Blake Michaelene

Pattern Your World

2009-01-09T12:27:00.000-08:00

Wallpaper is making its BIG comeback!

Whether it's displayed from head-to-toe on your bathroom walls or hung in a frame, wallpaper is here to stay!

So, try a new approach to wallpaper, frame it!
Update your old, tired furniture with color and pattern!

Try covering the tops of tables, nightstands, or even frame out a head board, as seen done here by the infamous Martha Stewart!

DIY art just became simple and oh so chic!

My favorite sources:

http://kichiinc.com/paper.html

http://rollout.ca/artistseries.html http://www.grahambrown.com/us/store/designers.html

http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/home.php?cat=419

Obsession number one: IKAT

2009-01-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

What's not to love about this fabulous fashion forward print! It's a style of weaving that uses a resist dying process, very similar to tie-dye. And who doesn't love tie-dye?

Ikat is so chic that it can be seen sitting on your love seat in more ways than one. Try this Asos dress for example or Nate Berkus' Patmos sequined Ikat pillow. Both under $50 and sure to spruce up any room!

....so go ahead: ikat your world!

For more great finds, check out:

http://search.anthropologie.com/?q=ikat

http://www.michaelkors.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod2980004&cmCat=search

http://www.wshome.com/srch/index.cfm?words=ikat

www.westelm.com key word: ikat

the Dress Studio and grandma's old Green Velvet chairs

2009-01-07T08:38:00.000-08:00

Hello There,
Above is a dress studio I designed! I wish it was some place real, but for now its just some place I escape too. I do that often, design spaces that I want to live in, work in, play in. I find myself dreaming up places and spaces in my head. Designing them from head to toe. Modern, classic, yet very chic! I like an eclectic feel, a homey feel, lived-in, yet natural and raw all at the same time. Is that even possible? Well sure it is, if that's what makes your home a home to you. My ideas go running through my head all day long. So now I am putting them on paper! Well 'online paper' that is.

I love to design and create spaces! It's my passion, it's what makes me tick. To constantly be re-inventing myself and my ideas and putting them on paper or in an actual home, space, or building. To be innovative and expressive through design and fashion all at the same time, what more could I ask for. Is it possible to love both and incorporate both?
Well as so eloquently put sitting in her little black dress, smoking a cigarette, in all her elegance and fashion wisdom: "Fashion is Architecture: it's all a matter of proportions." -Coco Chanel.

So I will attempt to bring you both. Fashion and Architecture! What is in, What is out, and What is most definatley out! How to be inspired by both fashion and architecture and to constantly be daring and try new things. New ideas, new patterns, new prints, new colors! Lets not forget the past either, as they say: "history will repeat itself." So why not tie in a little of the past, who ever said grandma's old green velvet 'late late late-century' chairs couldn't be re-done and made beautiful with a little re-touching and some updated fabrics and trims?