What do J.Lo, Miley Cyrus and Nicole Ritchie have in common? They all have the wonderful and insanely talented costume designer and stylist Simone Harouche dressing them. She even made the Hollywood's top 25 most powerful stylists along with Tanya Gill, L'Wren Scott, and my least favorite at No.1, Rachel Zoe. Simone has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including Demi Lovato, Ashley Tisdale & Panic at the Disco, as well as her close friend since childhood Kim Kardashian, ... View Post
Step Into the Fairytale of Chateau de Gudanes
In the Occitanie region of southwestern France, sits is an 18th-century neoclassical château in the commune of Château-Verdun that is not unlike a magical castle from a Charles Perrault fairy tale. Cinderella could have definitely escaped to Chateau de Gudanes with her beloved prince to live happily ever after. Chateau de Gudanes is built on the site of a 13th-century fortress, and a castle that was destroyed in 1580. A chateau was built by Parisian architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel ... View Post
A Clever Balance: Traditional + Modern = Transitional
In traditional Chinese philosophy yin yang is a complementary interrelated and contradictory dualistic force, often viewed as positive + negative, masculine + feminine, light + dark, etc. The two opposites don’t set out to dominate the other, instead they work to balance and compliment the other. Without this balance brings chaos. The concept of transitional design is like yin and yang setting out to highlight the beautiful qualities of each other in an interior setting, although you could use ... View Post
The House of Otero-Mora
So I’ve fallen in love with a house in Madrid. This happens to be one of my biggest problems :P falling in love with too many homes. I swear I could live just about anywhere and in any house but La Coruña, Spain does sound like a pretty good place to retire when I grow up. And it’s just a hop, skip and a jump away from my homeland and gorgeous family in England. This beautiful exotic couple Isabel Otero and Ramiro Mora from Ramisa Projects & Fun created a dream home from a 1900's ... View Post
Breath Easy Closet Organisation
So you made a New Years resolution to lose weight, develop patience, meditate or keep a gratitude journal. For me it was to become more organised with my time. 2017 was full of challenges and it threw out any consistency or routine I believed I had and left me at times feeling like I was drowning in a sea of confronting and overwhelming issues. So I decided that to start off I would organize my closet and save time not having to hunt for everything I needed. When life gets overwhelming anything ... View Post
The Entertainer: Kitchens of Today
It’s hard to believe that there was a time when cooking was quite the chore. It was once dirty and sooty business; getting wood, stoking the fire, literally preparing your food from the farm to the table. How spoilt are we with the advancement of technology today? Supermarkets provide us with all the food goods we could ever possibly want, and today we have the best kitchens to prepare and cook our food in. As a matter of fact, the trend over the years has seen the kitchen advance in the ranks ... View Post