FRANK'S NURSERY

My sister has been in labor ALL DAY!  C'mon li'l Frank!  We've got your room all ready for you!

CUSTOMER PAD: MITZI'S DAUGHTER'S NEW ROOM

Our customer Mitzi's daughter has a new room, and we gave her heirloom furniture a shabby and chic makeover.

POLICAL ART & DECOR

My curio shelf of treasures.

Bedroom pics from Apartment Therapy reader, Clarice.  She wants to spruce up this room more.  I say the colorful framed poster is a good start! APT Therapy post here.  Her poster by artist Shepard Fairey was available here, but is sold out.

Mine (above), by Scott Hansen, is one of only 5,000 created - also here, also sold out.

Or you could always buy a few of these throw pillows (below) for your couch.  

That was a joke. No matter who you are supporting , please don't buy that throw pillow it is so ugly.

FRANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

Frantiques Peony Desk, $325.  In stock at Uptown Country today!

CUSTOMER PAD: LYDIA'S APARTMENT

Lydia Elliott's Pretty Purply-Blue Accented Apartment

 Above her couch is a J.Grumbles Studio original commission piece.  Her stylist-sister Bianca suggested the Two's Company Bamboo Mirrored Triple Shelves ($100 each, available here) for the sides of her painting.  Her rug is also from Uptown Country Home, and her curtains from Pottery Barn Kids (because she is definitely a kid at heart.)

Frantiques repainted her vintage TV stand in her family room a pretty periwinkle (it was yellow in her last apartment), and Lydia's record collection sits in a Frantiques Gold Vintage Magazine Stand.

Genius move how she took her old patio furniture and made it the little sitting area in her living room. All her accessories and frames are from Uptown Country.

More Frantiques and a special-ordered blue coral needlepoint bench! (Smaller styles here.)

To-die-for Anthropologie dresser and hardware.

And another J.Grumbles Original painting and a Frantiques bookshelf for her pretty bags. Thank you Lydia!

SPOTTED: PINE CONE HILL AND DASH AND ALBERT ROOMS

From BHG's Fall DECORATING issue (above). Love the way this dining room is put together:
ON THE FLOOR: Dash and Albert Birmingham Green Rug, see here.
ON THE CHAIRS: Pine Cone Hill Longpoint Decorative Pillows, see here.
ON THE WINDOWS: Pine Cone Hill Lattice Curtain Panel in Citrus, see here.

Ane here's the living room (above):
ON THE SOFA: Pine Cone Hill Cutwork Decorative Pillows, see here.
ON THE WINDOWS: Pine Cone Hill Lenox Ticking Window Panels, see here.
ON THE FLOOR: Dash and Albert Vine Red Wool Rug, see here.
And (above) in the September '08 House Beautiful, a little Pine Cone Hill and Dash and Albert punch of pink in a traditional house:
ON THE FLOOR OF THE BEDROOM: Dash and Albert Ana Ticking Rug, see here.
ON THE STAIRS: Dash and Albert Dash and Albert Adobe Ticking, see here.

JUNKER EXTRAORDINAIRE

My friend Troy, from Rue, is the ultimate trash to treasure guru. The self-titled junk mongers behind Rue, Rod & Troy, brought us new treasures last week and took some pics of the store while they were here. You can read Troy's blog, Dewberry Junction, and the post about Uptown Country here!
Above, a flea market booth full of Rod & Troy's once-trashed treasures.

UPTOWN COUNTRY HOME 8/8/08

The store is jam-packed with new treasures!

PINK POST OF THE WEEK: DESIGNER PINK ROOMS

Designer Krista Ewart's Pink Bathroom

Designer Angie Hranowsky's Godfrey Park Place Bedroom

Designer Tom Scheerer's Twin Bed Masterpiece

Designer Woodson & Rummerfields Wonderlust Bathroom

Designer Erin Valencich's Favorite Bedroom Room I Have Ever Seen

Designer Jonathan Adler's Perfect Pink Entryway

BY BAY AND BY SEA

By Sea: I was lucky to be able to spend the weekend at the most magical beach house ever (above) in Martha's Vineyard.
By Bay: When I returned, one of my all-time favorite bloggers, SF Girl By Bay, posted about my pad and all things Pine Cone Hill and Dash and Albert. You can see the post here. The link to her whole blog, which is full of pretty photos from her journeys through San Fran and a whole lot of bohemian-chic style, is here.

FRANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

Frantiques Circus Desk ($285).  Red and Robin's Egg Painted Vintage Desk.  The happiest little desk you could ever do your work on is waiting for you at Uptown Country Home.

BEFORE AND AFTER: HANNAH'S CHAIRS

If you are an Uptown Girl Blog reader, you know Hannah of Hannah Abney Designs loves robin's egg blue.  And you may or may not have picked up on the fact that she also loves chairs from my posts here and here.  She also bought this one.  These pics are from the chairs she found at a little antique store in Washington, DC , and sprayed white and had upholstered.  I love them. They look like they are about to give me a hug.

UPTOWN GIRLS & MATERIAL GIRLS

Our new friends over at Material Girls blogged about us today. To see the post and visit their great Texas design blog, click here.

FAUX BAMBOO CHIPPENDALE CHAIR LOVE

About two seconds after reading Jonathan Adler's book, I became obsessed with the faux bamboo chippendale chairs he uses from room to room in his design.  (above picture is an example). You can buy them for $495-550 each here, but if you are me, you cannot buy them there or your credit card will max out and you won't be able to eat for four months, so off I went on the hunt for the faux bamboo chippendales of my dreams (for less).  The hunt lasted eight months. I would go to the shoe department at Barneys and pretend to try on shoes so I could sit in them (Adler designed the Dallas Barneys and used his chairs). I became so infatuated with these chairs I even painted a picture of one.  And then it happened. I found them featured at an upcoming estate sale.  Six of them. I knew my friend Hannah was looking for two (and I needed four), so we got to the sale first and got to the chairs first and mission accomplished.  You don't want to know how much of a bargain we got because if you bought the Adler ones full price you will cry.
Hannah, of course, painted hers robin's egg blue because if Hannah could find a robin's egg food coloring she would only eat robin's egg-colored food, and if robin's egg blue was a town she would move there.  She secretly wishes she was a bird so she could actually create robin's eggs because she loves it so much.

DIY UPDATE: MOM'S LAUNDRY ROOM

I told you I would find a pic of mom's DIY laundry closet after I showed you mine on this post here, so here is hers:

BEDS WITH BENCHES

Remember this article from Domino about beds and benches? That is when the search for the benches at the foot of my bed started. Found them, covered them in pink.
I suggested mom do the same at the foot of her guest bed. So she got these chocolate zebra footstools at Uptown Country. I think they look amazing there.
Needlepoint Stool Brown Zebra, ($198). Available here. Comes in black too here.
How cute would the blue coral ones be at the foot of a white bed? And coral blue is available here.
Check the foot of your bed. Most likely its vacant. That means you may just need need two benches. Or one long one like Carrie on Sex and the City.