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Roundup: Industrial Pendants
This minimalist kitchen, featured in Marie Claire Maison, is memorable in large part due to its charming, industrial pendant lights. The kitchen is the perfect spot to add a more industrial look to your lighting; after all, it's a hard-working space, especially for those of us who love to cook.
To add some industrial lighting to your kitchen without spending gobs of cash, consider the CB2 Industry Pendant Light ($199).
Coveted Crib: An Unconventional French Cottage
From the exterior, Gary and Samantha Peterson's Chamonix cottage, which was featured in Marie Claire Maison, is resolutely a traditional Alpine house. But push open its front door, and you'll be confronted with cheerfully decorated interiors bursting with acid colors, massively proportioned spaces, and walls dressed in white, throwing you into a ski vacation universe turned upside down. Despite the fact that all conventions have been thrown to the wind, and your average cottage kitsch is notably missing, the Petersons' cottage is a welcoming mountain escape, and certainly what I'd call a coveted crib.
Midday Muse: Vast Bath
In this Tuscan farmhouse, the architect designed the bathroom like a lounge, blending styles and eras as you might a living room. The old clawfoot tub is centered in front of the window for a relaxing view, and there's little else, aside from a tall cabinet shelving essentials and an armchair, to clutter up the space. While the blue walls and tub, terracotta tiles, and rustic copper faucet certainly create a beautiful palette, it's not the style or color of the room that attracts me — it's the size.
Midday Muse: Luggage Furniture
We've all heard the expression, "living out of a suitcase." And, until now, it's been associated with temporary, not ideal living situations — "slumming it." But, Marie Claire Maison has envisioned tes valises in a whole new form.
Get the Look: Refined Comfort
While this living room looks extremely refined, it manages to avoid seeming overly precious or uncomfortable. Naturally, the shag carpet adds an instant element of casualness to the room, but we've all seen that done before. This room's refined comfort is thanks to an amalgam of all of the elements in the space.
Would You Like to Live Here?
Lit by a series of multi-colored lanterns, this large living space is divided into several separate areas, and furnished with painted salvaged chairs, a velvet sofa upholstered with mismatched cushions, and a bed covered with a variety of pillows in slightly dissimilar hues. To say that it's colorful would be a drastic understatement. I'd live there in a second, would you?
Cool Idea: Hide-a-Bed Couch
At first glance, the couch on the right, featured on Marie Claire Maison, looks like a typical modern loveseat. But thanks to my wonderful (but somewhat rusty) French language skills, I've deduced that this is not the case. Half of the bed actually disappears behind the the closet doors, whose bottom has been sawn off.
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Coveted Crib: Emily Walker's Canadian Charm
With talents like Philippe Starck and Tord Boontje and magazines like Living Etc and Marie Claire Maison, Europe always gets props for turning out great interior design. But our neighbor to the North, Canada, deserves a round of applause as well. Canadian House and Home is one of my favorite shelter magazines, and it comes as no surprise that the pub's staff has envy-inducing style as well.
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