Kasler’s version?
Craftster makes her own hot pink, wild boar rug.
For those who enjoy the real deal:
Cote de Texas shows a dining room filled with antlers.
Giving a more subdued version, Where You Hang Your Hat’s pair of antlers in a bedroom (third pic).
Browse through Domino’s and The Someday Blog’s animal decor, including an antler on an end table, a buck silhouette and an antelope bust.
Buy your own antler chandelier at Black Forest Decor or American Rustic Lighting.
Fun to look at and decorate with, hand-printed posters are everywhere on the blogosphere lately.
design is mine
Smart Art
Andreas Charalambous studied architecture at Cornell University before co-founding FORMA Design in 1994. Located in Washington, DC, FORMA takes on architectural and interior design projects, from commercial to residential. Here, Andreas describes an apartment his company designed.
The Penthouse Tour
This month, Suzanne Kasler debuted her line of home decor for Ballard Designs. This is their first such partnership with a designer and they plan to expand with a holiday line from Kasler in their October catalog, and a new partnership with James Swan in early 2011.
Suzanne’s America-meets-Europe collection includes furniture, accessories, lighting and more. Here are some of our favorite items:
Sauvignon Mirror
Maps, Antlers and More
